Re: Some relief for Leopard problems with Eudora?

In article <1idcox6.16pqmmqrcn2aiN%kmorgan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Kathy Morgan
<kmorgan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> Good point--that may indeed be causing some people's problems.  It might
> be worth asking those who are having problems if they're maybe using
> anti-virus/spyware.


FWIW...


The (only?) problems we see with Eudora under 10.5.x are:

1)  If somebody resets a default "Eudora Settings" file and uses the
"Eudora" alert sounds -- this will crash the program.

2)  On *some* machines, trying to attach a do***ent when using the menu
commands will cause the program to generate the Spinning Pizza of Death
wheel when the Open window comes up and the program will eventually
crash.   This also occurs if somebody accidentally hits "command-O"
instead of "command-0" (zero) when trying to open the "Out" mailbox
with the keyboard.    For those users, clearing out the invisible
..DS_Store file in the folder containing the do***ent the user wants to
attach sometimes *tem****arily* resolves the crash, but it comes back.

Users can manually drag the attachments into the message all the time,
though.


The above is using the .toc files, though.

I'd *love* to know if there's some setting that could possibly help
with problem #2, though...   It *seems* like it's something that only
happens the longer Eudora is running.  It's not something that happens
(usually) right when you first launch the program, but can occur if you
bring up an "Open" window if the program has been running a while...

I have a bug (duplicate) into Apple about this.  It wasn't fixed in
10.5.2.


Beyond those two issues -- for use at any rate -- Eudora is working
exactly the same under 10.5 as it did under 10.4.    The "sound" bug is
easily worked around.   The attach-files-from-the-menu-selection -- not
so much.





The only problem we see as relates to Eudora with Anti-Virus software
would be with what we see with Sophos Anti-Virus (speficially).   As
mailboxes grow larger, the SPOD will appear in Eudora when large
mailboxes are being appended (ie, when mail is checked and large "Junk"
mailboxes or "In" mailboxes are modified.

Usually, if the active mailboxes get to be above 5M in size, the SPOD
will start showing up.

However, this is not a 10.5 issue -- 10.4.x machines show the same
behavior.

This, we have users resolve by either reducing the size of their
"active" mailboxes by transferring mail to "reference" mailboxes *or*
we set Sophos to "exclude" the "Mail Folder".


This is one of those things that Eudora 8 addresses better as -- like
Mail.app -- each message is in it's own file so Sophos doesn't have to
scan enourmous mailbox files each time they are modified.


I can't say if other A-V programs generate the same SPOD as we've never
tested any other ones here...

- Steve