End of Life for Eudora

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Author: Karl Krist

Published on: September 24, 2010

The UC Davis campus has made changes to their email system that will keep Eudora users from retrieving email.

Here is the notice from UC Davis computing (IET) (Boring alert!)

Starting at 3pm on Thursday, September 23rd, 2010 central campus email servers, mail.ucdavis.edu, will be switching to InCommon SSL certificates.

IET has tested supported email clients, with the new SSL certificates and experienced no issues with the new certificates. Unsupported email clients were not tested. Eudora has been known to have issues with certificate changes. IT Express will not be able to provide support for individuals using Eudora or any other unsupported email client.

This is not a surprise. Eudora has not been supported for many years, and we have notified ANR that the End of Life was coming.

Yesterday was the day.

I need my email! What can I do right now?
Use Geckomail. http://geckomail.ucdavis.edu You can read/send email from there.

I hate Geckomail! What else can I do?
Geckomail is only a stop-gap solution. ANR is moving toward Microsoft Exchange. Because of this, my only recommendation is that you use Microsoft Outlook for your email.

How do I set up Outlook?
You can go to this page, it has all the instructions you need.

I can't figure any of this stuff out...can you help me?
Yes, we can. Call Damon DiPietro at (530) 754-3920.

Why is computer stuff so complicated? I've been getting my regular mail (catalogs, junk mail, and bills) at the same place for the last 80 years, and it still works!
All your bases are belong to us.

It's old fashioned, but it still works. And it takes 3 days.

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Comments: 6

Comments:

by Jeannette E. Warnert

on September 24, 2010 at 10:33 AM

This is sad. I always loved Eudora. In fact, I named my box turtle after Eudora. (No disrespect was intended. Eudora wasn't slow, it was intuitive.)

by Bryon J. Noel

on September 24, 2010 at 11:23 AM

Jeannette your comment made me laugh. I've never thought of a turtle as being intuitive. Which makes me wonder, How is a turtle intuitive?

by Dave Krause

on September 24, 2010 at 11:26 AM

It's not so strange. I once had a hamster that would cry every time I played Duran Duran.

by Bryon J. Noel

on September 24, 2010 at 11:59 AM

That reminds me of one of my pet hamsters when I was young... Ahh, sweet memories!!!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTWmMCliPsU

by Shirley Morse

on September 24, 2010 at 2:10 PM

Very interesting, I don't have a turtle or a hamster, but my Eudora is still working. Just downloaded a message right now.

by Karl Krist

on September 24, 2010 at 2:23 PM

Shirley..YES! That is very...good...news... NO it isn't!

For some people, Eudora will continue to run. In fact, the word on campus is that possibly they have backed off on part of the change that would have blocked Eudora out.

BUT- we really do need to get users off of Eudora. It is not supported by the 'manufacturer' anymore, and it could cause problems. Even if Eudora continues to work for you, I would seriously think about migrating to Outlook. Remember, the Exchange Train is coming!