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15/09/2016 12:11:34
 
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>>>Hi I am running Windows 10 and Eudora
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>>>The mailboxes on Eudora usually show single line entries for each email received or sent
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>>>But my Windows 10 Eudora only shows 1 email per page
>>>
>>>Anyone know the answer?
>>>
>>>Colin
>>
>>I am not sure what you mean. Can you please post an image to help illustrate your problem?
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>>Currently using 7.1.0.9 -- the last version that supports "paid mode" (hadn't bothered switching to a different mail client as Eudora has been working well enough for me) -- haven't run into any compatibility problems with current versions of Windows (save for the usual caution about making sure to avoid putting the data folder in restricted areas such as "Program Files" folder, or avoiding certain options that might involve replacement of some system components).
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>>One persistent problem I've been having is the issue with text encoding when Asian languages (e.g. Chinese, Japanese, Korean) is involved -- due to problems with handing of the encodings, the text is almost always rendered unreadable (and in the worst cases, the Asian language text causes problems with message boundaries within the mailbox file -- where I have to edit the mbx file to remove the errant text and restore the message boundary markers, then delete the toc files to force Eudora to rebuild them -- which of course causes loss of the message state such as read/replied/forwarded/redirected etc.).
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>Easiest thing for me to do was to copy Eudora from another machine and change the settings - now works OK - sorry cant help with your language problem
>
>Colin

One thing that I neglected to mention is trying to look at the EUDORA.INI file in your mailbox folder -- on occasion the fix is a matter of changing some lines (it is a text file). The way I've got Eudora installed here at the office is to specify the mailbox folder on the command line within the shortcut. The format would be something like
"c:\Program Files (x86)\Qualcomm\Eudora\Eudora.exe" mailbox-folder
where mailbox-folder would be the path to the mailbox folder, which is typically somewhere within the user profile (in our case, on the main fileserver - done so that backups will include the mail information). Here at work, there are occasions where folks have mucked with their settings and ended up with a mess, I've made it a habit to keep a copy of a known good version, then roll back to that one whenever there is a problem (i.e. I am the de facto sysadmin - because I'm the only one who knows anything about network and server operations). As for details on the format -- you can do a search on the Internet with keyword "eudora.ini" and get some info on the various settings available.

With regards to the problem with Asian language -- it's something that I can't see any fix that doesn't involve changes to the software itself (perhaps by changing it so it handles everything in Unicode rather than ASCII). Main issue at hand is there are numerous encodings one would have to handle if you stick with 8-bit character encodings. For Japanese language alone, there are two major formats of Shift-JIS and EUC to extend "extended ASCII" (ASCII is a 7-bit code which only defines the first 128 character codes, "extended ASCII" uses 8 bits and gives you an additional 128, but there are multiple variants of this "extended ASCII") to be able to handle the thousand of characters required for the language. Chinese language also has several encodings too, and I'd suspect Korean does also. Problem is that all of these different extensions do the same sort of things -- often in mutually incompatible ways (typically by defining either "lead-in" prefix codes or "shift in" and "shift out" codes to select between different "blocks" of codes). Unless there are provided "hints" on the format required, you often have to guess (at least you can say that if you select the right encoding you get readable text, and anything else results in gibberish -- of course this does *require* you to be able to read that language to know for sure).
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