Re: Address Book in Eudora
Re: Address Book in Eudora
- Subject: Re: Address Book in Eudora
- From: "John C. Welch" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 10:54:09 -0400
On 08/21/2002 04:48, "John Delacour" <email@hidden> wrote:
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> Nothing in Eudora is easy to script. The terminolgy is utterly
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> non-standard and meaningless...'personality' for example.
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Words words words.
Words are how we communicate. They're critical to meaning. If you don't
think so, then why memorize a syntax to a programming language....after all,
the only difference between AppleScript and Perl are words.
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> The speed of perl wrt to Eudora is meaningless to me. I don't use
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> perl. I use AppleScript. Eudora's AS dictionary is still a fetid
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> confusing pile of snakes best dealt with in a pub. As well, the
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> Eudora address book is rather limited compared to Entourages.
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I asked for examples. The quality of your reasoning is certainly
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worthy of the pub and of little else.
<sigh>...okay....real examples:
"Primary Information" instead of "default address" If you aren't conversant
with Eudora, "Primary Information" is unclear and ambiguous, "Default
Address" is not.
The nickname expansion in Eudora is too limited compared to Entourage.
No department entry for the work address in Eudora. This is critical when
you have identical titles in different divisions.
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> Why does the Windows version still have a lot of UI features that I
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> will evidently never get on the Mac.
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The Windows version has been very buggy for most of its existence and
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in fact has very few features. The UI of the Mac version is
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configurable just as you please and all with Apple Events if you
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please. Besides, Eudora is the only mail agent that provides a
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configurable toolbar with buttons running any script the user needs,
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15 of which can be activated with function keys. With one key stroke
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or mouse click I can run any script I want.
The windows version gives me a choice between 3-pane, 2-pane, or traditional
Eudora interface, The Mac doesn't without kludgy workarounds. The Eudora
toolbar is only a great feature if you hate script menus, and a clear
interface obviates the need for custom F-keys. But if *you* like it, great.
I personally dislike large toolbars, and usually clean mine out to a bare
minimum. E'rage's is minimalist enough that I don't need to.
Eudora *doesn't* have:
Multiple directory services
Schedules that let me run anything but email checks, like applescripts
Rules that let me run AppleScripts as an option
Rules with more than 5 actions (I have had cases where I needed this)
Rules with more than 2 matches per rule (this would *treble* the amount of
IMAP rules I have)
As of 5.1.1, no SSL capabilities, one of a few mail clients on Mac OS X that
doesn't support this, which requires me to use a separate email
application for SSL accounts.
As far as Eudora's dictionary goes:
No terms that allow me to create address book entries.
No terms that allow me to create or modify existing signatures
No terms to set the LDAP/Finger servers
No terms to allow me to set a POP/IMAP account
No terms for searching the address book
Entourage has all of these, and these are just the first five I found in a
cursory five - minute comparison of the dictionaries for the OS X versions
of both.
I'm really glad you consider the Eudora toolbar to be a shining beacon on
the hill, but when it comes to scripting, Eudora doesn't come close to
E'rage.
john
--
"Another such victory over the Romans, and we are undone."
- Pyrrhus, King of Epirus
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