Sorry to hijack this thread, but I tried to make a new one by sending an e-mail (from Eudora of course!) and it bounced back.
The bounce message said -
"550: RFC2822 says that all mail SHOULD have a Message-ID header.
Most messages without it are spam, so your mail has been rejected."
Any idea why that would have happened?
I've been using Eudora for over 20 years, and have carried on despite increasing compatibility issues, with the display of some modern messages being increasingly garbled and mis-formatted, and the need to manually update server certificates when they expire.
Recently, I thought I'd finally hit the end of the road when my e-mail provider (Sky via Yahoo) suddenly stopped accepting TLSv1 on its SMTP server, which meant I could no longer send any messages with Eudora.
Strangely enough, the POP server seemed to be still working fine to receive messages, but the writing was definitely on the wall and it would only be a matter of time before this stopped working too I'm sure.
Then I discovered this project, and with some trepidation I ran the installer and told it to update my Eudora installation.
Immediately everything came good, and I see that Eudora is now using TLSv1.2.
This is absolutely fantastic, you have no idea how pleased I am that my beloved e-mail program, which contains an archive going back to 1997, has been given a new lease of life!
I will certainly be making a grateful donation to keep this project going!
I downloaded and ran the full installer, "hermsetup.exe", but I now see there is also "HermSSL.zip".
Would the latter have done the job of updating my existing Eudora installation by itself?
Not a worry, just wondering.
I take it that the latest SSL information in "HermSSL.zip" is included in the full installer?
Thank you so much again,
Cheers, Dave.
Last edit: Dave Hawley 2020-04-04
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Dave, one of your posts about Hermes Mail saved me today. I'm on free ATT/Yahoo and lost being able to send email from Eudora on Apr 2. Today I actually found a way to email the CEO of ATT Communications. His tech staff verified that the ATT/Yahoo servers were working fine so they threw the problem back on me. I found your link which outlined my exact problem which led me to Hermes Mail and now I'm up and running again. Thanks for posting!
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No problem, really glad to have helped!
It's a great shame that inevitably a lot of longtime Eurora users will end up abandoning it because they don't know about this update.
Cheers, Dave.
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I just posted the problem and solution on the ATT Community forum where other people were hitting the same issue. If I can figure out how, would like to put it on Twitter (which I have never used) just to spread the word. If you know other places to post it, I would encourage you to do so. Eudora is too good a program to be abandoned when a patch to fix it exists. I am including the error msg. I got in my posts since that is what I googled to find yours. [SSL Negotiation Failed. The connection with the server has been lost. Cause: (1)]
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Ted...the link you posted to the 2020 funding campaign didn't work.
This one does: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/hermes-mail-pre-launch-campaign#/
Sorry to hijack this thread, but I tried to make a new one by sending an e-mail (from Eudora of course!) and it bounced back.
The bounce message said -
"550: RFC2822 says that all mail SHOULD have a Message-ID header.
Most messages without it are spam, so your mail has been rejected."
Any idea why that would have happened?
I've been using Eudora for over 20 years, and have carried on despite increasing compatibility issues, with the display of some modern messages being increasingly garbled and mis-formatted, and the need to manually update server certificates when they expire.
Recently, I thought I'd finally hit the end of the road when my e-mail provider (Sky via Yahoo) suddenly stopped accepting TLSv1 on its SMTP server, which meant I could no longer send any messages with Eudora.
Strangely enough, the POP server seemed to be still working fine to receive messages, but the writing was definitely on the wall and it would only be a matter of time before this stopped working too I'm sure.
Then I discovered this project, and with some trepidation I ran the installer and told it to update my Eudora installation.
Immediately everything came good, and I see that Eudora is now using TLSv1.2.
This is absolutely fantastic, you have no idea how pleased I am that my beloved e-mail program, which contains an archive going back to 1997, has been given a new lease of life!
I will certainly be making a grateful donation to keep this project going!
I downloaded and ran the full installer, "hermsetup.exe", but I now see there is also "HermSSL.zip".
Would the latter have done the job of updating my existing Eudora installation by itself?
Not a worry, just wondering.
I take it that the latest SSL information in "HermSSL.zip" is included in the full installer?
Thank you so much again,
Cheers, Dave.
Last edit: Dave Hawley 2020-04-04
Dave, one of your posts about Hermes Mail saved me today. I'm on free ATT/Yahoo and lost being able to send email from Eudora on Apr 2. Today I actually found a way to email the CEO of ATT Communications. His tech staff verified that the ATT/Yahoo servers were working fine so they threw the problem back on me. I found your link which outlined my exact problem which led me to Hermes Mail and now I'm up and running again. Thanks for posting!
No problem, really glad to have helped!
It's a great shame that inevitably a lot of longtime Eurora users will end up abandoning it because they don't know about this update.
Cheers, Dave.
Last edit: Dave Hawley 2020-04-07
I just posted the problem and solution on the ATT Community forum where other people were hitting the same issue. If I can figure out how, would like to put it on Twitter (which I have never used) just to spread the word. If you know other places to post it, I would encourage you to do so. Eudora is too good a program to be abandoned when a patch to fix it exists. I am including the error msg. I got in my posts since that is what I googled to find yours. [SSL Negotiation Failed. The connection with the server has been lost. Cause: (1)]