Kim, Many thanks for all of this! I tried out Thunderbird a couple of years ago -- installed it and tried the "Import" function to import my Eudora email. It worked away at it for a while then failed for some reason, I can't remember why. I really need the multiple folders feature of Eudora -- I use filters to direct incoming messages to different folders according to trigger words in the text or according to sender's name, etc. Emails containing obvious spam or sexually explicit phrases I just route to Trash without ever looking at them. But maybe it's time to take another look at it. Not enough hours in the day. Take care, Chas. Dobie. At 07:46 PM 1/9/2016, you wrote: >Charlie, I checked out of curiosity and there is a version of Eudora >for Linux. Although like the Windows version it's no longer supported. >You can download it on cnet. Eudora is a commercial mail program that >was based off Thunderbird. Thunderbird is still being maintained and >works for both Windows and Linux. Have you ever tried it? It's the >email program I've used for years. > >A good way to see if your software is known to work in Linux is to check >the WINE HQ database. This is the one for Brothers Keeper. >https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=7841 > >It seems the trick to getting it to work it to copy a file from your >Windows system that WINE can't install. I haven't tried it but might >later. Their is also information there on how to get FrontPage web >designer working in WINE. It's important to click on the tests to read >the information. Often if you see a lot of reports of "garbage" it's >because someone tried a one click install. Then you see ratings of gold >or silver and it will have notes that a simple setting was changed that >caused the program to work. > >I know that Linux has a version of FileZilla it's what I use to update >my website. > >One idea if it helps. If you really want to run Linux but need Windows >for just a few important programs that wont run in WINE for you, you can >run a copy of Windows in a virtual box in Linux. I do this and it works >well. A virtual box lets you run more than one operating system at the >same time. You can also share files back and forth between them if you >want to. > >I installed the free virtualbox software and then installed a copy of >Windows that I already own into that. In this case it's XP. I use that >to run FTM 2012 and RootsMagic 7 because FTM will not work in Linux at >all. RM7 will run in WINE but I find it buggy that way. My laptop does >have Windows 10 on it as well when I need to use that for something. > >What I like about this setup is that most of the software I use is made >for Linux but a few I love is Windows only. I have older software that >runs better in XP then newer windows. Since it's in a virtualbox I can >back that up and easily re import it into my computer if it was to >become corrupt. I can also block it from accessing the internet through >Windows if security in an older operating system is a concern. > >Kim > >On 16-01-09 02:00 PM, Charles Dobie via wrote: > > > > I would dearly love to try Linux but I have legacy programs such as > > Eudora and Brothers Keeper that I can't lose. Once someone assures me > > that I can run them under Linux, then I'm outta here. > > > > Charlie Dobie. > > > > > > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >[email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' >without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > >----- >No virus found in this message. >Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >Version: 2016.0.7294 / Virus Database: 4489/11363 - Release Date: 01/09/16 Charles Dobie, [email protected]