Eudora 7.1.0.9 doesn’t decode some Amazon messages

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Eudora 7.1.0.9 no longer properly decodes Amazon messages confirming a purchase. Is there an add-on that I need?

Thanks for your help.

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Have you attempted to read the email via a webmail interface?

(I frequently get emails displayed as html code with WindowsMail – but they look ok with webmail.)

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Tom M

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That flavor of Hermes https://sourceforge.net/projects/hermesmail/ won’t do anything except resolve SSL connection issues.  The not-yet-public Alpha of Hermes Aurora displays heavily html formatted emails better but not 100% yet.  You can “send to browser” in Eudora – that usually works.  That’s different than choosing “Use Microsoft’s Viewer” in Options – they are separate critters.

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Tom M

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I went to that site a few weeks ago to upgrade Eudora to TLS 1.02. It worked nicely.

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You could try moving to Hermes – a fork of Eudora.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/hermesmail/

cheers, Paul

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Tom M

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Thanks for the suggestion. It only happens with Amazon messages so I will stick with Eudora since it does everything else.

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The problem may be related to my PC not executing the script in the Amazon message.
Also, there may be some code translation that is not working.

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You do not want scripts in mail executing on your PC. That is malwareland!

cheers, Paul

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Tom M

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Apparently, there are some scripts that Eudora routinely processes. I have only gotten this type of error from Amazon shopping messages. However, I have gotten them for years. See attachment.

They only occur in order confirmation messages.

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That is Javascript and should only be used in browsers. I wouldn’t want my mail client running Javascript.

cheers, Paul

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Tom M

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