Eudora: the newer, the buggier

As I always say, the newer the program, the more likely it will be buggy.
   I needed to move to Eudora 6 because of the way version 4.3 could not authenticate properly with our SMTP server.
   I’m kind of OK with it except for certain issues.

• Eudora now longer feeds advertising through its Sponsored Mode, yet there is no way to close the old sponsorship window.
• The ability to preview the last selected message in the inbox through the preview window no longer works when multiple messages are selected.
• More spam gets through, as though McAfee SpamKiller has been rendered useless by the upgrade.
• When marking certain messages as spam (because SpamKiller is less effective now), Eudora reorders the inbox without my permission.

   As this is version 6, and not the current one, there will be no point informing the manufacturer of these problems. However, I am surprised that as it is v. 6.2.5—i.e. it has been through quite a few revisions already—that these very obvious bugs have not been ironed out. And I am unwilling to pay for a program, as I once did with the old Eudora, if it is buggier than something they came up with a decade ago.
   It is typical, sadly, of the way software has developed: some really are worse today, and I am a very good witness to it, having moved from a 10-year-old version of Eudora to a three-year-old one today, and finding the decade-old one more reliable on most counts.
   Here’s the real kicker: according to the Add and Remove Programs dialogue box in Windows, Eudora is by far and away the biggest program ever conceived for general use:

Eudora 6 is huge