@Gammitin Mac OS X 10.0.3 - bitter stuff, IMHO, very sluggish. 10.1.x is a tad better, 10.2 flies in comparison on the same box …
I used Eudora back at the time, with IMAP, and there was no native version. I rebooted to Mac OS 9 to read emails, instead of using classic (which worked!), because it’s been soooo slow within Mac OS X.