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Eudora Goes Open Source

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Didn't this happen many years ago? Qualcomm had announced its intention around 2006 that Mozilla would be taking over the development of the open source version. If I remember correctly after 5-10 intermediate builds they put up a release in 2010 which was a TB based version with the extension being called Penelope.

From the link "This page was last modified on 6 December 2010". Even more troubling from http://hg.mozilla.org/penelope/ "last change Tue, 05 Oct 2010"

Worse, they punted on what for me is the essential Eudora feature, a multiple document interface (MDI, see e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_document_interface). I personally like both filters and knowing when I've gotten new email that was filed into one, keeping some emails open until I deal with them, etc.

No substitute for the real thing.

And Wozniak is correct about how useful the arbitrary button feature is, but I'm pretty certain Eudora isn't the only email client with scripting ability (EMACS for sure, although I transitioned from rmail back in 1996).

Wow - Eudora - before gmail this was my life.

Now I just use it to backup gmail.

(recently switched to thunderbird for the backup)

The best result would be if the Eudora features were available as a/several Thunderbird add-on(s). Woz still uses the original Eudora because of some simple features: http://lifehacker.com/5222989/how-apple-co+founder-steve-woz...

Seems to be it's just Thunderbird with UI tweaks. I would've preferred the original Eudora codebase from the 90's. Didn't even know they ditched it.

Poor Eudora. Once you were my steady but no conversation threading and corrupted mailboxes pushed me away. And your ill-fated marriage to TBird was little more than a theme.

Signed,

A former registered user

P.S. Postbox FTW!

I'm still on 7.1.0.9 (and have no plans to switch), and I can't remember the last time I had mailbox corruption. The view window sometimes paints improperly if I scroll with the page down key too quickly, which annoys me.

Too bad they didn't open source the last real client. I'd like to get rid of the headers like "From: "=?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCJTUhPCVTJTklaiU5JT8hPCVIGyhC?="".

Is there any particular reason that Eudora didn't simply get folded into Thunderbird?

How is that news? Besides, won't Thunderbird 3.x be EOL'd soon?

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