Mozilla Quietly Resurrects Eudora

Stony Stevenson writes to mention that the Mozilla Foundation has quietly released the first beta version of the revised Eudora email application. This is the first development Eudora has seen since Qualcomm stopped development and turned it over to the open source community in 2006. "Eudora first appeared in 1988 and quickly became one of the first popular email applications, enjoying its heyday in the early 1990s as it developed over the early days of the internet. Use of Eudora began to wane in the mid-1990s as the third-party application was muscled out of the market by web-based services such as Hotmail and bundled applications such as Outlook." Linux.com has a bit more explanation about why many may not consider this simply a new release of Eudora. According to the release page the new Eudora application is not intended to compete with Thunderbird, but instead to complement it.

Comments

It's been said...

[Bluesman]

All applications expand their feature set until they are capable of reading email.

I guess Eudora, now based on Thunderbird, finally can make that claim.

Re:It's been said...

[Anonymous Coward]

whooooooooooooosssssshhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!

Lookin' good thunderbird

[Anonymous Coward]

the new Eudora application is not intended to compete with Thunderbird, but instead to complement it. Eudora: My Thunderbird, you look particularly ravishing tonight.
Thunderbird Oh Eudora, you're too good to me!

Re:It's "Eudora" in name only, than?

[hcdejong]

Yes (except for the A in "then", of course)

In todays news...

[packetmon]

US Postal Service announced it was creating a new department. Title "United States Postal Delivery and Management System" it will not interfere with the day to day duties of the US Postal Service which manages and delivers mail. It instead complements the current department

Correction and continuation:

[Anonymous Coward]

Eudora: My Thunderbird, you look particularly ravishing tonight.
Thunderbird: Oh Eudora, you're too good to me!

Outlook: What you doin' with my bitch, you Commie scum.
Eudora: Don't hurt Thunderbird! It's you I loved all along!
Pine: Might I trouble you kind gents for a bit of bread?!
Outlook I thought I told you never to come out of your hole again!

Hey, I've got a better name for this product

[idontgno]

"PINE"!

It'll stand for "PINE is not Eudora!"

Whaddya mean, "Prior art"?

Re:That wiki makes my head hurt

[a_nonamiss]

You clearly don't understand. What they're trying to do is to create a virtual paradigm shift, and using a collaborative effort, they will fundamentally alter the synergy between these two channels. If they hope to harness the power of Web 2.0, they need to be proactive in their real-time global initiatives, and mesh their current mindshare to make frictionless infrastructures.

It's so simple, anyone could understand it. Sheesh.

Driver required?

[tetranz]

With Penelope and Thunderbird, somewhere there's got to be a driver called Parker.

Re:That wiki makes my head hurt

[rdavidson3]

You clearly don't understand. What they're trying to do is to create a virtual paradigm shift, and using a collaborative effort, they will fundamentally alter the synergy between these two channels. If they hope to harness the power of Web 2.0, they need to be proactive in their real-time global initiatives, and mesh their current mindshare to make frictionless infrastructures. In other words, it makes ice cubes.

In that case . . .

[hawk]

Will EMACS finally be getting a decent editor added to its functionality?

hawk

Re:In that case . . .

[Anonymous Coward]

Soon. Ironically, it will be vi.

Re:That wiki makes my head hurt

[MysteriousPreacher]

People working in marketing are eligible to moderate, just like us humans.