Eudora 7.1

For those of us who are dedicated Eudora 7.1 email client users, the announcement that Qualcomm would terminate development of our beloved email client and hand off the name to the Mozilla organization for the purpose of development of an Open Source Eudora Email client email client was cause for both anticipation and apprehension.

In some respects, this was encouraging news. I`m a fan of Open Source software, and Steve Dorner, the original author of Eudora download for the Mac, would be a core member of the Eudora development team which goes by the name of Penelope (the wife of Odysseus and daughter of Icarius of Sparta).

The more ominous part was that the new "Eudora" was to be based on Mozilla`s Thunderbird email client, which I have never been favorably impressed by for a whole raft of reasons. I don`t like so-called "three-box" email client user interfaces (ditto for OS X Mail and a raft of others), and Thunderbird`s SMTP implementation is about the most clumsy and inconvenient I`ve encountered in any email client.