Future Eudora Versions Based on Mozilla Thunderbird

Future Eudora Versions Based on Mozilla Thunderbird
Thursday October 12th, 2006

The Mozilla Foundation and Qualcomm have announced that future versions of the Eudora mail client will be based on Mozilla Thunderbird. The first Thunderbird-based release of Eudora is expected to be made available in the first half of 2007 and will be both free and open-source. According to the press release, it will retain "Eudora's uniquely rich feature set and productivity enhancements ". Thunderbird and Eudora will remain separate products, though they may benefit from common improvements in the future.

The mission to migrate Eudora to a Thunderbird-based application will be known as the Penelope project. A rough roadmap has been produced, envisaging three initial releases: 0.1, 0.5 and 1.0. Each release will progressively reimplement more Eudora features, with 1.0 being a suitable replacement for most current users. Qualcomm has assigned six employees to the Penelope project, including original Eudora developer Steve Dorner, who started working on the program in 1988, three years before it was purchased by Qualcomm.

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Also see this Press Release from Qualcomml

 

I don't know where this gets us.

I am using Mulberry again now that it is open source after going bust.

There has been some chatter on the Mulberry forum - apparently Eudora has the best (maybe the only useable) LDAP manage, so the code could be incorporated into Firefox (and Mulberry)