Qualcomm's Eudora goes free and open source

I've used Eudora from the start, have nearly 750,000 (yikes) emails that I need to keep around, love the super fast searches and statistics on usage, spam etc. The interface is the worst-looking, by far, but still simple and functional. Checking multiple accounts is a breeze.. The thing I worry about most is what the "combined" ThunderDora interface will wind up doing to the overall speed of my current Eudora.

they claim they will keep features as close to the same as possible. I trust Qualacomm. also, check out eudora2go, their mobile e-mail client, which includes an imap account.

--Sam

Does this mean that Eudora will get a new look then? The 1995 look is so outdated.

I'm not happy with this at all. I'm a Eudora user for ages. I'm using Apple Mail at work and I've tried several other mail clients, like Thunderbird. Eudora is a great mail app if you have several mail accounts and tons of mail. The downside is that Eudora doesn't render html-formated mail like other mail apps of the 21st century. But I was setting my hopes on the announcement this summer that the developers were working on incorperating Apple's WebKit.
I guess the development of that has stopped. Quallcom is ditching Eudora, so that'll be the end of it.

I still use Eudora in spite of its old-looking, but clean interface. It has one feature I really like: you can edit an email message after it has been sent or received to add comments, delete paragraphs or to add a personal "gloss" onto the original message. Not a feature you would want in an archival email program used for business or government, but for my own personal records, I appreciate this aspect.

Back in my PC days, I was using Eudora before I switched to Outlook because I already found Eudora's interface old and not very user-friendly.
I gave it a try on the Mac, but as you said, it hasn't changed a bit. So for now I'll stick with Mail.app.
But you know, we'll see what Qualcomm does with Thunderbird...

Three years ago I got a night job. I'm never home any more so I just use webmail. Up until that time, my home email client was Eudora 1.5.4 (for Windows; released in 1996, I think), which my wife still uses. It launches in the blink of an eye (literally--about 1 or 2 tenths of a second) and does everything she needs.

I've been using Eudora forever and still think it's the best email program. For 5 years I wrote a weekly Eudora Tip (archived at http://mactips.info/tips/?cat=2), explaining some of the features, tips and tricks of this massively powerful software.

While the interface is a little outdated it's still the only email software that behaves in ways I want my email to behave. I've looked at some of the others, and Thunderbird is the only one I would have considered if Eudora had spontaneously combusted and become unable to function on my machine.

The news that Eudora and Thunderbird are to be combined is pleasing. I just hope the final product retains the single window interface and doesn't force me into the three-paned structure so much other software uses.

Shame, I'm merging to Mail as I write this... let's see if Eudora Mailbox Cleaner does a good import into Mail. If so... I'm gone. Dang, and I did pay this year... oh well. good Karma, I guess. :-)

I have been using Eudora since version 1.something and have turned dozens of people onto it, mostly rescuing them from Outlook Express. I have been waiting and wondering when there would be an upgrade that would give me, most importantly, a key command to enlarge type like AppleMail and any web browser does.

I hope they will not change the interface nor render my fifteen-year archive of mailboxes useless. One lost feature that disappeared between the last Classic and first OSX version was the ability to read mailboxes off of CDs. Now, because it can't write to them, it won't even read them. It's also important that I can open any mailbox file in TextEdit should it somehow become unreadable in Eudora.

Someone suggested that the Thunderbird core will change the look of the program to resemble Thunderbird. I hope Qualcomm will be more forthcoming about what these changes will really mean.

As someone who fixes Macs and recovers software failures, Eudora is the only program that I have never failed to recover mail from, except when disk errors have completely trashed the files.