Eudora goes open source. Sort of.
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11 Oct 2006
I used Eudora for a long time before moving to Thuderbird more than a year ago. Now I read that Eudora is going open source and will be based on Thunderbird.
Eudroa’s FAQ about the change is a little light on the details but it does say that Qualcomm is getting out of the email business. Building a consumer mail client isn’t really aligned with Qualcomm’s business.
The project page on the Mozilla wiki indicates that the plan is to pretty much take Thunderbird, make the UI feel like Eudora, and add in Eudora’s message handling methods and other features like stationary.
It sounds like Thuderbird extensions will work with the new Eudora. It doen’t appear that the existing source code of Eudora will be released.