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Geek Speak with Eudora

Does anybody remember Eudora? I loved that program. So lightweight, so uncomplicated. It was a program for reading and writing e-mail. That’s it. You could have 4,000 messages in your mailbox and the program still launched in seconds. I loved it.

Well the days of Eudora are long gone, but it’s currently being re-invented using the code structure of Mozilla Thunderbird. Not a bad idea. If you recall, the once popular Netscape was headed to the graveyard when it was given fresh life by Mozilla Firefox. In just a few short years, Firefox has managed to win over thousands of web users.

Maybe Eudora will get new life too. I really like Thunderbird. It’s my mail program of choice, actually. If I could combine the features that I loved about Eudora with Thunderbird, that would be pure Heaven to me.

We’ll see where this goes. It’s still in the early beta stages, under the codename Penelope. If you didn’t know, a program always has a codename before it is finalized.

In the mean time, I’ve customized the new mail sound in Thunderbird to play the classic Eudora mail sound. It’s such a happy tune.

Wed, Sep 12, 2007 @ 3:10 pm | Filed in Technology | Permalink

4 Comments

I didn’t really like Eudora actually and still think Tunderbird needs some work, but that’s why they are only at version 2. I love Apple Mail, but then you have to have an Apple computer to use it, but for Windows (which I use at work) Thunderbird does a great job.

Posted by Howard on Wed, Sep 12, 2007 @ 4:11 pm

LOL. Does anyone remember EMACS? It was a text editor for unix which had email capability of sorts. Those were the days!

Posted by Tom on Wed, Sep 12, 2007 @ 4:53 pm

I LOVED Eudora. I think that was my first email client ever. As you said, it was quick, it was intuitive and easy to use. As far as I can remember, you can tweak it a fair bit as well. Then of course clunky MS Outlook came along and monopolised things because I need my PDA to sync my contacts and it will only do it with Outlook. MS is so evil. :S

Posted by enihsnus on Wed, Sep 12, 2007 @ 5:14 pm

I loved Eudora. I’d love to see it come back. Buck I like Thunderbird and Firefox, too. I use flock, which is platformed on Firefox, with all sorts of blogging capabilities built in.

Posted by DEL on Thu, Sep 13, 2007 @ 4:09 pm