Re:Eudora Goes Open Source
by dragonquest on Friday January 20, 2012 @06:35AM
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Didn't this happen many years ago? Qualcomm had announced its intention around 2006 that Mozilla would be taking over the development of the open source version. If I remember correctly after 5-10 intermediate builds they put up a release in 2010 which was a TB based version with the extension being called Penelope.
Re:Eudora Goes Open Source
by Maxious on Friday January 20, 2012 @07:03AM
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From the link "This page was last modified on 6 December 2010". Even more troubling from http://hg.mozilla.org/penelope/ "last change Tue, 05 Oct 2010"
Re:Eudora Goes Open Source
by hga on Friday January 20, 2012 @02:28PM
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Worse, they punted on what for me is the essential Eudora feature, a multiple document interface (MDI, see e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_document_interface). I personally like both filters and knowing when I've gotten new email that was filed into one, keeping some emails open until I deal with them, etc.
No substitute for the real thing.
And Wozniak is correct about how useful the arbitrary button feature is, but I'm pretty certain Eudora isn't the only email client with scripting ability (EMACS for sure, although I transitioned from rmail back in 1996).
Re:Eudora Goes Open Source
by jamesjbell on Friday January 20, 2012 @10:07AM
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Poor Eudora. Once you were my steady but no conversation threading and corrupted mailboxes pushed me away. And your ill-fated marriage to TBird was little more than a theme.
Re:Eudora Goes Open Source
by joe_bleau on Friday January 20, 2012 @11:13AM
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I'm still on 7.1.0.9 (and have no plans to switch), and I can't remember the last time I had mailbox corruption. The view window sometimes paints improperly if I scroll with the page down key too quickly, which annoys me.
Too bad they didn't open source the last real client. I'd like to get rid of the headers like "From: "=?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCJTUhPCVTJTklaiU5JT8hPCVIGyhC?="".
No substitute for the real thing.
And Wozniak is correct about how useful the arbitrary button feature is, but I'm pretty certain Eudora isn't the only email client with scripting ability (EMACS for sure, although I transitioned from rmail back in 1996).
Now I just use it to backup gmail.
(recently switched to thunderbird for the backup)
Signed,
A former registered user
P.S. Postbox FTW!
Too bad they didn't open source the last real client. I'd like to get rid of the headers like "From: "=?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCJTUhPCVTJTklaiU5JT8hPCVIGyhC?="".