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Eudora
A popular full-featured Internet mail program (mail client) from QUALCOMM for Windows and Mac. Eudora was available in light, sponsored and paid versions (www.eudora.com) and, in the early days...
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Definition: Eudora
A popular full-featured Internet mail program (mail client) from QUALCOMM for Windows and Mac. Eudora was available in light, sponsored and paid versions (www.eudora.com) and, in the early days of the Internet, was often bundled with computers and ISP startup packages.
Eudora was developed by Steve Dorner at the University of Illinois and was first released as freeware for the Macintosh in 1988. It was the first graphics-based mail program that became popular. Later ported to Windows, in time, more than 20 million people would use the product.
From Eudora to Penelope to Eudora OSE
QUALCOMM dropped support for the commercial Eudora product in April 2007. However, Eudora lived on as the Penelope open source project from the Mozilla Foundation (www.mozilla.org). Using the Thunderbird mail client as its foundation, Penelope extensions added more Eudora functionality. Later, the Eudora name was resurrected as a single product based on Thunderbird and Penelope and then Eudora became Eudora OSE (Open Source Edition) to avoid confusion with the original software. Version 1.0 of Eudora OSE was offered in mid-2010. For more information, visit http://wiki.mozilla.org/Eudora_Releases. See Thunderbird.
Eudora Was a Pulitzer Prize Winner
The software was named after Eudora Welty (1909-2001), an American novelist and Pulitzer Prize winner who, along with such greats as William Faulkner and Tennessee Williams, created a Southern literary renaissance in the U.S. from the 1930s to the 1950s. One of Miss Welty's short stories, "Why I Live at the P.O.," was a tale about a woman who lived at the post office instead of at home. It inspired Dorner, who was spending so much time programming a mail application. See stationery.
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New Eudora skin for Thunderbird sort of nifty
What is most impressive is how clean the code is in operation. Usually you see "pre-release" and go, woah! But nothing has broken, everything is running fine, despite the fact that this version...
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Eudora open source e-mail client beta makes debut
Thunderbird backers are hoping that the soon-to-be-released "Penelope" add on will improve its prospects in the open source e-mail arena. The first beta of the "Penelope" open source Eudora...
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New Eudora skin for Thunderbird sort of nifty
What is most impressive is how clean the code is in operation. Usually you see "pre-release" and go, woah! But nothing has broken, everything is running fine, despite the fact that this version...
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Eudora open source e-mail client beta makes debut
Thunderbird backers are hoping that the soon-to-be-released "Penelope" add on will improve its prospects in the open source e-mail arena. The first beta of the "Penelope" open source Eudora...
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Qualcomm gives Eudora a Mozilla makeover
To exit the e-mail software market, Qualcomm is rebuilding its products on an open-source Thunderbird foundation.
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ZoneAlarm glitches hit Eudora, McAfee users
Update to Zone Labs' security software interferes with Eudora e-mail client, McAfee antivirus software. Fix is available.
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Security hole found in Eudora
A researcher has discovered a flaw in the Eudora e-mail program that could allow a hacker to execute code on a user's machine. The exploit requires a user to open an e-mail message and click on a...
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Security hole found in Eudora
Flaw in the Eudora e-mail program could allow a hacker to execute code on a user's machine.
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Real Media to put ads in Eudora
Real Media, an Internet advertising company, announced Tuesday it will be the sales agent for the new version of Eudora, a popular e-mail program from Qualcomm Inc. Real Media will help deliver...
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Qualcomm to give out full version of Eudora for free
Digital wireless communications provider Qualcomm Inc., announced it will begin providing, at no charge, an advertiser-supported version of the Eudora email program to Windows and Macintosh...
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Eudora still lives!
Qualcomm denies rumors that it will kill popular e-mail program, but other products may be at risk.
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Eudora Pro 4 to pack IMAP
Windows 95 and NT users this week get to test drive the next version of Qualcomm Inc.'s Eudora Pro, and the company said it hopes to release the public beta of the Mac version in November....
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