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Computer History Museum Releases Eudora E-mail Client Source Code

posted by chromas on Friday May 25 2018, @06:02AM   
from the classical-sauce dept.

canopic jug writes:

The Computer History Museum has release the source code for the Eudora E-mail Client. Back when the other e-mail clients were text-based, Eudora became one of the first popular email utilities to feature a graphical user interface. It was initially created for the Macintosh computers by Steve Dorner in 1988. Some e-mail clients, especially web clients, have taken forever to catch up with Eudora's capabilities. Some pretend clients, like Outlook, may never catch up. Now is the chance. The Eudora source code is available freely for both personal and commercial use, as long as the Eudora trademark is not infringed upon.

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• Interesting. Interesting. (Score: 3, Interesting) by Subsentient on Friday May 25 2018, @07:01AM (2 children)

  by Subsentient (1111) on Friday May 25 2018, @07:01AM (#683917) Homepage Journal

  From the looks of it, it uses Qt 3.x internally, so it's likely portable to other operating systems as well. I was scared it'd be using WinAPI for the GUI. Qt 5.x also has a port for Android, so you could even get Eudora on your phone. There's some non-FOSS stuff that'll need to be gutted, but it all seems doable thankfully.

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• Not the Eudora I used. (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 25 2018, @09:52AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 25 2018, @09:52AM (#683948)

  I used it originally on Windows 3.11 using the Win16 API. QT3 puts it early '00s, which makes this a very late version of the client. Would love to know if earlier releases source code has survived and if it will be released in due time.

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• Re:Interesting. (Score: 3, Interesting) by JoeMerchant on Friday May 25 2018, @12:01PM

  by JoeMerchant (3937) on Friday May 25 2018, @12:01PM (#683973)

  Qt 3.x to 4.x was not exactly seamless for porters, 4.x to 5.x was better.

  Still doable, everything is doable. Has anybody here "done" Qt 5 on Android yet? I tried it about 4 years back, Lighthouse and various other things, it wasn't easy enough to inspire a proof of concept project then.

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