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

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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  • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Friday May 25 2018, @02:51PM

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Friday May 25 2018, @02:51PM (#684034)

    My wife hung on using Eudora until at least 2006, but it was getting too out of date to be useful for me by then.

    I remember automatic mail sorting into folders that worked better than anything even today, pretty good attachment handling on par with today's clients, and excellent search - as good as gmail for the local Eudora message database.

    Ultimately, managing that database and migrating it to new computers was Eudora's downfall. Back when you only had one computer that you accessed e-mail from, it was great. Separation of work and home e-mail was a natural thing to accept, but today - I've got at least 4 desktops plus a cellphone that I access my e-mail from on a regular basis, and several times a year I tap in from other places, too - that's where "the cloud" has won.

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