Email WayBack Machine

My first POP3 email client ever was Eudora. in 1992, we started a process to replace QuickMail at Berkeley Systems. We replaced a system with 7 servers managing a small mail load with a single BSD box running POP3 and Eudora.

I used Eudora at several jobs and at home, until HTML formatted email, SPAM, and IMAP became the norm. Eudora never handled either of them well. In a world of free or GPL email clients, Eudora had a hard time competing.

I heard that Qualcomm was throwing in the towel and going open source. I just found Penelope, a series of plugins for Thunderbird. Running it reminds me of the old days. It seems a bit faster than Thunderbird, which always had the clunky feel and slow rendering of old Netscape 4.7.

Version 8.0.0b1, the first public beta is now available -check it out!