fast, simple, nerdy, no-frills. these are the words i used to describe Eudora v6 and the reasons i kept using it (and paying for it) for years, even after Qualcom abandoned it. i agree with others that this "Thunderbird + a plug in" is in no way related to the Eudora i came to love. sure, they may have incorporated some of the original code, but users don't see code, we see user interface and usability.

that said, the original source code is now open source, but i haven't seen anyone else step up and even attempt to improve the code to make Eudora (the old Eudora) a modern application. i'm no programmer, but i can only speculate that this has something to do with the code. i'm only guessing here, but perhaps it's too convoluted from having been ported from OS9 and earlier.

i would love to see someone pick up the code, fix some of the glaring issues (HTML rendering namely) and release a REAL Eudora 8, but until then i have migrated to Leopard Mail.