I remain confused about the reason for this exercise.

The developers continue to claim "It's *not* our intention to compete with Thunderbird; rather, we want to complement it."

Not compete? How not? You use one email client or you use another: putting the effort into creating yet another client is competition, whether you want to admit it or not.

Complement? One dictionary definition of complement is "a thing that completes or brings to perfection." Eudora completes Thunderbird or brings it to perfection exactly how? I'm willing to listen, though. Someone please explain the "complement" as you use it here.

An add-on that provides some new functionality to Thunderbird would complement Thunderbird. A repackaged clone is competition, and, to be blunt, not very good competition.

Classic Eudora was a good program in its time. I was sad to give it up (especially the x-settings) in favor of Thunderbird, but this is nothing like Classic Eudora, and, to my mind, nothing more than a poorly executed effort to keep the Eudora name alive.

To claim this is a complement and not competition is pure unadulterated BS. Either that, or an exceptionally poor understanding of those words as they are used in English.

Give it up folks, or give us something that knocks our socks off. A clone that's nowhere near as flexible as the original is hardly worth the time of day. If you're not knocking our socks off, your efforts to keep Eudora alive in this fashion are just insulting. She should be allowed to rest in peace. This is not doing her memory justice. Not in the least.