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Eudora

Eudora

E-mail client.

Version:  6.2.4

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End of Life

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Contributed by: Jeff Mincey Sunday, March 29 2009 @ 09:34 AM PDT

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: Over One Year

Since VersionTracker has seen fit to delete the full complement of reviews and commentary about this product I will revisit this page just long enough to express the view that Eudora 6 is obsolete and end-of-life. Anyone who downloads and uses this should be apprised that no further development is being done on this code base.

Eudora 8 is an effort by Qualcomm to put a front end on the Mozilla Thunderbird e-mail client, but I wouldn't advise Eudora proponents to take much solace in that inasmuch as this new version itself has (for the Mac OS X platform, at least) been languishing for a long time.

Qualcomm, either commit to this project and do it justice or scrap it altogether. Put your code in open source for others to use. Pick one approach or the other. Anything is better than allowing the product to drift in development limbo.   

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End of Life - ericb1000

I've been successfully using Eudora 6.2.3 for many years and it still runs nicely on both our G4s (PPC) and my MacBook Pro (Intel) under OS 10.4.11. I personally know a successful Mac consultant running it under Leopard 10.5.5.

As well, there is a development team working outside of Qualcomm, which gave up control a couple of years ago, to make it more up to date while retaining what many of us consider the best Mac email client yet to exist. Long live Eudora! :)

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