Eudora lives! First OSE release candidate is out
The first release candidate for Eudora OSE (“Open Source Edition”) has been released 
, after a gap of several months since the last beta.
Described as “an email client that combines Mozilla’s Thunderbird with code, features, and GUI elements from Qualcomm’s Eudora”, Eudora OSE is the end result of Qualcomm’s decision in October 2006 (Remember that?) to get out of the email market and to open source the code for its email client, once the most popular email app on the Mac platform.
Firing it up for a quick look-see is very nostalgic. First the freestanding mailbox pane appears, and then that unforgettable “bob-bob-a-bob-a-bob” sound of new mail arriving.
Old hands might still cherish a secret flame for Eudora, and find this release an interesting thing to play around with.
It’s not the old Eudora, that’s for sure; feels more like a skinned version of Thunderbird to me.
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Tags: email, Eudora, not apple mail, not mail.app, open source, qualcomm, thunderbird
July 3rd, 2010 at 7:50 pm
Thanks for the heads up, Tim, and welcome back!
July 4th, 2010 at 2:16 am
Interesting… as someone who bought in early to the Infinity Data Systems’ commercial remake of Eudora (formerly Odysseus, now MailForge), this is turning my head… but only because IDS has been setting and missing release dates for the longest time. Still, a skinned Thunderbird won’t do it for die-hard Eudora fanatics (like me, who still run Eudora 6.2.4 under Snow Leopard)
July 4th, 2010 at 3:44 am
“unforgettable “bob-bob-a-bob-a-bob” sound”
you ought a get a log!
http://www.snotr.com/video/228
July 4th, 2010 at 7:28 am
@SchnauzerLogc — Classic! I think I even heard the Eudora New Mail sound embedded into the clip. Thanks.
July 4th, 2010 at 5:08 pm
Eudora 6.2.4 runs great on my Snow leopard mac Pro.
I doubt if any imitaters would run as well. I wish it would run on my iPad