Qualcomm is going to cease development of its popular email client software, Eudora. Instead, it is giving its code to the Mozilla folks, who also produce Thunderbird.
At first I thought that Eudora would get merged into a slightly changed Thunderbird. But no. The aim by Mozilla, with the help of current Eudora staff, is for the new open-source email client program to maintain the "Eudora user experience". The name for this project is Penelope.
I have been using Eudora Pro, but decided to try out Thunderbird. Caution - the Thunderbird importers for Eudora's mailboxes, folders, messages, and address books are very "rough". I had to heavily edit the imported address book data, though the Eudora 7 messages and "Personalities" did import OK. Thunderbird is a different user experience, but mostly rewarding. I really appreciate the spell check as you type. But I was annoyed that there was no option to change the default message action upon delete -- it pops up the next unread message, which could be malicious. No thank you!
If you want to try Thunderbird, I recommend also installing the "Unselect message" add-on, which changes the default action to one that deletes an open message and then returns to the message list without opening the next unread one. That should have been the Thunderbird default anyway, just for security reasons.
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