Eudora (email client)

This article is about the Eudora proprietary email client. For Eudora Open Source Edition, see Eudora OSE.

Eudora
Developer(s)Team HERMES

Historically:

UIUC; Qualcomm
Stable release
8.0 alpha 28e (Windows); 6.2.4 (Mac OS X); 6.1.1 (Mac OS 9) / 2004-05-18 (Mac OS 9); 2006-10-11 (Windows/Mac OS X)
Preview release
8.0 alpha 28e (Windows)
Operating systemWindows, Linux

m Historically:

Classic Mac OS, Mac OS X, Linux[1]
TypeEmail (IMAP and SMTP client)
LicenseBSD License;
earlier: Free software (Eudora OSE), Adware, payware, Light
Websitewww.igg.me/at/hermes80/ (Eudoramail 8.0) www.computerhistory.org/_static/atchm/the-eudora-email-client-source-code/ (preserved Eudora 7.1)

Eudora (/juːˈdɔːrə/ ⓘ) is a family of email clients that was used on the classic Mac OS, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows operating systems. It also supported several palmtop computing platforms, including Newton and the Palm OS.

The final Macintosh and Windows versions of Eudora, released in 2006, were succeeded by the Qualcomm-backed, cross-platform Eudora OSE (q.v.), built on an unrelated codebase (viz. that of Mozilla Thunderbird) with additional extensions. The first and last version of Eudora OSE was released in 2010 to negative reviews and lukewarm support; development subsequently ceased due to a lack of funding.

The last 'mainline' (pre-OSE) versions of Eudora for Mac and Windows were open-sourced and preserved as an artefact by the Computer History Museum[2] in 2018; as part of the preservation, the CHM assumed ownership of the Eudora trademark.

The actively maintained version of the software, known as Eudoramail as of June 2024, originates from 'mainline' Eudora for Windows as preserved by the CHM. Hermes, its current maintainers, describe Eudoramail 8.0 as currently being in alpha; Wellington typographer Jack Yan, meanwhile, points out its stability, notwithstanding a number of well-characterised and reproducible display bugs.[3]

  1. ^ "Eudora Releases". mozilla.org. Archived from the original on September 6, 2015. Retrieved September 28, 2015.
  2. ^ "The Eudora Email Client Source Code". www.computerhistory.org. May 22, 2018. Archived from the original on May 22, 2018. Retrieved May 22, 2018.
  3. ^ Yan, Jack (April 6, 2024). "Eudora users, welcome Aurora: finally, a modern, secure, Unicode-friendly successor". Archived from the original on June 17, 2024. Retrieved June 17, 2024.