Eudora (email client)

Eudora ( ) 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, built on an unrelated codebase (namely 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 artifact by the Computer History Museum in 2018. As part of the preservation, the CHM assumed ownership of the Eudora trademark. The only actively maintained fork 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 publisher Jack Yan, meanwhile, points out its stability, a number of well-characterized and reproducible display bugs notwithstanding.