Comments on: Qualcomm gives Eudora a Mozilla makeover

To exit the e-mail software market, Qualcomm is rebuilding its products on an open-source Thunderbird foundation.

[pjk0]

A shame, really.

Thunderbird has never particularly impressed me as an email client, not least because it really hasn't advanced all that much from the days of Netscape Navigator (especially user-interface wise), and because it suffers the same issue as all email clients derived from web-browser code or from organizations which got their start making web clients: it treats email like a webpage - and I think that's inefficient, unnecessarily complex and more often than not these days, a security risk.

One more good quality dedicated email client bites the dust, and the latest stage in the saga that started with the demise of Netscape in the first place. Rather ironic they are going to "Mozilla-ize" their product. (and what's the point of this?)

We have Microsoft to thank for making it next to impossible for anyone to come up with a viable business model for marketing a web or email client application.

[R. U. Sirius]

Get ready for a tirade from the MS Fanboyz

While you may be correct in your assessment that MS has essentially killed innovation for email apps, you will no doubt get flooded with attacks from the MS fanboyz crowd very soon. Good luck! :-)

[Bookerman]

Does Anybody Even Use Eudora Anymore?

If you cannot afford the price, there is a free limited version or a sponsored mode. Yet nobody seems to use the program anymore. I personally never found it to be that great even when it was popular. Too bad there are no decent email clients out there. For some reason I cannot understand, people prefer webmail.

[Marcus Westrup]

Oh Yes they do.

I've always used Eudora as it follows the KISS principle.
There is nothing in Outlook (any version) that I trust, and since I don?t like the layout in Thunderbird, I Will be buying the last version based on the old code.

[pjk0]

Yes people do, including NASA.

NASA apparently delivers Eudora as part of their standard desktop application bundle. Here is a link to some documentation on it:

http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/codec/codeci/ITservices/help/software/email/eud_bkup2.htm

A site I manage uses Eudora on most all the desktops, but I am going to migrate them to more of an "enterprise" system as they have outgrown its capabilities. (which means their requirements are way beyond the capabilities of Thunderbird or webmail as well)

The reason most people use webmail today is because it's all they know, and because it requires virtually no expertise outside of how to use a web browser.

Most people today know of no other way to send a file other than by attaching it to an email too - which is also a really inefficient way to send files back/forth.

Don't assume that people do things because they're actually educated (or care) about better alternatives.
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[paulsecic]

Web Mail

I can't stand web mail either. Not enough features.