Goodbye Eudora

Plug Pulled on Old-Time Eudora Software
By The Associated Press
26 minutes ago

SAN DIEGO - The Eudora e-mail software has been around nearly 20 years,
long before the Internet became a household word. Now, with its glory
days behind, its owner is calling it quits.

Qualcomm Inc., the company best known as a pioneer of the CDMA
technology that powers many of the world's mobile phones, says the
latest Eudora release will be its last commercial version, available at
a cut-rate price of $19.95 with six months technical support.

Beginning next year, Eudora will evolve and incorporate code from
Thunderbird, the free, open-source e-mail program from Mozilla Corp.
New versions will be based entirely on Thunderbird code, and the
software will be given away free.

Steve W. Jackson...

Yet another reason why I'm skeptical of AP and other press reports.

The headline is false. The plug has *not* been pulled, as the text
itself clearly shows. The evolution doesn't begin next year -- it's now
under way with a release planned for next year.

Paul Blair...

The best thing about Eudora is that you could highlight some or all of a
folder, and save the material as a text file. Easy to store, easy to
search...

Thundebird will save one file, but (as far as I can tell) not a group of
files. Does anyone know better?