Eudora

Eudora

A popular full-featured Internet mail program (mail client) from QUALCOMM for Windows and Mac. Eudora was available in light, sponsored and paid versions (www.eudora.com) and, in the early days of the Internet, was often bundled with computers and ISP startup packages.

Eudora was developed by Steve Dorner at the University of Illinois and was first released as freeware for the Macintosh in 1988. It was the first graphics-based mail program that became popular. Later ported to Windows, in time, more than 20 million people would use the product.

From Eudora to Penelope to Eudora
QUALCOMM dropped support for the commercial Eudora product in April 2007. However, Eudora lived on as the Penelope open source project from the Mozilla Foundation (www.mozilla.org). Using the Thunderbird mail client as its foundation, the Penelope extensions added more Eudora functionality. Later, the Eudora name was resurrected as a single product based on Thunderbird and Penelope and offered in beta versions. For more information, visit http://wiki.mozilla.org/Eudora_Releases. See Thunderbird.

Eudora Was a Pulitzer Prize Winner
The software was named after Eudora Welty (1909-2001), an American novelist and Pulitzer Prize winner who, along with such greats as William Faulkner and Tennessee Williams, created a Southern literary renaissance in the U.S. from the 1930s to the 1950s. One of Miss Welty's short stories, "Why I Live at the P.O.," was a tale about a woman who lived at the post office instead of at home. It inspired Dorner, who was spending so much time programming a mail application. See stationery.

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Eudora - Electronic mail software for communicating over TCP/IP from Macintosh, Microsoft Windows, Windows NT, and IBM OS/2 computers. Both commercial and free versions are produced by QUALCOMM, Inc.