The first thing I'd like to say is that this site has a very weird method of making contributions to this list. Nothing obvious, that's for sure!
Secondly, why do dates and time not appear next to contributions? The "blog" is meaningless without them.
Thirdly, a Thunderbird - Eudora - Penelope sounds great, but when will it happen?
Thanks Robby
2009-Jan-11
Never. The project is dead. The people supposedly in charge of it don't respond to e-mails, and they won't respond to this.
Thunderbird, in so far is it is alive (barely) is pursuing a non-filter-based archiving system a la Gmail, contrary to Eudora's structure. Not necessarily irreconcileable, but let's be realistic - no mail browser has ever offered two rival methods of archiving mail simultaneously.
So to repeat: it's dead. Anyone care to contradict me?
2009-Mar-13
Mac Eudora, then and now
While it's intriguing to read about the effort to duplicate the Eudora experience in a new Thunderbird-based application, the two UIs are virtually irreconcileable. Thunderbird is a virtual clone of Outlook while Eudora had a simplicity that no one else has matched, though MailSmith comes close. For instance, the Mac version of Eudora displays the headers and the body of a message in a single window. That makes it easy to copy every relevant component of a message and save it outside Eudora, which is what I've done with client correspondence for more than a decade. In the Thunderbird/Penelope client, Eudora mimics the Outlook/Thunderbird pane layout that segregates message components, placing headers in one pane and body content in another. That makes copy/paste a multi-step process that requires additional user scripting to avoid.
Eudora's simplicity and power are what have made it endure for so long. The current efforts to "modernize" it are eliminating the very aspects that made Eudora so easy and efficient to use.