By , over person-years of development had been invested in the Windows and Macintosh versions. After 15 years, Qualcomm decided in that Eudora was no longer consistent with their other major project lines, and they stopped development.
A likely factor was the increasing adoption of Microsoft Outlook as an email client for corporations. Outlook was preloaded for free on many PCs, and companies often standardized on it along with the rest of the Microsoft suite of office productivity products.
Other free email clients were also available. The last Qualcomm versions of Eudora, 7. A beta of the new version 8. But it was panned by the Eudora faithful, in part because it had both a different look and feel and an incompatible mailbox data format. The production version 1. There are a lot of little things that go on behind the scenes, or at least very subtly visible to the user. The last Qualcomm Windows version of Eudora continues, with some glitches, to work well under Windows The Apple Macintosh version, unfortunately, did not survive the transition to the modern Mac processors and operating systems, and can now only run using emulators.
IDC , Qualcomm claimed Even though it has mostly faded away, Eudora had a lasting impact. There are concepts that we introduced, which we were the first to do, that are now a standard part of any email client out there. The discussion with Qualcomm for the release of the Eudora source code by the museum took five years.
In the end, they decided not to simply grant a license, but to transfer ownership of the code, the Eudora trademarks, the copyrights, and the Eudora domain names to the Computer History Museum CHM. The transfer agreement allows us to publish the code under the very liberal BSD open source license, which means that anyone can use it for either personal or commercial purposes.
The source code we are distributing is what we received from Qualcomm, with only the following changes:. The source tree consists of 8, files in folders, taking up MB. The Macintosh version of Eudora is an entirely different code base and is written in C.
The source tree consists of 1, files in 47 folders, taking up The license for the code allows you to use the code for free, with or without modifications, for personal or commercial use, as long as the copyright notices, the list of conditions, and the disclaimers are retained in the code. Although Eudora became unsupported as of , some of us are in denial and still use it as our primary email client. I have over , archived messages in the Windows Eudora format going back to , along with 28, embedded images and 33, saved attachments.
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