Eudora (e-mail client)
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Eudora is an e-mail client used on the Microsoft Windows and Macintosh operating systems. It also supports several palmtop computing platforms, including Newton and the Palm OS. It was named for Eudora Welty because of her short story "Why I Live at the P.O.". Eudora was developed by Steve Dorner in 1988 as a part of his studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and was acquired by Qualcomm in 1991.
Eudora pioneered the concept of a folder list pane that was always present. Originally distributed freely it was commercialized and offered in both a Light (freeware) and Pro (commercial) product, it is now distributed with three modes: adware, payware (removes ads), and the classic "Light" mode.
Eudora (6.0.1) added support for Bayesian filtering of spam with a feature called SpamWatch. Eudora (6.2) added a scam watch feature that flags suspicious links within e-mails in an attempt to thwart phishing. Eudora (7.0) added Ultra-Fast Search which finds any emails using single or multiple criteria in seconds.
Eudora has support for 'Stationery', that is a standard message or reply that is prepared ahead of time to a common question. Eudora stores e-mails in text files, rather than in a database like Microsoft Outlook, allowing the user to back up portions of their e-mail correspondence without backing up the entire database. Text files are also much safer than databases, in that should disk corruption occur, most of the mail is likely to be unaffected, and any that is damaged can usually be recovered.
Eudora supports the POP3, IMAP and SMTP protocols. Eudora also has support for SSL and S/MIME authentication, allowing users to sign or encrypt email communications for greatest security.
At one time, Eudora also offered a webmail version at eudoramail.com. This services was run by Lycos as part of Mailcity, later renamed Lycos Mail. As of 2006, Eudoramail addresses for users still work (and are redirected to Lycos Mail accounts), but new users cannot sign up for the service.
References
- USENET posting with Steve Dorner's announcement of Eudora.
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