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I see this month that the Mozilla Foundation has released the first beta version of Penelope, the open source successor to Qualcomm’s Eudora (which stopped development last year, although Qualcomm employees are helping develop Penelope).

However, it’s still early days. The current Penelope bug list is enough to ensure I wait until we get past beta versions, release candidates, the first official 1.0 release, and then at least one “dot point” release (eg 1.01, 1.1) until I come on board!

I LOVE Eudora, and its features, and am very much looking forward to Penelope, and hopefully the ironing out of the final Eudora quirk that irks me (cannot reliably forward an html formatted message)… but in the meantime, I’ll stick to Eudora and wait patiently…

Congrats to Qualcomm and Mozilla for keeping on with Eudora in its new open source guise. Eudora, IMHO, is at least 20-times better than Outlook will ever be. I spent 10 minutes yesterday showing an Outlook user some features of Eudora that had them nearly drooling… especially with handling multiple personalities, and the use of personalities within filters.