Eudora Going OSS

[David Cake]

	I think Eudora for mac was very invested in detailed Carbon 
code (some of the text handling was apparently very funky indeed), as 
a result of being a leading and well maintained app in the Mac OS 8/9 
era, and also Eudora has many idiosyncracies  (but that its loyal 
user base had a lot of investment in) - x-eudora urls, for example. I 
think moving it to Cocoa - which meant disentangling themselves from 
both a mass of complex Carbon code, and some of their own odd ways of 
doing things. For whatever reason (and what little inside knowledge I 
had was many years ago) Eudora was slow to go Cocoa, and when it 
finally became obvious that they should, I think it was a very big 
mountain to climb all at once.


Anyway, Steve always hated Eudora
WWDC keynote stage quote from Steve (of course, later t-shirted)
Steve - "I walk around Apple and I see people using Eud... I see them 
using email that absolutely sucks."

At 12:51 AM -0600 13/10/06, Google Kreme wrote:
>And, most damning of all, they had very poor IMAP support for a very 
>long time.
>
>I used Eudora, and if it's IMAP support had been at all decent, I 
>would still be using it.  But it was not decent, it was horrible.

	There is no excuse for it sucking, of course. But the Eudora 
core user base, for me, has always been people with LOTS of mail and 
who like to keep it on a local machine. I've always used it with 
(A)POP (modula SSL), and I suspect that a lot of its fans are 
likewise. WHich makes us out of date internet curmudgeons, no doubt.
	Cheers
		Dave