Eudora (Penelope)

Eudora (Penelope)
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Cyril Roger

“Send e-mail to and receive it from friends and coworkers”

by Cyril Roger about Eudora (Penelope)

Nostalgic users of the classic Eudora will be glad to get their hands on the latest outing, Penelope. This updated version manages to mix in iconic Eudora features with many things from Mozilla's Thunderbird. You'll immediately recognize the Eudora icons and the typical Thunderbird interface. The mail client is easy to install and to set up your own account. You can create filters to manage incoming mail and use Mozilla's search as you type feature to skip through your emails.

Penelope also includes an RSS reader, once again based on the one from Thunderbird. It worked smoothly importing new feeds. The preview window lets you read feeds directly from Penelope instead of opening them up in your browser. Another neat feature of the mail client is that you can now install all Thunderbird add-ons to it. The address book has also been improved and you can easily import or export it to various formats.

Despite still being a bit unstable (Penelope is still in development after all), the Eudora mail client provides a good alternative to send and receive mail. Qualcomm Penelope developers seem to have succeeded in blending the strengths of both Eudora and Thunderbird into one.

Pros
  • Good feed reader
  • Import and export address book
  • Create filters
  • Thunderbird add-ons
  • Find as you type
Cons
  • Can be unstable
Download Eudora (Penelope) 8.0.0 b5

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Developer's description

Eudora is a mail and news application based on the open source Thunderbird client from Mozilla. It's *not* our intention to compete with Thunderbird; rather, we want to complement it.

We are committed to both preserving the Eudora user experience and to maintaining maximum compatibility, for both developers and users, with Thunderbird. It is our goal to build a single development community around Thunderbird and Eudora, so that both mailers advance faster than they previously have.

Whereas "Eudora" is a branded version of Thunderbird with some extra features added by the Eudora developers, "Penelope" is an extension (also called an "add-on") that can be used with either Eudora or Thunderbird. The Eudora installer includes the corresponding version of Penelope along with it so there is no need to install Penelope if you are installing Eudora. Most features in Penelope can be accessed when used with Thunderbird, but there are a few that require Eudora in order to work correctly and it's not something that gets tested.

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  • hulbe002 hulbe002
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    hulbe002

    It's not good!

    Like jsps999, I have been a longtime user of Eudora and was excited, or so I thought, to find this new version and that it would be supported. Also like other user, I am EXTREMELY d... More

  • jsps999 jsps999
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    Not Quite There.....Yet

    I am a long time, many many years user of Eudora, and presently using the final Paid registered version of it.
    Sadly I must say that I am dissatisfied with this Penelope version of 'Eudora'.
    This P... More

  • jonvan jonvan
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    • 3/10
    So, So Disappointed

    The program is nothing like the tried and true Eudora. I will remain in the last paid mode for life or until the developers from Eudora abandon the TBird shell and go back to the original architec... More

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