This service was run by Lycos as part of Mailcity, later renamed Lycos Mail. Eudora also has support for SSL and, in Windows, S/MIME authentication, allowing users to sign or encrypt email communications for greatest security.Įudora is noteworthy for its extensive variety of settings to customize its behavior, many of which are not available in the user interface but are accessed using x-eudora-setting URIs that must be pasted into a message and clicked.Īt one time, Eudora also offered a webmail service at. This allows the user to back up portions of their email correspondence without backing up the entire database.Įudora supports the POP3, IMAP and SMTP protocols.
Eudora stores emails in a modified mbox format (*.mbx), which uses plain text files instead of a database as Microsoft Outlook does. Eudora (7.0) added Ultra-Fast Search, which finds any emails using single or multiple criteria in seconds.Įudora has support for 'Stationery', a standard message or reply prepared ahead of time to a common question. Eudora (6.2) added a scam watch feature that flags suspicious links within emails in an attempt to thwart phishing. Development of the open-source version stopped in 2010 and was officially deprecated in 2013, with users advised to switch to the current version of Thunderbird.Įudora (6.0.1) added support for Bayesian filtering of spam with a feature called SpamWatch. In 2006 Qualcomm stopped development of the commercial version, and sponsored the creation of a new open-source version based on Mozilla Thunderbird, code-named Penelope, later renamed to Eudora OSE. Between 20 the full-featured Pro version was also available as a "Sponsored mode" (adware) distribution.
Originally distributed free of charge, Eudora was commercialized and offered as a Light ( freeware) and Pro (commercial) product. Although he regretted naming it after the still-living author because he thought doing so was "presumptuous", Welty was reportedly "pleased and amused" by Dorner's tribute.Įudora was acquired by Qualcomm in 1991. The software was named after American author Eudora Welty, because of her short story "Why I Live at the P.O." Dorner rearranged the title to form the slogan "Bringing the P.O. Eudora was developed in 1988 by Steve Dorner, who worked at the Computer Services Organization of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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