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1 qualcomm a communications company in san diego famous for cdma cellular communications technology licensed eudora from the university of illinois dorner was eventually hired by them to continue to develop it working remotely from his home in illinois qualcomm s motivations were several they knew that the internet would fuel the need for wireless data and they thought that email would be one of the drivers they also thought it prudent to diversify beyond ics for wireless technology into software applications but eudora as a mac only product wouldn t cut it qualcomm project manager john noerenberg assigned jeff beckley and jeff gehlhaar in san diego the task of making an ms dos and then a windows version of the program the style of the company was to put an ms dos or macintosh computer on each employee s desk whichever most suited their needs and their personal preference he said we required email software that was internet savvy and platform agnostic there wasn t anything commercially available that satisfied either of those goals much less both initially eudora was only used internally at qualcomm it was well received noerenberg heard one financial executive at qualcomm saying i used to hate email but i love eudora and observed it was at that moment i realized we were on to something the company later said as a leader in developing and delivering digital communications qualcomm recognized email as an important communications tool for the future and they released it as a consumer product in 1993 the eudora team at qualcomm expanded quickly from the initial four to a moderately large product group and at its peak was over 50 people the rise of eudora the qualcomm version of eudora was originally available for free and it quickly gained in popularity to get a feel for the user community beckley called it postcard ware and asked people to send him a postcard if they liked it i got thousands of postcards from all over the world there was this great feeling about the software and everybody really loved it but noerenberg recalls postcards don t pay the bills he faced management pressure to stop spending money on a free product in 1993 i hatched the idea that if we could somehow convince qualcomm there was money in an internet software business we could turn this into a product and we d get to keep doing what we loved eudora was soon commercialized as a paid version for 19 95 there was still a free version now supported by advertisements by 2001 over 100 person years of development had been invested in the windows and macintosh versions the paid version eventually sold for as much as 65 and it was aggressively marketed by qualcomm the demise of eudora after 15 years qualcomm decided in 2006 that eudora was no longer consistent with their other major project lines and they stopped development a likely factor was the increasing adoption of microsoft outlook as an email client for corporations outlook was preloaded for free on many pcs and companies often standardized on it along with the rest of the microsoft suite of office productivity products other free email clients were also available so regardless of how successful eudora was it was never going to be a business big enough to move the needle for a company of qualcomm s size the last qualcomm versions of eudora 7 1 0 9 for windows and 6 2 4 for macintosh were released on october 11 2006 to provide a soft landing for the millions of eudora users qualcomm generously sponsored the creation of a new compatible open source version based on mozilla thunderbird for some time they paid the salaries of the programmers working on it which included steve dorner jeff beckley dale wiggins geoff wenger matt dudziak and mark charlebois a beta of the new version 8 0 was released in august 2007 but it was panned by the eudora faithful in part because it had both a different look and feel and an incompatible mailbox data format the production version 1 0 of what was renamed eudora ose open source edition was released in september 2010 but fared no better jeff beckley mused that classic eudora had many years of very detailed design and implementation in it there are a lot of little things that go on behind the scenes or at least very subtly visible to the user users come to depend on those subtle interactions and when they aren t there it just feels different after a few more years of intermittent work the project for an open source eudora collapsed the last qualcomm windows version of eudora continues with some glitches to work well under windows 10 the apple macintosh version unfortunately did not survive the transition to the modern mac processors and operating systems and can now only run using emulators eudora s legacy it s hard to overstate eudora s popularity in the mid 1990s the april 22 1996 infoworld article announcing the release of eudora pro 2 0 called it qualcomm s best selling product and said that according to international data corp idc qualcomm claimed 64 7 percent of all e mail software revenues in 1995 a later exhibit about eudora in qualcomm s company museum observed that by 1996 eudora had 18 million users making it the world s most widely used internet email software at the time even though it has mostly faded away eudora had a lasting impact as dorner says it had a great effect on how people do email even today there are concepts that we introduced which we were the first to do that are now a standard part of any email client out there the eudora source code the discussion with qualcomm for the release of the eudora source code by the museum took five years in the end they decided not to simply grant a license but to transfer ownership of the code the eudora trademarks the copyrights and the eudora domain names to the computer history museum chm the transfer agreement allows us to publish the code under the very liberal bsd open source license which means that anyone can use it for either personal or commercial purposes the source code we are distributing is what we received from qualcomm with only the following changes addition of the chm copyright notice and the bsd license sanitization of bad words mostly in comments as requested by qualcomm removal of third party software that neither the museum nor qualcomm has the right to distribute the windows version of eudora is written in c the source tree consists of 8 651 files in 565 folders taking up 458 mb there are both production eudora71 and test sandbox versions of the code the macintosh version of eudora is an entirely different code base and is written in c the source tree consists of 1 433 files in 47 folders taking up 69 9 mb view license agreement and download source code the license for the code allows you to use the code for free with or without modifications for personal or commercial use as long as the copyright notices the list of conditions and the disclaimers are retained in the code the license does not allow you to use any of the trademarks or domain names related to eudora including eudora www eudora com and www eudora org reviving the windows version of eudora although eudora became unsupported as of 2006 some of us are in denial and still use it as our primary email client i have over 350 000 archived messages in the windows eudora format going back to 1997 along with 28 000 embedded images and 33 000 saved attachments i run it with only minor problems under windows 10 i know of no other email client that can manage repositories that large and search them so quickly i spend hours each day using eudora to read and send email i can do a complex search for anything in the 20 years of archived email in under a minute it will be a sad day when i have to give it up are there others like me we have no way of knowing how large the community of current eudora users is if you would like to contribute to a short informal poll about your current and past eudora usage please fill out the survey here are you a eudora user past or present participate in our survey flash see the section at the end for preliminary survey results i do hope that someone or some group or some company will adopt the windows eudora source code and revive it as a supported program the computer history museum cannot do that only the eudora fan base can it won t be easy the tasks in reviving the windows version include replacing several third party libraries for isolated tasks like spell checking the html rendering engine should be replaced with something more modern the handling of unicode and other special character encoding needs to be improved also the windows version uses a qualcomm modified version of roguewave software s stingray package of extensions to mfc the microsoft foundation class library for c after more than three years of discussion we finally secured an agreement with roguewave giving us permission to distribute a binary linkable library compiled from the 20 year old source code but only for noncommercial use that library is not currently part of this release but we will build and distribute it if there is credible interest in rebuilding a noncommercial windows version of eudora but it will take some effort to make the changes to the roguewave source code necessary to compile it in a modern development environment and we could use help in doing that reviving the macintosh version of eudora the macintosh version because it is based on an older processor and operating system would be harder to resuscitate it would have to be substantially rewritten for the current mac environment but not much is beyond the capability of motivated and clever programmers have at it long live eudora acknowledgements thanks to qualcomm wintertree and roguewave their various permissions thanks to grady booch steve jasik and jennifer stanley of fenwick west for their help thanks to steve dorner jeff beckley and john noerenberg for their encouragement and participation in this multiyear odyssey to release the code and for creating eudora in the first place you should be very proud of what you did preliminary survey results we received about a thousand survey entries in the first two weeks here are some highlights 40 of respondents 401 are using eudora now 85 windows and 21 mac so 6 use both most are long time users 10 20 years or more many users have huge archives tens of thousands over 300 000 billions only 6 are experienced and interested c programmers 2 3 windows 1 3 mac about 95 of responders not surprisingly used eudora at one time about 50 50 windows vs mac the reason for stopping to use it vary widely not supported won t run on macos x problems with gmail html issues character set issues company uses outlook lack of security webmail is more portable wanted linux version apple mail got better it began to feel dated the requested changes are mostly fixes or evolutionary improvements modern os support html character sets ssl certificate handling new header handling links to attachments archiving of embedded images encrypted email calendar integration the majority of responders are in the us but we also had responses from an amazing 36 different countries canada england scotland japan italy switzerland portugal malaysia germany thailand australia finland israel the netherlands belgium argentina hong kong greece mexico cuba norway south africa lithuania spain russia sweden colombia denmark new zealand czech republic chile nicaragua hungary croatia romania indonesia there were many exuberant comments about using eudora here are a few samples it was and always has been my favorite e mail client i would use it in a heartbeat if it were to come back to life please i want the old eudora back an awesome email client i loved eudora for nearly 15 years and would love to see it reincarnated today s email clients are still inferior in comparison eudora s one of the very few bits of software i use every single day there is nothing to be changed it is the best software ever ever ever i don t need the crap about groups and social media associations and other high tech sharing stuff i want eudora the way it has always been and especially the ability to look up an email from 1999 in 2 seconds with part of a keyword this is a very old love affair with eudora i loved eudora i haven t used it in a number of years but can t think of anything i d change it s basically perfect don t know how to improve upon an already amazing program that i dearly wish was still available i just would be happy if it continued to work as i knew it in the past it s what it had that i miss that bothers me not what it didn t have that i wanted historical source code releases macpaint and quickdraw source code july 18 2010 apl programming language source code october 10 2012 adobe photoshop source code february 13 2013 apple ii dos source code november 12 2013 microsoft ms dos early source code march 25 2014 microsoft word for windows version 1 1a source code march 25 2014 early digital research cp m source code october 1 2014 xerox alto source code october 21 2014 electronic arts deluxepaint early source code july 22 2015 recent developments as of september 2024 we know of only one ongoing effort to resuscitate eudora on the base of the released eudora 7 source code eudoramail by hermes which is currently undergoing alpha testing and is being sold on a pay what you want basis https www indiegogo com projects hermes eudoramail 8 0 the final stretch https hermes cx we think well over a thousand people are still running eudora 7 the last qualcomm windows version there are now several resources available that help mitigate the difficulty it has with changes in the networked email environment over the last 18 years https maclean com downloads qcssl_update zip ssl fixes https github com lenshustek eudora_fix_mbx various patches and utilities https github com simonrob email oauth2 proxy oauth2 proxy to authenticate with gmail and hotmail outlook mailto email protected subject gazelle to join a eudora version 7 1 email list about the author len shustek is the founding chairman emeritus of the board of trustees of the computer history museum in 1979 he co founded nestar systems an early developer of networks for personal computers in 1986 he cofounded network general a manufacturer of network analysis tools including the sniffer the company became network associates after merging with mcafee associates and pgp he has taught computer science at carnegie mellon and stanford universities and was a founder of the angel financing firm vencraft he has served on various for profit and non profit boards including the polytechnic institute of brooklyn which is now the nyu tandon school of engineering shustek has a bs and ms in physics from the polytechnic institute and an ms and phd in computer science from stanford university join the discussion please enable javascript to view the comments powered by disqus related articles view all articles chm blog apple 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