[X4U] E-Mail programs (Was: Users' judgments of the glossy screen?)

[Zane H. Healy]

At 8:49 PM -0800 2/26/08, Randy B. Singer wrote:
>Well, one's choice of e-mail program is almost as fun a topic as 
>one's choice of word processor.

I can believe this.  I spend more time in my email clients than any 
other application besides Firefox.

>What made you finally give up on Eudora?  Qualcomm's abandonment of Eudora?

The only issue I personally have with Eudora is its rendering on 
RTF/HTML based email.  Simply put, it sucks.

>Do you know that there are two successors to Eudora  in development?
>
>Penelope (a project that seeks to meld Thunderbird with Eudora)
>http://eudora-penelope.en.softonic.com/mac
>
>Odysseus (a project that seeks to create a more true successor to Eudora)
>http://www.infinitydatasystems.com/products/odysseus/index.html
>http://www.infinitydatasystems.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=1

I was aware of Penelope, and have been keeping an eye on it.  I've 
not heard of Odysseus, and it sounds like it might have more promise. 
I'm not to keen on the ideal of putting a wrapper around Thunderbird 
to make it look like Eudora (which is what I get the impression 
Penelope largely is).  Actually I'm quite honestly not sure exactly 
what Penelope is, even after having read up on it a fair amount.

Zane


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