Mac Forum / Applications / Eudora / June 2008

On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 18:56:08 -0700, "Richard Knoppow"
<dickburk@ix.netcom.com> declaimed the following in
comp.mail.eudora.ms-windows:

    Well, it is not "a different program using the name" since the name
is Odysseus and not Eudora...

    No, it is not Eudora...

    What it is is a blackbox (no looking inside Eudora code, everything
is based only on the externally seen program behavior) a replacement for
Eudora.

    It's an attempt, as another poster suggested, to produce an
e-mail application that looks and feels like Eudora, possesses all of
Eudora's best features, adds compatibilities that bring it in line
with contemporary mail applications (things like support for foreign
characters and html), and that will continue to be supported and
developed. It's an earnest attempt.

    However, while they're calling it beta v. 0.9, it still has a
VERY long way to go. When the poster says "still lots to do" he's not
joking.

    By all means d/l and check it out. But unlike
Penelope/Thundora, which could conceivably be used on a fairly regular
basis, if not for anything mission critical, Odysseus is still more
bugs than working features. I've got money (literally, I'm
pre-registered) on it doing well in the long run. But at present
that's very optimistic.

    DGI