Re: Eudora to Thunderbird

Greg Small wrote:
> At 04:46 PM 8/2/2007, Tom Holub wrote:
>> Bernie Rossi wrote:
>>> Yes, Eudora will be in violation of the campus minimum security
>>> standards when the contract expires. We are more concerned with any
>>> attacks which might occur since the word is out there that Eudora
>>> will no longer have any security fixes.
>
> If Eudora continues to be supported as a open source product, does that
> not meet the security patches requirement?
>
> What is the status of Mozilla supporting Eudora? They claim plans to
> support Eudora along with Thunderbird.

The Penelope project is basically a skin for Thunderbird.
<http://wiki.mozilla.org/Penelope#Current_Status>. It is very far from
maturity, but some Eudora users might like it once it's completed. It
has no connection with the existing Eudora code base.

-- 
Tom Holub (tom_at_LS.Berkeley.EDU, 510-642-9069)
Director of Computing, College of Letters & Science
249 Campbell Hall
<http://LS.berkeley.edu/lscr/>

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