Email Client Announcement

Enclosed is an announcement from the UCB Messaging Steering Committee:

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As most of you are aware, Qualcomm is no longer supporting Eudora and
has discontinued making bug or security fixes. The campus support
contract for Eudora will officially end on October 31, 2007, after
which time Eudora will not meet campus minimum security requirements
and may increasingly become a potential target for attacks.

The IST Service Desk and the CalMail team will continue to support
users with questions about Eudora, but will no longer be actively
distributing Eudora to the campus. Users will need to migrate over
time to a
different email client. Please work with your departmental IT
support group to determine if a local standard has been selected and
to migrate off Eudora. If you aren't sure if this affects you, also
contact your local IT support team. For those without a local
standard, or for departments considering which application to
standardize on, the CalMail team recommends that Eudora users
consider transitioning to Thunderbird. This recommendation is based
upon the robustness and cross-platform ability of Thunderbird, the
growing community of users and developers, and the ongoing Qualcomm
work to add
Eudora functionality to Thunderbird via the Penelope project.

To support this decision, the CalMail Team is putting together guides
to help users transition from Eudora to Thunderbird. We'll send out
further announcements as additional documentation and guides are made
available.

Please watch the following Knowledge Base article for more information:

Getting Started with email at Cal:
https://kb.berkeley.edu/jivekb/kbsearch.jspa?searchQuery=1676

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Received on Thu Aug 09 2007 - 13:44:59 PDT