Penelope (e-mail client)
Encyclopedia
Penelope is an extension for the Mozilla Thunderbird
email client software implementing some features of Eudora.
announced that development of the existing Eudora email client software had ended, and that future versions of Eudora would be based on the same technology platform as Mozilla Thunderbird
and be open source
. The codename for this project is "Penelope," with that name being used for the extension provided for Thunderbird, and the Eudora name kept for all-in-one releases. Development began on November 22, 2006 with the first patch being submitted to Bugzilla
. Further development of Penelope and Eudora continued, with the first beta version of Eudora 8.0 released on August 31, 2007; the most current releases, Eudora 8.0b9 and Penelope 1.0b1, were released on March 4, 2010.
Mozilla Thunderbird
Mozilla Thunderbird is a free, open source, cross-platform e-mail and news client developed by the Mozilla Foundation. The project strategy is modeled after Mozilla Firefox, a project aimed at creating a web browser...
email client software implementing some features of Eudora.
History
On October 11, 2006, QualcommQualcomm
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announced that development of the existing Eudora email client software had ended, and that future versions of Eudora would be based on the same technology platform as Mozilla Thunderbird
Mozilla Thunderbird
Mozilla Thunderbird is a free, open source, cross-platform e-mail and news client developed by the Mozilla Foundation. The project strategy is modeled after Mozilla Firefox, a project aimed at creating a web browser...
and be open source
Open source
The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology...
. The codename for this project is "Penelope," with that name being used for the extension provided for Thunderbird, and the Eudora name kept for all-in-one releases. Development began on November 22, 2006 with the first patch being submitted to Bugzilla
Bugzilla
Bugzilla is a Web-based general-purpose bugtracker and testing tool originally developed and used by the Mozilla project, and licensed under the Mozilla Public License....
. Further development of Penelope and Eudora continued, with the first beta version of Eudora 8.0 released on August 31, 2007; the most current releases, Eudora 8.0b9 and Penelope 1.0b1, were released on March 4, 2010.
Release history
| Release date | Eudora | Penelope | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| On or before April 16, 2007 | None | 0.1a16 |
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| April 26, 2007 | None | 0.1a19 | |
| August 31, 2007 | 8.0.0b1 | 0.1a21 |
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| December 11, 2007 | 8.0.0b2 | 0.1a22 |
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| February 22, 2008 | 8.0.0b3 | 0.1a22 |
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| November 3, 2008 | 8.0.0b4 | 0.5a1 | |
| January 16, 2009 | 8.0.0b5 | 0.5a2 | |
| April 8, 2009 | 8.0b6 | 0.5a3 | |
| September 4, 2009 | 8.0b7 | 0.5a4 | |
| January 5, 2010 | 8.0b8 | 0.5a5 | |
| March 4, 2010 | 8.0b9 | 1.0b1 |
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| July 2, 2010 | 1.0rc1 | 1.0rc1 | |
| July 23, 2010 | 1.0rc2 | 1.0rc2 | |
| September 13, 2010 | OSE 1.0 |
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| Sources: MozillaWiki, Eudora 8.0 Release Notes | |||
External links
- Penelope - MozillaWiki
- MailForge (Formerly Odysseus), another eMail client intended to replicate the functionality of Eudora.