Penelope (email client)

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Penelope is an extension for the Mozilla Thunderbird email client software implementing some features of Eudora.

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On October 11, 2006, Qualcomm announced [1] 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[2]. 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[3][4][5].

[edit] Release history

Release date Eudora Penelope Notes
On or before April 16, 2007 None 0.1a16
  • First known public release of Penelope
April 26, 2007 None 0.1a19
August 31, 2007 8.0.0b1 0.1a21
December 11, 2007 8.0.0b2 0.1a22
  • Based on Mozilla Thunderbird 3.0 pre-release code
February 22, 2008 8.0.0b3 0.1a22
  • First version available for Linux
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
  • Last expected beta before release of Eudora 8.0
July 2, 2010 1.0rc1 1.0rc1
July 23, 2010 1.0rc2 1.0rc2
September 13, 2010 OSE 1.0
  • Eudora OSE 1.0 released to the public.
Sources: MozillaWiki[3][4][7], Eudora 8.0 Release Notes[5]

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[edit] References

  1. ^ "QUALCOMM Launches Project in Collaboration with Mozilla Foundation to Develop Open Source Version of Eudora Email Program" (Press release). Qualcomm. 2006-10-11. http://www.qualcomm.com/press/releases/2006/061011_project_collaboration_mozilla.html. Retrieved 2007-05-17. 
  2. ^ The edits announcing Penelope's availability from Mozilla Wiki's page on Penelope
  3. ^ a b MozillaWiki: Eudora Releases
  4. ^ a b MozillaWiki: Penelope Extensions
  5. ^ a b Eudora 8.0b9 Release Notes section in README.txt file
  6. ^ Eudora to Penelope ROADMAP - Eudora Forums
  7. ^ MozillaWiki - Penelope Extensions page revision as of April 16, 2007

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