Eudora

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.

Students, faculty and staff looking for an email application for their own computers should use the native email client, Mail on MacOS or Outlook on Windows. Alternatively, you may choose to use Thunderbird available for download on this site or on the C@B CD.

Department 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. Documentation and guides will be available soon.

Please watch the following Knowledge Base article for more information:

Getting Started with Email at Cal