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

Contents 1 History 1.1 Release history 2 References 3 See also 4 External links

[edit] History

On October 11, 2006, Qualcomm announced ^[1] that development of the existing Eudora e-mail 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 8.0b7 and Penelope 0.5a4, were released on September 4, 2009^[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	Pre-announced on July 19, 2007[6] First public beta version of Eudora 8.0 for Windows and Mac Based on Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 release code
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
Sources: MozillaWiki[3][4][7], Eudora 8.0 Release Notes[5]

[edit] References

[edit] See also

• Comparison of e-mail clients
• Eudora (e-mail client)

[edit] External links

• Penelope - MozillaWiki
• MailForge (Formerly Odysseus,) another eMail client intended to replicate the functionality of Eudora.

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