Eudora

The Eudora Client Email Program

Eudora is one of the oldest email clients. It was the email system developed at and for the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign.

Eudora was named for Eudora Welty, the Southern author and her short story "Why I Live at a the P.O.".

Upon graduation, the development team was hired by Qualcomm, the cell phone chip manufacturer where Eudora became a software product selling for $80. In 2006 Qualcomm Corp. sold Eudora to Mozilla Corp., the web browser company. Mozilla makes the Eudora Email program available for free on Windows and the Macintosh here.

Unlike Microsoft's Outlook Express, Eudora contains a full spell checker, a Bayesian Spam Filter and a misleading web link filter. A much safer email client than Outlook Express.

With Outlook Express you only have spell checking if you also have Microsoft Word or Microsoft Office installed on your computer. Those products cost from $200 to $700.

The misleading web link feature is particularly useful. If you receive an email with a misleading link, that link produces a box as shown below with the real link address.

In the fraudulent email below the secured link to Paypal login actually sends you to 211.21.24.83, an unsecured IP Address in Russia. This is a phishing attempt to steal credit card information.

What looks like an official letter is a criminal fraud attempt exposed by Eudora.

You can also see that Eudora's Bayesian Spam Filter has already determined this email to be spam and has placed it in the Junk mailbox instead of the Inbox.

One has to be completely dense to fall for this scam after Eudora has shown it to be fraudulent twice.

A discussion of web mail versus client mail may be found here and information on downloading programs may be found here.

Your choice of an email program is a personal preference.

Eudora comes with full HELP text. If you are familiar with email, any program will have recognizable buttons, features and options. Eudora has more features than most.