UC Berkeley Messaging Steering Committee
As most of you are aware, 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. 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 crossplatform 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. We'll send out further announcements as additional documentation and guides are made available.
Please watch the following Knowledge Base article for more information:
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