The Eudora™ Email Client Source Code linked on Astounding Computer History

“Eventually many email clients were written for personal computers, but few became as successful as Eudora. Available both for the IBM PC and the Apple Macintosh, in its heyday Eudora had tens of millions of happy users. Eudora was elegant, fast, feature-rich, and could cope with mail repositories containing hundreds of thousands of messages. In my opinion it was the finest email client ever written, and it has yet to be surpassed.”

To say that Eudora has yet to be surpassed ignores simplicity as a feature. This is a common mistake that many technologists make. Simplicity is very difficult to create and very difficult to maintain. It’s one of the defining features of the Apple ecosystem that makes it so successful. And Apple’s Mail app is a lot easier to use than Eudora.

That said, I do still miss Eudora’s timed email feature, the ability to schedule an email to go out later. Which is why I added that feature as a Swift script for the Mail app that comes with macOS. I’ve included that script in 42 Astoundingly Useful Scripts and Automations for the Macintosh. It’s the third-largest script in the book, and equally as useful. At this very moment I have an email scheduled to go out in four hours; I may need to modify the email before it goes out but it is essential that the email go out, even as is, before deadline.