New Eudora skin for Thunderbird sort of nifty

The current version, dubbed 8.0 0b1, is essentially a skin which puts the Eudora interface on top of your Thunderbird installation. The program even identifies itself as Eudora, although it loads from Thunderbird and sits inside it.

Other than that nothing changes, yet. What is most impressive is how clean the code is in operation. Usually you see "pre-release" and go, woah! But nothing has broken, everything is running fine, despite the fact that this version number is 0.1a21 and I can break just about anything -- ask my wife or my computer guy.

If you have been using Eudora a long time, however, don't jump. All the features of your old Eudora won't be in Thunderbird until Release 1.0, which is slated to be two releases from now.

But this is a good start, and Mozilla is going about things in the right way, moving what's right and working, as its integration with the existing Thunderbird is perfected. And by improving Thunderbird based on Eudora rather than the older code base, open source e-mail will start growing from a higher base.