It has different defaults (both in the user interface and under the hood), has been rebuilt with a newer compiler and better optimizations than Thunderbird, uses it own profile location (so that it doesn't interfere with existing Thunderbird installations) and keeps using the interface previous to Australis. Version 1.0b1 is the last version of Lightning that supports Thunderbird 3.0.x.įossaMail FossaMail is an optimized and enhanced build of Mozilla Thunderbird, developed by Moonchild Productions, the developer of the Pale Moon web browser. This means there will be even less support for add-ons that might work with Eudora OSE. The last version of the Thunderbird 3.1 branch (3.1.20) was released Ma. That means you can't use Eudora OSE to import your old Eudora profile (it is PPC code that requires Rosetta to run) but the rest of Eudora OSE should still work. Apple dropped support for Rosetta in OS X 10.7 (Lion). All development has stopped and the support forum has disappeared. It was originally called Eudora 8 but was released as Eudora OSE on September 13, 2010. It is based on Thunderbird 3.0.4 and includes a Penelope extension which can also be used with the normal version of Thunderbird. SeaMonkey is a community based continuation of Mozilla Suite.Ĭorreo Correo is a email client for OSX based on code from Thunderbird and Camino (a Mozilla OSX browser).Įudora Qualcomm announced in October 2006 that they were going to create a open source version based on Thunderbird and would stop selling Eudora when it was available.

Versions 6 and 7 of Netscape Communicator were based on Mozilla Suite. It was abandoned (not released) and then rewritten by Mozilla as Mozilla Suite.

Netscape Communicator 5 was coordinated by Mozilla. It's email/news client was based on the same code that was later on used by SeaMonkey and Thunderbird. However, most of those projects eventually died off, leaving mainly Linux distro specific builds, Portable Thunderbird, PostBox and SeaMonkey.īeonex Communicator Beonex Communicator was a sibling of Netscape Communicator. There have been many applications that use the same mail and news library as Thunderbird or are based on Thunderbird.

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