Enclosed is an announcement from the UCB Messaging Steering
Committee:
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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 cross-platform 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:
Getting Started with email at Cal:
https://kb.berkeley.edu/jivekb/kbsearch.jspa?search
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