The story i¹d heard (and i think it is probably mostly mythological) was
that the Em@iler codebase was ³sold² to Micro$oft after Claris dropped it,
and it re-emerged as Outlook Express 5 (for Mac ­ was there ever a v4 or
less?), which i used for many moons (too many) and then it was polished up
and repackaged (most re-written i expect) as Entourage ­ which is where i am
now! :)

Sorry for not helping test the latest eMA betas ­ barely time to do my
"proper" archiving these days (still happily using version 4.02 on FMP6) but
i hope i can contribute something to the Open Source project if and when...
one day!

jonny


on 5/5/07 16:47, Bill Williams at bwms@... wrote:

> In Digest Number 825, the person identified as "John Carlsen"
> ThinkAgain@... <mailto:ThinkAgain%40mac.com> john_carlsen thoughtfully
> said:
>
>> Well, back then Claris was the developer of both Emailer and
>> FileMaker Pro. (My FMP 3 manual says ìClaris FileMaker.î)
>>
>> Claris decided to go with FileMaker products only, dropped Emailer
>> (and its developers), and renamed itself FileMaker Inc.
>>
>> Then Apple got hold of Emailer, and it neither developed it further
>> nor sold it to another developer. It died, with much the same fate as
>> HyperCard (where I first developed eMA, as eMK), after Apple stopped
>> the development on it.
>>
>> So we were both right. :-)
>
> Well, Em@iler is still alive and well -- there's even a mailing list.
>
> 2.0v3 running happily on a QuickSilver G4 (10.4.9/Classic).
>
> --
> Selah!
> Bwms
>
> -= Apparently if you play a Windows CD backwards you hear satanic
> messages. You think that's bad? If you play it forwards it installs
> Windows! =-
>
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