For whatever reason, I peeked at an old manual for Eudora, and remembered regularly hitting Command + M to see if there was any new email, back when there wasn’t much email. Remember when there wasn’t much email? When spam email essentially didn’t exist? A golden era of untrammeled possibilities. What glorious fools and dreamers we were.
And just a reminder that Eudora was named for Eudora Welty, which is about as far from the Torment Nexus as a naming exercise might lead. On the other hand, you could argue that as in Welty’s short story, “Why I Live at the P.O.,” we all live at the post office these days.