Steve Dorner

Developer of the Eudora e-mail client, Dorner is an American software engineer who created it in 1988 as part of his work as a staff member at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He received his bachelor's degree in 1983 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He also developed a popular online directory/phone book in the early 1990s commonly referred to as the CCSO Nameserver.

Dorner was hired by Qualcomm in July 1992, and Eudora was subsequently acquired by Qualcomm. A 1997 interview with The New York Times describes how, when he stopped working for the University and started working for Qualcomm, he chose not to move to California. Instead, Dorner telecommuted from an office in a 1950s bomb shelter under his Urbana, Illinois home, and later moved his office to his woodworking shop.

As of 2006, he has been among the Qualcomm engineers tasked with shifting Eudora to a Mozilla Thunderbird base.