Eudora was just kind enough to inform me of a new, updated version of itself. I looked in every single sub-dialog of the options screen, there is no way to turn this behavior off, and worse, I do not recall and cannot now find any previous warning that the program may occasionally do such a thing. The pedestal I had them on was getting higher every day I had to slog through with Outlook at work — I do hope they weren’t seriously injured in the fall.