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Eudora Changelog

What's new in Eudora 8.0.0 Beta 9

Mar 5, 2010
  • Includes Penelope version 1.0b1
  • Based on Thunderbird 3.0.1, which you can find release notes here:
  • MAILBOX WINDOW:
  • Set the folder pane view mode to "All Folders" if it's not been set before because the default is "Smart Folders" and "All Folders" is more like what Classic Eudora looked like.
  • The toolbar in the message header is now hidden as the buttons are redundant to the main toolbar and just take up extra space.
  • Only doing FUMLUB for folders, not any other types, and more specifically not messages.
  • The Message->Change->Priority menu on Mac now ensures just one item is selected.
  • Hid some more menu items in the Mailboxes window that can never be used.
  • The Status and Priority columns can now be resized, and their size (width) is now remembered.
  • Made the right-click context menu in mail windows more similar to Classic Eudora. Added Redirect and a "Look Up Selected Text in" submenu that holds the reference/lookup items at the end of the Edit menu. Also renamed Edit as New to Send Again. Got rid of a number of items in there as well (Archive, Reply to List, Save As, and Print Preview).
  • Now default Mac to 2-pane mode (Windows/Linux still defaults to 3-pane mode).
  • Set the default to auto-mark-as-read immediately, but don't auto-mark previewed messages, which is the same behavior as Classic Eudora. Those who want to auto-mark previewed messages can set it to delay with a time of 0 seconds.
  • Default openening mailboxes in tabs in Windows/Linux (Mac still defaults to separate windows).
  • Now auto-aopening mailboxes after junk processing is done on the message, so it will no longer open up the Inbox for a message that will soon after get put in the Junk mailbox (uses msgsClassified notification rather than msgAdded). Another benefit is that it happens in batches of messages rather than one at a time so when the resulting windows open it's less disruptive.
  • Fixed right-click->Show This Mailbox on a root account folder when it was already selected but not shown.
  • Now using the Classic Eudora icons for the folder pane (In, Out, Junk, Trash).
  • SESSION SAVE/RESTORE
  • The normal/maximized/minimized state of windows are saved and restored.
  • Window size and position are set on opening even if the window is going to be minimized or maximized because then it will restore to the correct position. On the saving side of things, window size and position are saved when the window is minimizaed or maximized because they will be wrong.
  • Now saving the folderand thread-pane splitter info based on the first tab in the window, not the current tab.
  • Only storing thread pane settings if showing the preview pane.
  • Trying to save off tabs that aren't folders or messages (e.g. Migration Assistant) was causing the session save code to fail.
  • Made the session save code more robust wrt messages in tabs, as saving the state of a window with a message in a tab sometimes caused the code to fail to save the rest of the tabs in the window.
  • TOOLBARS:
  • Added a new "gear" image for menu item toolbar buttons which do not have a unique icon.
  • Remove trailing elipsis from items in the menu tree of the Customize Toolbar dialog.
  • Dynamically remove tree branches without subitems in the Menu tree of the Customize Toolbar dialog.
  • All of the icons in the Customize Toolbar dialog seem to be displaying properly now.
  • Now allowing toolbar buttons to be dragged anywhere on the Customize Toolbar dialog to remove them from the toolbar.
  • Rearranged the Customize Toolbar dialog a little. Put the help text and the description side-by-side to allow more vertical space to the controls above, and have less overall unused space in the dialog. Made tree controls more narrow to give more space for items on right.
  • When an item in the Customize Toolbar dilaog is selected that has no associated button (because it's either on the toolbar already or is a parent node) clear the old buttons so there aren't any remnants left and no longer show the "No toolbar item supported" description (just leave it blank).
  • Added a "Blah Blah Blah" button to the list of customizable buttons for the toolbar. It does the equivalent of View->Message Source, i.e. it opens up a separate window with the raw source of the message.
  • The Change Status toolbar button now works.
  • Made both the Change Status and Change Priority toolbar buttons enabled/disabled based on whether or not there is a message selected.
  • Fixed 'Close' toolbar button.
  • PREFERENCES:
  • Added clarification to the 'Italicize messages sent by me' option that a restart is required to take effect.
  • Added ToolTips to all of the items in the Penelope preference pane.
  • Added hidden settings ("penelope.mailbox.ignoreJunkColumnClick" and "penelope.mailbox.ignoreStarColumnClick") which cause clicks in these columns NOT to mark as junk or mark as starred (repectively) when the user clicks in that column. Instead the clicked row is selected. By default the Junk one is set to true and the Star one is set to false.
  • Now remembering the selected tab in the Penelope Options/Preferences panel.
  • Clarified setting and tooltip for "Automatically open mailboxes that receive new messages" to indicate that this is for UNREAD messages.
  • Added a pref "mail.deleteMarksRead" to decide whether or not messages are marked as read when deleting. Defaulting to false for Windows and true for Mac to be consistent with Classic Eudora behavior.
  • IMPORTING:
  • Fixed import of outgoing messages in non-Out mailboxes so that they now show up as read and sent-by-me in Eudora 8.
  • Now correctly importing mailboxes/folders that have a comma in their name.
  • Now including attachments from outgoing messages during import.
  • SEARCH:
  • "Use indexed search" in the Search Messages window is back in, and the "Search everywhere" and "Search subfolders" options can be used with it. When selecting "Use indexed search" you may need to select the "contains word" matching condition in order for the search to work properly.
  • "Use indexed search" in the Search Messages window remembers its state across sessions.
  • The various options in the Search Message window now show/hide themselves based on the state of the "Use indexed search" checkbox.
  • MISCELLANEOUS:
  • In the Migration Assistant text changed "Thunderbird" and "Thunderbird 3" text to "Eudora" and "Eudora 8".
  • Now using the Thunderbird routines to build the Mailbox and Transfer menus. This fixes the problem with some items not showing up in those menus and they will look like the other places that have similar usage (e.g. right-click context menu->Move To in message and mailbox windows).
  • Added Wikipedia as a default Selected Text URL item.
  • Format->Increase/Decrease Indent on composition windows were showing the accelerators of Ctrl/Cmd+]/[. Classic Mac Eudora had mapped those to raise/lower priority. So got rid of the accelerators on the menu items for Mac and left them in there for Windows (and have the accelerators map to indent).

New in Eudora 8.0.0 Beta 8 (Jan 6, 2010)

  • MAILBOX WINDOW:
  • Many fixes to FUMLUB behavior. Mailboxes now always get FUMLUB selection when being opened up, not just the first time they are opened. The focus is placed in the thread pane on the FUMLUB message. When FUMLUB is turned off the last message in the mailbox is selected (or the first, depending on which direction the mailbox is currently sorted).
  • Fixed bug on Mac platform where the Cmd+` accelerator was erroneously deleting selected messages in a mailbox.
  • When manually opening mailboxes/messages in tabs the default is now to open them in the foreground (i.e give them focus right away) rather than in the background.
  • Added the new indexed search toolbar control to the mailbox toolbar by default replacing the old one that only searched in the current mailbox.
  • Fix for FUMLUB selection happening at other times besides first loading up a folder. Seemed to only occur on some IMAP accounts.
  • Add the throbber-box (shows current activity) to the default toolbar on Mac, because it's not on the menu like in Windows and Linux.
  • Keyboard shortcuts were getting confused on Mac due to the lack of a mapping for key_delete2.
  • Using right-click->"Open in New Tab" (or middle-click) was not using the custom Penelope mailbox open code that knows how to deal with mailboxes that are already open in another tab.
  • The Who column is now a separate column of its own, rather than a mapping to the From and Recipient columns. The header icon for it is the same as Classic Eudora's.
  • Added "Show mailbox on select" in the Penelope pref panel. Normally in Thunderbird when the user changes the selection in the folder pane, the newly selected mailbox gets displayed. Classic Windows Eudora users wanting to replicate more of the feel of the Mailboxes pane that is docked can use this feature. You can use double-click, middle click, Enter, or the context menu to open up mailboxes in new tabs/windows. Also added a "Show This Mailbox" menu item to the right-click context menu for the folder pane, but only when "Show mailbox on select" is turned off. This allows the display to get updated when the user wants, not on every selection change.
  • Fixed double-click on scroll bar arrow in folder pane that was opening up the selected mailbox.
  • Fixed the Open Message Folder button in the Search Messages window to use the Penelope routines for opening up mailboxes, bringing already open mailbox windows to the foreground rather than opening new instances.
  • Mailboxes that get auto-opened when new messages arrive in them now get the tab opened up in the background so as not to interrupt the currently displayed tab.
  • Now using the exact same mailbox column icons from Classic Eudora, with one change: the unread image was cloned from the status header image so that it will be the same size.
  • Priorities icons now showing up in the priority column.
  • Message->Change->Status now working. Thunderbird doesn't support the Redirected, Sent, or Unsent states, so those items have been hidden. When the menu first pops up it will have the menu item radio button set for the status of the first selected message.
  • Message->Change->Priority now working correctly.
  • Renamed the "Open" right-click menu item for folders to "Open in New Window" to be more descriptive and to be consistent with the thread pane menu item.
  • Made the "Restore Defaults" menu item of the mailbox column picker restore the default Eudora/Penelope order rather than the Thunderbird order. Note that "Restore Defaults" does not change what columns are visible/hidden. See these bugs for requests on getting the default visibility set as well: and .
  • Prevent normal keys hit during type-to-select from triggering accelerators (e.g. 0-9 to apply tags).
  • When doing alt/option group select without shift (i.e. messages move together), make sure original item clicked on is visible.
  • Make error beep when type-to-select can't find any matches.
  • SESSION SAVE/RESTORE:
  • The DOM Inspector window is now saved/restored across sessions.
  • Separate received and outgoing message windows were not opening up correctly on session restore.
  • No longer saving off modal windows in to the session save/restore list as it causes problems when trying to restore them on restart.
  • TOOLBARS:
  • Better vertical resizing of the Customize Toolbar dialog.
  • Toolbar buttons for 'back' and 'forward' do not display correctly in the Customize Toolbar dialog.
  • Fixed a number of icons in the Customize Toolbar dialog.
  • In the Recipients tab of the Customize Toolbar dialog, give flex to the list of address books/directory services so it will grow when the dialog is made taller, instead of that happening to the button palette.
  • Fixed the ability to change address books/directories in the Recipients tab of the Customize Toolbar dialog and do searches on them which was broken by a change in Thunderbird 3.0b4.
  • FILTERS:
  • Default Reply-To: to be on the list of custom headers for filter matching.
  • Now handling Junk score and attachment cases with auto-naming filters.
  • No longer having user-entered filter names changed by auto-naming feature.
  • PREFERENCES:
  • Added a setting to the Penelope prefs panel for enabling/disabling loading of remote images.
  • Added "Quit when main window closes" setting in the Penelope preferences panel, which controls whether the application quits when the user closes the "main" window. In 2-pane mode, the "main" window is the Mailboxes window, and in 3-pane mode it is the first mailbox window that was opened.
  • Font size pref shouldn't be labels with "(pixels)" because the units are not pixels.
  • Rearranged the Penelope pref panel into 2 tabs (Mailboxes and Miscellaneous) and moved settings around appropriately.
  • Added "Italicize messages sent by me" to the Penelope pref panel.
  • Clicking the Options/Preferences button on the Penelope extension in the Add-ons window now opens the Preferences window and switches to the Penelope panel.
  • MISCELLANEOUS:
  • "Use indexed search" in the Search Messages window was removed due to a variety of issues. It will return in a future version. For now, use the "Search everywhere" feature in the mailbox toolbar.
  • "Send Later" button/menu item renamed to "Queue" and "Send Unsent Messages" renamed to "Send Queued Messages", to be the same as Classic Eudora.
  • Clicking on "Visit Home Page" on the right-click context menu of the Penelope extension in the Add-ons window now opens up the home page of the Penelope wiki.
  • Redirect, Open Inbox, Open Outbox, Make Address Book Entry, and Help now work in standalone message windows in addition to mailbox windows.
  • Fixed bug where detaching an attachment to a different filename than the one that it came with in the message wound up using the original filename.
  • Hide accelerators in menu items that have been remapped to be removed.
  • Disabled the accelerator for Insert->Link in composition windows because it conflicts with the Address Book one (Ctrl+L).

New in Eudora 8.0.0 Beta 7 (Sep 4, 2009)

  • Includes Penelope version 0.5a4 - Based on Thunderbird 3.0b3, which you can find release notes here:
  • GENERAL NEW FEATURES:
  • Search Messages now uses the fast index if turned on in the preferences, Advanced->General->Enable Global Search and Indexer. The checkbox "Use indexed search" in the Search Messages can be used to turn this on/off.
  • Eudora now automatically checks if new versions are available. A manual check can be done by going to the Help menu and selecting Check for Updates.
  • MAILBOX WINDOW:
  • Select newly inserted messages (FUMLUB) feature now selects end message if there is no last unread block.
  • Fixed bug where mailbox columns get set to the default every time a window is opened. Now it just happens once on a per-mailbox basis.
  • Thread column now shown by default for news windows.
  • Added UI in the Penelope prefs panel to expose the setting that controls hiding the tab if the there is only one in a mailbox window.
  • No longer auto-opening Trash and Junk mailboxes when new messages arrive in them.
  • Restored functionality of In and Out toolbar buttons.
  • Ctrl+0 is mapped to Reset Zoom in Thunderbird, and that conflicts with the hotkey for open the Out mailbox in Penelope. So go rid of Thunderbird's key so that Penelope's can function.
  • Removed the Open messages in tabs preference because Thunderbird now has a setting that controls that in Advanced->Reading & Display->Open messages in.
  • The Backspace key now deletes a message in a mailbox window for Windows and Linux (Mac Thunderbird already has this feature).
  • SESSION SAVE/RESTORE:
  • Fix for bug where the saved window list get restored during non-startup times.
  • Fixed bug where the about:config windows was being opened on restore when the Pref window was opened.
  • Activity Monitor, About, Error Console, and Venkman windows are now saved/restored across sessions.
  • TOOLBARS:
  • Fixed the Contacts toolbar button in composition message windows, which wasn't displaying the correct icon.
  • FILTERS:
  • Filter auto-naming now works correctly when using "Match all messages".
  • Junk score and attachment conditions now used in auto-naming filters.
  • IMPORTING:
  • Fixed problem where trying to find one-off imported folders for doing filter importing and the name had changed from "Eudora Mail" to "Eudora Import".
  • MISCELLANEOUS:
  • Renamed the thunderbird-branding.js file to all-eudora.js so that it takes precedence over (i.e. is alphabetically before) the all-thunderbird.js pref file.
  • Mail Start page wasn't showing up on Windows due to missing files in installer.
  • Fixed up the URL portion of the SelectedTextURL entry for the Thesaurus.
  • Localization of Penelope in to Russian by Alexander Slovesnik.

New in Eudora 8.0.0 Beta 6 (Apr 9, 2009)

  • Includes Penelope version 0.5a3.
  • Using Thunderbird 3.0b2 source code.
  • Mailbox window:
  • Better way to remember the states of the folder and thread panes when switching between message and mailbox tabs.
  • Added the pref "penelope.attachments.detachOnDblClick" which controls whether double-clicking on attachments detaches them from the message or just opens them. It is on (true) by default. There's UI for it in the Penelope preferences panel.
  • When pref for opening mailboxes in tabs is turned on, auto-open of mailboxes will detect if the mailbox is already open in a tab and not open a new copy.
  • Fixed bug where messages opened in tabs would not show the correct content if the message pane was hidden in the folder view.
  • Fixed the "important" tag from randomly appearing. This bug may still occur to messages downloaded with Eudora 8 beta 5 or earlier. All messages downloaded with Eudora 8 beta 6 or later should not see this problem.
  • The Layout submenu in the View menu is now shown.
  • Default pref to not show the about:rights notification bar.
  • Changed the Archive menu item to use Ctrl/Cmd+ as a shortcut instead of the plain "A" that Thunderbird uses.
  • Now preventing auto-marked-as-read behavior when a message gets auto-selected when switching tabs.
  • Toolbars:
  • Incorporated Add New Toolbar functionality in Formatting tab of the Customize Toolbar dialog.
  • Removed special toolbar items (separators, spaces, springs/flexible spaces) from the Extras panel.
  • Fixed bug where in a new installation you customize the toolbar and then hit Cancel and the text on the toolbar buttons shows up.
  • Customize Toolbar dialog now repositions when the toolbar changes.
  • Filters:
  • Fixed the auto-name filter feature when matching against tags.
  • Importing:
  • Fixed bug where attachments were not getting imported from Classic Mac Eudora.
  • IMAP:
  • IMAP messages were getting expunged when they should not have.
  • Longer line length for IMAP logging.
  • Miscellaneous:
  • Use of cmd+M to do a mail check improved.
  • The pref directory for auto-saving attachments is now working.
  • By default attachments are saved to the pref directory rather than asking for a directory each time.
  • Fixed some menu item conflicts which caused the Paste As Quotation menu item to disappear from the Edit menu of composition windows.
  • Removed phantom menu item in the Tools menu caused by id change.

New in Eudora 8.0.0 Beta 5 (Jan 17, 2009)

  • Includes Penelope version 0.5a2.
  • Using Thunderbird 3.0b1 source code.
  • Mailbox window:
  • "Show message preview pane" setting added to Penelope pref panel. If on (which it is by default), then the preview pane is shown at its last saved.
  • position. If it's off then both the preview pane and the splitter before it are hidden.
  • Fixed bug where double-clicking on a mailbox in a folder view other than "All Folders" (i.e. "Unread", "Recent", or "Favorites") would not open the mailbox.
  • Added prefs for opening mailboxes/messages in tabs rather than separate windows.
  • Fix for Bug 466046 - MsgOpenNewTabForMessage() broken when specifying a message.
  • Added middle click to open folder/message in a tab.
  • Fixed bug 429440 - Preview pane must be visible for tabs to render.
  • Tabs are now hidden in the Mailboxes window.
  • Prevent opening windows in tabs in the Mailboxes window.
  • Added mail.tabs.autoHide setting, which hides the tab if there is just one in a window (default value is true).
  • Fix for Alt+click for group selection causing the menu to get the focus.
  • Fixed bug where double-clicking on the scroll bar of the thread pane would cause a message to be opened in a new tab.
  • Fixed Transfer menu and Transfer mailbox buttons on toolbar.
  • Added shift key modifier to the Transfer menu items and toolbar buttons to do copy vs. move.
  • Holding down alt/option when clicking on an open mailbox toolbar button will now do a transfer.
  • Keep thread pane scrolled to same place when switching tabs and back.
  • Toolbars:
  • Fixes to Mac Customize Toolbar dialog to allow it to open multiple times.
  • Added "Cancel" functionality to the Customize Toolbar dialog on the Mac.
  • Added the Restore Default Set button to Windows and Linux Customize Toolbar dialog.
  • The default Penelope toolbar doesn't show text on the buttons, so when restoring the toolbar to the default state set the mode to icons only.
  • Fixed bug 417081 - Send Later toolbar button mapped incorrectly.
  • Importing:
  • Extra settings now imported from Classic Eudora: default mail check, mail check interval, skip big messages, skip big message threshold, submission port send, and SSL send and receive.
  • IMAP:
  • Fix for Bug 369964 "subscribe to IMAP folders window doesn't allow subscribing to folders below 2nd level". Turns out Exchange doesn't like LIST commands without a trailing % on the path.
  • Miscellaneous:
  • Fixed open In/Out mailbox toolbar buttons.
  • Added Babelfish language translation to the default list of Selected Text URL tools.

New in Eudora 8.0.0 Beta 4 (Nov 4, 2008)

  • Classic Eudora Redirect feature added. Acts like a Send Again, but the Reply-To: header is set to be the sender of the original message so that any replies to the redirected message get sent to the original sender. This allows the user to edit the redirected message before sending, e.g. add additional comments.
  • Open windows are now saved between sessions. There is a known bug which is that tabs are only restored on the first window.
  • Mailboxes that receive new messages in them (e.g. from mail checks) now are automatically opened. This is controlled by the penelope.mailbox.autoOpen preference, and is easily changed via a checkbox in the Penelope panel of the Preferences/Options dialog.
  • When mailboxes are opened up they automatically select the first unread message of the last unread block (FUMLUB). This is controlled by the penelope.mailbox.selectFUMLUB preference, and is easily changed via a checkbox in the Preferences/Options dialog.
  • Mailbox window font name and size prefs, with new pref ids of penelope.mailbox.font.name and penelope.mailbox.font.size. The Penelope pref panel has UI for changing them.
  • Added a left margin to the start page so that it's not flush with the left side of the window.
  • In the Mailboxes window in 2-pane window mode, the splitter between the folder pane and the thread/message panes is now hidden so it can't collapse the folder pane.
  • Fixed status bar flicker when the selection changes in the Mailboxes window.
  • Fixed double-click/Enter to open mailbox.
  • Fixed bug where the Mailboxes window was considered as an open window for the mailbox which it currently had selected, causing it to get the focus when trying to open that mailbox from another window.
  • Fixed bug on Mac where holding down the Command key while hitting another key (i.e. executing a shortcut) in a mailbox window would cause the selection to change and thus execute the shortcut on a different message. The most common occurrence of this was Command+R for replying.

New in Eudora 8.0.0 Beta 3 (Feb 23, 2008)

  • A Linux version of Eudora is now available!
  • If you select a minimum amount of text before replying to a message, the reply will only quote the selected text.
  • Mac OS X address book integration turned on by default.
  • Importing mailboxes from Classic Mac Eudora is greatly improved.
  • When importing filters from Classic Eudora, filter actions which are not currently supported in Thunderbird are preserved so that when they are supported in future versions of Thunderbird they will be available to the user.
  • When importing Eudora settings, more settings are mapped to corresponding Mozilla settings. All Eudora settings are stored for future interpretation without re-importing.
  • Fixed bug where Windows Eudora importing would not prompt user for correct location of data when data is not found.
  • Fixed logic reversal bug that caused both Mac and Windows Eudora address book importing to fail.
  • Fixes for a variety of problems with unified who column. Local mailboxes now compare against all POP accounts. Cross-folder views (e.g., saved searches) now correctly determine the folder for the messages. The search dialog results panel now follows the useWhoColumn pref.

New in Eudora 8.0.0b2 (Dec 19, 2007)

  • he main change to Eudora is that it is now based on the trunk code of
  • Thunderbird: version 3.0a1pre. Some of the main new features of the trunk
  • Thunderbird are the tabs interface for mailboxes and messages (right-click and
  • select "Open in New Tab"), and the integration with the Mac OS X address book