============================================================================== EUDORA VERSION 8.0 ============================================================================== Eudora is a mail and news application from Qualcomm based on the open source Thunderbird client from Mozilla. It's *not* our intention to compete with Thunderbird; rather, we want to complement it. Qualcomm is committed to both preserving the Eudora user experience and to maintaining maximum compatibility, for both developers and users, with Thunderbird. It is our goal to build a single development community around Thunderbird and Eudora, so that both mailers advance faster than they previously have. Whereas "Eudora" is a branded version of Thunderbird with some extra features added by the Eudora developers, "Penelope" is an extension (also called an "add-on") that is used in Eudora and can also be used with Thunderbird. The Eudora installer includes the corresponding version of Penelope along with it so there is no need to install Penelope if you are installing Eudora. Most features in Penelope can be accessed when used with Thunderbird, but there are a few that require Eudora in order to work correctly and it's not something that gets tested. Sometimes in documentation there is a need to differentiate the older versions of Eudora made by Qualcomm from current Thunderbird-based versions of Eudora. This will normally be done by labeling the older versions of Eudora as "original Eudora" or "Classic Eudora". The main web page for Eudora/Penelope can be found at . We encourage people to help the progress of Penelope, whether you know how to write code or not. This was one of the main drivers to our decision to go open source with Eudora. More details can be found here: . ---------------------- MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS ---------------------- The following are the system requirements for each platform. Windows ------- Operating Systems - Windows 2000 - Windows XP - Windows Server 2003 - Windows Vista Minimum Hardware - Pentium 233 MHz (Recommended: Pentium 500MHz or greater) - 64 MB RAM (Recommended: 128 MB RAM or greater) - 52 MB hard drive space Mac --- Operating Systems - Mac OS X 10.4.x and later Minimum Hardware - Macintosh computer with an Intel x86 or PowerPC G3, G4, or G5 processor - 128 MB RAM (Recommended: 256 MB RAM or greater) - 200 MB hard drive space Linux ----- Software Requirements - Please note that Linux distributors may provide packages for your distribution which have different requirements. * Thunderbird will not run at all without the following libraries or packages: o GTK+ 2.10 or higher o GLib 2.12 or higher o Pango 1.14 or higher o X.Org 1.0 or higher * For optimal functionality, we recommend the following libraries or packages: o NetworkManager 0.7 or higher o DBus 1.0 or higher o HAL 0.5.8 or higher o GNOME 2.16 or higher Minimum Hardware - Intel Pentium II or AMD K6-III+ 233 MHz CPU (Recommended: 500MHz or greater) - 64 MB RAM (Recommended: 128 MB RAM or greater) - 52 MB hard drive space ------------ INSTALLATION ------------ Windows ------- 1. After downloading the installer, exit any applications you are running. 2. Click the Start button in the Windows task bar, select Run..., then click the "Browse" button. 3. Go to the folder where you saved the installer. Choose that file and click "OK". 4. Read the Welcome screen, then click the Next button. For the rest of the installation process, click the Next button to go on to the next step, or click the Back button to return to the previous step. 5. Read the Software License Agreement, and if you agree to the terms, click "I accept the terms in the License Agreement" and then click on the Next button. Once you've installed Eudora, a copy of the license agreement will be available in the file License.txt in your Eudora directory. 6. In the Setup Type step, if you choose the Standard option then Eudora will be installed with the default options. 7. Choosing the Custom option will allow you to specify the directory in which to install the software, what launch icons are created, and what to name the folder that will be placed in the Start menu. 8. The installer will offer to launch Eudora after the installation process is complete. 9. After installation is complete, we recommend that you read the README.txt file (this file) in the Eudora directory. Mac --- 1. After downloading the disk image, in the Finder go to the folder where you saved the disk image and launch it. Some web browsers automatically launch disk images after they are fully downloaded. 2. Read the Software License Agreement, and if you agree to the terms, click on the Accept button. 3. Drag the Eudora icon in to your Applications folder. 4. Eject the "Eudora" volume. 5. After installation is complete, we recommend that you read the README.txt file (this file) in the package contents of the Eudora application. Linux ----- 1. After downloading the file, open up a terminal window. 2. In the terminal window type in the following: sudo tar -C /usr/local -xvf 3. Then create a link for easy execution by typing: sudo ln -s /usr/local/eudora/eudora /usr/local/bin/eudora 4. After installation is complete, we recommend that you read the README.txt file (this file) in /usr/local/eudora. 5. You will then be able to run Eudora from any command prompt by just typing in "eudora" (no quotes). ----------- BUG REPORTS ----------- Eudora and Penelope use the Mozilla bug tracking system called Bugzilla. The general Bugzilla interface can be found here: . For a list of Eudora/Penelope-specific bugs, use this query: . You can sort the list by clicking on the column headers at the top of the list. If you find a bug, first determine if it is specific to Eudora/Penelope, or a general Thunderbird problem. When creating a new bug report, only specify the "Penelope" project if the problem is really confined to Eudora and/or Penelope. Also be sure to search through the existing bugs to see if the problem you are seeing has already been entered in to the bug database. Here's a simple search form: . A more advanced search can be done with this form: . If you find that an entry already exists for the bug you are seeing, then be sure to "vote" for the bug by opening up the details of the bug and clicking on the "Vote for this bug" link just above the "Additional Comments" field. In order to vote for a bug you have to create a Bugzilla account, which you can do here: . We use the number of votes for a bug as an indicator of user demand for that fix. To enter in a new bug you will also be required to have a Bugzilla account. If the bug is specific to Eudora/Penelope, then be sure to select Penelope under the Other Products list. Otherwise if the bug occurs on Thunderbird in general then use Thunderbird as the product. --------------------- REQUESTS FOR FEATURES --------------------- Bugzilla is also used for new feature requests. Use the above guidelines for bugs (i.e. look for already existing requests and note whether the feature is specific to Eudora/Penelope or not). The only difference between a bug report and a feature request is that a feature request has a value of "enhancement" under the Severity field. You can also vote on enhancements just like you can on bugs. ============================================================================== RELEASE NOTES ============================================================================== The following describes the changes in the software since Eudora 8.0. Separate sections have been given to changes from each release since then. The changes are only for Eudora and Penelope, and all changes made by Thunderbird are not listed. Changes to Thunderbird can be found here: and . ------------------ CHANGES IN 8.0.0b6 ------------------ Includes Penelope version 0.5a3. Using Thunderbird 3.0b2 source code. See for details. 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. May also be the cause of this bug: - Removed phantom menu item in the Tools menu caused by id change. ------------------ CHANGES IN 8.0.0b5 ------------------ Includes Penelope version 0.5a2. Using Thunderbird 3.0b1 source code. See for details. 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. ------------------ CHANGES IN 8.0.0b4 ------------------ Includes Penelope version 0.5a1. See for Penelope version notes. Using Thunderbird 3.0a3 source code, which was a clone of comm-central. See for details. GENERAL NEW FEATURES -------------------- - 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. MAILBOX 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. FILTERS ------- - Added a manual filter context to filters. Now a filter can be specified as working on incoming messages and/or manual filtering. Manual filtering is performed either through the Tools->Run Filters on... menu items, or the Run Now button in the Message Filters dialog. - Added the menu item Tools->Run Filters on Selected Messages, which allows for manual filtering on just the selected messages in a mailbox rather than all messages in a mailbox, which is what Tools->Run Filters on Folder does. - Added a "Don't ask me again" checkbox to the delete filter confirmation dialog. If selected when a filter is deleted it sets the pref mailnews.filters.confirm_delete, bypassing future warnings when deleting filters. - Filters without a user-specified name are now given a name based on the first search term, rather than being generically named "Untitled Filter N". - Now selecting the first filter in the list when opening the Message Filters dialog. - Improvements to localization of filter importing changes. . - Listing filters in the UI as being able to be imported for Mac and Linux. - Fixed bug where up/down accelerators toggled the enabled state on a filter. IMPORTING --------- - Fixed bug where importing of Eudora filters wasn't working with a transfer/copy to mailbox action. - Classic Eudora "Out" mailbox now correctly imported as "Sent" mailbox. - When migrating Classic Eudora mailboxes with the names "In"/"Out" now only translating names to "Inbox"/"Sent" if they are at the top level, not in subfolders. - Fixed bug where the list of data being imported during a full Eudora profile migration was not shown while it happened. - Now importing Classic Eudora personality settings to have new messages go in to the global Inbox, rather than to the account-specific Inbox. This makes it similar to Classic Eudora's behavior. - All Classic Eudora personalities are now imported, and the dominant personality is imported first so as to be the default account. - Names of Classic Eudora personalities are now transferred to imported accounts. TOOLBARS -------- - The View popup on the mailbox toolbar wasn't getting updated when the list popped up. This made the "Not Deleted" view filter show up when it shouldn't have, e.g. non-IMAP mailbox. Now it gets updated. - Fixed the delete button on the toolbar so it uses the Eudora icon rather than the Thunderbird version. - File->Compact Folders button now able to be added to the toolbar. - Address book entries now showing back up in the Recipients tab of the Customize Toolbar dialog. - Customize Toolbar dialog under Mac now closes. However, it is a known issue that the dialog won't open up again after doing it once in a session. - Fixed the recipient toolbar buttons so that they function properly. - Send/Send Later button in composition window toolbars now shows the "Send"/"Send Later" text to the right of the icon when the toolbar is set to show text with the buttons. - By default the composition window toolbar shows text with the buttons. MISCELLANEOUS ------------- - Penelope strings localized in to Lithuanian by Rimas Kudelis . - Now using the main Eudora icon for the icon in the Penelope prefs panel. - New mail sound no longer gets overwritten on startup if the user changes it. - To be consistent with Classic Eudora, the default way to forward a message is with the original message being inline in the forwarded message. - Moved the Selected Text URL menu items from the Tools menu to the Edit menu, to be consistent with Classic Eudora. - No longer requesting the IMAP capability command if the server announced it in greetings. - Mac installer dmg now has an alias to the Applications folder for easier installation. There's also a new background image with an arrow indicating to just drag and drop, without the English text. - About Eudora dialog box made similar to the Thunderbird about box. Includes copyright and user-agent string, which contains Thunderbird version in it. ------------------ CHANGES IN 8.0.0b3 ------------------ Includes Penelope version 0.1a22. See for Penelope version notes. Using Thunderbird 3.0a1pre trunk code as of 2007/10/19: NEW FEATURES ------------ - 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 --------- - 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. MISCELLANEOUS ------------- - 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. ------------------ CHANGES IN 8.0.0b2 ------------------ Includes Penelope version 0.1a22. See for Penelope version notes. Using Thunderbird 3.0a1pre trunk code as of 2007/10/19: The 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 (see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=203927 for details). IMPORTING --------- - Added the ability to manually start a full profile migration from the Tools->Import dialog. Bug 399312 - Incomplete Import Installation - impossible to restart process ------------------ CHANGES IN 8.0.0b1 ------------------ Includes Penelope version 0.1a21. Synced to the THUNDERBIRD_2_0_0_6_RELEASE code branch: . NEW FEATURES ------------ - Toolbar icons (and a few other icons) from the original Eudora were moved to Penelope. - Keyboard shortcuts from the original Eudora were moved to Penelope. You can configure whether these shortcuts in Penelope or the original Thunderbird ones are used in the Penelope panel of the Options/Preferences dialog. - The menu structure of original Eudora has been copied to a great extent in Penelope. - Added the ability to display the list of mailboxes in a separate window from the mailboxes themselves, which was similar to the original Eudora. This can be configured in the Penelope panel of the Options/Preferences dialog. Mailboxes opened in a separate window have their size/position remembered and restored when opened up next. - Double-clicking or hitting Enter/Return on a mailbox in the folders list now opens up the mailbox in a separate window. - The toolbar customization dialog was modified to be similar to the way it was implemented in original Eudora. - Modified the mailbox column headers to look like original Eudora's. - The "Sender" column has been relabeled as "Who", and outgoing messages display the name of the recipient there. This feature can be controlled by the hidden pref "mail.useWhoColumn". - You can quickly find messages in a mailbox by typing text in the list of messages. As you type the selection in the mailbox will change based on matching text in the Who and Subject fields. After finding a match you can use the period key to find subsequent matches in the mailbox (and Shift+period to find previous matches). - Added the Group Select feature from original Eudora where if you hold down the Alt key (option for Mac) and click the left mouse button down on an item in the mailbox it will select all messages that have the same value as the item clicked on, and all of those selected messages will be grouped together. For example, Alt/option-clicking on the name of a sender of a message will select all of the messages in that mailbox sent by that person, and move the messages together. Note that the moving of messages in the mailbox list will break the current sort of the mailbox. The Shift key can be used as a modifier to make the selected messages remain in their original positions in the mailbox list, and thus retain the current sort order. - Importing mailboxes and messages from the original Eudora in to the new Eudora has been substantially improved under Windows. Import times are now 5 times shorter. Basic message attributes and status are now maintained (read/unread, priority, label). Inline images in messages now get moved over. Includes fixes to the following bugs: 301188: "Import Eudora mail fails to find attachments in other directories" 368360: "Importer (Win Eudora, Mail) does not import mailboxes with unusual leading characters" 380408: "Mail Import Crashes with Divide by Zero" - Now filters can be imported from original Eudora to the new Eudora. There is not a one-to-one match up of original Eudora's filtering capabilities and those found in Thunderbird, so not all filters will move over exactly. Filters imported that will lose some capabilities will be warned about in a list after the entire filter import process is complete. Also added was the "Stop Filter Execution" action. This is the equivalent to original Eudora's "Skip Rest" action which causes the filtering process to end for messages that match the criteria in the filter with this action. - Improvements to the importing of original Eudora Windows Address Books have been made. Includes fixes to the following bugs: 368626: "Importer (Win Eudora, Address Book). Mailing list nickname not assigned to 'nickname' in Penelope" 368630: "Importer (Win Eudora, Address Book). Variouos fields not mapped to Penelope Address Book fields" 368634: "Importer (Win Eudora, Address Book). Unable to import if Eudora is using '.nnt' format" 377816: "Importer (Win Eudora, Address Book) incorrectly adds additional entries when resolving nicknames in mailing lists" 377821: "Importer (Win Eudora, Address Book) fails to resolve nicknames with spaces when importing a mailing list" 377945: "Importer (Win Eudora, Address Book) misses information when importing an alias (mailing list with one entry)" - Importing on the Mac now looks for a Eudora folder in the user's document folder (i.e. ~/Documents) in addition to the System Folder and the System Documents Folder. - Added original Eudora-like IMAP auto-expunge behavior. This is controlled by the hidden pref "mail.imap.expunge_option". It can have values for if auto-expunging should occur never (0), always (1), or on a threshold (2). If on a threshold is set, then auto-expunge will occur when there are at least 20 messages waiting to be expunged. The number of messages for that threshold is actually controlled by the hidden pref "mail.imap.expunge_threshold_number". - Added a "Refresh Folder List" item to the context menu for IMAP folders which gets the current list of folders/mailboxes from the IMAP server and updates the folder tree for that IMAP account. - Added support for viewing only messages that are not deleted in IMAP mailboxes. Use the "Not Deleted" item in the View->Messages menu or the Mail Views control on the toolbar. - New mail sound copied from original Eudora. - Added "Make Address Book Entry" functionality (in Tools menu). - Added the "SelectedTextURL" feature from original Windows Eudora, which allows selected text to easily be inserted in to a URL and launched. Menu items for them are located in the Tools menu, and they also get keyboard shortcuts associated with them as well. Use the hidden prefs "penelope.selectedTextURL#", where # is an increasing number in sequence. Here's the default values: pref("penelope.selectedTextURL1", "Google,http://www.google.com/search?q=%s"); pref("penelope.selectedTextURL2", "Dictionary,http://www.dictionary.com/search?q=%s"); pref("penelope.selectedTextURL3", "Thesaurus,http://www.thesaurus.com/cgi-bin/search?config=roget&words=%s"); MISCELLANEOUS ------------- - Fixed "Bug 161775 - Reply shouldn't quote inline attachments": . 4/6/2009