Software Update: Eudora Email 8.0.0 Beta 7

In October 2006, Qualcomm announced that it was donating its email client Eudora to the open source community. The project is now managed by Mozilla, where it is codenamed Penelope. At first it was little more than Mozilla’s own Thunderbird client in a Eudora guise. However, a lot has changed in the meantime: the program is now also available for Linux, the import of data from an older version of Eudora has been greatly improved and the forwarding of e-mails works again as before in Eudora. The seventh beta release of Eudora 8 was released Friday and ships with the following changelog:

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.

Import:

• Fixed bug where attachments were not getting imported from Classic Mac Eudora.

IMAP:

• IMAP messages were getting expanded 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.

The following downloads are available:
Eudora Email 8.0.0 beta 7 for Windows
Eudora Email 8.0.0 beta 7 for Mac OS X
Eudora Email 8.0.0 beta 7 for Linux