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A new version number upgrade in Eudora is exciting news, at least for we Eudora fans. Eudora has been my main email client since Eudora Light version 1.5, and I've used Eudora on machines ranging from my old Mac Plus to my current 700 MHz iBook, in both Classic Mac OS and OS X versions. It’s been 2 1/2 years since Eudora 5.0 was released, and the last final release was Eudora 5.2, so a jump to version 6 could reasonably be expected to include some substantial enhancements. And they are:

New Spam-Fighting Tools
A whole suite of ready-to-use tools to stamp out unwanted junk mail. Right out of the box, most junk mail will be quarantined by SpamWatch, whose large dictionary of words can be simply added to by the user. Furthermore, Eudora’s junk mail system is open to third party developers, so that other anti-spam tools, including those running at your site or ISP, can be simply and smoothly integrated. And, in true Eudora tradition, you can tweak and tune the system to your liking. This is a very early release of Eudora 6.0. The Junk feature is fairly mature, but it’s not yet able to use third party plug-ins, and it does not yet work with IMAP.

The Junk Mail Filter
Once you install Eudora 6.0, a new mailbox called Junk appears in your mailbox list. The Junk mailbox is like the In, Out, and Trash mailbox. It cannot be deleted or renamed. When you check for mail, Eudora recognizes which incoming messages are unsolicited, and those messages are filtered into the Junk mailbox. Your incoming mail goes through the Junk filter before any other filter you may have set up. After 30 days, Eudora automatically deletes these messages.

Perhaps, several messages Eudora filters into in the Junk mailbox may, in fact, not be junk mail. To manage messages you do not consider Junk mail that reside in the Junk mailbox, do the following:

1. Scan the messages in the Junk mailbox and select those that you consider not junk mail.

2. From the Message Menu, choose
Not Junk
By choosing the Not Junk command, the messages you selected are automatically filtered to go to the designated mailboxes you have previously set up.

With time, Eudora will learn which messages you deem not junk and place them in your In box automatically. Conversely, if you find Junk mail in your other mailboxes, just choose Junk
from the Message Menu, and these messages are transferred to the Junk mailbox. Eudora will eventually learn to recognize these messages as junk and filter them into the Junk mailbox.

You can change Junk Mail settings in the Junk mail settings dialog which is located in the MoodWatch settings dialog. In this dialog, you can determine at what junk score level you wish your messages to be filtered and other junk mail mailbox management.

Eudora distinguishes junk mail by a scoring system. You can adjust this scoring threshhold by using this slide bar. If you slide the arrow to a low number, Eudora filters junk mail but perhaps not all junk mail. If you slide the arrow to a high number, Eudora filters all junk mail but may also filter legitimate mail to the Junk mailbox. The default setting is at the score of 50.

Mail isn’t junk if the sender is in an address book
—Check this box to indicate that
mail coming from people in their address books should never be marked as junk mail. Put

Not Junk-ed senders in address book
—Check this box to indicate that senders
of legitimate mail found in the Junk mailbox should be added to the address book. Future mail from this sender will never be filtered to the Junk mailbox again. This function works with the previous field.

Hold junk in Junk mailbox
—Check this box if you actually do want Eudora to filter what it considers junk mail to the Junk mailbox. If this is not checked, junk mail will appear in your In box.

Junk mailbox is never marked unread
—Check this box if you want your junk mail never to show that it’s unread; that is, not to show a blue dot in the message status column.

Remove mail that is at least _ days old
—Enter the number of days you’d like Eudora to keep junk mail in the Junk mailbox. Eudora scans the Junk mailbox daily and removes the messages after the set number of days you enter in this field.

Warn before removing
—Check this box if you want Eudora to warn you that junk mail messages are about to be removed.

A Content Concentrator
Junk mail is only half the story when it comes to wasting your time. You know how hard it can be to unravel a long email thread, or to find what the sender actually SAID in the midst of all the quoting, signatures, and other junk that’s inside the mail you do read. The Content Concentrator will help, by giving you a streamlined view of your email. Easily get to the meat of your email, and see whole threads at a glance. The Content Concentrator is in a very preliminary state, and will be radically improved and more flexible by release time.

A new Mailboxes Drawer
Macintosh OS X 10.2 (Jaguar) users now have a convenient way to access their list of mailboxes from any mailbox window with this slide-out drawer -- the most substantial user interface change since the introduction of Eudora 4.3.

Speaking of which, Eudora 6 still looks pretty much the same as Eudora 5.x, and for that matter Eudora 4.3, which is fine with me. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. THe Junk mailbox in the Mailboxes menu is new of course, and the little icon that toggles the Mailboxes drawer, but those are little things. This early beta comes with the obligatory beta software warnings, but it installed slickly, and has worked fine so far, with no stability problems or glitches.

Other changes, new features, and bugfixes in Eudora 6
• Fixed bug for messages who specify charsets redundantly in HTML META tags
• Type-to-select in check mail specially dialog
• Fixed display glitches in ESP mailboxes and with mailbox drawer control
• Picking up command-period more reliably under OSX
• Fixed crash importing windows filters file with speak action
• Enabled live window resizing. Use or Fonts & Display settings panel to disable
• Improved error reporting around thread creation
• Read-only services no longer dirty windows
• Some extra safety at thread startup time
• Workaround for broken fileservers that support fileid’s but not exchangefiles
• Grow check mail special dialog if many personalities
• OSUX has FITS if users use names beginning with periods
• Content Concentrator now working in the preview pane
• Improved temp file efficiency for local->IMAP transfers
• Checking for network reachability far less often on OSX
• Temporarily upped the memory requirements to support Bayesian processing
• Undoing the evil that windowshade does when switching monitor resolutions; no more lost windows!
• Fixed a problem where modifier keys on toolbar buttons could be ignored by some functions
• AppleEvents - make nickname file now returns proper reference
• AppleEvents - making nicknames or nickname files updates open address book appropriately
• AppleEvents - negative indices supported for nickname files
• Fixed crash setting nickname field data with applescript
• No longer permitting ae’s to make duplicate address books
• Added pref (243) for defaulting paste to plain, to pacify certain whiners who know who they are
• Toolbar transfer buttons to imap mailboxes now work properly after restart
• More error reporting when toc’s aren’t found.
• Changed mailbox compaction to happen at idle time
• IMAP - fixed a case where Eudora could spin forever waiting for data when parsing a BODYSTRUCTURE with a literal.
• IMAP - fixed a crash that could happen when cancelling a message download.
• Workaround for (even more) weird Cyrus POP3 STLS behavior; it issues a second response if STLS fails
• Added some SSL details to SSL settings panel
• IMAP - fixed a case where deleted messages could be left in the inbox if a message is transferred manual during background filtering.
• Fixed crash with option-plugin under OSX
• Fixing certain Outlookisms in summaries; RE: and FW: now become Re: and Fwd:
• Fixed a crash on restarting saved search
• Made temporary graft mailbox removal more robust
• Protection from a weird context menu crash
• If using a make subject filter, putting ‘[]’ as the first two characters will trim bracketed text from the original subject, represented by ‘&’.
• Storing all new summaries in UTF-8
• Adjusted geometry of tabbed windows for better appearance
• Getting keyboard focus right under OSX on new address book entry
• Worked around Microsoft Exchange’s improper use of multipart/related for attachments
• IMAP - improved filtering. IMAP messages now filtered during idle time with no modal dialog. reverts to old behavior.
• Window proxy icon instead of tow truck
• IMAP - better performance when using IMAP and an open Mailboxes window.
• Just Say No to Outlook’s weird use of

directive

• Added IMAP port to Ports & Protocols
• Fixed help menu after switching Eudora Folders
• Added “matches regular expression” filter verb
• Nicknames in Who fields of composition messages now show names instead
• Under OSX, use system helpers by default
• Windows menu now works even after minimizing all windows
• IMAP - fixed a bug that prevented message bodies from being fetched during resync when the preference was set to do so.
• IMAP - Offer to use “Trash” mailbox if it exists when selecting IMAP trash.
• Fixed “destroy tickets when quit” checkbox in kerberos settings panel
• Finding part of an attachment name now selects attachment
• Made completely plain remove links and graphics, too
• support for POP3 AUTH_RESP_CODE to better manage passwords for POP accounts
• Plugins can now live in package Plugins folder
• IMAP - fixed bug that could prevent open mailboxes from being synced after a mailcheck that gets no new mail.
• IMAP - better overall performance with large IMAP caches.
• Messages with missing graphics can now be saved/forwarded
• IMAP - resync all open mailboxes in a single thread when IMAP_RESYNC_OPEN_MAILBOXES is set.
• Performance increases when lots of windows are open
• Bigger fix for crashes involving graphics and scrolling
• Make sure delete icons get removed from mailboxes after messages deleted

System requirements:
The Eudora 6.0 b18 Email Beta comes in OS X and Classic OS versions, the latter of which supports Mac OS 8.6 through 9.x

For more information, visit:
http://www.eudora.com/betas/

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From anonymous

Charles,
In the Applications folder of Mac OS X is the Grab utility. It can be used to make a timed grab of the entire screen. It may be in the Utilities folder of the Applications folder, but I can’t tell right now since I’m not near my Mac now, but you can certainly check on your computer. There is another program called Capture Me which may also work.

Sincerely,
anonymous

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CM

Charles W. Moore