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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".
CHANGES IN 8.0.0b3
• Includes Penelope version 0.1a22.
See:
http://wiki.mozilla.org/Penelope_Extensionsfor Penelope version notes.
Using Thunderbird 3.0a1pre trunk code as of 2007/10/19:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=593971
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/nightly/2007-10-19-03-trunk/
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.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=359270>
The main web page for Eudora/Penelope can be found at :
http://wiki.mozilla.org/Penelope
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: ( http://wiki.mozilla.org/Penelope#Get_Involved ).
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