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Summary of changes between Eudora 2.0/1.4 and 2.1/1.5.
MAJOR NEW FEATURES
- Improved AppleScript support
- Apple Event "body" message property added
- New, much friendlier AppleScript dictionary. Thanks to
Cal Simone of MetaMorphose for prodding me into doing
this, and helping me figure out what to do.
- "Selected text" AppleEvent application property
- Print AppleEvent
- Exists Appleevent
- Save Appleevent
- AppleEvent notification changed to allow more
notifications and to notify by alias, not creator.
(See AppleScript dictionary.)
- Turbo redirect. [2.1]
- Kerberos support (requires KClient or KClientMan+AuthMan) [2.1]
- Mailbox column headers (click to sort) [2.1]
- Click in status/priority/label of selected summary to change. [2.1]
- Remove Configuration... and Switches... in favor of Settings...
- Extensible settings dialogs.
- Drag & Drop messages between mailboxes [2.1]
- Can fetch or individual messages from the server. [2.1]
- Wrapping quoted lines normally
- Can leave mail on server for a fixed number of days. [2.1]
- Can get all your mail on more than one Mac with leave mail on
server. [2.1]
- Can use Finder labels and colors on messages [2.1]
- Mailboxes with unread mail are underlined for 5 days. [2.1]
PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS
- Performance gains for find, filtering, EzOpen
- Improved UUCP attachment performance (nearly order of magnitude)
- Building mailbox menus by hand (huge performance gain)
- Double-buffered TCP I/O (significant performance gain when sending mail)
- Redundant TECalText calls removed (speeds opening of large messages)
MINOR IMPROVEMENTS
- Setting for no automatic checks when on battery power [2.1]
- Open Selection menu item. (Note: the enter key or space bar
will open selected messages; this is meant to compensate for
the loss of cmd-O for this feature.)
- Automatic use of domain literal if POP account is IP address
- Async disk I/O [2.1]
- New date display options [2.1]
- Intersects nickname filter verb. [2.1]
- New progress window
- Looking at local filename suffixes when mapping outgoing files
- SFPutFile-style attachments removed; always uses Attachments Folder now.
- DNS load balancing [2.1]
- Finger server preference
- Choosing uuencode now makes Eudora ignore isBasic [2.1]
- Changed transfer & text undo to kill one another
- \c (cancel) nav
- Space bar pages through incoming mail
- Page down always goes full page in message windows
- Replies that are immediately deleted now repair status of
original message.
- Filtering now works on hidden headers as well as visible ones. [2.1]
- No longer necessary to uncheck "include headers" when saving
split messages.
- \a (ask) and \A (prompt for ask) navs
- Include Macintosh information icon in composition icon bar.
- Menu reorganization to fit better on 9" screen
- Outgoing summaries italicized in non-Out mailboxes
- Changed fast close algorithm to make safer
- Translates between MIME ftp external-body and Anarchie/Fetch
bookmarks. [2.1]
- Added "Reply CC" switch [2.1]
BARELY WORTH MENTIONING
- Fixed text attachment support to work better for Nisus files.
- "Change queueing" defaults tweaked.
- Stripping text/enriched
- Arrow keys work in ph result box
- Auto-sensing AutoDoubler (avoids AutoBugs) [2.1]
- Forward delete key not causing trouble in dialogs
- Paste as quote in text windows
- Resources for default creator and type
- Added map for TEXT/mdos
- ^L starts new page when printing.
- More color icons [2.1]
- Weeding malformed x-attachments lines when redirecting
- EuOM and EuIM mapping table templates fixed
- No longer changing creator when launching attachments
- Cmd-A properly punctuates typing for purposes of undo
- Generating message-id's on outgoing mail.
- Finish nicknames in filters, text windows [2.1]
- Option-delete is forward delete
- Find no longer gives up on errors
- Warning for missing attachment folder
- New filter goes just below selected filter [2.1]
- Option-open opens as text, not settings
- Running US-ASCII transliteration table on filenames [2.1]
- Relaxed incoming filename sanitation [2.1]
- Replaced PPC browser with standard file for word services [2.1]
- Cancelled UUCP fetch doesn't lead to dirty In
- Cancelled check does not prevent filtering [2.1]
- Paste in ph switches to query field
- X-Sender/UUCP interaction improved
- Can stop compaction with command-period
- Word services no longer confused by new windows [2.1]
- Added a few MIME mappings
- Retitling composition windows faster
- Now ok to have have an alias for Eudora Folder
- POP3 UIDL command used if present
- Can cancel transfers
- Added no password invalidation STR#
- Changed old LMOS method to use LAST if value nonzero
- Deleting partial nickname file after failed save
- Resetting file type when writing text files
- No longer will filter to non-mailbox [2.1]
- Mumble open Eudora Log mumble.
- Nickname window now goes all the way back after buttoning
- Sending CTE: 8bit instead of CTE: binary
- Changed filter titling [2.1]
- Truncated text drawn differently in mailbox windows
- Saved password removed when save password switch turned off
2.1.4/1.5.4 Release Notes
+ Turned off asynch i/o during Eudora startup to avoid
problems with INIT's that interfere with asynch i/o.
+ Created workaround for Toshiba 500M powerbook hard drives.
+ Fixed a couple potential AE problems
+ Fixed problem reading mailserver external-bodies
+ Flushing settings file more often
+ Added slight pause for dialup ph
+ Worked around bug in GV 5300 ethernet card
(See "Sending Mail" in "Settings".)
+ Fixed 1522-encoder & isalnum
+ Fixed PPtrFindSub
+ Connection break during UIDL no longer leads to redownload
+ Uuencode properly adding content-disposition
+ Xfer of unsent getting proper origZone
+ Logging paramtext
+ Cancelled DNS requests
+ Line-length problem in GetLine
+ Option-space in nicknames fixed
+ AE get body of composition windows no longer causing a problem
2.1.3/1.5.3 Release Notes
+ Potential sorting problem fixed
+ Filter conjunction balloons fixed
+ Added Date: fallback for LMOS XDays
+ 8500/9500 compatibility
+ Tweaked RFC 822 group support
+ Fixed CanWrite for finder-locked files
+ Added prefs for site # & support code
+ Fixed Kerberos XTND XMIT port problem
+ Move MoreHelp!!!! to plug-in
+ Small AE tweaks
+ Tabs in body switch restored
+ Making WS app quit after WS install
+ Fix for AppleSingle files with missing names
+ Looking for autodoubler a little earlier in startup
+ Eudora to front after WS install
+ Enabled MacSLIP checks
2.1.2/1.5.2 Release Notes
+ Out/In/Out transfer bug fixed
+ Spellswell automatically installed if on same volume as Eudora
+ (Abnormally) long header names no longer crash outgoing filters (212/30)
+ Undo punctuated by tab-switch in comp window
+ Settings dialog opens if no POP account
+ ResourceCpy/RememberOpenWindows & RmveResource & ResLoad
+ WeedHeaders & low memory
+ Dialup PW saving problem
+ UUPC drops that don't end in newlines fixed
+ Special-cased group detector to allow raw decnet addresses
+ Added group elimination
+ Can open stationery from File->Open
+ Cursor problems fixed in ph window
+ Odoc & settings window
+ Unwrap sometimes gets wrong char for initial quote
+ X-Sender for Xtnd Xmit
+ Cancelling connection easier from ICMP alert
+ UUCP max hostname & username increased
+ Save As & date header & guess paragraphs
+ New comp window leaving room for autoscroll
+ Double quote added to list of chars to fix from Mac filenames
+ Ph return clause allowed to be up to 255 bytes
+ Failed GetInTOC handled better in FetchMessageText
+ ResourceCpy ResLoad problem fixed
+ Sanity checking on prefs resources
+ Low memory hdh problem during POP fixed
+ crlf space crlf space now ok as header/body separator
+ multipart subparts without bodies are less problematic
+ old version of Mishawaka restored
+ extra flush to comp save
+ update/activate events vetted more carefully
+ Empty label strings no longer cause wrong colors
+ Easy open working when manually filtering first message in a mailbox
+ First line of message body forced in view when opening message
+ New nickname made in standard file when selection is in a locked nickname file
+ Removed balloons from mailbox/transfer submenus to reduce disk traffic
+ Settings file being backed up when found sane before opening
+ Handling of missing colons in headers improved
+ Retry on CMnew failures
+ Print font handling fixed
+ Enabled duplicate resource removal code
+ WriteTOC problem fixed
+ tolerate group syntax
+ Extended characters added to Mishawaka
+ AppleDouble boundaries changed
+ Checking settings files for sanity
+ Parmblocks tweaked
+ Protection from CPU-sucking Control Strip
+ x-mac-type and x-mac-creator given precedence
+ Fixed problem with locking aliases handl
+ Fixed problem with adding to nicknames with special sizes
+ Labels no longer get doubled when opening 2nd Eudora Settings file
+ Kclient bg check
+ CopyRFork fixed
+ Diacriticals & nickname renaming fixed
2.1.1/1.5.1 Release Notes
+ Hide progress & show all header pref numbers changed
+ Wrap selection problem fixed
+ Window zooming fixed for mailboxes that get mail added to them
+ 1522 encoding respects table=none
+ Mappings added for application/pgp
+ Bug in DoesIntersectNick fixed
+ Boundaries written for digests
+ +0001 offset in summary dates fixed
+ AppleSingle map entry added
+ Nickname file alias resolution cleaned up
+ Changed DisposePOPD to work around duplicate mail problem
+ Changed ZapResource; see above
+ Changed MakeResFile
+ Fixed mail sent notification (151)
+ Fixed windows menu
+ Nickname expansion with default domain fixed
+ GetMyWD fixed
+ 1522 generation fixed to use message's selected table
+ Header transliteration changed; uses default translit
if no translit in message
+ Proper type on occurrence parameter of notice event
+ Changed method of finding system folder
+ Message-id format change
+ Signature windows no longer confuse Windows menu
+ Repetitive Find strings and ends of messages problem fixed
+ Aliases to other volumes ok for compaction
+ UUCP corrupt attachment problem fixed
+ Save As error alert fixed
+ Argument with certain disk drivers (-48 on startup) fixed
+ Attributions obey sender/local
+ Renaming nickname in alternate file now ok [2.1.1]
+ Initial colons can be matched by filters [2.1.1]
+ A few help balloons fixed
+ A few more headers added to ignore
+ Kerberos someteims caused crashes sending mail [2.1.1]
+ Low-memory GetHandleSize problem
+ application/octet-stream mapping allowed for binaries masqerading as TEXT
+ Correct priorities checked in message popups
+ Desktop margins help items repaired
+ International characters used to cause sorting problems with quick recip. list
+ Transliteration menu disappeared when opening 2nd settings file
+ Unused dialogs removed from resource fork
+ Looping when reading broken attachments from UUCP maildrop fixed
+ "date" property now marked as read-only
+ Filters verb help fixed [2.1.1]
+ Emptying trash with message open from trash fixed
+ STR# 900 gets copied from application
+ Unnecessary disk access eliminated when message opened completely behind
other windows
+ Aliases to applications recognized in text file creator dialog