=================================================== EUDORA FOR WINDOWS, VERSION 4.3.1 - RELEASE NOTES =================================================== This document provides details on the changes that have been made to Eudora for version 4.3. It also lists new Eudora.ini settings as well as known issues in the software. This document supplements the Readme.txt and Whatsnew.pdf files. ------------------------ FIXES IN VERSION 4.3.1 ------------------------ 1. Fixed a bug win 4.3 where the area that normally contains the mailboxes, file explorer, stationery, signatures, and personalities windows would turn into an expanse of gray. This happens if you are in Paid or Light mode and if mailboxes get opened when the Eudora window is minimized (typically because you have Eudora configured to perform automatic mail checks and to open mailboxes when messages are filtered into them). If you still experience this problem after installing 4.3.1, switch to Sponsored mode (via Help/Payment & Registration) and then back to Paid or Light mode. Then restart Eudora. 2. Fixed a bug in 4.3 that caused Make Filter (in the Special menu and in the context menu you get by right-clicking on a message) to fail if you didn't have the Filters window open at the time. It would behave as if it were adding a new filter, but actually it didn't. ------------------------------ CHANGES/FIXES IN VERSION 4.3 ------------------------------ FEATURE CHANGES Authentication to SMTP servers is now allowed by default. You can prevent SMTP authentication by unchecking Allow Authentication in either the Getting Started or Sending Mail section of Tools/Options. You can also enable or disable it on a personality-by-personality basis, either in the New Account wizard or personality properties. Plaintext password authentication to SMTP servers is now supported. Added a new option to prevent automatic mail checks when a network connection is not already established. This can be handy when you don't want an automatic mail check to start up a network connection. It can be found in Tools/Options/Checking Mail. Eudora now displays the Offline Link Dialog if you click on an http: link while offline (not connected to the Internet). That dialog lets you choose what action should be taken regarding that link the next time Eudora is online: ask you if you want to launch the link, launch it without asking, bookmark the link in your browser, or remind you later. The dialog now has a checkbox that will make the action you choose the default from then on, which means you won't see the Offline Link Dialog any more. The corresponding Eudora.ini setting is OfflineLinkAction; it defaults to 0 = ask, and the other values are 1 = launch, 2 = bookmark, and 3 = remind. If you right-click on an attachment while viewing a message, the context menu that pops up now contains these new options: - Open Attachment With (lets you pick the application) - Save Attachment As - Explore (opens up a Windows Explorer window to the directory where the attachment lives) - Delete item (sends the attachment to the Recycle Bin, or deletes it entirely if you hold down the Shift key). USER INTERFACE CHANGES There are new icons throughout the application. The toolbar buttons are now available in small (16x16 pixel) and large (32x32) sizes. The old 24x24 size is no longer available. The toolbar icons size is controlled by checking or unchecking the Large Buttons checkbox in Tools/Options/Display. Check Spelling and Redirect have been removed from the default toolbar. Find Messages has been added. The Task Status window now shows details and progress. Moved the dialup-networking-related settings out of the Advanced Networking section of the Tools/Options dialog and into a new section called Internet Dialup. Mailbox sorting changes: - Clicking on a column header toggles between sort ascending and not sorted - Shift-clicking on a column header toggles between sort descending and not sorted - Shift-clicking on a column sorted ascending will make it sort descending Added a right-click context menu to mailbox headers that gives menu items for: - Don't sort by this column - Sort by this column in ascending order - Sort by this column in descending order - Group by Subject. Group by Subject causes messages with the same subject to stay grouped together even when the mailbox is sorted by some other column. Subjects are treated as identical if the only difference is Re: and/or Fwd: prefixes. This keeps messages that make up a single thread collated together. The Link History window, which shows a list of links you've clicked on in Eudora, plus recent ads if you're in Sponsored mode, has been added. To display it, select Tools/Link History. This isn't available in Light mode. When you're running in Light mode, a gray star appears in the menus next to items that are only available in Sponsored and Paid modes. Added the Report A Bug item to the Help menu. You can now remove an entry from the auto-completion drop-down menu by highlighting the item and pressing the Del key. In Find Messages, the text of the preceding search is now highlighted so that you can start typing to get rid of it. Ctrl-D now works to delete selected messages in Find Messages results. The preview pane now shows Bcc addresses and attachments for outgoing messages. Empty headers are no longer shown in the preview pane. Added a modeless dialog telling the user about writing to the Exception.log file when doing exception handling. Reduced the height of the toolbar customization dialog so that it will fit on 640x480 displays. BUG FIXES Fixed a crash caused by typing long strings in the Tools/Options/Date Formats dialog. Fixed a crash when filtering a message out of a mailbox with the IMAPRemoveOnDelete setting turned on. Fixed a crash on the sequence Paste as Quotation, Undo, Paste Special/Unformatted. Fixed a crash that could occur if you selected several files, right- clicked, and selected Send To - Eudora. Closing Print Preview via the X control no longer crashes Eudora on Windows 2000 (or anywhere else with a 6.xx version of MFC42.dll). Right-clicking on a Print Preview when Tools/Options/Viewing Mail/Use Microsoft's Viewer isn't checked no longer crashes Eudora. Fixed a crash that occurred if you received a message via IMAP, started composing reply to it, and then deleted the reply while still composing it. Fixed a crash that occurred upon dragging an address book entry into itself and then trying to edit the field. Fixed a crash when involving using Undo/Redo in composing a message in overstrike mode. Fixed a crash in autocompletion when the To: header has a blank line. Fixed a crash that could occur after closing a message when it's still visible in the preview pane. Fixed a hang that could happen at startup when Eudora tries to determine if Netscape Navigator is running. Fixed a crash that could occur if you tried to do other things in Eudora during a lengthy rebuild of a mailbox's table of contents (.TOC) file. Now the user interface is during TOC rebuilds, and a progress bar displays if it takes more than 3 seconds. Fixed a crash related to the MDI toolbar. Fixed a crash in displaying address books. Fixed a crash that could occur upon removing a toolbar. Fixed a crash in Find Messages. Fixed a crash in reading a bad PNG image file. Fixed a crash in Link History. Fixed a bug where an empty mailbox showed "" in the preview pane if Use Microsoft's viewer was checked in Tools/Options/Viewing Mail. Fixed a bug where the date in the reply intro had a space after it ("At 03:24 PM 2/4/00 , you wrote:"). Fixed a bug where having a mailbox over 21 megabytes in size with some deleted space would always compact on closing. Also, having over 2 gigabytes of free disk space could cause mailboxes with some deleted space to always compact on closing. Fixed a couple of cases where outgoing messages containing illegal HTML could be generated. Fixed a bug where there was no final carriage return and line feed after a MIME multipart closing boundary. Fixed a bug where inline images would sometimes get corrupted upon replying to, forwarding, or redirecting a message. Fixed a bug where, if Eudora was configured to ask before deleting unread messages, it wouldn't ask in the case where you right-clicked in the preview pane and then selected Delete in the context menu. Fixed a bug where a message would sometimes be printed on the default printer even if you had specified a different one. Fixed a bug where, if you right-clicked on a personality and selected Send Queued Messages, it would check mail first. Fixed a bug where doing a Save As on a message would lose the date header if the message had been FCCed or if it was in the Out box. Fixed a bug where address auto-completion would shut off when a header wrapped to a second line. Fixed a bug where clicking on a mailto: URL in Internet Explorer would put Eudora in a strange state where the caret (editing cursor) would be moving along in the body of the message even though you were typing the subject. Fixed a bug where embedded pictures didn't display due to invalid path information in the message. Fixed a bug where forwarding a message with an attachment failed if the attachment directory had changed since the message was originally received. Fixed a bug where extended characters in a plain-text message caused extra characters to be added to the end of the message. Fixed a bug where address book information could be lost if you clicked on one of the tabs on the right-hand side of the window while renaming a nickname. Fixed a bug where double-clicking on a selected item in the mailbox, stationery, or signature list would cause Eudora to try to rename it. Fixed a bug where HTML text would be displayed in messages in the Out box if Eudora.ini contained HtmlInPlainText=0. Fixed a bug where you could no longer tab from the headers into the body of a message after attaching a file to the message. Fixed a bug where the Shift-Del key combination (cut) then a paste just before a misspelled word would cause the pasted text to also be marked as misspelled. Worked around a problem where the Speak filter action could make Eudora hang there were 8-bit characters in the text to be spoken. Fixed a bug in the import wizard where it could end up crashing after trying to import an address book when none had been specified. Fixed a bug where moving a nickname would remove it from the recipient list. Fixed a bug where mail could be lost when a personality name wasn't a valid filename. Fixed a bug where deleting a moved message from Find Messages would cause a hang. Fixed a bug where extra text would be sent if a line in a message started with white space followed by a very long word. Fixed a bug which could cause the buttons in the MDI task bar (the ones that appear as you open mailboxes, messages, and files in Eudora) to be squeezed into a fraction of the window's width. Fixed a bug in the handling of Eudora on-display plugins that could cause a "Run Plugin:" command to appear in the body of a message instead of a icon that would launch the plugin. Fixed a bug where forwarding attachments would sometimes not work if you had changed the attachment directory. Fixed parsing of command lines. This should help users who had their Eudora shortcuts broken when specifying an alternate mail directory. Fixed a couple of bugs with extra or missing excerpt bars in replies. Fixed a bug where a saved message that has been modified will still send the image that was deleted. Fixed a bug where an attachment with a long file name wasn't being found on Send Again if the body of the message was empty. Fixed problems with the way adding and removing quote levels work when the text selected doesn't all have the same quote level. Fixed a bug where clicking on a Microsoft Word attachment would cause Word to open minimized. Fixed a bug in the way Eudora determines whether mailboxes should be compacted on exit. If a multipart/alternative message contains a text/* part that we don't understand, and if there's an alternative part that we do understand, we no longer try to display the part that we didn't understand. Messages sent from a .MSG file via Eudora's command line interface now contain the correct date, time, and time zone. In addition, they're no longer truncated to a size of 62 Kbytes. The menus that contain bitmapped images (e.g., Message/Text/Color) now display correctly in Windows' Large and Extra Large display schemes. Improved the sizing of message windows when you have both "Use Microsoft's viewer" and "Zoom windows when opening" selected in Tools/Options/Viewing Mail. They used to come up too small for the message a lot of the time. Now they may come up too big sometimes, but we believe it's an improvement overall. Surprise shifts of focus (e.g. from a composition window to the mailboxes/explorer/signatures/stationery/personalities wazoo window) should happen less frequently. If you cut or copy text from directory services or an address book and paste it into a message, it's now plain rather than formatted text. Fixed a problem where mail checks would sometimes wait forever on a POP server that had unexpectedly closed the connection from its end. It no longer takes two tries to close a text file that's been opened through File/Open and then modified. Message plug-ins like Upper Case and Lower Case are no longer available in edit fields where they don't work, such as the Address(es) area of the address book. Copy and paste of a message header no longer brings in hidden header information. The Eudora MAPI DLLs are now made writable just before they're removed from the system directory. This prevents an error message about not being able to install the Eudora MAPI system. Very long words are no longer split up by format=flowed formatting, although we are still constrained by SMTP's maximum word length. Find Messages responds better than before to clicking the Stop button. Qualcomm and humongous are no longer flagged as misspelled. (Humongous is included because it shows up in the user interface as a font size.) Eudora is now smarter about www. and ftp. as auto-URLs. Those won't be considered URLs if there isn't an alphanumeric character after the period. Hesiod servers are now supported once again. Eliminated logging of EMSAPI idle loop messages. Fixed the tab order of the Find Messages dialog. Fixed a number of memory leaks. OTHER CHANGES Tuned the use of Windows resources during startup to reduce overall resource usage. Improved mail checking performance for users who Leave Mail On Server and store their mail on a network drive. Removed space from the end of POP3 LAST command because some POP3 servers didn't like it. Complete machine names are now always sent in the SMTP HELO and EHLO commands. Some SMTP servers require this in order to send mail. No longer showing errors from the POP server HELO command in the Task Errors window. Pentium III now shows up as a processor in Help/Insert System Configuration. Improved the way Eudora determines whether or not the computer is currently connected to the Internet. X-Eudora fields, such as x-Eudora-options, are now handled in mailto: URLs. After you run a message plug-in on a selection, the text output by the plug-in is now selected. Clicking on a link whose URL starts with rtsp: now launches it. The handling of URLs containing spaces has been improved. Added X-Nav, which is inserted by Norton 2000, to the list of headers that are displayed only in "Blah Blah Blah" mode. Changed the Filters, Address Book, and Directory Services windows so that some of the left-hand side of the window will always be showing the first time you open those windows after launching Eudora. You can defeat this behavior via the Eudora.ini settings UseMyFilterWindowPosition, UseMyNicknamesWindowPosition, and UseMyDirServWindowPosition (see the "New Eudora.ini Settings" section below). ------------------------- NEW EUDORA.INI SETTINGS ------------------------- This section describes the new parameters that are available in the [Settings] section of Eudora.ini in Eudora 4.3. For each setting, its default value is shown to the right of its name. If the setting isn't present, Eudora will behave as if it's present with the default value specified. In the descriptions of what the settings do, "on" corresponds to a value of 1, and "off" corresponds to a value of 0. You can add or change these settings without directly editing your Eudora.ini file by using the x-Eudora-option "hyperlink". For example, to set the value of the OfflineLinkAction setting to 1, you would: - Create a new message - Type into the message - Hold down the Alt key and click on that link - Click OK in the dialog that comes up. The new settings follow. OfflineLinkAction 0 This controls the action taken when you click on an Internet hyperlink when not connected to the Internet. The valid values are: 0 = launch, but ask first 1 = launch without asking 2 = bookmark the link in your browser 3 = remind you later WebLinkReminderLaterNumMinutes 360 When you get a link reminder, if you select Remind Me Later, the minimum wait until the next reminder can be controlled via this setting. LinkHistoryDrawIcons 1 If you don't want to see the thumbnails in the Link History window (available only in Sponsored and Paid modes), change this setting to 0. SmtpAuthBanished [default is none banished] The value should be a comma-separated list of SMTP authentication schemes whose use is to be disallowed. Users who are especially concerned about security should set it to "LOGIN,PLAIN", as this ensures that your SMTP server password will always be strongly encrypted when it goes over the network. Users of IPSWITCH's Imail SMTP server should set it to "CRAM-MD5" so as to avoid a bug of theirs. AlwaysConnected 0 Setting this to 1 tells Eudora that there's a permanent network connection (e.g. LAN, ISDN, DSL, cable modem). Ordinarily Eudora detects this, but in some of these cases Windows may tell Eudora there's no network connection when in fact there is. UseMyFilterWindowPosition 0 Setting this to 1 tells Eudora to let the Filters window display with the left-hand side completely hidden. Otherwise, Eudora will make sure the left-hand side is showing the first time you open the Filters window after launching Eudora. UseMyNicknamesWindowPosition 0 Setting this to 1 tells Eudora to let the Address Book window display with the left-hand side completely hidden. Otherwise, Eudora will make sure the left-hand side is showing the first time you open the Address Book window after launching Eudora. UseMyDirServWindowPosition 0 Setting this to 1 tells Eudora to let the Directory Services window display with the left-hand side completely hidden. Otherwise, Eudora will make sure the left-hand side is showing the first time you open the Directory Services window after launching Eudora. ToolbarDisplayFix 0 If your toolbar icons don't display correctly in Eudora, setting this to 1 may correct the problem. If not, you can almost surely fix it by setting ToolbarDisplayFix=2, but unfortunately this has the side- effect that icons that aren't on Eudora's default toolbar won't display. -------------- KNOWN ISSUES -------------- Eudora's toolbar icons sometimes display incorrectly on systems with certain video drivers. If your toolbar icons don't display correctly, putting ToolbarDisplayFix=1 in the [Settings] section of your Eudora.ini file may correct the problem. If not, you can probably fix it by setting ToolbarDisplayFix=2, but unfortunately this has the side-effect that icons that aren't on Eudora's default toolbar won't display. When you start Eudora you may see a window telling you about Eudora updates. This is supposed to come up periodically if you're not running the latest version, but if you keep your message and mailbox windows maximized you may see the update window everytime you start Eudora. If you don't have the mailbox list docked to the left-hand side of your Eudora window, in Sponsored mode the ad window will be a tall column that spans the full height of the MDI child window (the area where messages display). The only workarounds currently are to dock your mailbox list to the left side, or switch to Paid mode or Light mode. You may need to reconfigure your virus scanning software to avoid performance problems with Eudora in Sponsored mode. In particular, it may help to make your virus scanning software refrain from automatically scanning .bin files when they change, at least in the directory where you've installed Eudora. Otherwise, Eudora may periodically seem to lock up for as long as a few seconds. An attachment whose name contains a % sign followed by two hexadecimal digits (A through F and/or 0 through 9) may not launch when you click on the attachment icon. In that case, you'll need to open the attachment directly from your Eudora attachment directory via My Computer, Windows Explorer, or the Run tool in the Windows Start menu. If you uninstall Eudora, Netscape may complain when you launch it unless you remove two lines from the Prefs.js file. One of these lines is: user_pref("mail.use_altmail", true); and the other starts with: user_pref("mail.altmail_dll" If you have Use Microsoft's Viewer checked in the Viewing Mail panel of the Tools/Options dialog and you change the message font size in the Fonts panel of the Options dialog, then that new font size will also take effect in web pages that you view with Internet Explorer. Internet Explorer uses a single font size scheme for both viewing email in Eudora and viewing web pages, so when Eudora asks IE to change its font size, the change applies to web browsing as well. You may not see "Send To" in the File menu of Microsoft Office 97 applications (e.g. Word, Excel, and PowerPoint) even though you have enabled Eudora's MAPI support via Tools/Options/MAPI. In order to take advantage of Eudora's MAPI support, you need to make sure the Win.ini file in yours Windows directory has a [Mail] section and that it contains the following settings: MAPI=1 MAPIX=1 Please do NOT attempt to make this change if you are not either experienced at editing Windows configuration files or being guided by someone who is. Running Eudora on a Windows 95/98 system with your mail files on a Windows NT system may cause problems. Other applications appear to have trouble in that configuration as well. 3/00