=================================================== EUDORA FOR WINDOWS, VERSION 5.0.2 -- RELEASE NOTES =================================================== This document describes the changes in the software since Eudora 4.3.2. A separate section has been given to changes in 5.0. For new feature descriptions, see Whatsnew.pdf and Readme.txt. ---------------------------------------------- CHANGES IN 5.0.2 ---------------------------------------------- Fixed a crash at startup or shutdown which related to displaying your toolbar ad. ---------------------------------------------- CHANGES IN 5.0.1 ---------------------------------------------- NOTE: Several times we refer to to modify a setting. Copy the whole text including the < >'s and paste it into a new Eudora message. By press and holding down the key, you can click on a URL in a new message (a hand will display over the URL which means it can be used). COMPOSING/VIEWING MAIL ---------------------- Fixed conflict where changing the Message Font in Eudora would also change the font in Internet Explorer. You need to use this URL to set it to 1 to resolve this conflict. As a default, it is 0 because we need to be careful about unknown side effects. There is a known problem where printing email messages will still be printed using the browser's font size. Fixed freeze when clicking on a URL. This related to our using DDE to check to see if Netscape is running. If you use Netscape, then previous to this fix clicking on a URL in Eudora would have reused an existing Netscape browser window. After the fix, clicking on a URL in Eudora will open a new Netscape browser window. If you are using Netscape as your browser and would like clicking on URL's in Eudora to reuse an existing browser window, then use this URL: . Fixed crash when auto-completion was not using the address book for its list. Fixed sudden cascading repainting problem when switching from having a vertical scrollbar and not having one. This was common in the composition window. Fixed problem where Help-Insert System Configuration would fail because it could not find your Attach directory. Canceling a forward/redirect that had added Insert System Configuration files will no longer lose attachments. Fixed situation where URL's would get an orange highlight if another style is present in the inline signature. Fix for Guninski security hole where launching a file that uses a previously sent rogue DLL would have unexpected results. Caret displays in the correct field after a mailto. We no longer scroll two lines at the bottom of the message. Hyperlinks are no longer broken by a spelling error. Fixed a bug where sending out plain text with a large word on a line in an excerpt caused the wrapping to occur at the space after it. The bad result would be extra spaces in front of the > for excerpts. Tab in body now works when using Help-Report a bug. allows for the user to have a normal paste use HTML format. The current default is off, but this might change in the future. MOODWATCH --------- Fixed a crash in MoodWatch when queuing/sending a message while the user has WordWrapOnScreen enabled. Moodwatch column no longer displays if this feature is disabled in Tools-Options-Mailboxes-MoodWatch. Improvements with background MoodWatch which occurs when you open a mailbox that has not been MoodWatch'ed yet. STATIONERY/SIGNATURES --------------------- A horizontal bar has been added between your text body and your in-line signature. Note that it will not be present in the received message. This will help distinguish from the body of the message and the inline signature. Note that if you modify/add text below the horizontal line, then it assumes that you are modifying the signature. As a result, if you change signatures, then the modified text will be lost. Stationery files no longer have a limitation of 63488 bytes. SENDING/CHECKING/FILTERING MAIL ------------------------------- Fixed incorrect mail being printed from the mailbox TOC while the preview pane is hidden. We now have a new INI setting for controlling filtering of incoming messages in POP and IMAP. This can be specified per personality. The setting is FilterIncomingMail. Here are your options that you set for each personality (you have to manually edit your Eudora.ini file): FilterIncomingMail=0 --> no filtering at all (server side or other) FilterIncomingMail=1 --> Complete filtering turned on (default) FilterIncomingMail=2 --> Advanced filtering, IMAP server side only. Manual filtering will still be allowed regardless of the setting. FIND TEXT/MESSAGES ------------------ Fixed crash in Find Messages when it encountered a message without any headers. Find Text has been enabled for Filters. Use ctrl-shift-f to initiate the Find Text dialog while the focus is in the list of the filters in the left pane of the Filters window. Notes on Find Text for Filters: - It starts its search after the filter in focus. - The search will wrap around the end of the list and continue from the top of the list. Find Text now supported for File-New and Signature windows. The focus must be in the window that you are searching. MAILBOXES --------- Mailbox TOC status icons are now transparent. When prompted to rebuild a mailbox, we place a stronger emphasis on rebuilding the TOC index file. ADDRESS BOOK/DIRECTORY SERVICES ------------------------------- Fixed crash with the Address Book when removing a recipient. Fixed "swap" button problem with "Make Address Book Entry..." where it would reset the email address field every time you clicked on "swap". Fixed the inability to change the email address when using Special-Make Address Book Entry... (ctrl-k) In the Address book, selecting some email addresses and Make Address Book Entry will now retain the Full name field. Fixed some UI issues with the Address Book. Address book can be exported to CSV. UI improvements for Directory Services. STATISTICS ---------- Sent attachments are now counted in Statistics despite WarnQueueBigMessage=0. IMAP ---- Fixed the inability to select an IMAP folder in Filter's Transfer to action. The problem occurred if the IMAP folder contained any mailboxes. Note that the "This Mailbox" selection will only be available if you can transfer mail to the mailbox/folder. Fixed problem where IMAP embedded images would get lost if transferred to a local mailbox or viceversa. IMAP mailboxes can now be sorted by server status. You can now make a toolbar button for transferring messages to an IMAP mailbox. Fixed problem with IMAP transferring into the same mailbox would cause it to be marked for deletion without keeping a copy. IMPORTING --------- Fixed importing WAB and MAPI address books which used expand to addresses. Improvements to OE5 dbx file importing. Importing from Outlook Express WAB shows the first names now. MISCELLANEOUS ------------- Improved Netscape's interaction with Eudora where "Send Page" would cause Netscape to crash. There still might be some systems where this problem persists. Fixed problem where Eudora would not be used in Netscape even though Eudora is the default mailer. Fixed registration problem where Eudora would startup in a different mode even though you were previously in Paid Mode. Fixed esoteric plugin showing double options in Tools-Options. esoteric.epi needs to be copied from your extrastuff directory and to your main Eudora directory. Toolbar ad should now show up. Toolbar ad image should be retained after system colors have changed. controls whether or not the cursor gets temporarily hidden when switching categories in the Tools-Options dialog. The default is enabled. Improved synching with Palm conduit and large messages. ---------------------------------------------- CHANGES INCLUDED IN 5.0 ---------------------------------------------- COMPOSING/VIEWING MAIL ====================== Fixed a bug where deleting an open message from the preview pane would cause Eudora to crash. Fixed a couple of bugs in displaying messages that contain URLs where www or ftp is preceded by other alphanumeric characters. The message could take a long time to display, and Eudora would hang if the URL was invalid. Fixed a crash in composition windows containing hyperlinks. Fixed a bug that could cause the caret (blinking cursor) to appear in the wrong window after a new composition window was opened. Fixed a bug where editing a queued message that you had previously set to be sent at a certain would cause the message to instead be sent on the next send-messages operation. Fixed a bug where copying HTML (e.g., from a browser) to the clipboard and then pasting it into Eudora would introduce strange characters and other problems. This fix applies only if you Edit/Paste Special in Eudora and then choose HTML Format in the dialog that comes up. Fixed a bug where Eudora would crash when previewing a text/enriched message that contained a font change. Fixed a bug where, if Eudora was not the default mailer, clicking on a mailto: link in Netscape would still open a composition window in Eudora. Fixed a bug where clicking on Reply To, Reply All, or Forward in the Netscape Messenger news reader would open a composition window in Eudora. Eudora now makes itself the handler for mailto: links in Netscape if any of the following conditions holds: - The registry entry for mailto (HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\mailto\shell\open\command) points to Eudora. - The user answers Yes to the warning that pops up if Eudora is not configured as the default mailer. - If the settings DefaultMailto=1 and WarnDefaultMailto=0 are both present. By default, DefaultMailto is 0, meaning Eudora doesn't automatically make itself the default mailer, and WarnDefaultMailto is 1, meaning Eudora puts up the aforementioned warning if it's not the default mailer when it's launched. Added .shb and .shs to the list of attachment extensions that cause a warning upon opening the attachment. Nickname expansion is now done in the Cc: and Bcc: headers as well as the To: header. Fixed a bug where inserting a horizontal line in a message could cause the line to be drawn through a line of text. Fixed a bug where a new reply or forward window would sometimes scroll all the way to the end of the message. Added Print One to the File menu. This prints one copy of the current document to the default printer without displaying the standard print dialog. Fixed a bug where excerpt bars didn't appear correctly in Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express in messages sent from Eudora. Added more descriptive operating system versions in the text generated by Help/Insert System Configuration. It also now correctly identifies the more recent levels of Intel CPUs. Fixed a bug in Auto-completion name deletion. Print Preview is now supported for the Microsoft viewer if Internet Explorer 5.5 or above is installed. Also, Print Preview is now enabled when the focus is in a mailbox summary and one message is selected. Fixed a bug where font changes made in Tools/Options/Fonts weren't taking effect if Tools/Options/Viewing Mail/Use Microsoft's Viewer was checked and Internet Explorer 5.5 was installed. Removed Winsock information from the Help/Insert System Configuration text, and added the mode (Paid, Sponsored, or Light). Now putting the version number and current mode in the Subject header of Help/Report A Bug messages. Fixed a bug in the way messages were encoded if BinHex encoding was selected. The Tools/Options dialog has a new panel for Composing Mail. Some settings were moved to this panel from the Sending Mail panel. MOODWATCH ========= Still more refinement as to which words and phrases do and don't trigger MoodWatch chilies. STATIONERY/SIGNATURES ===================== Fixed a bug where signatures were losing their styles when viewed inline. Inserting an image in a signature or stationery is disallowed for now, since it wasn't working right and could cause a crash. Fixed a bug where dynamic menus, such as the stationery menu, failed to wrap. For example, if you had a whole lot of stationery, you wouldn't be able to see all of it in the menu. Fixed a bug where any message containing a signature was treated as if it had styled text. SENDING/CHECKING/FILTERING MAIL =============================== Fixed a bug that could cause Eudora to crash while downloading a message from a POP server. Fixed a crash in the Filters window. Fixed a bug that was preventing Eudora from recognizing that a POP server has the MANGLE capability. (This allows the server to return a more useful summary of the message's content, including attachments, in cases where the message isn't downloaded in its entirety.) To fix the problem you need to use this URL: QUALCOMM's Qpopper 3 is an example of a POP server with MANGLE capability. Fixed a memory leak upon sending a message. Turbo Redirect no longer works in filters. Formerly, it caused crashes. Fixed a bug where the Filter Report window would lose its column headers and mess up the data if it got new reports in to it without first being viewed. Fixed a couple of bugs in the handling of .msg files specified on the Eudora command line. No message was being sent if the path of the .msg file contained any spaces, even it was enclosed in quotes. Also, a signature is now included only if the .msg file contains an X-Eudora-signature header. FIND TEXT/MESSAGES ================== Fixed a bug where Find Messages and Find Text were disabled when the focus was in the message preview pane. Fixed a bug where Find Messages would show the wrong results when searching by message priority. MAILBOXES ========= Data in the Size column of a mailbox summary is now right-justified. ADDRESS BOOK/DIRECTORY SERVICES =============================== Fixed a crash that could occur upon removing an address from the recipient list with the address book loaded. Removed obsolete LDAP servers from the Directory Services defaults, and changed the default Ph server to ns.eudora.com (which might not be available for a few days). IMAP ==== Fixed a bug where dragging a message with an attachment from a POP mailbox to an IMAP mailbox would lose the attachment if the attachment directory was no longer the default one. Fixed a bug where users of some IMAP servers could not download any messages because the server sent null characters in response to certain IMAP commands. Fixed a bug where copying a message from the Out mailbox to an IMAP mailbox would change the time of the message. Fixed a bug where FCC'd messages in IMAP mailboxes showed incorrect times. The Delete option is now grayed out for IMAP email that's already marked for removal. Directory names containing commas will now show up in IMAP. Fixed a bug in the IMAP internal message cache. Worked around for a non-standard attachment-related behavior exhibited by certain IMAP servers. A Resynchronize method was added to the IEuFolder Automation interface. This method will resynchronize any given IMAP folder. IMPORTING ========= Fixed a bug that caused some Outlook 2000 address books to not be imported into Eudora. Added support for importing from multiple Outlook Express identities. Fixed a bug with importing some Outlook Express mailboxes created on non-English-language versions of Windows. Corrected some warnings in the Windows address book import. Improved the File/Import user interface. Most notably, there's now an Advanced button that takes you to a dialog where you can directly specify the files to be imported. MISCELLANEOUS ============= Fixed a crash that occurred in the course of Kerberos authentication. Fixed a crash that could occur upon creating a new personality. Fixed a crash that could occur when you clicked on an ad in Sponsored mode. Fixed a bug where a task could hang around in the Task Status window and never go away, if the timing was just right. Fixed a bug where launching Netscape 4.74 while Eudora is running would freeze Eudora. Fixed a bug where an empty window could display at startup. It was supposed to be a notice about a newer version of Eudora, but no text was in the window. Fixed a bug where Eudora would use the CPU heavily for about 60 seconds on startup. Newer versions of some system DLLs are installed: Mfc42.dll: 6.00.8447.0 Msvcirt.dll: 6.00.8168.0 Msvcp60.dll: 6.00.8168.0 (instead of Msvcp50.dll) Msvcrt.dll: 6.00.8397.0 Consequently, a restart of Windows may be necessary after you install Eudora. The installer will offer to do this for you if this is the case. If you use Windows NT or 2000, then you will need to have Administrator rights to install this program. Fixed a bug where a great many spurious toolbar entries would sometimes accumulate in Eudora.ini, causing a noticeable degradation in Eudora's responsiveness. The size of an .mbx file (mailbox) file is now stored in the corresponding .toc (table of contents) file, so that if the .mbx file changes without Eudora's knowledge, we can detect it and avoid losing mail from the mailbox. In particular, this avoids a nasty problem that would arise when Norton AntiVirus 2000 would "quarantine" a .mbx file; if the user subsequently moved the .mbx file back to its original location in the Eudora folder, all of the messages in that mailbox would be lost. Finished fixing continuation of outgoing file changes after Eudora has been quit and reopened. Eudora.exe is now about one megabyte smaller than before. Fixed a tip of the day formatting problem. Further refined the way Eudora determines the folder in which to keep its data. The exact process is described in Readme.txt under EUDORA AND WINDOWS 2000. The Tools/Options dialog no longer shows categories for unavailable features in Light mode. Fixed a bug where the Sponsored, Paid, and Light mode buttons in the Payment & Registration dialog didn't have their background color the same as the system dialog background color. You would notice it if your system color scheme didn't use the standard light gray color for the dialog background. Fixed some resource leaks. Eudora now works with released versions of Netscape up through 4.75, as well as Netscape 6 Preview Release 1 and 2. Improved the appearance of the Directory Services and Filters windows at lower screen resolution. Updated the Auto-completion panel in the Tools/Options dialog. Fixed the tab order of the AutoCompletion panel of the Options dialog, and added a checkbox for including nicknames generated by plugins such as ESP. (The corresponding Eudora.ini setting is DoPluginCompletion.) The signatures, stationery, personalities, address book, task status, task errors, filter report, file browser, and directory services windows, and the mailbox, transfer, stationery, recipient list, personality, and plugin menus are now loaded when first used, rather than at startup. Changed the main window caption from "Eudora Email" back to "Eudora". Fixed a bug where the Task Status and Task Errors windows could fail to display everything they should have. Fixed a bug where Eudora wasn't setting itself as the default mail program in the Internet Options of the Control Panel. Fixed a bug where Eudora would start to check for a newer version every time it started up if it was in fact the newest version. The content of Eudora message windows is now accessible by other applications, via a subset of the Windows EDIT/RICHEDIT messages plus standard text-oriented Windows messages such as WM_COPY. The window class name is EudoraEdit. Edit/Copy now works in the Link History window. Reworded some items in the Profile & Registration dialog. You can now change your registration if you've already registered. Also fixed the tab order in that dialog. The profile "nag" dialog is now centered in the main window. The ad window no longer has a close box when it's floating. ------------------------- NEW EUDORA.INI SETTINGS ------------------------- This section describes the new parameters that are available in the [Settings] section of Eudora.ini in Eudora 5.0. 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. 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. BackupStatisticsDaily 0 If this is set to 1, a backup copy of the Statistics data is made each day in the Eudora data directory. The name of the file is Stats-.xml, where and are replaced by the current month and day. For example, on September 7 it would be called Stats9-7.xml. ConnectionStatusCacheTime 2000 How long to wait between checks of the Internet connection status, in milliseconds. On some systems these checks take a long time, so if Eudora is running very slowly and/or using a lot of CPU time, increasing this value may help. DisableStatistics 0 If this is set to 1, no Statistics data is saved. DoPluginCompletion 1 Indicates whether to include nicknames generated by ESP (and potentially by other Eudora plugins) in the Auto-Completion list. A value of 1 means to include them, and a value of 0 means don't include them. IgnoreEMSDelete 0 If this is 0, ESP control messages devoid of "human friendly" content are automatically deleted to avoid cluttering up your ESP mailboxes. If this is 1, those messages are preserved. MoodWatchDeltaTime 5 MoodWatchThresholdTime 1000 These control background MoodWatch scanning of messages. MoodWatchDeltaTime is how long Eudora must be idle, in seconds, before background MoodWatch scanning starts. MoodWatchThresholdTime is how long it keeps scanning, in milliseconds, once scanning starts. PasswordChangeServer The name of the server to use for changing passwords. By default this is the same as your POP server. SaveStatisticsInterval 15 The Statistics data is saved to disk at intervals of this many minutes. WrapMenus 1 If this is set to 0, menus that are too long for the screen will not wrap, and you may not be able to see all the menu items. On Windows 98/2000/Me, the operating system supports scrolling menus, which you might find more attractive. 11/00 - 1