Talk:Penelope

More details?

Where and when will more details on planned features, and the Penelope roadmap, be available? I am especially interested in the UI plans for the Mac version of Penelope -- will a platform-native UI be provided, or will Penelope use the same kind of multiplatform (XUL?) UI that Thunderbird uses? The following thread on the Eudora forums might be of interest to Penelope developers: [1] and any responses would be welcome. Thanks for beginning this project; I'm eager to hear more information (e.g. when will a CVS repository be established, so we can see what's being developed and contribute?). -- Rbellin 11:15, 11 October 2006 (PDT)

My Want-List for MacEudora

What to add: 1. A universal binary for Intel Macs 2. Eudora badly needs to understand UTF-8 3. Though I always send plain text emails, Eudora badly needs to know how to render the piles of HTML emails I do receive. 4. Add more than 2 options in the filters; add a GREP interface for filters.

What not to change 1. No forcing me to use a triple interface. I want every mailbox to open automatically as a list in a separate windows when new emails are filtered into the boxes. 2. Maintain the wonderfully complex and innumerable preferences. 3. Maintain the Eudora Folder, so I can easily synch with multiple computers. 4. Keep the emails/boxes as simple text files. 5. Zap the resource fork prefs. -- Kernos 2:42, 11 October 2006 (CDT)

We don't need another Outlook clone - we'd like Eudora

The reason people buy Eudora (OK, some get it in Paid) is because they like the particular things it does.

My tuppence: HTML rendering can be handled by the HTML engines in respective OSs. Then let's keep the things that Eudora does do - mailboxes in their own windows (and remembering where they are), scriptability on Apple at least, and - oh yes - speed. Speed is the real killer bit. Speed of searching even very very big (text file) mailboxes, speed of sorting and checking.

Eudora + Threading = Good

That is the feature at the top of my list that I'd like to see added to Eudora. Despite many requests for from many people over the years, it just never seemed to be a priority before. We got features like MoodWatch instead (eww). Beyond that, I'd like to see Eudora continue to be the excellent email client it has always been. --Hapster 14:16, 11 October 2006 (PDT)

How about Linux?

One major reason I'm running Windows emulation on my Linux box is so I can keep running Eudora. I've been waiting for Eudora or Linux for years. I haven't ported to a Linux mail client because I've got dozens of folders and hundreds of mailbox files and addressbook stuff that got mangled the only time I did a serious try at changing over.

If "Eudora" in future is going to be a shell or other sort of extension running over Thunderbird, can that shell/extension be ported to Linux?

Eudora features that matter to me

Here are some of the things that make me stick with Eudora:

• Ability to display mailboxes in individual windows. Ability to set mailboxes to open when new messages filter into them.

• Option-click grouping. The ability to rapidly group all messages in a thread, or all messages from a particular author, comes in handy all the time.

• AppleScript scriptability. (I know, I know... getting that supported in Thunderbird will be really rough, but without it, things will not be good.)

• Keyboard shortcut to move to the next message in the stack while a current message is open. This behavior is something I've come to rely on in Eudora, and it drives me up a tree that Apple Mail doesn't do it. (Yes, I prefer to read my messages in separate windows, not in a preview pane.)