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Penelope seems on the surface like an odd fit. Eudora and Thunderbird are so entirely different. What can possibly emerge from bringing them together? | Penelope seems on the surface like an odd fit. Eudora and Thunderbird are so entirely different. What can possibly emerge from bringing them together? | ||
Each program has unique strengths and weaknesses, but there are also weaknesses they both share. Are these likely to be fixed as a result of the convergence? And how will the differences be bridged? | |||
Eudora unique strengths: | Eudora unique strengths: | ||
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Thunderbird unique strengths: | Thunderbird unique strengths: | ||
+ Pop-up notifications | + Pop-up notifications | ||
+ | + Per-account folder trees as well as common folders | ||
+ Reading unread messages across folders and accounts with spacebar | |||
+ Outstanding IMAP support | + Outstanding IMAP support | ||
+ Language and character support | + Language and character-set support | ||
Weaknesses of both: | Weaknesses of both: | ||
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So how will the Penelope project deal with these various issues? | So how will the Penelope project deal with these various issues? | ||
What I would like to see in Penelope, ideally, is the best of both worlds plus some new ideas. | |||
+ Adopt Eudora's rules creation interface, and quoting of selected text. | |||
+ Retain Thunderbird's strengths listed above. | |||
+ Add template variables and per-folder templates (see The Bat! and Becky! Internet Mail for examples of these features). | |||
So will the developers be aiming at a Thunderbirdization of Eudora, or a Eudorization of Thunderbird? Given the choice, I would prefer the Thunderbird interface over Eudora's, and especially Thunderbird's approach to IMAP and to keyboard navigation. | |||