Removing Shareware Manager and HTML Control References

Eudora had many modes it could run in and I am currently untangling the mess of logic that was the Eudora Shareware Manager that ruled it all. Hermes won't have fifteen levels of subscriptions or adware. I am in the process of trying to make sure that there is only the full version and nothing will be hobbled and you won't be nagged to upgrade. I am leaving in the software registration process as it might be advantageous for us to have the ability to optionally register users through the software. Some open source projects do this. Of course, as an open source project we won't be terribly dogmatic about registering the software.

I am also removing references to the Paige DLL which turns out was an HTML Editor control written in C. It is no longer supported. Neither Google or Bing seem to know anything about it, but given some of the work around comments I saw in the code it worked, but was always a hack because it was not implemented in C++ like the rest of Eudora. I am unsure at this time which HTML Control will be utilized in the first release. My first thought was the GECKO rendering engine of Mozilla, but getting a clean build of the libraries of Mozilla on Windows is not an easy task.

As far as the replacement for the HTML Control I am looking at replacing that with the controls from Thunderbird. Getting a clean workable compile of Thunderbird won't be easy on Windows.

The next step is to remove all references to the Stingray Toolkit, which should be equally daunting. Unlike PaigeDLL, the Stingray Toolkit is still supported, but for the first release, it will be bare bones running only MFC Controls.

Not all functions of the old Eudora will be in the first release of Hermes. Hermes will send and receive email, but Hermes will not have spell check, mood mail, or junk mail filtering. Other features of the former Eudora may not work but these three are ones I know won't be implemented.

Thanks for checking out the project. Don't know when the first release will be, but check back I hope to update the blog every day or two.

Thanks,
Jeff Prickett
Hermes Developer.