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  • Soren Bro

    Soren Bro - 2019-02-04

    We can easily enlarge the already exiting icons programmatically, on the
    fly,^ but, without custom larger icons they will probably end up as blurry
    copies though. The important lesson here is that it's possible, and pretty
    easy at that. it may require some extra artwork. As far as I remember icons
    are build so the same image contains the different sizes. So if someone has
    an artistic st real se should be set....

    The good news is that the icons I remember seeing in Eudora was already
    big. Making Them smaller should be a breeze. I'll have a look.....m

    R.

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  • Walt Stagner

    Walt Stagner - 2019-02-04

    OK......we'll give you feedback on this when we start using the program.
    Is the first release going to include an auto import of Eudora's accounts & settings?

     
    • Soren Bro

      Soren Bro - 2019-02-05

      The first "release" will be an empty GUI shell. I complicated some things
      for myself deciding to have a dedicated (dockable/floatable/closable)
      window for the "to", "from", "subject". "Cc", "bcc" and attachments. This
      way, you can write an email using the entire screen. Much like a text
      editor really. But with an MDI app this makes for some hard and/or
      difficult decisions. I still like the idea though. And I'm nearly there.
      What I'm fighting with right now is exactly the various ways this window
      must be updated based on an ID (GUID) in each document.

      All the data will still reside in the document. Only the display will be
      handled by this window.

      But for instance, what will this window display if there are e-mail text
      windows on-screen, none of which are active? Decisions like that....

      Regards,
      Søren

      On Monday, February 4, 2019, Walt Stagner wstagner@users.sourceforge.net
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      OK......we'll give you feedback on this when we start using the program.
      Is the first release going to include an auto import of Eudora's accounts
      & settings?


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    • Soren Bro

      Soren Bro - 2019-02-05

      An auto import..? I'll have to see how Eudora stores it's settings as it
      is. Must be doable though.....

      Regards

      On Monday, February 4, 2019, Walt Stagner wstagner@users.sourceforge.net
      wrote:

      OK......we'll give you feedback on this when we start using the program.
      Is the first release going to include an auto import of Eudora's accounts
      & settings?


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  • Walt Stagner

    Walt Stagner - 2019-02-05
     
  • Walt Stagner

    Walt Stagner - 2019-02-05

    Here's a link to where settings are: http://unixwiz.net/tools/eudinfo.html

    First impressions mean something.
    I'd suggest getting the Hermes look to actually
    resemble Eudora on first beta.
    The more it resembles Eudora the more we (the audience) will embrace it and crave more!

     

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    • Soren Bro

      Soren Bro - 2019-02-06

      Yes, that´s first gonna happen on second beta, I've made a point out of
      keeping the two projects apart initially.

      I can copy the menu, even the toolbar but it will just be a bunch of empty
      functions. Better we add the menu options and toolbar options when they
      actually do something.

      Youre gonna see something that doesnt resemble Eudora on first glance but I
      promise you (and with McLean's promise regarding IMAP, we´ll be there in
      no time at all.)

      Especially with the DLLs from _Eudora. They're still good. At least the one
      we have code for. Well even without the code, /DUMPBIN and GetProcAdress
      was invented for reasons,

      Regards.
      Søren

      On Tue, Feb 5, 2019 at 3:33 PM Walt Stagner wstagner@users.sourceforge.net
      wrote:

      First impressions mean something.
      I'd suggest getting the Hermes look to actually
      resemble Eudora on first beta.
      The more it resembles Eudora the more we (the audience) will embrace it
      and crave more!


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      • Soren Bro

        Soren Bro - 2019-02-06

        I have a hard time understanding the "can only be set from the "ini-file
        thingie". The options menu in Eudora looks pretty complete, But again
        there will be no reaons to go around Hermers to make a change to a setting.
        Why you've been puttinh up with this is really a little beyond me. How can
        a program have options that are not configurable from within the program
        itself? I'm seriously mystified.

        R

        On Wed, Feb 6, 2019 at 10:02 PM Soren Bro sbrothy@users.sourceforge.net
        wrote:

        Yes, that´s first gonna happen on second beta, I've made a point out of
        keeping the two projects apart initially.

        I can copy the menu, even the toolbar but it will just be a bunch of empty
        functions. Better we add the menu options and toolbar options when they
        actually do something.

        Youre gonna see something that doesnt resemble Eudora on first glance but I
        promise you (and with McLean's promise regarding IMAP, we´ll be there in
        no time at all.)

        Especially with the DLLs from _Eudora. They're still good. At least the one
        we have code for. Well even without the code, /DUMPBIN and GetProcAdress
        was invented for reasons,

        Regards.
        Søren

        On Tue, Feb 5, 2019 at 3:33 PM Walt Stagner wstagner@users.sourceforge.net
        wrote:

        First impressions mean something.
        I'd suggest getting the Hermes look to actually
        resemble Eudora on first beta.
        The more it resembles Eudora the more we (the audience) will embrace it
        and crave more!


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        • Pete Maclean

          Pete Maclean - 2019-02-09

          How can a program have options that are not configurable from within the program
          itself?

          I do not mean to say that I consider this is a good idea but the thinking might be that some rarely needed options should be settable only by manual intervention to keep less-sophisticated users from hurting themselves (and raising support costs!) by changing settings that generally should not be changed.

           
  • Pete Maclean

    Pete Maclean - 2019-02-05

    This is a very significant matter. I had supposed all along until now that what we produce would not have and not need any import capability but would simply work in place. There certainly are aspects of the way Eudora stores things that could be improved and, as our software evolves, should be improved. However I see no reason to change such things from the outset. It would mean developing an import utility that, as I see it, should not be necessary. Why do the extra work? That is both the extra work of designing and implementing a new storage system and the extra work of writing an importer. Eudora's system is awkward in certain ways but it is nevertheless efficient and scalable. My Eudora has 4,474 mailboxes holding around 1 million messages.

     
    • Ted Matavka

      Ted Matavka - 2019-02-05

      Mr Maclean, please note that Mr Thygesen is referring to settings import,
      rather than mailbox import; we're doing a new GUI, so all it should do is
      find the Eudora AppData directory and parse the eudora.ini file or
      whatever. Your messages will stay in the format they are/

      On Tue, 5 Feb 2019 at 11:59, Pete Maclean petemaclean@users.sourceforge.net
      wrote:

      This is a very significant matter. I had supposed all along until now that
      what we produce would not have and not need any import capability but would
      simply work in place. There certainly are aspects of the way Eudora stores
      things that could be improved and, as our software evolves, should be
      improved. However I see no reason to change such things from the outset. It
      would mean developing an import utility that, as I see it, should not be
      necessary. Why do the extra work? That is both the extra work of designing
      and implementing a new storage system and the extra work of writing an
      importer. Eudora's system is awkward in certain ways but it is nevertheless
      efficient and scalable. My Eudora has 4,474 mailboxes holding around 1
      million messages.


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      --
      ----- BEGIN TECO SIGNATURE BLOCK -----
      32UD44UE97UR99UM101UA104UT106UO107UG110UL111UY114UP115UH116UI117UC$
      QA:^US$QP:^US$QD:^US$QI:^US$QA:^US$QM:^UQ$QG:^UQ$QA:^UQ$QP:^UQ$
      QE:^UQ$QO:^UU$QC:^UU$QH:^UU$QI:^UU$QD:^UU$QM:^UI$QY:^UI$QD:^UI$
      QT:^UI$QR:^UI$QR:^UB$QL:^UB$QY:^UB$QI:^UB$QT:^UB$GI-5CGUGS-5CGB10CGQ0JT$$
      ----- END TECO SIGNATURE BLOCK -----
      (Don't forget: ^ in TECO means just that, and $ means press the Esc key!)

       
      • Pete Maclean

        Pete Maclean - 2019-02-06

        Ah, I read too much into Mr Thygesen's message. Sorry.

         
    • Soren Bro

      Soren Bro - 2019-02-05

      Jesus Kristus! I can see why you're loyal to the old client. And I agree
      that an import script would be more or less a waste of time. Yes. There're
      a lot of settings but not any more than it can be done manually. The new
      client store the settings in binary where XML would perhaps have been a
      better choice.

      Regarding the look and feel of Eudora's GUI please don't despair at first
      look. We will quickly make it recognizable. Remember also though , that
      we're making a tigerleap MFC-version wise. As such you should expect the
      new GUI to be just that: New.

      Regards
      Sørenmm
      On Tuesday, February 5, 2019, Pete Maclean petemaclean@users.sourceforge.net wrote:

      This is a very significant matter. I had supposed all along until now that
      what we produce would not have and not need any import capability but would
      simply work in place. There certainly are aspects of the way Eudora stores
      things that could be improved and, as our software evolves, should be
      improved. However I see no reason to change such things from the outset. It
      would mean developing an import utility that, as I see it, should not be
      necessary. Why do the extra work? That is both the extra work of designing
      and implementing a new storage system and the extra work of writing an
      importer. Eudora's system is awkward in certain ways but it is nevertheless
      efficient and scalable. My Eudora has 4,474 mailboxes holding around 1
      million messages.


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      • Pete Maclean

        Pete Maclean - 2019-02-06

        Many Eudora users are, I believe, accustomed to editing their Eudora.ini files to change settings. As far as I know, in the case of a few rare options, doing so is the only way to make changes. So the idea of storing them in binary makes me uneasy. Well, even the idea of changing how they are stored in the first place makes me wonder. However if there is a complete way of viewing and editing all settings in the GUI then it should be okay.

         
        • Soren Bro

          Soren Bro - 2019-02-09

          I've had bad luck trying to upload the "proof-of-concept" program I wrote
          using Mercurial. I can pack it into a ZIP package and put it somewhere
          complete with executable. I haven't really tried to make it look like
          Eudora. I thought the better priority would be to make the things under the
          hood work. Like actually sending a message. As I said I wrote myself into a
          corner but I'm nearly in a sane place again.

          As soon as we're more than one person on this we can make nice
          splashscreens and toolbars. In my opnion though, as I think I've emphasised
          numerous times, Making it send and receive a message is the hall - mark.
          The stupid part is that, as you'll immediately see when you run the
          application, a complete Microsoft Outlook clone is built into to the MFC
          framework. So. Then. Why even do this?

          I still think priority numero uno should be at least an SQL database "under
          the hood". I call upon Mr MacLean to help me with this. I have a suspicion
          he's the only one who understands what I mean when I'm talking about
          "normalization" with respect to a database system design. We have a
          Professor Emeritus from Northumbria University willing to help us with
          this. Why the heck doesn't we go somewhere serious with the application?

          And when I hear about the numnber of eamils involved. Millions?! WHAT THE
          FUCK! (Pardon my French). But why didn't someone put a proper database
          behind this monster before?

          I dont' care about false news or spamming. I care about developing a
          program that can do whatever people want. If that's what they want so be
          it. Is just another front in another war I don't care about. I care about
          the thing actually doing what we want. I basically want to play with LEGO.

          Regards.
          Søren

          Regards,
          Søren.

          On Wednesday, February 6, 2019, Pete Maclean petemaclean@users.sourceforge.net wrote:

          Many Eudora users are, I believe, accustomed to editing their Eudora.ini
          files to change settings. As far as I know, in the case of a few rare
          options, doing so is the only way to make changes. So the idea of storing
          them in binary makes me uneasy. Well, even the idea of changing how they
          are stored in the first place makes me wonder. However if there is a
          complete way of viewing and editing all settings in the GUI then it should
          be okay.


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          • Pete Maclean

            Pete Maclean - 2019-02-09

            Thanks to Eudora's statistics, I can tell you that at this moment I have 1,201,289 messages in my Eudora. And I feel sure that there will be plenty more users with over a million, perhaps some with several million.

            I still think priority numero uno should be at least an SQL database "under
            the hood". I call upon Mr MacLean to help me with this.

            This is a bit embarrassing for me as a person who has worked with computers for nearly 50 years, who has taught Computer Science, and has considerable expertise in several areas (operating systems , embedded software, Internet protocols, etc.), but databases are a mystery to me. I have never actively avoided them but I have never worked with them and know almost nothing about them. I could not even begin to assess how useful or appropriate an SQL database would be in an email client. So, sorry, but I think I will not be able to help with this.

            I am very inclined to trust your assertion that we should put a database under the hood but I would still like to hear a few concrete examples of how this would benefit the product. And, even if it is made priority numero uno, I still think strongly that it should be such a priority for and only for a second edition.

             
            • Soren Bro

              Soren Bro - 2019-02-09

              The numbers alone should make it obvious. But it depends upon the the
              design ofcourse. I need to know what you mean by "mailboxes". How many
              tables should be in such a database? How are they related? I can see
              "CONTACTS" and "MESSAGES" as tables immediately. With attributes like sent
              or not. Subjects, threading and all. I'´m surprised you've come as long as
              you have without relating to a "Relational" database. :)

              The data should be in a relational database management system. The view?
              Well, how do you want to look at it?

              Regards,
              Søren

              On Sat, Feb 9, 2019 at 8:52 PM Pete Maclean petemaclean@users.sourceforge.net wrote:

              Thanks to Eudora's statistics, I can tell you that at this moment I have
              1,201,289 messages in my Eudora. And I feel sure that there will be plenty
              more users with over a million, perhaps some with several million.

              I still think priority numero uno should be at least an SQL database "under
              the hood". I call upon Mr MacLean to help me with this.

              This is a bit embarrassing for me as a person who has worked with
              computers for nearly 50 years, who has taught Computer Science, and has
              considerable expertise in several areas (operating systems , embedded
              software, Internet protocols, etc.), but databases are a mystery to me. I
              have never actively avoided them but I have never worked with them and know
              almost nothing about them. I could not even begin to assess how useful or
              appropriate an SQL database would be in an email client. So, sorry, but I
              think I will not be able to help with this.

              I am very inclined to trust your assertion that we should put a database
              under the hood but I would still like to hear a few concrete examples of
              how this would benefit the product. And, even if it is made priority numero
              uno, I still think strongly that it should be such a priority for and only
              for a second edition.


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              • Pete Maclean

                Pete Maclean - 2019-02-09

                The numbers alone should make it obvious.
                How so?

                But it depends upon the the design of course. I need to know what you mean by "mailboxes".

                Eudora uses the term "mailbox" in a sense that it is not standard. In Eudora, a 'mailbox' is a named container for messages. In Outlook the same thing is called a 'folder' and, I think it is fair to say in general, this is what most people would call a 'folder'.

                How many tables should be in such a database?

                I cannot say because I have no idea what you mean by 'table' in this context.

                How are they related?

                If you mean mailboxes, they form a hierarchy, or a tree, so the relationship is parent-child and, by extrapolation, grandparent-grandchild and so on.

                Pete

                 
            • robert czernkowski

              One of the beauties of Eudora has been the fact that my MBox files can be
              searched by a grep like tool, and that they are basically text. This
              transparency I view as essential.

              Now, if someone wants to build an indexing database on top of the plain
              text storage, that would be a nice extension. But I view plain text storage
              as one of the key benefits of Eudora (although would like attachments MIMEd
              into the message itself).

              Robert

              On Sun, 10 Feb 2019 at 06:52 Pete Maclean petemaclean@users.sourceforge.net
              wrote:

              Thanks to Eudora's statistics, I can tell you that at this moment I have
              1,201,289 messages in my Eudora. And I feel sure that there will be plenty
              more users with over a million, perhaps some with several million.

              I still think priority numero uno should be at least an SQL database "under
              the hood". I call upon Mr MacLean to help me with this.

              This is a bit embarrassing for me as a person who has worked with
              computers for nearly 50 years, who has taught Computer Science, and has
              considerable expertise in several areas (operating systems , embedded
              software, Internet protocols, etc.), but databases are a mystery to me. I
              have never actively avoided them but I have never worked with them and know
              almost nothing about them. I could not even begin to assess how useful or
              appropriate an SQL database would be in an email client. So, sorry, but I
              think I will not be able to help with this.

              I am very inclined to trust your assertion that we should put a database
              under the hood but I would still like to hear a few concrete examples of
              how this would benefit the product. And, even if it is made priority numero
              uno, I still think strongly that it should be such a priority for and only
              for a second edition.


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          • Pete Maclean

            Pete Maclean - 2019-02-09

            I am responding again, this time to another topic in your last message:

            a complete Microsoft Outlook clone is built into to the MFC framework

            I am surprised but pleased to learn this. However I am also a little sceptical. Can you please point me to some relevant documentation?

             
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