Tim Streater wrote:

In article , Bob Henson
wrote:

The Natural Philosopher wrote:

On 09/09/14 12:57, Tim Streater wrote:
In article , The Natural Philosopher
wrote:

On 09/09/14 09:14, Tim Streater wrote:
In article , The Natural Philosopher
wrote:

Because I hate what mine is doing...see the compose window....

http://vps.templar.co.uk/Odds%20and%20Ends/TBCW.png

Have I done something to deserve this, or is it 'just the way it is'?

It's this sort of thing that caused me to write my own email client.

well maybe you can let me beta it...;-)

Have a look at:

http://www.iletter.org.uk/

and decide if it might suit you. No Linux version ATM, but no reason
there shouldn't be.

Looks pretty good to me. Always liked Eudora.

I'd like the ability to tweak icons and colours, but thats presumably
held in style sheets?

Eudora has been a modified version of Thunderbird for a long time now
(2006?) so it should do anything Thunderbird does. You cans change all the
text colours in Thunderbird with some research.

No it hasn't.

What happened is that some of the Qualcomm developers (including Steve
Dorner, the original author) wanted to continue development. Qualcomm
stopped Eudora work because it wasn't part of their core business. Now,
the problem was that by then Eudora contained some proprietary code, so
the notion that some folks had of Qualcomm allowing those developers to
just start from where they'd left off, using the Eudora codebase in an
open source kind of manner, was never going to fly. (Although most
people don't seem to be aware of that).

So this team decided to take Thunderbird and start working on it to
make it into an improved Eudora. For reasons that I don't understand,
after eventually releasing Eudora 8.0 v1, and then renaming it Eudora
OSE, they gave up. That's a good five years ago now and Eudora 8, with
less features than the final Windows version from 2006 or so, is now
essentially abandonware.


And what is that but a modified version of Thunderbird?

--
Bob
Tetbury, Gloucestershire, England

Results are what you expect, and consequences are what you get.