Jul 2008
Odysseus 1.0 Beta 1
31/07/08 21:00 Filed in: Odysseus
We’re pleased to announce Odysseus 1.0 Beta 1!
Here’s a list of what’s new in this build...
What’s New:
What’s Improved:
What’s left to do? There are a couple of features left to implement... although in comparison to what’s been do so far, they’re relatively minor features. These include Timed Sending and Receiving, Printing, Delete Messages From Server options, etc. In addition to those features, some existing features, such as Preferences and Importing, need to be improved and expanded. Aside from that however, the majority of the remaining time will be spent fixing bugs, improving performance, and generally enhancing the application as much as possible.
What, though, if a feature you’re accustomed to from Eudora® doesn’t appear to be making it into Odysseus 1.0? Not to worry. As we stated last year when we first announced our plan to develop Odysseus, our primary goal for 1.0 was simply to duplicate the most common functionality in Eudora®, with the more advanced features and abilities coming in subsequent releases. So if a particular feature isn’t in 1.0... look for it in 1.0.1. If it’s not in 1.0.1... look for it in 1.0.2. If it’s not in... well you get the idea. With Odysseus under active development, if something you like is missing, it’s only a matter of time before we get it added in. And more often than not, it’ll be added in sooner rather than later.
What about IMAP? At present, there are two things to remember about IMAP in this build...
In case you missed them, the Download Links are located here...
To discuss this build, please see this Forum Posting...
What’s New:
- Standard Filters
- Junk Filtering
- Searching
- Spell Checking (Inline)
- Return Receipts
- IMAP Support (Not 100%... although very close - see below) **
- Mailbox Menu
- Transfer Menu
- Ability To Change Message Status
- Ability To Change Message Priority
- Ability To Change Message Account
What’s Improved:
- Improved HTML Handling (Fixed an issue that would cause some HTML messages to crash Odysseus)
- Odysseus Now Forwards and Redirects All Message Parts (Plain Text, HTML, and Attachments)
- Improved UTF-8 Support (both Sending and Receiving)
- Classic Windows Remember Position and Size (For each mailbox that is opened)
- Improved Message Status Notifications
- Improved Handling of Signatures
- Prevent Loading of Junk Messages
- Improved Handling of Multiple Composition Windows
- Improved Handling of Duplicate Messages
- Fixed “1/31/00” Date Bug
- Sent Message Now Display Proper Status
- Fixed HTML Resize Content Issue
- Approximately 3 Dozen Minor Bug Fixes
What’s left to do? There are a couple of features left to implement... although in comparison to what’s been do so far, they’re relatively minor features. These include Timed Sending and Receiving, Printing, Delete Messages From Server options, etc. In addition to those features, some existing features, such as Preferences and Importing, need to be improved and expanded. Aside from that however, the majority of the remaining time will be spent fixing bugs, improving performance, and generally enhancing the application as much as possible.
What, though, if a feature you’re accustomed to from Eudora® doesn’t appear to be making it into Odysseus 1.0? Not to worry. As we stated last year when we first announced our plan to develop Odysseus, our primary goal for 1.0 was simply to duplicate the most common functionality in Eudora®, with the more advanced features and abilities coming in subsequent releases. So if a particular feature isn’t in 1.0... look for it in 1.0.1. If it’s not in 1.0.1... look for it in 1.0.2. If it’s not in... well you get the idea. With Odysseus under active development, if something you like is missing, it’s only a matter of time before we get it added in. And more often than not, it’ll be added in sooner rather than later.
What about IMAP? At present, there are two things to remember about IMAP in this build...
- When setting up an IMAP account, Odysseus will (like most IMAP clients) create a local copy of whatever mailboxes are residing on the server. Once the email has been retrieved, there is no way to manually move a message out of those mailboxes, whether it be into another IMAP mailbox, or a local non-IMAP mailbox. This ability will be enabled in Beta 2.
- Although there is no way to manually move a message out of an IMAP mailbox, if you have a filter setup to do it, Odysseus will successfully move the message in question to the assigned mailbox. Per the IMAP specification, Odysseus will then REMOVE the message from the ONLINE IMAP MAILBOX. This is in stark contrast to how Odysseus currently handles POP3 email, as Odysseus NEVER deletes email that it has retrieved from a POP3 account... and will not even feature that option until 1.0 final. Unfortunately, due to the inherent differences between POP3 and IMAP, it was necessary to build this functionality in from this stage.
In case you missed them, the Download Links are located here...
To discuss this build, please see this Forum Posting...
New Web Site
28/07/08 08:30 Filed in: Infinity
If you’re reading this page, and have visited our
site at any point over the last year, you’ve know
doubt noticed the new design. And if you’re reading
this page... well you’ve no doubt picked up on the
fact that we now have a blog. Why you ask? A couple
of reasons...
1) It was time for a facelift on the web site. We’d had the previous design for some time, and it needed to be updated. We especially wanted to go with something a little less “stark”.
2) The reason for the Blog was to enable us to keep you better informed about how development, especially on Odysseus, is proceeding. We initially tried a mailing list... but we had so many returned emails, due to spam filtering, that we didn’t feel it was a viable way of keeping everyone updated. The Forums certainly do well as a support tool. However, as a general means of providing updates... the Forums leave a lot to be desired. Specifically, a person has to see the exact post containing relevant news for the Forums to be effective.
So that brings us to here... new look... new Blog. Hopefully the look will be a little less “stark”. And the Blog will serve as the central place to keep up with the latest developments (pun intended) here at Infinity.
1) It was time for a facelift on the web site. We’d had the previous design for some time, and it needed to be updated. We especially wanted to go with something a little less “stark”.
2) The reason for the Blog was to enable us to keep you better informed about how development, especially on Odysseus, is proceeding. We initially tried a mailing list... but we had so many returned emails, due to spam filtering, that we didn’t feel it was a viable way of keeping everyone updated. The Forums certainly do well as a support tool. However, as a general means of providing updates... the Forums leave a lot to be desired. Specifically, a person has to see the exact post containing relevant news for the Forums to be effective.
So that brings us to here... new look... new Blog. Hopefully the look will be a little less “stark”. And the Blog will serve as the central place to keep up with the latest developments (pun intended) here at Infinity.