Mac Forum / Applications / Eudora / August 2004

I recently upgraded from Eudora 4.2 to version 6.1.1 on my classic
(9.2.2) Mac. I followed the installer's suggestion and let it
over-write my previous settings, and it does seem to have converted the
mailboxes and filters correctly. However...

Now dates don't display right in the mail lists. I have "Date Display"
set to "Age-sensitive", and although Eudora can recognize whether
something is from today, yesterday, or old, it seems incapable of
actually displaying the words "Today" or "Yesterday" in the mail-list
date column.

I played with a couple of x-eudora-settings in an attempt to fix this.
<x-eudora-setting:121> didn't help; it's the same as switching the date
display between "Age-sensitive" and "Fixed". I found
<x-eudora-setting:6109> more relevant: I was able to get today's dates
to display just the time, dates earlier in the same week to display the
weekday plus time, and older dates to display just the date with no
weekday or time. This lets me distinguish between the three categories,
but what I really want is for today's dates to say "Today" and
yesterday's dates to say "Yesterday". Does anyone know why this isn't
happening? My general Finder list views display "Today" and "Yesterday"
with no problem; I seem to remember that Eudora 4.2 did this too; why
can't Eudora 6.1.1?

Perhaps there's some other x-eudora-setting involved? (BTW, I wish
there were some really good documentation of what all the settings
mean, but I searched online and couldn't find it. Eudora's own list of
all the x-eudora-settings just has short cryptic descriptions that
often don't really tell you what they are.)

Thanks for any help,
Jonas