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Eudora is available in three versions, two are free and one is paid. However, from the Eudora web site:

Eudora® email moves to open source development and delivers final commercial version -- Eudora 7.1 for Windows and 6.2.4 for Mac OSX. The open source version of Eudora® is targeted to be released during the first half of calendar year 2007 and will be free of charge.

Eudora supports multiple E-mail accounts (each account is called a “Personality”), and you can create multiple folders and subfolders in which to store and organize your E-mail. Eudora includes a built-in spam/junk mail system (SpamWatch) to easily and automatically filter out junk mail. The spam filter puts junk into a "Junk" mail box for you to review, so you won’t miss a “wanted” E-mail.

Eudora also has “signatures”, “stationary”, contextual filtering, usage statistics, E -mail search, flexible address book, can import E-mail and E-mail accounts from other E-mail programs, and more.

TO CONFIGURE EUDORA...

If you have not used or configured Eudora prior to now, please go to the Eudora web site located here:

http://www.eudora.com/techsupport/kb/2363hq.html

...and follow their tutorial on the initial setup and configuration of Eudora to get it to work with your Internet Service Provider (ISP),

For assistance with the many features of the Eudora E-mail program, Using The Eudora E-mail Client is a series of web-based tutorials at the Eudora web site. This takes you step-by-step through such topics as using the address book, setting up filters, creating “personalities”, Signatures and Stationary, and much more.

The rest of this page is how to get Eudora working with an E-mail account that is a part of your web site hosted on my web hosting service. These steps assume that you have already got Eudora working with your ISP’s E-mail accounts.

The following step-by-step instructions were written for Eudora version 7.1.0.9. The steps for other versions might be different.

Wherever you see “ MyDomain ” in the following steps, you should type whatever your domain name is. A domain name does include the .com or the .net or the .org part, but it does not include the http:// or the www. parts. For example, the domain name of this web site is bestbydesign.com

To set up Eudora to work with your E-mail account...

1. On the Menu bar, click on Tools then click on Personalities, which should open the Personalities tab and display all previously created personalities (E-mail accounts).
2. Move the cursor into the Personalities box, then RIGHT-click and click on “New ...”, which should open the “Account Settings” dialog box.
3. Click on “Create a brand new email account” so there IS a dot in the adjacent circle, then click on the “Next >” button, which should open the “Personality Name” dialog box.
4. In the space titled “Personality Name”, type in a name that is descriptive of what this new E-mail account will be used for, or who’s account it is. For example: General Manager, or Sales, or Susan or Paul. This name is used/seen only by you when you are using Eudora, and its sole purpose is to help you remember what this account is used for. Click on the “Next >” button, which should open the “Personal Information” dialog box.
5. In the space titled “Your Name”, type whatever name that you want the recipient of the mail to see in the FROM line of your outgoing E-mail. For example John, or Susan, or Sales, or President, or Returns, or Refunds, or whatever you want. Click on the “Next >” button, which should open the Email Address dialog box.
6. In the space titled “Email Address”, type the E-mail address that the recipients of your E-mail will see as the address that the mail came from. This can be any E-mail address that you want to use, although it is typically the same as the address that the mail was actually sent from. You must enter the full, complete E-mail address, so it looks similar to this: Name@MyDomain.com Click on the “Next >” button which should open the User Name dialog box.
7. In the space titled “User Name”, type in the full, complete user name that you use to log in to this E-mail account. For example: chep@mycat.com Click on the “Next >” button, which should open the Incoming Email Server dialog box.
8. In the space titled “Incoming Server”, type in the name of the Incoming Email server. This is tricky to explain, but an example is easier to understand.

The Incoming Mail Server is the place on the Internet that Eudora will connect to, to retrieve all of your incoming E-mail. For web sites hosted on my hosting service, the Incoming Email Server name looks similar to this:

mail.domainname

For example, if your domain name is mycats.com, then the Incoming Mail Server is named: mail.mycats.com

Click on “Test server” so there is NOT a tick in the adjacent box.

Click on “POP” so there IS a dot in the adjacent circle. There should NOT be a dot in the circle adjacent to “IMAP”.

Click on the “Next >” button, which should open the Outgoing Email Server dialog box.

9. In the space titled “Outgoing Server”, type in the name of your ISP’s outgoing mail server. You will have to find out from your ISP what the name of their outgoing server is and enter it in this box. If you ever change ISPs (for example, taking a notebook computer on a business trip to another city or state), you will probably have to change this setting.

Some examples of outgoing mail servers are (these might not be current or correct):

1. mail.cableone.net
2. mail.bellsouth.net
3. smtpauth.earthlink.net
4. mail.megagate.com
5. smtpauth.peoplepc.com
6. mail.xfoneusa.net

If you do not have an ISP but instead you are connected DIRECTLY to the Internet, then the name of your outgoing mail server is the same as your incoming mail server. A DIRECT connection means that you are not using dial up, or DSL or satellite, or cablemodem, or any other connection to an ISP, but instead, you have your own direct connection to the Internet, which is typically a T1 line or faster. Note that for home users, and most small to medium size businesses, a direct connection to the Internet is usually more expensive than it is worth.

Click on “Test server” so there is NOT a tick in the adjacent box.

Click on “Allow authentication” so there IS a tick in the adjacent box.

Click on the “Next >” button which should open the “Success” box.

10. Ta Da! you are mostly done. Click on the “Finish” button. Your new E-mail account/personality should be listed in the “Personalities” tab, along with all of your other E-mail accounts/personalities.

If you use America Online (AOL) as your Internet Service Provider (ISP), then be sure to read this, too.

Recommended Settings for Increased Security

There are several settings in Eudora that you can change to increase the security of your programs, your data, and other files. Changing these settings will reduce the likelihood of your computer becoming infected with viruses or other malware that might be included in E-mail that you receive.

On the Eudora Menu bar, click on Tools then click on Options...

At the left side of the Options window is the Category pane, with a vertical slider.

Use the slider to look for, then click on:

1. The category “Attachments”. To the right, look for “Attachment directory” and the nearby button. In the button will be the current location on your computer’s hard drive where Eudora stores all attachments for your incoming E -mail. If you have not previously changed this setting, then you are seeing the default setting. Click on the button, and change the setting to anything other than the default setting.
2. The category “Display”. To the right, look for “Automatically download HTML graphics” and “Display attached images inline”. There should not be a check mark in the box adjacent to these two items. If there is a check mark, click once on the mark to remove it.
3. The category “Viewing Mail”. To the right, look for “Use Microsoft’s viewer” and “Allow executables in HTML content”. There should not be a check mark in the box adjacent to these two items. If there is a check mark, click once on the mark to remove it.
4. The category “Automation”. To the right, look for “Automatically enabled from this machine”. There should not be a check mark in the box adjacent to this item. If there is a check mark, click once on the mark to remove it.
   Look for “Warn on Automation auto-send of messages”. There should be a check mark in the box adjacent to this item. If there is not a check mark, click once in the box to add it.
5. The category “Extra Warnings”. To the right, look for “Launch a program from a message” and “Launch a program externally” and “Forward files that are not in the attachment directory”. There should be a check mark in the box adjacent to each item. If there is not a check mark, click once in the box to add it.
6. The category “Miscellaneous”. To the right, look for “Hide address books from simple viruses”. There should be a check mark in the box adjacent to this item . If there is not a check mark, click once in the box to add it.

Lastly, click on the “OK” button at the bottom of the Options window to save your settings and close the Options window.

revised: January 7, 2007

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