Version 4.3 for Windows
User Manual
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Acknowledgments
The Eudora software was designed and developed by Jeff Beckley, Rob Chandhok, Steve Dorner (original author
of Eudora) Joel King, Sameer Jindal, Sudheer Koganti, Scott Manjourides, Brian Minear, Subhashis Mohanty,
Apul Nahata, Ben Ogdon, Bill Rhodes, Jim Riley, Joshua Stephens, Kerthi Sundormurthy, Kusuma Vellanki,
Geoff Wenger, and Dale Wiggins. The software was quality assured by David Hom, Gwen Huntley, Kolar Ma-
hesh, Jason Miller, and Sean Rogers. This manual was written by Armand Rouleau. Thanks to all the users and
testers of Eudora, whose suggestions have made it a much better program than it otherwise would have been.
About the Name
Why the name Eudora?
When looking for a name for this new Post Office Protocol mail program, we thought immediately of the title of
the short story “Why I Live at the P.O.,” and named the program after the author of the story, Eudora Welty.
“Why I Live at the P.O.” can be found in a collection entitled A Curtain of Green and Other Stories (Harcourt
Brace & Co.). Ms. Welty’s stories are funny, sad, and fascinating; she’s surely one of the great American writers.
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Introducing Eudora® Email
Welcome to Eudora Email 4.3! Eudora Email, hereafter referred to as Eudora, is a
comprehensive electronic mail (email) software program that accesses your Internet
Service Provider (ISP) or network to receive and send your email messages.
In Eudora, you can write messages and send them with custom stationery and signatures.
You can send files, both text and graphic, created in other programs and "attach" them to
your email messages. You can forward messages, redirect them, or reply to all recipients
of a message.
You can set up mailboxes and folders for your mail and build "filters" to sort messages,
alert you, and even send an automatic reply.
All your favorite addresses can be stored in your personal address book, or you can let
Eudora search for addresses for you. And if you use more than one ISP, Eudora allows
you to build "multiple personalities" to send and receive mail to multiple accounts.
There are many more Eudora features and functions described later in this manual.
Wha t’s Ne w in Eud ora Em a il 4.3
The following new features and functions have been added to Eudora in version 4.3.
■ Introducing Eudora in Three Modes. You can now choose which mode of Eudora is
best for you: Sponsored, Paid, or Light!
■ Importing from Outlook Express™. You may now import information and settings
from Microsoft® Outlook Express 5.0.
■ Super Sorting. You can now sort your messages in a mailbox by more than one sort
criteria or retain the sorted order for one column.
■ Group by Subject. You can now sort messages by grouping same subjects together.
■ Link History. Link history tracks and links Internet web site URLs, attachments, and
ads that you have clicked in Eudora.
Eud ora Em a il vs. Posta l Ma il
Below is a comparison between Eudora email and postal mail.
Eudora Email
Postal Mail
Mail is sent and received to and from
servers provided by your ISP or
network.
Mail is sent and received to and from
post offices provided by your
government.
Mail is transported using servers.
Mail is transported using trucks, trains,
and planes.
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Where Do I Find Information?
Eudora Email
Postal Mail
Incoming server delivers mail to your
computer. This server uses the POP or
IMAP protocol.
Postal carrier delivers mail to your
home or office.
Your computer is your mailbox.
Check for mail.
You go to your mailbox.
Check for mail.
Mail is delivered to your In box.
However, you can have mail sorted
automatically to other mailboxes you set
up.
Mail is delivered to your mailbox.
However, you can sort your mail once
you receive it.
Look up an email address in your
address book.
Look up an address in your address
book.
Look up a person’s information using
Look up a person’s information using
Directory Services.
the white pages of the phone book.
To compose mail, you type on your
computer’s keyboard.
To compose mail, you type on your
computer’s keyboard or typewriter and
print it on paper. Or you write using a
pen on paper.
You enter header information, which
includes your recipient’s email address
and your return address.
You place the paper in the envelope
and write the person’s name, address,
and your return address.
You send mail to your outgoing server,
where it will be sent. This server uses
the SMTP protocol. This server creates
an “electronic envelope” for your email.
You stamp and send your mail to a post
office, where it will be processed and
sent.
Your recipient receives your mail
usually within a few minutes.
Your recipient receives your mail within
days, depending on location.
Whe re Do I Find Inform a tion?
If you can’t find the information you are looking for in this user manual, it may be in the
Eudora Quick Start Guide, or in the online help program in Eudora. This user manual is an
online user manual; that is, it provides the basic procedures for using Eudora. The online
help is primarily procedures and definitions.
The manual’s topics are linked. When you see a page number associated to a topic in the
Table of Contents, the Index, or a cross-reference, just click the page number and the
topic appears.
If you prefer, you can print the PDF manual. From the File menu in Acrobat Reader,
choose Print.
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Where Do I Find Information?
Eud ora Quic k Sta rt Guid e
The Eudora Quick Start Guide is included in your Eudora product box and/or as an elec-
tronic file in you Eudora directory. The Quick Start Guide shows you how to install Eudora
and allows you to begin using the basic functions of Eudora immediately. The Guide
provides only simple descriptions, so for more details, refer to this document.
Information provided in the Eudora Quick Start Guide is as follows:
■ Finding Information
■ Getting Started
■ Installing Eudora
■ Opening and Configuring Eudora
■ Operating Eudora in One of Three Modes
■ Registering Eudora
■ Technical Support
■ Creating and Sending a Message
■ Checking and Receiving Mail
■ Setting up Automatic Mail Checking
■ Replying to a Message
■ Forwarding a Message
■ Redirecting a Message
■ Shortcuts
The functions listed above, except for Getting Started and the Eudora installation sections,
are described more thoroughly in this manual.
Online He lp
There are several ways to get online Help with Eudora.
■ To find out what something on the screen does, use context-sensitive help.
■ For instruction on how to perform certain tasks, use the help topics.
■ To receive daily tips on assorted Eudora features each time you open Eudora, read the
Tip of the Day.
Conte xt Se nsitive He lp
■ Choose Context Sensitive Help from the Help menu. Then click the item in question.
A brief description of the item appears. Click anywhere to close the description window.
■ Click the Help button
. Then click the item in question. A brief description of the
item appears. Click anywhere to close the description window.
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Operating Eudora in One of Three Modes
■ Press the F1 key. Select the option, command or field item in Eudora you want to know
about, or use the Tab and arrow keys to move keyboard focus to that item. Then press
F1. Keyboard focus is indicated by a dashed highlight box, a highlighted entry or item,
or a flashing insertion cursor.
If the item is in a tabbed window, move the mouse arrow to a field and press F1. The
entire procedure for the window appears.
He lp Top ic s
For instructions on how to do certain tasks, choose Topics from the Help menu. The Help
Contents are displayed, and you may either browse the contents or use the Find and
Index options.
topic.
Tip of the Da y
After you set up Eudora, the Eudora Tip of the Day dialog box appears each time you
open Eudora showing you the Tip of the Day. You can display the following and previous
tips by clicking the Next Tip and Previous Tip buttons. To prevent the Tip of the Day
dialog box from being displayed on startup, uncheck the “Show Tips at Startup” check box.
You can always display the Tip of the Day from the Help menu.
To close the Tip of the Day dialog box, click the Close button.
Ab out Eud ora
About Eudora displays the software version, registration information, and the credits for
those who worked on or contributed to this version of Eudora.
Op e ra ting Eud ora in One of Thre e Mod e s
You can choose one of three operating modes on how you wish to use Eudora. They are
as follows:
■ Paid mode
This mode provides the full-featured Eudora desktop email client without advertising.
■ Sponsored mode
This mode provides the full-featured Eudora desktop email client at no charge, supported
by sponsors' advertising. It includes all of the features that are in the Paid mode.
■ Light mode
This is an upgrade to the freeware version formerly known as Eudora Light. It includes
fewer features than the other modes and a sponsor image or logo.
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Changing Eudora Modes
Changing Eudora Modes
If you bought Eudora from a retail store or from a web site, Eudora installs in Paid mode.
However, if you would like to change the operating mode, for example to Sponsored
mode, you can do so right in the Eudora program. (Remember to request a refund from
QUALCOMM. See the last page of this guide for details.)
To change the Eudora operating mode after you install Eudora 4.3, do the following.
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From the Help menu, choose Payment & Registration. The Payment and Registra-
tion window appears.
Payment and Registration Window
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In the Which Eudora is right for you? section:
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To use Eudora in Sponsored mode, click Sponsored Mode (free, with ads).
Eudora displays the ad window.
To use Eudora in Paid mode, click Paid Mode (costs money, no ads). Eudora
displays the Eudora web site for you to purchase Eudora.
To use Eudora in Light mode, click Light Mode (free, fewer features). Eudora
changes to Light mode by shutting down certain features. The features that will be
off are listed in the Light mode dialog.
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Registering Eudora
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In the Keeping Current section:
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To customize the ads, click Customize the Ads You See. Eudora displays a web
site where you can provide information about yourself to help in customizing which
ads should be displayed to you.
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To find the most current version of Eudora, click Find the Latest Versions. The
Eudora web site displays where you can retrieve the latest version of Eudora.
Note. You can tell which mode you are in because that button is grayed out. To find out
more information about the modes, click Tell Me More About the Three Modes.
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Re g iste ring Eud ora
If you are using Eudora in either Sponsored or Paid mode, you need to register to be
eligible for technical support. If you don’t register or use Eudora in Light mode, you are not
eligible for technical support.
To register your copy of Eudora, do the following.
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From the Help menu, choose Payment & Registration. The Payment and Registra-
tion window appears.
In the Keeping Current section, click Register with Us. Eudora takes you to Eudora’s
registration web page.
Enter your information, click Submit Registration. An email will be sent to you
confirming your registration.
Te c hnic a l Sup p ort
(Sp o nso re d a nd Pa id m o d e s o nly)
If you register your copy of Eudora in Sponsored or Paid mode, you are entitled to 90 days
of free technical support from the date of the first call. Be sure to register as soon as
possible to avoid any delays in receiving technical support.
Many common issues can be solved by visiting the Eudora technical support web site at:
<http://www.eudora.com/techsupport/Win>. The technical support web site
provides online answers to your technical questions about QUALCOMM’s Eudora soft-
ware products. Go to the Technical Support web site to get valuable “how to” information
and step-by-step interactive tutorials. Also, you will be able to retrieve most current
Eudora products and documentation. (Light mode users may use the Eudora web site
technical support and tutorials.)
If you are unable to find your answer using the technical support web site, Eudora tech
support reps are available Monday - Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Pacific Time using the
following phone number and email address:
Phone: (858) 658-1292
Email: [email protected]
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Starting and Quitting Eudora
Sta rting a nd Quitting Eud ora
To start Eudora, do the following.
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Choose Eudora again. Eudora launches.
To quit Eudora, do the following.
From the File menu, choose Exit or press Ctrl+Q. Eudora closes.
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If you have queued messages or timed messages due to be sent in the next 12 hours, you
are given the option to send them. See the sections “Queuing a Message to Send Later”
page number to display the topic.
The Trash mailbox is emptied if the “Empty Trash when exiting” option is selected in the
display the topic.
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Creating Messages
Cre a ting a n Outg oing Me ssa g e
An outgoing message is a message you send to someone else. The simplest way to
create an outgoing message is to do the following.
■ From the Message menu, choose New Message or click the New Message icon on
the main toolbar:
The composition window appears.
Using the Com p osition Wind ow
The composition window consists of the title bar, the toolbar, the message header, and an
area for the message body.
Headers and Composition Window
Title Ba r
When completed, the title bar provides information about the message, including the
name of the addressee, the time and date the message was sent, and the message
subject.
Te xt Toolb a r
The text toolbar is of a series of buttons and menus displayed just under the title bar. It
allows you to control the priority of your message, override some of your default options
for the current message, send or queue the message, and apply text styles.
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You can select or turn off each feature for the current message by clicking a button on the
toobar. (A feature is selected when the button is depressed, and turned off when the
button is raised.) You can set some of the defaults for the toolbar in the Sending Mail
The drop-down lists and buttons on the top row of the text toolbar are described below.
Priority drop-down list
This lets you indicate that your message is of higher or lower priority than
a normal message. For most messages, this is just an empty box (normal
Signature drop-down list
This lets you automatically append one of your signatures to the end of a
Attachment type drop-down list
This lets you select the encoding format for attachments. For details, see
Quoted-Printable Encoding
If this button is on, quoted-printable encoding is used when sending
messages that contain special characters or long lines of text. It is used
for all plain-text attachments. We recommend that you always keep this
feature selected.
Text As Attachment
If this button is on, plain text files are attached to messages, not incorpo-
rated into the message as part of the message body.
Word Wrap
If this button is on, a carriage return is not required at the end of each line.
When the message is sent, the text is automatically “wrapped,” meaning
that carriage returns are inserted at the end of each line of text, with
roughly 76 characters per line.
Tabs in Body
If this button is on, pressing the Tab key within the message body inserts
a tab. If this button is off, pressing the Tab key within the message body
returns the cursor to the To field of the message header.
Keep Copy
If this button is on, a copy of each sent message is kept in the Out
mailbox. Messages are saved there until they are deleted or transferred.
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Return Receipt (Sponsored and Paid modes only)
If this button is on, the message to your recipients includes a Notify
Sender button that, when clicked, creates a message notifying you that
the original message was viewed. This function does not work in all
Show Text Symbols
If this button is on, invisible text symbols such as carriage returns, tabs,
and spaces appear in the message.You can see these symbols only in
your composition window. They do not appear in the message you send.
Send or Queue
This button lets you send a message immediately or put it in the queue to
send later. If the “Immediate Send” option is selected in the Sending Mail
options, the button is labeled Send. If the option is not checked, the button
The drop-down lists and buttons on the bottom row of the text toolbar are described below.
Note that the text styles and attributes controlled by this row can also be accessed via text
file windows and signature windows.
Font drop-down list
Make the selected text a specific font (typeface).
Size
Make the selected text a specific size.
Bold
Make the selected text bold.
Italics
Make the selected text italic.
Underline
Make the selected text underlined.
Color (Sponsored and Paid modes only)
Make the selected text a specific color. Note that “Automatic” is the
default for text on your computer (usually black).
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Typewriter (Sponsored and Paid modes only)
Make the selected text the fixed-width (typewriter-style) message font set
Align Left (Sponsored and Paid modes only)
Align the selected paragraph to the left margin.
Align Center (Sponsored and Paid modes only)
Align the selected paragraph to the center of the page.
Align Right (Sponsored and Paid modes only)
Align the selected paragraph to the right margin.
Indent In (Sponsored and Paid modes only)
Indent the selected paragraph indented once to the left.
Indent Out (Sponsored and Paid modes only)
Remove one left indent from the selected paragraph.
Bulleted List (Sponsored and Paid modes only)
Make the selected text a bulleted list.
Make Hyperlink (Sponsored and Paid modes only)
Make the selected text or graphic a clickable hyperlink to a Uniform
Resource Location (URL), so that when the recipient clicks the item, he or
she is immediately taken to the URL.
Clear Formatting
Remove all the formatting from the selected text or paragraph.
Insert Object (Sponsored and Paid modes only)
Insert a specified picture file or a horizontal line at the current cursor posi-
tion in body text. For details, see “Inserting Objects in Message Text” on
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Me ssa g e He a d e r
Outgoing mail headers consist of six fields: To:, From:, Subject:, Cc:, Bcc:, and Attached.
Each field is described below. The To:, Subject:, Cc:, and Bcc: fields can be directly edited.
To move the cursor from field to field, press the Tab key or click in the desired field with the
mouse.
To resize the header region of the outgoing message composition window, drag the sepa-
rator up or down. This change applies to the current message only.
To:—The intended recipients’ email addresses or nicknames you have defined. Multiple
addresses and nicknames must be separated by commas. See “Using the Address Book”
From:—The sender’s email address. This is usually your incoming email account plus
your real name. You can use a return address other than your incoming mail account by
entering the address in the Return address field of the Getting Started options. See
If you have Alternate personalities set up, you can select the appropriate personality in the
Subject:—Some brief text indicating the contents of the message. This field can be left
blank although it is considered a point of email etiquette to include a Subject with each
message. By default, Eudora warns you when you send a message with no subject.
Cc:—The email addresses or nicknames of people to whom a copy of the message is to
be sent. These recipients are displayed in the message header for all recipients to see.
Multiple addresses must be separated by commas. This field can be left blank. Cc means
Bcc:—The email addresses or nicknames of people to whom a blind copy of the message
is to be sent. These recipients are not displayed in the message header, and the recipients
in the To and Cc fields will not know that a copy went to these addresses. Use Bcc to send
a copy of a message to someone without showing the other recipients. Multiple addresses
must be separated by commas. This field can be left blank. Bcc means “blind carbon
(Sponsored and Paid modes only) The Bcc field can also be used to put a copy of the
message in one or more of your mailboxes. To do this, right-click in the body of the
message to display the drop-down list. From the drop-down list, choose your mailbox from
the Fcc menu (equivalent to the Transfer menu). The name of the mailbox is inserted into
the Bcc field preceded by the expression “ƒ\.”
Repeat the procedure to Fcc to multiple mailboxes. Eudora automatically separates the
entries with commas. When the message is sent, a copy is placed in each specified
mailbox. Fcc means “folder carbon copy.”
Attached:—A list of documents being attached to and sent along with the message. See
attachments. To delete an attachment from an outgoing message, select it and press the
backspace or delete key. This field can be left blank.
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Me ssa g e Bod y
After filling in the header fields, move the insertion point to the space below the message
header. Type the body of the message here. For information about formatting your
You can insert pictures and horizontal lines into message text. For details, see “Inserting
Using Autom a tic Na m e Com p le tion
(Sponsored and Paid modes only)
allows you to enter a portion of a name in the To:, Cc:, or Bcc: field, and Eudora automat-
ically completes the name for you. Just start typing and Eudora will attempt to complete
the name. If multiple past recipients match the text you’ve entered, a list of names from
your history file and address book appear in a drop-down name list (provided both the
history file and address book are selected in the new Auto-Completion option window
explained later in this section). Select the correct name, and the name and email address
appear in the field.
The history file consists of names and email addresses of people you have previously sent
or forwarded messages to, or to whose messages you have replied within Eudora.
The address book consists of the nicknames you have entered for each person in your
address book.
In the example below, you want to send Barb a message. Previously, you had to enter her
nickname from your address book, or if she wasn’t in your address book, you had to enter
her full email address. To use the auto-completion feature, just enter B in the To: field, and
Eudora displays a drop-down name list of names beginning with “B” for you to choose
from. (You can also press Esc to prevent the drop-down name list from appearing.) If you
had typed BA, Eudora would have displayed a drop-down name list with all names begin-
ning with “Ba.” Scroll through the name list and click or press Enter to select the correct
name. The name is now entered into the header field.
Name auto-completion in a new message
If you have only a “Barb” and a “Beth” as names in your address book or history file,
Eudora completes the first alphabetical name. So when you type B, “Barb” would appear
first on the list (if Names should appear in alphabetical order is selected in the Auto
Completion options window explained later in this section).
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indicates that the name came from your address book. If the name is from your
address book, only the nickname appears in the drop-down name list. indicates that
the name came from your history file. If the name is from your history file, both the user-
name and email address appear in the drop-down name list as you type.
To complete the name in the field, select the correct name from the drop-down list. If you
want to add another name in the To: field, type a comma (,) after the first recipient’s name.
Then you can begin to add another recipient’s name as shown in the example below.
Second name auto-completion in the To: field
The example below shows auto-completion in the Cc: field.
Name auto-completion in the Cc: field
Note. To turn the name auto-completion feature off, go to the Tools menu, choose
Options, and then select Auto-completion. Turn off Address Book and History File and
click OK.
Se tting the Me ssa g e Priority
You can assign a priority to incoming and outgoing messages. The priority identification is
only for you and your recipients; it does not affect the way mail transport systems handle
the messages.
There are five priority levels available, with 1 being the highest and 5 being the lowest.
Each is represented by a small symbol in the Toolbar of a message window and the
Priority column of a message summary. Priority 3 (normal) is used for messages that have
no assigned priorities, and it is not displayed. The highest priority symbol, a double-caret,
is red; the lowest priority symbol, an inverted double-caret, is blue.
New messages are created with a normal priority. To change the priority of the current
message, use the Priority drop-down list.
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Selecting a priority for a message
Note. To set up Eudora to default to the sender’s priority on your replies, turn on the “Copy
more information. You can always change the priority in the message window.
Re q ue sting a Re turn Re c e ip t
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You can request that your recipients notify you when they have seen your message. To do
this, click
in the message toolbar.
When your recipients open the message and then close it, a dialog box appears asking
them to create a notification message now, later, or never. If you sent yourself a copy of
the message, you will see the request for notification. If a recipient chooses to create a
notification message, it is sent to you and tells you when the recipient opened your
message.
Request for notification
If you receive a request for notification, you may respond as follows:
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Click Now to queue the notification message in your Out mailbox. It will be sent the
next time queued messages are sent.
Click Later to close the message without sending a notification. Note that each
time you open the message and then close it (or if you try to delete it), the notifica-
tion request will appear until you click either Now or Never.
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Click Never to cancel the notification request without ever sending a request for
notification message.
Click Cancel to dismiss the request for notification request from the screen while
the return receipt message is open. Note that if you close the message, the notifi-
cation dialog box will appear again.
The Return Receipt options may or may not work as described, depending on your recipi-
ents’ email software.
Form a tting Te xt
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You can use standard text-editing options to format the text of your outgoing messages,
your text files, and your signatures. The formatting is delivered to your recipients using
text-editing standards in common use today. In Eudora, styled and plain text formatting is
delivered to your recipients using the Hypertext Markup Language format, HTML. This
enables you to compose and send messages styled with different fonts, colors, font sizes,
etc. However, the formatting your recipients see depend on how well their email packages
support this standard.
HTML is the text formatting standard used in the World Wide Web by Web browsers and
newer email applications. As well as allowing you to use enriched text, HTML also lets you
embed pictures and create bullet lists in the messages you send.
It’s important to remember that you cannot completely control what happens on your
recipients’ computers. Depending on the type of computers they are using, their installed
fonts, their options or preferences, etc., they could end up viewing something other than
what you had intended. Also, the formatting changes you make are sent to your recipient,
but your default text settings are not. Any text that you did not make changes to appears
using your recipient’s default text settings, which may be different from yours.
In Eudora, you can select preferences for sending text in your messages as follows.
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From the Tools menu, choose Options.
Scroll through the category list and select Styled Text.
In the Styled Text options window, you can select whether you want Eudora to send
your messages with both plain and styled text, with styled text only, or with plain text
only. Also, you can set a warning each time you send a message with styled text.
However, the default is to send both styled and plain text. For details, see “Styled Text”
Text in outgoing messages, text files, and signature files can be formatted using the
commands on the Edit menu, the Text submenu, and the formatting toolbar. See the “Text
Toolbar” section above for information on using the formatting part of the toolbar. The
following Text submenu commands are described.
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Te xt Ed iting Me nu Com m a nd s
To format text, use the commands on the Text submenu of the Edit menu. If text in the
message body is selected, the menu command applies the formatting to that text. If no
text is selected but the cursor is in the message body, then the font-related commands
apply the formatting to the next text you type, and the margin-related commands apply the
formatting to the current paragraph; that is, the paragraph containing the cursor.
Important. You must place the cursor in the composition window to activate the options,
otherwise the options are inactive (grayed out).
The formatting options are as follows:
Font—Make the text a certain font by choosing from the fonts available on your system.
Remember that your recipient may not have the same fonts.
Bold, Italic, Underline—Make the text bold, italic, or underlined. The default is plain text.
Color—Make the text black or the selected color.
Typewriter—Set the text to the fixed-width (typewriter-style) message font selected in the
Fonts Options.
Size—Make the text the selected size: Very Small, Small (the default), Medium, Large,
Larger, Very Large, and Humongous. The increase or decrease is based on the next or
previous standard point size.
Remember that you are viewing the text based on your default settings in the Fonts
Options, but your recipient’s settings and fonts will be different. For example, if your recip-
ient’s default font size is larger than yours and you send a message with text set to
“Humongous,” your recipient will see text even more humongous than yours!
Left, Right, Center—Align the selected or current paragraph to the left, the right, or the
center of the current indent.
Margins: Indent In, Indent Out—Indent the selected or current paragraph’s left margin in
one level, or “outdent” the left margin: remove one level of indent. You must have text
highlighted to activate this option.
Bulleted List—Convert the selected text to a bulleted list, or begin a bulleted list at the
insertion point.
Make Hyperlink—Convert the selected piece of text, or the selected graphic, to a click-
able, underlined hyperlink to a URL you specify; when your recipient clicks the hyperlink,
he or she is immediately taken to the URL. You must select text or a graphic to activate
this option.
Clear Formatting—Clear all formatting and go back to the default settings. This option is
not active if you have no formatting in your message.
Insert Object—Insert objects in the body of a composition message. Includes the
commands “Picture” (insert an embedded graphic file) and “Horizontal Line” (insert a hori-
zontal rule as a separator).
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Othe r Form a tting Op tions
If you select the Word Wrap button in the message toolbar, a carriage return is automati-
cally inserted at the end of each line of text with roughly 76 characters per line when the
message is sent. This makes the message legible on your recipient’s computer.
It is a good idea not to include your own carriage returns within paragraphs if you have the
Word Wrap option selected. Use carriage returns only to create new paragraphs in the
message.
To manually wrap text, do the following.
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2
Select and highlight the text you want to wrap.
From the Edit menu, choose Wrap Selection.
To unwrap text, select the text you want, then hold down the Shift key and from the Edit
menu, choose Wrap Selection.
To copy wrapped text without taking the carriage returns, that is, to copy and unwrap, hold
down the Shift key and choose Copy from the Edit menu.
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To insert pictures and horizontal lines into the body of a message, use the Insert submenu
You can insert an object in the middle of a line of text or between lines of text in the
message body.
To insert a picture in message text, do the following.
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2
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Move the cursor to where you want the picture.
From the Edit menu, choose Insert.
From the Insert submenu, choose Picture. A dialog box appears.
In the dialog box, select an image file and click Open.
The picture is inserted into the message body at the cursor position. You can continue
typing text. Once the picture is inserted in your message, you can drag it to where you
want it in the message. Your recipient will see the picture right in the message body.
Note. What your recipient sees may depend on whether the receiving computer and email
package support the display of inline images embedded in message text.
To insert a horizontal line in message text, do the following.
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2
3
Move the cursor to where you want the line.
From the Edit menu, choose Insert.
From the Insert submenu, choose Horizontal Line. A horizontal rule is inserted imme-
diately above the line on which the cursor resides.
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Atta c hing a File to a Me ssa g e
Any file can be attached to and sent with a Eudora message. Most of the time, an attached
document functions like a “rider” to the email message, and does not appear within the
message text. Instead, the name of the document appears automatically in the Attached
field of the message header.
To attach a file to an outgoing message, do the following.
1
From the Message menu, choose Attach File. The Attach File dialog box appears.
Attach File dialog box
2
Locate the file you want, select it, and click Open to attach the document to the current
message or to open a new message with the file attached. You can add as many
attachments as you want to a message.
You can also drag one or more files from either the desktop or the File Browser window
To detach an attached document before the message is sent, select the document name
in the Attached field; then press either the backspace key or the Delete key.
When the message is sent, if the chosen document is not a plain text (ASCII) file, it is
encoded in the selected attachment type. This allows you to send any kind of document
through the mail, even applications.
If the document is an ASCII file, you can put it in the body of the message by turning off
the Text as Attachment button in the message toolbar, or by turning on the “Put text
attachments in body of message” option in the Attachments options. See “Attachments”
ments option applies to all outgoing messages.
The attachment types include the following.
MIME—This is best for recipients with MIME-compliant email readers, regardless of what
operating system they are using. For more information on MIME, see “MIME and Mapping
in the extended online user manual.
BinHex—This is best for recipients on a Macintosh with an email reader that is not
MIME-compliant.
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Uuencode—This is best for recipients using PC or UNIX systems that are not
MIME-compliant.
Ma nua lly De c od ing Atta c hm e nts
If you send an attachment and your recipient’s email program does not automatically
decode it, it will probably be included in the body of the message in the chosen attachment
format (MIME, BinHex, or Uuencode).
If you receive a large message consisting largely of indecipherable text, it is probably an
attachment that was not automatically decoded. Usually this is because the attachment
headers are formatted incorrectly.
To decode an attachment that was not automatically decoded, open the message and
choose Save As from the File menu to save the message as a text file. Then run the
decoding utility appropriate for the encoding method that the sender used. Decoding utili-
ties can be found at various shareware sites on the Internet.
Atta c hing a Pure Voic e ™ File to a Me ssa g e
You can attach an audio file to your message. However, your recipient must have the
PureVoice player/recorder to hear your audio attachment. Click the following website:
To attach a PureVoice file to your message, do the following.
1
Click the PureVoice icon on the toolbar
or from the Message menu, choose
Attach then choose PureVoice.
The PureVoice player/recorder appears in an opened message.
PureVoice player/recorder
Note. QUALCOMM PureVoice software contains its own help program. For detailed infor-
mation on PureVoice, choose Topics from the PureVoice Help menu.
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To create an audio file, click the New button, or from the File menu, choose New
Recording. If a current recording exists, a dialog box appears asking if you want to
discard or save the current recording.
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4
5
To record your voice, click the red round button or from the Control menu, choose
Record.
Speak clearly into the computer’s microphone. Observe the volume indicator in the
digital display, and if necessary, adjust the microphone volume/sensitivity control.
When finished recording, click the square button or from the Control menu, choose
Stop.
Note. To discard this audio file and start over, just repeat steps 2 through 5.
6
To attach the audio file, click Attach in the PureVoice window or from the File menu,
choose Attach. You may also save the audio file to a folder. The PureVoice audio file
attaches to your message.
Note. If your recipient does not have PureVoice, choose Attach Site Info from the
Options menu. This tells your recipient where on the Internet he or she can retrieve
the PureVoice player/recorder. The Web site includes a file with download instructions.
Inc lud ing a URL in a Me ssa g e
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To include a hot link also known as a Uniform Resource Locator or URL in a message,
enclose it with less than and greater than signs (angle brackets) to ensure that your recip-
ient’s email application can identify it as a URL, for example,
<http://www.eudora.com> is a hot link.
URL in a message
Cre a ting a Hyp e rlink in a Me ssa g e
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Eudora lets you create a hyperlink in an outgoing message; that is, it converts a piece of
text or a graphic into a link to a URL. When your recipients click the text or graphic, their
browsers open and take them to that URL.
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To create a hyperlink, do the following.
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2
Type the text you want to link in your outgoing message, for example “Click here.”
Select the text to highlight it.
Or, insert a graphic file by choosing Insert then Picture from the Edit menu and select
the inserted graphic.
3
Either choose Make Hyperlink from the Text submenu under the Edit menu, or click
the URL field of the Hyperlink dialog box, enter the full address of the URL, for
example http://www.eudora.com
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Click OK.
The text or graphic is now linked and is highlighted and underlined in the message. When
your recipients receive the message, open it, and click the text or picture you hyperlinked,
their browsers or other applications will open and go directly to the URL you specified.
For example, if you hyperlinked “Click here” to the Eudora Web site www.eudora.com
and when your recipient clicks “Click here,” your recipient’s browser opens and the Eudora
Web page appears.
Che c king Your Sp e lling Autom a tic a lly
(Sp o nso re d a nd Pa id m o d e s o nly)
Automatic spell check is the inline spell check feature of Eudora. If automatic spell check
is turned on, misspelled words are double-underlined in the message body after you type
them and press the spacebar. To correct the word or display a drop-down word list from
which to choose the correct word, right-click the underlined word.
Before you start using the automatic spell check feature, you must turn on this feature.
To turn on the automatic spell check, do the following.
1
2
From the Tools menu, choose Options.
Scroll and select Spell Checking. The Spell Checking options window appears.
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Spell Checking options window
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Select Automatically as you type.
Click OK. Your automatic spell check should be on.
When you type in your message and misspell a word, the word is immediately under-
lined after you press the spacebar as shown in the example.
New message with automatic spell check
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If you want to choose the correct word from the drop-down word list, right-click and the
drop-down word list appears as shown below.
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Drop-down word list
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From the drop-down word list, choose the correct word. Your misspelled word is
replaced by the correct word.
Note. Notice in our example that “p.m.” is double-underlined indicating that it’s misspelled
according to the spell checker. From the drop-down word list, you can choose Ignore All
to ignore the perceived error or Add to add the word to your dictionary. If you add the
word, it will not display as a misspelled word in future messages.
Che c king Your Sp e lling Ma nua lly
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If you prefer not to use the automatic spell check, Eudora has a manual spell checker. It
can be used to check for misspellings in the body of current message composition
windows, text files, and signature files. It includes a built-in dictionary and also allows for
the creation of a custom user dictionary. Additionally, it can be configured to ignore capital-
ized words, words in all capital letters, words with numbers, and mixed-case words; to
report doubled (repeated) words; and to suggest alternative spellings.
Note. Changes to the spelling options can be made in the Spell Checking options window.
To open this window, from the Tools menu, choose Options. Scroll the category list and
Important. For information on how to get dictionaries for languages other than U.S.
English, see “Sources” in the online user manual.
To automatically check spelling when you send or queue a message, turn on the “Check
when message queued/sent” option in the Spell Checking options. If this is on, the
message is checked for spelling errors when you send or queue it. If you complete the
spell-checking process, the message is automatically sent or queued. If you click Cancel
instead, or leave spelling errors in the message, a dialog box appears asking you if you
still want to send or queue the message. If you don’t want that dialog box to be displayed,
turn on the “Don’t warn me anymore” option in the Spell Checking options.
To check the spelling of a current composition window, text file, or signature file, click
Check Spelling in the main window toolbar or choose Check Spelling from the Edit
menu (Ctrl+6). If there are no misspellings, the “No misspellings found” alert appears.
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Note. For an alternate way to check your spelling, use the Shift+Check Spelling option on
the Eudora main window toolbar, which lets you see all misspelled words at once and
Also, if text is selected, Eudora checks the spelling only of the selected text. Otherwise, it
starts the spelling check from the beginning of the message body or text file and checks
the entire text.
If a misspelled, unknown, or repeated word is found, the Check Spelling dialog box
appears with the word listed in the Unknown field. If you want to send (or queue) the
message without correcting the misspelled word, click Just send.
The following dialog box appears only if the Warn me when sending/queueing message
Check Spelling dialog box
To correct the misspelled word, take one of the following steps.
■ Type the correct spelling of the word in the Change To field (if it is not already there)
and click Change.
■ Select the correct word from the Suggestions list and click Change.
■ Double-click the correct word in the Suggestions list. The spelling checker then
proceeds with the check.
Che c k Sp e lling Dia log Box
The Check Spelling dialog box allows you to ignore an unknown word, change it, suggest
the correct spelling, add the word to your user dictionary, edit your dictionary, or change
the spelling options via the Options button. Each of the fields and buttons is described
below.
Just Send/Queue—Click to send or queue the current message that contains the
misspellings. The misspellings are not corrected before they are sent or queued.
Unknown—An unknown word is one that is not found in Eudora’s built-in dictionary or
your own custom dictionary. You can act on an unknown word using the Ignore, Ignore all,
Change, Change all, or Add buttons as described below.
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Change To—This field works in conjunction with the Change and Change all buttons. It
allows you to modify the unknown word by either typing its correct spelling in this field or
selecting a suggested alternative spelling from the Suggestions field, and then clicking the
Change or Change all button, as described below.
Suggestions—This field lists Eudora’s suggestions for the correct spelling of the
unknown word. If the Suggest words option is selected, all suggestions are listed here by
default. If the option is deselected, click the Suggest button to display Eudora’s sugges-
tions.
Ignore—This button causes the spelling checker to ignore this occurrence of the unknown
word.
Ignore all—This button causes the spelling checker to ignore this occurrence and all
subsequent occurrences of the unknown word.
Change—This button substitutes the contents of the Change To field for the unknown
word.
Change all—This button substitutes the contents of the Change To field for this occur-
rence and all subsequent occurrences of the unknown word.
Suggest—This button causes the Suggestions field to display a list of Eudora’s sugges-
tions for the correct spelling of the unknown word.
If Eudora doesn’t have suggestions in its dictionary, then it doesn’t list any suggestions.
Add—This button adds the unknown word to your custom user dictionary.
Edit Dictionary—This button displays the Edit User Dictionary dialog box.
Edit User Dictionary
The Edit User Dictionary dialog box lists all of the words in your user dictionary in the
Dictionary field. It also allows you to add words to or delete words from your personal user
dictionary, or even to clear the entire dictionary.
Note. Words in the user dictionary are saved in all lower case.
To add a word to the dictionary using this dialog box, type the correct spelling of the word
in the Word field and click the Add button. The word is then added to the dictionary and
displayed in the Dictionary field.
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Note. The Add button in this dialog box works the same as the Add button in the Check
Spelling dialog box.
To remove a word from the user dictionary, first type it in the Word field or locate it in the
Dictionary field and single-click it to display it in the Word field. Then click the Delete
button.
To delete the entire user dictionary, click Clear. You will then be prompted to confirm the
deletions. If you click Yes, all of the words will be deleted from the user dictionary.
Spelling Options dialog box
The Spelling Options dialog box lists the spell-checking options. A check mark in the box
next to the option name indicates that the option is selected.
Note. The spelling options can also be modified in Options under the Tools menu. For
The options are as follows:
Ignore capitalized words—The spelling checker ignores words that start with a capital
letter, such as proper nouns.
Ignore words with all capitals—The spelling checker ignores words that contain all
capital letters, such as acronyms.
Ignore words with numbers—The spelling checker ignores words that contain numbers.
Ignore words with mixed case—The spelling checker ignores words that contain a
mixture of uppercase and lowercase characters.
Report doubled words—The spelling checker reports words that appear twice in
sequence in text and identifies them as Doubled words.
Suggest Words—The spelling checker displays Eudora’s suggestions for the correct
spelling of an unknown word. You can select any combination of the suggestion options:
Phonetic words, Split words, Typographic words.
Note. If Eudora doesn’t have suggestions in its dictionary, then it doesn’t list any sugges-
tions.
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Sa ving a Me ssa g e for La te r Cha ng e s
Sometimes it is convenient to save an outgoing message either as a safeguard when
typing long messages, or so you can return to it later to make changes.
To save the current message, do the following.
1
From the File menu, choose Save.
Saved messages are put in the Out mailbox, and if at least one recipient is entered in
either the To: or the Bcc: field, the saved message is shown with a bullet (•) in the
Status column. If both the To: and Bcc: fields are empty, the Status column is blank.
The bullet indicates that the message not only has been saved, but is also ready to be
sent or queued.
Saved (and sendable) message in the Out mailbox
You can continue making changes to the message or close it. If you try to close an
outgoing message window without saving that version of the message, an alert
appears asking if the message should be saved or the changes discarded. If you select
Discard and the message has never been saved, the message is deleted.
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Sending Messages and Checking Mail
Se nd ing or Que ue ing a Me ssa g e
After you compose a message, you can send it immediately or put it in a queue to be sent
later.
Note. Most outgoing (SMTP) servers do not require a password to send mail. For informa-
283. Click the page number to display the topic.
Se nd ing a Me ssa g e Im m e d ia te ly
If you want to send your messages immediately instead of putting them in a queue to send
later, be sure the “Immediate send” option is turned on in the Sending Mail options
203. Click the page number to display the topic.
To send the current message, do the following.
■ From the Message menu, choose Send Immediately, or click
.
A Task Status window can be displayed to show the progress of the transmission. See
If you have the “Immediate send” option on, but want to put the current message in the
queue, hold down the Shift key and click the Send button. The Change Queueing dialog
box appears, and you can set detailed instructions. For more details, see “Queueing a
topic.
Que ue ing a Me ssa g e to Se nd La te r
If you want to put your messages in a queue (in the Out mailbox) to send all together at a
later time, be sure the “Immediate send” option is off in the Sending Mail options. For infor-
page number to display the topic.
You can set up Eudora to warn you if you try to delete a queued message, or try to quit
Eudora with queued messages. To do this, turn on those options in the Extra Warnings
topic.
To put the current message in the queue, do the following.
■ From the Message menu, choose Queue For Delivery or click
.
The message window is closed, the message is saved in the Out mailbox marked Q
(meaning it’s ready to be sent), and the date and time are placed in the Date column.
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Queued messages in the Out mailbox
To send all of your queued messages, do the following.
■ From the File menu, select Send Queued Messages. If you have the Task Status
If you have the “Immediate send” option turned on, but want to send a message immedi-
ately, hold down the Shift key and click the Queue button. The Change Queueing dialog
box appears, and you can select “Send Message Right Now.” However, if you select this
option, all messages that are queued in the Out box will be sent.
Que ue ing a Me ssa g e to Se nd a t a Ce rta in Tim e
You can specify that a message be sent at a certain time in the future. To do this for the
current outgoing message, do the following.
1
From the Message menu, choose Change.
2
From the Change submenu, choose Queueing. The Change Queueing dialog box
appears.
Change Queueing dialog box
3
If you choose Right now, the message is sent immediately when you click OK. If you
choose Next time queued messages are sent, the message is sent the next time
queued messages are sent.
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If you choose On or after, you can use the Time and Date fields to fill in the time and
date at which the message should be sent. The message is saved in the Out mailbox
with a clock icon
in the Status column, and with the specified date and time in the
Date column. The message is sent when the specified time arrives.
Important. For the message to be sent at the correct time, Eudora must be running at
that time. If Eudora is not running, the message is sent the first time Eudora is run after
the specified time has passed.
If you choose Don’t send for a message that has never been queued, nothing
happens. The message is held in the Out mailbox until it is either deleted or re-queued
and sent.
Note. When exiting Eudora with queued messages or timed queued messages (sent
within the next 10 hours), Eudora gives you a warning and a chance to send these
messages.
Ed iting a Que ue d Me ssa g e
To edit a queued message, do the following.
1
2
3
Open the Out mailbox.
Click to select the message summary.
Make the necessary edits and save it. The message is kept in the Out mailbox. If you
close the changed message without saving it, an alert appears asking you to verify the
changes.
Ta king a Me ssa g e Out of the Que ue
A message that is queued but is not yet sent can be unqueued by doing the following.
1
2
Open the Out mailbox and select the desired message summary.
From the Message menu, choose Change Queueing and click Don’t send. This
changes the message status from queued (Q) to sendable (•). The message is held in
the Out mailbox until it is either deleted, re-queued, or sent.
Se nd ing Que ue d Me ssa g e s Whe n Che c king Ma il
If the Send on check option in the Sending Mail options window is on, then every time
Eudora checks for mail (automatically or manually), all queued messages are automati-
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Se nd ing Me ssa g e s with Sp e c ia l Se rve r Instruc tions
To send your queued messages with special instructions for the incoming server, do the
following.
1
Hold down the Shift key and from the File menu, choose Send Queued Messages.
The Mail Transfer options dialog box appears.
Mail Transfer Options dialog box
2
Set the options you want and click OK. All the actions you have requested are
completed.
Using SMTP Authe ntic a tion
SMTP authentication operates automatically in Eudora.
Eudora can log in to an SMTP server when sending mail, just like it does for receiving
mail. Not all SMTP servers require or allow such authentication. Eudora will attempt
authentication to servers that allow it. The preferred SMTP authentication method is
CRAM-MD5. If CRAM-MD5 is not available, LOGIN or PLAIN will automatically be used.
Once Eudora discovers that your SMTP server allows authentication and when you send
messages, a dialog appears that prompts you to enter a password.
If for some reason yo prefer that Eudora not attempt to login to your SMTP server, you can
tell it not to do so by doing the following.
1
From the Tools menu, choose Options, then Sending Mail. The Sending Mail options
window appears.
2
3
Turn off the Allow Authentication.
Click OK.
Important. If you turn off the Allow Authentication option, you may not be able to send
mail. Please check with your email administrator or ISP if you have any difficulties.
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Ke e p ing Cop ie s of Outg oing Me ssa g e s
Following are the three ways to keep copies of your outgoing messages:
■ To put a copy of every outgoing message in the Out mailbox, turn on the Keep copies
page number to display the topic.
■ To put a copy of the current outgoing message in the Out mailbox, select the Keep
Copy button in the message toolbar.
■ To put a copy of the current outgoing message in a particular mailbox, right-click in the
body of the message and select the mailbox from the Fcc submenu.
In all these cases, when the messages are sent, they are put in the specified mailbox with
a checkmark ( ) in the Status column, indicating that the message has been sent.
If none of these options are used, outgoing messages are put into the Trash mailbox after
they have been sent.
Note. You can also set up a filter to save outgoing messages in particular mailboxes
for more information. Click the page number to display the topic.
Che c king for Inc om ing Ma il
The incoming mail server is where your mail is received and stored until it is transferred by
Eudora to your PC. You can use several different mail accounts with Eudora. Your main
account, or “dominant personality,” is specified in the Getting Started options. Additional
mail accounts, or “multiple personalities,” are set up in the Personalities window and the
Account Settings dialog box. For more information on personalities and the Account
the topic.
There are two ways to check your incoming mail server and transfer mail to your PC: auto-
matically or manually. These are described in the sections below.
You can also control how your mail is transferred from the server, and what happens to it
the topic.
Che c king for Ma il Autom a tic a lly
To set up Eudora to automatically check your incoming mail account and transfer new
mail, do the following.
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From the Tools menu, choose Options.
2
Scroll through the category list and choose Checking Mail. The Checking Mail option
page number to display the topic.
3
In the Check for mail every _ minutes field, enter the number of minutes that you
want between mail checks.
Note. Fifteen minutes is a good minimum interval because checking mail more
frequently puts an unnecessary load on your incoming mail server. If the field is empty
or is set to 0, mail is not automatically checked.
If automatic checking is set, the Check Mail command under the File menu shows you
the next scheduled time for an automatic check.
4
5
From the Tools menu, choose Personalities. The Personalities window opens. See
display the topic.
For each personality you want automatically checked, right-click the personality to
display the drop-down context menu.
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7
From the context menu, choose Properties. The Account Settings dialog box appears.
Turn on the Check Mail option for that personality.
The Check Mail option also specifies that an account should be checked for new mail
when a manual mail check is done.
Che c king for Ma il Ma nua lly
To manually check for new mail at any time, do the following.
1
From the File menu, choose Check Mail or click
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Any account that has the Check Mail option turned on in the Account Settings dialog box
is checked. If you haven’t successfully entered your password since opening the Eudora
program, a prompt appears for each personality being checked. A Task Status window
page 151. Click the page number to display the topic.
Stop p ing a Ma il Che c k
If you want to stop a mail check in the middle of the process, do the following.
1
On the Eudora status bar, right-click on the progress indicator or envelope. A
drop-down context menu appears.
Task indicator’s context menu
2
From the drop-down list, choose Stop All Tasks to stop the mail check.
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To resume mail check, right-click on the progress indicator and choose Process All
Waiting Tasks.
Using Your Pa ssword
Each time you open Eudora and check mail for the first time, you need to enter a pass-
word for each incoming mail account that you have. This password is required by the
incoming mail server before it will transfer your mail, so that no one else can get your mail
from the server.
Note. This does not protect your mail once it is on your PC. Unless a message has been
sent with some type of security, it is just plain text, which many applications can read. If
you are interested in securing the messages on your PC, you may want to consider a disk
driver that can encrypt hard disk data.
If you need to enter a password, the Eudora Password dialog box appears. Enter your
password and click OK. If you make a mistake before clicking OK, simply backspace and
re-enter the password correctly.
Note. Your incoming mail account password is case-sensitive, so the uppercase and
lowercase characters must be typed in exactly. Be sure that Caps Lock is off. If the Caps
Lock key is on, the word “Caps” will appear on the bottom-right of the main Eudora
window.
Password dialog box
If your password is rejected, an error message appears indicating you have entered the
wrong password. Choose Check Mail from the File menu to redisplay the password dialog
box.
As long as Eudora is running, it remembers all of your passwords. If you don’t want it to
remember (for example, if you are away from your PC), choose Forget Password(s) from
the Special menu. The next time you check mail for any account, Eudora prompts you for
your password again.
Note. If you have more than one personality, a window appears listing the names of your
personalities. You can select the personalities whose passwords you want Eudora to
forget. All the personalities are selected by default. Deselect the personalities you don’t
want Eudora to forget.
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Forget Passwords window (multiple personalities only)
You can also make Eudora remember all of your passwords from one session to the next,
which means you never have to enter passwords again, even if you quit and restart
Eudora. You want to do this only if your PC is in a secure location, where there is no
possible chance of someone else having access to it. To use this option, turn on Save
number to display the topic.
Cha ng ing Your Pa ssword
To change the password for one of your personalities, do the following.
1
From the Special menu, choose Change Password.
2
3
Select the personality whose password you want to change.
At the prompt, enter your old password once, and your new password twice.
Depending on the server you are using, the password can be up to 30 characters, but
normally it is only 7 or 8.
Note. This works only if the incoming mail server is running a compatible pass-
Click the page number to display the topic.
When you choose a new password, try not to use real words, names, dates, familiar acro-
nyms, etc. Some systems require at least one number or symbol in your password, and
you may want to do that even if it is not required.
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Re c e iving Ne w Ma il
When Eudora does a mail check, you can be notified of new mail in one or all of the
following ways: an alert dialog box, the opening of the mailboxes to which new mail is
delivered, and a special “New Mail” sound. These options are turned on or off in the
When you receive notice that new mail has arrived, select Eudora from the Windows task
bar. Mail usually arrives in the In mailbox (unless you are using filters to transfer
messages). If the In mailbox is not already open, select In from the Mailbox menu. The
messages are listed in the order they are received, with the most recent message listed
last. Unread messages are designated by a bullet (•) in the Status column of the message
summary.
Double-click anywhere on a message summary to open the message. You can also view
messages using the message preview pane at the bottom of the mailbox window while the
message summary is highlighted.
Incoming messages are saved indefinitely in the In mailbox (or the mailbox into which they
are filtered) until they are deleted or transferred to another mailbox.
Inc om ing Me ssa g e Wind ow
To open an incoming message, double-click on its message summary in a mailbox
window, or if the message summary is current (highlighted), press the spacebar or the
Enter key.
Incoming message window
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Incoming Message Window
The incoming message window consists of the title bar, toolbar, and message body.
Title Ba r
The title bar provides information about the message, including the name of the sender,
the time and date the message was delivered, and the message subject.
Toolb a r
The toolbar consists of buttons and menus displayed just under the title bar.
Tow Truck
This can be used to move any current message into a different mailbox. In
an opened message, hold the mouse button down on the icon and drag it
to an open mailbox or a mailbox in the Mailboxes window.
Fixed Width
Click this button to convert the message text to the fixed-width (type-
writer-style) message font set in your Fonts options. This lets you view
aligned text, such as columns and tables, more easily.
BLAH BLAH BLAH
If this is on, all the message headers appear.
Pencil
If this is on, you can edit the message.
Delete From Server
If this is on, the message will be deleted from the server the next time mail
is checked (POP servers only). This icon appears only if you have the
“Leave Mail on Server” option selected in the Incoming Mail options
number to display the topic.
Retrieve From Server (Fetch)
If this is on, the message is retrieved (fetched) from the server the next
time mail is checked (POP servers only). This icon appears only if you
have the “Leave Mail on Server” option selected in the Incoming Mail
page number to display the topic.
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Priority drop-down list
This lets you indicate that the message is of higher or lower priority than a
normal message. For most messages, this is just an empty box (normal
page 27. Click the page number to display the topic.
Subject
This is the subject that was assigned by the sender, and is shown in the
message summary. For instructions on changing this subject, see “Editing
topic.
Me ssa g e Bod y
The message body contains the message header and text information, as well as the
name and icon of each attachment. Attachments can be opened from within the message
window by clicking on the attachment icon or name.
Eudora lets you view incoming mail with advanced formatting, graphics, multimedia, and
the like. Additionally, if you have the Use Microsoft’s viewer option turned on in the
Viewing Mail options, and you have Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0 or later installed and
available on your system, then Eudora lets you take full advantage of the viewing capabil-
ities of a Web browser. YOu can view directly in the email message itself, or linked to the
the page number to display the topic.
Printing a n Inc om ing Me ssa g e
To print the current message, do the following.
■ From the File menu, choose Print. Eudora automatically prints headers and footers on
each page, giving the window title, page number, and your return address.
Re c e iving Atta c hm e nts
Unless you have specified a particular directory for your incoming attachments (see
topic), they are automatically decoded and saved in the Attach Directory in your Eudora
Directory. If you receive multiple attachments with the same name, a number is added to
the end of each duplicate name, in the order they are received.
Attachment names appear at the bottom of incoming messages and the message preview
pane.
To open an attachment from the open message window or the message preview pane,
click on the attachment name or its icon. If you have the application that the attachment
was created in, that application launches and the attachment opens.
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Receiving Attachments
If you receive a large message consisting largely of indecipherable text, it is probably an
attachment that was not automatically decoded. Usually this occurs because the attach-
ment headers are formatted incorrectly. To decode an attachment that was not automati-
cally decoded, do the following.
1
Open the message.
2
3
From the File menu, choose Save As to save the message as a text file.
Run the decoding utility appropriate for the encoding method that the sender used.
Decoding utilities can be found at various shareware sites on the Internet. Also see
Sp e c ifying a n Atta c hm e nt Dire c tory
If you do not want to use the default Attach Directory to receive your attachments, do the
following.
1
2
3
From the Tools men, choose Options.
Scroll through the category list and select Attachments.
Beneath the Attachment directory prompt, click on the large bar button. A standard
file dialog box appears.
4
5
Double-click on the name of the directory you want to use (its name appears above the
list).
Click Use Directory. The dialog box closes, leaving the Attachments options window
opened. The name of the folder you just selected appears in the “Attachment directory”
bar button.
Attachments options window
Note. If at any time Eudora cannot find your selected directory, Eudora will use the Attach
Directory in the Eudora Directory for attachments until you designate a new directory.
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Ed iting Inc om ing Me ssa g e s
You can edit the message body in an incoming message if you select the Pencil button in
the toolbar. You can also edit the Subject in the Toolbar (this is the subject shown in the
message summary), and you do not need to select the Pencil button to do this.
To edit an incoming message, click on the Pencil button to turn it on, then edit the
message body. When you are done, save your changes and close the message. See
page number to display the topic.
To edit the subject of an incoming message, open it and edit the subject in the toolbar, not
in the message body. When you are done, click elsewhere in the message, or close it. The
new subject appears in the message summary. The contents of the Subject field of the
message header remain unchanged.
Note. If you reply to the message, the original subject is used for the reply, not your
changed subject.
Using Ac tive URLs
(Sponsored and Paid modes only)
Any string of text that Eudora recognizes as a hot link or URL (Uniform Resource Locator:
http, ftp, mailto, gopher, ph, finger, etc.) to the Internet is active. Click a URL to open a
World Wide Web location, transfer a file, do a gopher search, use the finger tool, etc.
URLs are highlighted and underlined to show that they are active.
To set up Eudora to automatically open a new message when you use a “mailto:” link
within a Netscape Web browser, turn on “Intercept Netscape mailto: URLs” in the Miscella-
display the topic.
Ma na g ing Your Ma il on the POP Se rve r
During a mail check, your incoming messages are normally transferred from your account
on the POP server to your computer, and then deleted from the POP server. But this can
be awkward if you want to read mail from two or more computers and keep your mail orga-
nized at the same time.
There are several options you can use to control your mail transfers and the storage on
the server. Some of these options are available in the Incoming Mail options, for your
dominant account only, and the Account Settings dialog box, for any of your personalities.
Some of the options are available in the Mail Transfer options. For more information, see
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Le a ving Ma il on the Se rve r
If you use the POP protocol for your incoming server to retrieve mail, your mail is normally
deleted from the server once it is delivered to Eudora. However, most POP incoming
servers allow you to indicate that you wish to keep your mail on the server so you can
retrieve it from several different computers at various times.
Facts you should know if you decide to leave your mail on the server:
■ Some mail servers won’t allow you to keep mail on them.
■ Your system administrator may not allow you to keep mail on the server even though
you have the option turned on. Usually administrators do not like to keep too much mail
on the server because of space concerns.
■ Keeping a lot of mail on the server may slow down the mail checking process.
■ If you check mail from several computers at different times, you can end up reading
your messages two or more times. However, if you delete mail from your Trash folder,
the message is deleted on the server.
Eudora has an option that allows you to leave your email messages on the server for a
specified number of days.
To transfer all of your new messages from the incoming server to Eudora and also leave
copies of those messages on the server, do the following.
1
From the Tools menu, choose Options.
2
3
Scroll through the categories and select Incoming Mail.
In the Incoming Mail options window, turn on the Leave mail on server option. This
option is available only if you are using POP.
4
Select the Delete from server after _ days box and set the maximum number of days
that copies of your email messages should be kept on the server. This number is deter-
mined by the time it takes for you to check mail from all of your computers. If this
number is too small, copies of your mail will not be delivered to all of your computers.
Important. Make sure the settings in steps 3 and 4 are identical on all of the
computers from which you will be receiving your mail. If you don’t, one computer will
delete the mail from the server before you can receive it at another computer.
5
Click OK and close the window.
At the next mail check from that computer, Eudora ignores the copies of those previously
read messages and looks for new ones. However, if you check mail from another
computer, those messages are treated as new and are transferred to that computer. For
topic.
Note. The “Leave mail on server” option can also be set for each alternate personality you
have. To do this, use the Account Settings dialog box, accessed from the Personalities
the topic.
Important. The “Leave mail on server” option should be used with care, since it can result
in a buildup of messages on the POP server.
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De le ting a Me ssa g e from the Se rve r
To delete a message that has been left on the server (without retrieving it again), click the
Trash button in the message toolbar or set the message summary’s server status to
Delete, then check mail again. Or use the “Delete all messages that have been retrieved”
option in the Mail Transfer Options dialog box as described in “Checking for Mail with
Skip p ing Me ssa g e s Ove r a Ce rta in Size
To stop Eudora from transferring incoming messages that are too large, select the “Skip
messages over _ K in size” option in the Incoming Mail options window, and specify a size.
Only the first few lines of the messages that exceed that size are transferred, with a note
at the bottom stating that the whole message has not been transferred. See “Incoming
Note. The “Skip messages over _ K in size” option can also be set for each personality
you have. To do this, use the Account Settings dialog box, accessed from the Personali-
ties window.
If you decide you want to transfer the whole message, click on the Fetch button in the
incoming message window, or select the Fetch server status in the message summary,
then check mail again. Also, you can use the Trash button or the “Fetch then Delete”
server status so that the message is deleted from the server after it is transferred.
If you decide you don’t want the message and want to delete it from the server, click the
Trash button in the incoming message window, or select the “Delete server status” in the
message summary, then check mail again. The message will be deleted from the server
without ever being retrieved.
Che c king for Ma il with Sp e c ia l Se rve r Instruc tions
To check your mail and give special transfer and storage instructions to the POP server,
do the following.
1
Hold down the Shift key and from the File menu, choose Check Mail. The Mail
Transfer Options dialog box appears.
Mail Transfer Options dialog box
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Note. If you only have one personality (dominant), only the left side of this dialog box
appears.
2
Set the options you want and click OK to continue checking for mail.
The Mail Transfer Options fields are described below.
Retrieve new mail—Transfer your new mail from the POP server to your computer.
Send queued messages—Send all the queued messages (marked Q) in your Out
mailbox.
Delete messages marked for deletion—Delete from the POP server the messages that
are marked Delete in Eudora. This is for messages that were retrieved only in part, either
with:
■
“Leave mail on server” or “Skip messages over _ K” in size options found in the
Incoming Mail options window for your main account or the Account Settings dialog
box for your multiple personalities.
■ Or the “Fetch all message headers to In mailbox” option found in the Mail Transfer
options window.
Retrieve messages marked for retrieval—Retrieve from the POP server the messages
that are marked “Fetch” or “Fetch then Delete” in Eudora. This is for messages that were
retrieved only in part with:
■
Skip messages over _ K in size option found in the Incoming Mail options window for
your main account or the Account Settings dialog box for your multiple personalities.
■ Or with the Fetch all message headers to In mailbox option found in the Mail
Transfer options window.
To mark a message “Fetch,” “Delete,” or “Fetch then Delete,” either click the buttons in the
incoming message window, or select an option from the Server Status drop-down list of
the message summary.
Delete all messages that have been retrieved—Delete all of the messages from the
POP server that have already been fully transferred to the computer you are using.
Messages that have been partially downloaded are not deleted from the server.
Delete all messages on server—Delete all of your messages from the POP server even
the messages that have never been downloaded. Be absolutely sure this is what you want
to do, because there is no way to undo it!
Fetch all message headers to In mailbox—Retrieve from the POP server the header
and the first few lines of every new message. If you select this option, the messages are
not filtered. Set the Server Status in the message summaries to specify what you want to
do with the messages the next time you check mail.
Important. If you delete the message header, and you have the “Delete from server
when emptied from Trash” option on in either the Incoming Mail options window for
your main account or the Account Settings dialog box for an alternate personality, the
message is gone completely from Eudora and the POP server.
How should checking/sending be performed—If you have multiple personalities, you
can check or send mail based on the options on the left of the Mail Transfer Options (turn
on Using options at left), or as specified in the Incoming Mail options window for your
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dominant account. To set options for any of your personalities, access the Account
Settings dialog box from the Personalities window. You can also specify the personalities
that you want to check or send with this mail transfer. Hold down the Shift key to select
multiple personalities in sequence, or the Ctrl key to select them out of sequence.
Note. Another way to check mail for multiple personalities, regardless of your settings
elsewhere, is to open the Personalities window, select your desired personalities,
Ma na g ing Your Ma il on the IMAP Se rve r
If your incoming mail server uses the Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP), you
manage your mail, mailboxes, and folders on the server, not on your computer. When you
create mailboxes and folders, you create them on the server. However, you can see them
in the Mailboxes window in Eudora. When you launch Eudora, you retrieve your mailboxes
and folders from the server. When you check mail, the mail you retrieve is filtered on the
server although your filters are created in Eudora. This is beneficial if you have to retrieve
mail from different computers. Your mail remains on the server for you to retrieve at
anytime on any computer.
During mail checks, partial messages or full messages are transferred to your computer,
with or without attachments, depending on the options you specify in the Incoming Mail
cial if you use a computer with limited disk space or a slow network connection. To specify
options for your personalities, access the Account Settings dialog box from the Personali-
the topic.
When a message is transferred, either in part or in full, from the IMAP server to your
computer during a mail check, a copy of the message remains on the server until you
actively delete it.
Downloa d ing Minim a l He a d e rs vs. the Full Me ssa g e
By default, the “Minimal Headers Only” option is selected in the Incoming Mail options for
an IMAP account. As a result, when you check mail for an IMAP account and the incoming
mail is delivered to Eudora, only a minimal amount of information about each message is
transferred to your computer. This consists of the information you would see in the
message summary of a mailbox window: the sender, the date and time of the message,
the subject, etc. When you open or preview the message, the full set of message headers
and the entire message body is transferred to your computer. Whether or not any attach-
ments to the message are also transferred depends on your setting for the “Full message
except attachments over _ K” option.
If you always want the full message to be transferred to your computer during mail checks,
with or without attachments as specified separately, rather than just the minimal headers,
IMAP selected. Click the page number to display the topic.
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Full Me ssa g e Exc e p t Atta c hm e nts Ove r _ K
To prevent Eudora from transferring large attachments to your computer during mail
checks, turn on the “Full message except attachments over _ K” option and specify a size.
You can set this option in the Incoming Mail options for your main account, or in the
Account Settings dialog box for any of your personalities. If you enter zero, the attach-
ment, regardless of its size, will be retrieved.
Each time mail is then checked for the account, any attachments larger than the specified
size are not transferred to your computer with the message. The rest of the message is
transferred including the complete message body. Any attachments within the specified
size are also transferred. Enter a large number to transfer most or all attachments to your
computer.
Attachments not transferred during mail checks can still be retrieved. When you open or
preview the message associated with the attachment, an icon for the attachment appears
in the incoming message window or the message preview pane. To retrieve the attach-
ment, do the following.
■ Click the icon to retrieve the attachment from the IMAP server. Or right-click on a
message to display the drop-down list, and from the drop-down list, choose Fetch then
Include Attachments.
If you wish to re-retrieve a message at any time, do the following.
1
Right-click on a message to display the drop-down list.
2
3
From the drop-down list, choose Redownload.
Either choose Include Attachments or Use Defaults. If you want to delete the local
copy of a message, right-click on the message to display the drop-down list. From the
drop-down list, choose Remove Cached Contents. The message still exists on the
server if you want to re-retrieve it.
If the “Full message except attachments over _K” option is turned off, only the attachment
headers are transferred to your computer.
Important. In IMAP, your attachments download to the Attach folder, which is in the IMAP
folder. However, if you have previously set up a directory in the Attachments options
window to where you want your attachments to go, all attachments (POP and IMAP) go to
De le ting a Me ssa g e from the Se rve r
If you have the When I delete a message, move it to Trash option turned off in the
to display the topic), all new messages are delivered to your IMAP server and are kept
there until you actively delete them.
Also, whenever you retrieve a message, either in part or in full from the IMAP server to
your computer, a copy of the message is kept on the IMAP server until you actively delete
it.
Therefore to delete an IMAP message, you must delete it from the IMAP server. To delete
messages from the IMAP server, you must perform two steps.
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■ Mark the message for deletion.
■ Remove all marked messages.
To mark a message for deletion, do the following.
1
2
3
Open the IMAP mailbox or folder containing the message.
Select or open the message.
From the Message menu, choose Delete. Or press the Delete key.
To unmark a marked message so that it won’t be deleted from the IMAP server, select
or open the message and from the Message menu, choose UnDelete. Or right-click to
display the drop-down list, then choose UnDelete.
To remove all messages from the IMAP server marked for deletion, from the Message
menu choose Remove Deleted Messages. The messages are completely removed
both from the IMAP server and from your computer.
Once you remove marked messages using the “Remove Deleted Messages” command,
these messages are completely gone and cannot be restored. Therefore, use this
command with caution.
Re sync hronizing a n IMAP Ma ilb ox or Fold e r
Keeping your mailboxes and folders remotely on an IMAP server lets you perform opera-
tions on them from different computers. For a particular IMAP mailbox, you may delete
some messages from the mailbox from one computer, check mail from another computer,
resulting in new messages being transferred to the mailbox, and change the status of
some of the messages from a third computer.
Each computer has no idea what has been done to the mailbox from the other computer
until you resynchronize the mailbox, which updates all operations performed on the
mailbox from all computers that have access to the mailbox. In some situations, others
may have access to these same mailboxes.
To resynchronize an IMAP mailbox or folder, do the following.
1
From the Tools menu, choose Mailboxes, or click the Mailboxes window’s tab if it is
the inactive window in a tabbed group. The Mailboxes window appears.
2
3
Right-click on the mailbox or folder to display the drop-down list.
From the drop-down list, choose Resynchronize Mailbox. The content of the mailbox
or folder is completely updated according to all operations that have been performed
on the mailbox from all computers that have access to it.
Note. Every time you open an IMAP mailbox, you cause it to resynchronize automatically.
General mailbox and folder management for POP and IMAP servers is performed from the
Mailboxes window. For more information, see “Using the Mailboxes Window” on
page 101. Click the page number to display the topic.
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Re fre shing Your List of IMAP Ma ilb oxe s a nd Fold e rs
If you have shared folders set up, you and other users can access and change messages
stored in mailboxes and folders you keep stored remotely on an IMAP server. However,
users may access shared folders only, your personal folders cannot be accessed. The
Mailboxes window does not reflect the “real-time” status of the IMAP mailbox list. So
between mail checks, a disparity can grow between what appears in the list and what is
actually on the IMAP server, as new mailboxes are added and existing ones are changed
or removed.
To refresh your list of mailboxes and folders on the IMAP server, as it appears in the Mail-
boxes window, do the following.
1
From the Tools menu, choose Mailboxes, or click the Mailboxes window’s tab if it is
the inactive window in a tabbed group. The Mailboxes window appears.
2
3
Right-click on the top folder in the IMAP tree to display the drop-down list.
From the drop-down list, choose Refresh Mailbox List. The mailbox list is updated
according to what actually appears on the IMAP server at that time. Also, the Mailbox
and Transfer menus are updated with the current IMAP mailbox configuration.
Using IMAP Ta sks Offline
If you use IMAP as your incoming server, you can perform certain tasks offline. Being
offline is the preferred method when you are using a laptop away from home or office.
When you are offline, you are disconnected from the server.
To go offline, do the following.
1
Move your mouse pointer to the taskbar and right-click. A context drop-down list
appears.
2
From the context menu, choose Offline. You are now disconnected from your IMAP
server.
When you are offline, you can perform these tasks:
■ disable timed mail checks
■ manually check for mail
■ transfer and delete messages after they are retrieved. However, a dialog box appears
asking you to connect for as long as it takes to transfer and delete your messages.
Once the tasks are completed, you immediately disconnect from the server.
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Re p lying to a Me ssa g e
To reply to the current message, do the following.
■ From the Message menu, choose Reply or click
.
A new message window appears, with the original sender’s address automatically placed
in the To: field of the header. All of the sender’s original text is quoted in the message
body. This text can be edited as needed. Additional text can be added to the reply just as
to any outgoing message, and the reply can then be sent or saved for further changes.
If the sender’s text is quoted with a left sidebar, also called an “excerpt bar.” See the
following example:
Sender’s text showing excerpt bar.
Messages that have been replied to are identified with a left arrow
in the Status
column of their message summary.
Using the Re p ly Op tions
There are several options that you can use when replying to messages.
To include everyone who received the original message, do the following.
■ From the Message menu, choose Reply to All or click
.
To include yourself as a recipient, select the “Include yourself” option in the Replying
the page number to display the topic.
Note. To determine who you are for the “Include yourself” option, Eudora uses the “me”
nickname. If you do not have a “me” nickname set up in your Address Book, Eudora uses
the contents of the Mail Server (Incoming), Login Name, and Return address fields from
the Getting Started options. (Incoming mail accounts are usually of the form login-
name@mailservername.) The “me” nickname is particularly useful if you have multiple
addresses and don’t want replies to go to any of those addresses.
To put the addresses of the other recipients of the original message in the Cc: field
(instead of the To field), select the “Put original To: recipients in Cc: field” option in the
Replying options window. Only the original sender’s address is put in the To: field. This
number to display the topic.
To copy the original message’s priority to your replies, select the “Copy original’s priority to
reply” option in the Replying options window.
To change the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+R from its normal function of “Reply” to “Reply to
All,” turn on the Map Ctrl+R to “Reply to All” option in the Replying options window. The
change is reflected on the Message menu.
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Re p ly with Se le c te d Te xt
If you receive a message from someone, and you would like to reply to this message by
using a selected part of the message, you can do so by just highlighting the text you want
to appear in your reply.
To select text to include in a reply, do the following.
1
In a received message, click and drag to highlight the text you want to include in your
reply.
2
Once the selected text is highlighted, choose Reply from the Message menu or click
. The selected text now appears in your message reply.
3
4
Add more response, if needed.
To send, click Send (or Queue).
Forwa rd ing a Me ssa g e
Any message can be forwarded to someone else. You forward a message to someone
who would consider the message as important as you do. To forward the current
message, do the following.
■ From the Message menu, choose Forward or click
.
A new message window appears with your address in the From: field, the original subject
preceded by “Fwd” and a space in the Subject: field, the original sender’s text quoted in
the message body, and any original attachments in the Attached: field. For details on how
number to display the topic. Make any changes or add any comments you want, and enter
the recipient’s address in the To: field. The message can then be sent or saved for further
changes.
Note. If you forward an outgoing message (a message you sent), the attachments are not
automatically included.
Messages that have been forwarded are identified with a right arrow
column of their message summary.
in the Status
Other ways to forward a message:
■ With the desired message open or selected in a mailbox window, open the
Personalities window, right-click on a personality, and choose Forward As from the
Message submenu of the drop-down list.
■ Set up a filter that uses the Forward To filter action. For more information, see
number to display the topic.
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Re d ire c ting a Me ssa g e
Incoming messages can be sent to a new recipient “by way of” you, maintaining the orig-
inal sender’s address in the From: field. You should redirect a message that should have
gone to someone else.
To redirect the current message, do the following.
■ From the Message menu, choose Redirect or click
.
A new message window appears with the original sender’s address in the From: field with
the statement “by way of” followed by your real name and/or return address, the original
sender’s text in the message body, and the original attachments in the Attached: field.
Make any changes you want, and enter the recipient’s address in the To: field. The
message can then be sent or saved for further changes.
Note. You may want to enclose any changes in brackets [ ] so that you don’t confuse the
recipient about who wrote what.
Redirected message
Messages that have been redirected are identified with a diagonal arrow pointing up and
right
in the Status column of their message summary.
Other ways to redirect a message:
■ With the desired message open or selected in a mailbox window, open the Personali-
ties window, right-click on a personality, and choose Redirect As from the Message
submenu of the drop-down list.
■ Set up a filter that uses the Redirect To filter action. For more information, see
number to display the topic.
Turb o Re d ire c ting
You can redirect a message to someone on your recipient list, queue the new message
(without displaying it), and delete the original message, all with one command. To do this,
choose the Turbo redirect by default option in the Miscellaneous options window. Then,
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when you select a recipient from the Redirect To submenu under the Message menu, a
turbo redirect will be performed automatically. For more information, see “Miscellaneous”
Re d ire c t a nd Sig na ture s
When you use “Redirect” or “Redirect To,” your signature is not added to the message
when it is sent, unless you originally created the message. Eudora considers the message
to be originally from you if the address in the From: field exactly matches either your return
address or one of the addresses belonging to your nickname called “me,” if you have one.
Se nd ing Re je c te d Me ssa g e s Ag a in
If for some reason an email message can’t be delivered to a recipient, mail transport
agents return the message to the original sender (you). A message is typically rejected
because of an error in the recipient’s address, although many other reasons are possible.
The return message usually includes cryptic information that may let you determine the
reason the message was rejected. It also includes the text of the original message.
You can easily recover the original message, make any corrections, and resend it. For the
current message, do the following.
■ From the Message menu, choose Send Again. This eliminates the inserted extra text
and reformats the message as it originally appeared. You can then make changes or
additions and send the message again.
The “Send Again” command is useful for resending saved messages from your Out box,
such as messages you’ve copied to yourself to save yourself retyping. You can send the
same message to another recipient to avoid having to retype the whole message, or you
can send a different message to the same recipients to avoid having to retype their
addresses in the header.
Here’s another way to send again.
1
With the desired message open or selected in a mailbox window, from the Tools menu,
choose Personalities, or select the Personalities tab if it is the deselected window in a
tabbed group. The Personalities window appears.
2
3
4
Right-click on a personality. The drop-down context menu appears.
From the context menu, choose Message. The Message submenu appears.
From the Message submenu, choose Send Again As. The message is sent again but
from the selected personality, which may or may not be the same as the personality
under which it was originally sent.
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Using Signatures and Stationery
Using a Sig na ture
A signature is a few lines of text that are automatically added to the end of an outgoing
message when it is sent. A signature can be whatever you want, but it is mostly used to
give contact information (telephone, address, etc.). You use only one signature at a time in
a message, but you can create as many different signatures as you want.
Note. Your signature is not displayed in the Eudora message window but is added to the
end of the message when it is sent.
Important. If you are using Eudora in Light mode, you are allowed only one signature.
Signatures are created and managed from the Signature window.
Sig na ture Wind ow
Use this window to manage and apply signatures.
To open the Signature window, do the following.
■ From the Tools menu, choose Signatures. Or, if the Signature window is in a visible
tabbed window, click its tab.
Sample Signature window
The Signature window displays a single-column list of your signature files.
Note. You can select only one item at a time in the list; you cannot select multiple items.
If you right-click a signature in the list, a drop-down context menu appears with the
following commands (the standard Eudora window-management commands appear at the
bottom):
■ New—Create a new signature. Eudora prompts you for the name of the new signature,
then opens an editing window for you to type the signature text. Save the text with the
File menu “Save” command, or close without saving to discard it.
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■ Edit—Open an editing window for the selected signature. (Double-click a signature as
a shortcut for this command.) Save your changes with the File menu “Save” command,
or close the window without saving to discard your changes.
■ Delete—Delete the selected signature. Eudora asks you to confirm the deletion. Use
the Delete key as a shortcut for this command.
■ Rename—Rename the selected signature. Use the F2 key as a shortcut for this
command, or click the signature item’s name box, then edit the name right in the box.
You can also display the drop-down context menu and create a new signature by
right-clicking anywhere in an empty Signature window or by right-clicking anywhere off a
signature item in a Signature window that is not empty.
Ad d ing a Ne w Sig na ture
Following is the basic procedure for creating a new signature in the Signature window,
followed by additional information on managing signatures and sending them with
messages.
Eudora comes with a default signature called Standard. This is an empty signature file that
you fill with signature text. Instructions for editing signature files appear after the proce-
dure below.
To create a new signature, do the following.
1
2
3
From the Tools menu, choose Signatures or click the Signature window’s tab if it is
the inactive window in a tabbed group.
Right-click anywhere inside the Signature window to select the drop-down context
menu.
From the context menu, choose New. Eudora displays the Create New Signature
dialog box, asking you for a name.
4
5
In the dialog box, enter a signature name and click OK. A signature window appears.
Enter your signature text in the signature window. You can format the text with styles;
number to display the topic.
Entering a new signature
6
To save the signature, from the File menu, choose Save.
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Close the Signature window.
Mod ifying a Sig na ture
To change a signature, do the following.
1
Right-click the signature in the Signature window to display the drop-down context
menu.
2
3
4
5
From the context menu, choose Edit. The signature window appears for that signature.
Make the changes.
To save the signature, from the File menu, choose Save.
Close the Signature window.
De le ting a Sig na ture
To delete a signature, do the following.
1
2
Select the desired item in the Signature window and press the Delete key. Or right-click
the signature item and from the drop-down context menu, choose Delete.
When you are prompted to confirm the deletion, click Yes to delete it.
Using a Sig na ture in a Me ssa g e
To include a particular signature in an outgoing message, select the signature you want
from the Signature drop-down on the message toolbar.
Selecting a signature for a message
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To include a particular signature in all of your outgoing messages—unless you are using
stationery, select a signature from the Signature drop-down list in the Sending Mail options
window for your dominant account only, or in the Account Settings dialog box for any of
your personalities. You can change this for a particular message by selecting a different
signature or None from the Signature drop-down list on the message toolbar. For more
Click the page number to display the topic.
You can indicate if a signature with styled text can be sent with a message that has no
page 213. Click the page number to display the topic.
Also, you can include your default with all replies. Go the Replying option to turn the option
Note that if you open a new message with stationery, or if you have default stationery set
for all new messages, then the signature stored with that stationery file is the one used
with the new message, overriding any default signature. However, you can always make
the final decision about what signature to send with a new message by choosing it from
the Signature drop-down on the message toolbar. For more information on stationery, see
the next section, “Using Stationery.”
Using Sta tione ry
(Sponsored and Paid modes only)
Stationery files are templates for outgoing messages. If you find yourself repeatedly
sending the same message, save the message as a stationery file and send it whenever
you need to with the “New Message With” or “Reply With” commands. This way you don’t
have to copy and paste text into a message; you can just open a pre-written message and
edit it as necessary.
Sta tione ry Wind ow
Stationery files are created and managed from the Stationery window. You can also open
a new stationery message from the Stationery window.
To open the Stationery window, do the following.
■ From the Tools menu, choose Stationery. Or, if the Stationery window is in a visible
tabbed window, click its tab.
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Sample Stationery window
The Stationery window displays a single-column list of your stationery files.
Note. You can select only one item at a time in the list; you cannot select multiple items.
If you right-click a stationery item in the list, a drop-down context menu appears with the
following commands.
■ New—Create a new piece of stationery (a new stationery file). An untitled stationery
window opens that you can fill out and choose “Save As Stationery” from the File
menu.
■ Edit—Open an editing window for the selected stationery item. Make your changes
and choose “Save As Stationery” from the File menu, or close without saving to discard
your changes.
■ Delete—Delete the selected stationery item. Eudora asks you to confirm the deletion.
Use the Delete key as a shortcut for this command.
■ Rename—Rename the selected stationery file. Use the F2 key as a shortcut for this
command, or click the stationery file’s name box, then edit the name right in the box.
■ New Message With—Create a new message with the selected stationery. As a
shortcut for this command, either select the stationery item and press Enter, or just
double-click the stationery item.
■ Reply With—Reply with the selected stationery to the sender(s) of the received
messages that are currently selected.
■ Reply to All With—Reply with the selected stationery to the sender(s) and all recipi-
ents of the received messages that are currently selected.
You can also display the drop-down context menu and create new stationery by
right-clicking anywhere in an empty Stationery window or by right-clicking anywhere off a
stationery item in a Stationery window that is not empty.
Cre a ting Ne w Sta tione ry
Following is the basic procedure for creating a new stationery file in the Stationery window
and additional information on creating and sending stationery messages.
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To create a new stationery file, do the following.
1
From the Tools menu, choose Stationery or click the Stationery window’s tab if it is
the inactive window in a tabbed group. The Stationery window appears.
2
3
Right-click anywhere inside the Stationery window to display the drop-down context
menu.
From the context menu, choose New. Eudora opens a composition window to be used
for stationery. The Send/Queue button is inactive in the window; thus the message
cannot be sent or queued.
4
5
6
7
Put the text you want into the message body, fill in the headers as appropriate (subject,
copies, etc.), and make any desired setting in the toolbar.
From the File menu, choose Save As Stationery. The Save as Stationery dialog box
appears.
Enter a file name and click Save to save the stationery file. The file is saved to your
Stationery folder.
Close the stationery message.
Mod ifying Sta tione ry
To change a stationery file, do the following.
1
In the Stationery window, right-click the stationery item to select and display the
drop-down context menu.
2
3
4
From the context menu, choose Edit.
Make your changes.
From the File menu, choose Save As Stationery to save.
De le ting Sta tione ry
To delete a stationery file, do the following.
1
2
Select the desired item in the Stationery window and press the Delete key; or
right-click the stationery item and from the drop-down context menu, choose Delete.
When you are prompted to confirm the deletion, click Yes.
Using Sta tione ry in a Me ssa g e
To send a stationery message, do the following.
1
2
From the Message menu, choose New Message With or Reply With.
From either the New Message With or Reply With submenus, select a stationery file.
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A composition window appears containing the header and body from the stationery file.
If you are replying to a message, the stationery information is added to the reply. You
can edit and send this new message just as you would any other message.
You can also send a new stationery message by double-clicking on a stationery item in the
Stationery window, or by selecting the stationery item and pressing Enter. In either case, a
new composition window opens containing the selected stationery.
To use a particular stationery file for all of your outgoing messages, select a stationery
from the Stationery drop-down in the Sending Mail options for your dominant account only,
or in the Account Settings dialog box for any of your personalities. Most new messages
use this file, unless you create the message using the “Redirect,” “Send Again,” “New
Message With,” or “Reply With” command. For more information, see “Sending Mail” on
topic.
You can also set up a filter to reply with a stationery message. See “Filtering Messages”
Re p lying with Sta tione ry
(Sponsored and Paid modes only)
To reply to a message with stationery, do the following.
1
2
From the Message menu, choose Reply With.
From the Reply With submenu, select a stationery file. The stationery file is opened as
a message and is addressed as appropriate.
You may also reply to message with stationery in the following ways:
With the desired message open or selected in a mailbox window
■ Open the Stationery window, right-click a stationery item, and from the drop-down list,
choose Reply With.
With the desired message open or selected in a mailbox window:
■ Open the Personalities window, right-click a personality, and choose Reply As from
the Message submenu of the drop-down list. The default stationery assigned to that
personality is used in the reply.
With the Personalities window open
■ Drag an open message by its Tow Truck (icon) or drag selected message summaries
in a mailbox window, onto a personality in the Personalities window. A reply is initiated
from that personality, and the stationery stored with that personality is used in the reply.
Set up a filter that uses the Reply with filter action. For more information, see “Filtering
display the topic.
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Using Alte rna te Em a il Ac c ounts
You can set up alternate “personalities” in Eudora for each email account you have. For
example, if you have work, home, and school email accounts, you can set up Eudora to
send and receive email from each of these accounts, all without having to quit and restart
Eudora. That is, you can check mail for all your accounts at once or for selected accounts
at once, and you can do the same for sending mail.
To set up a personality, you use the Personalities window, New Account Wizard, and the
Account Settings dialog box as described in this section. Your “dominant” personality, or
principal email account, is set up when you install Eudora and can also be modified via the
Account Settings dialog box.
Pe rsona litie s Wind ow
You use the Personalities window to manage, access, and apply your e-mail accounts —
“personalities” — when you use more than one account.
To open the Personalities window, do the following.
■ From the Tools menu, choose Personalities. Or, if the Personalities window is in a
visible tabbed window, click its tab.
Sample Personalities window
The Personalities window displays two columns of data:
■ Persona—The identifying name assigned to the personality. <Dominant> indicates
your principal email account, which is the account Eudora uses whenever you don’t
specify otherwise and is the account associated with all mail stored before you began
using alternate personalities.
■ Account—The incoming mail account assigned to the personality. This is generally in
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To resize the column widths, position the pointer over the divider line between the column
headings, until a splitter cursor appears. Then just drag the divider to left or right. Note that
it is possible to completely collapse the Persona column.
Note. You cannot manually sort the information in the Personalities window. Clicking on a
column heading does sort the column.
If you select one or more personalities in the Persona column and right-click the selection,
a drop-down context menu appears with the following commands.
Note. You can select multiple items in the Persona column to perform some of the opera-
tions listed below. Hold down the Shift key to select a consecutive range of items, and hold
down the Ctrl key to make non-consecutive selections.
■ Check Mail—Check mail now for all selected personalities.
■ Send Queued Messages—Send messages queued by all selected personalities now.
■ Message—This submenu lets you perform message-creation functions using only one
selected personality. The submenu is unavailable if multiple personalities are selected
in the Persona column.
– New Message As—Create a new message as the selected personality. As a
shortcut for this command, double-click a personality in the Persona column, or
select the personality and press Enter.
– Reply As—Reply as the selected personality to the sender(s) of the one or more
received messages that are currently selected.
– Reply to All As—Reply as the selected personality to the sender(s) and all recipi-
ents of the one or more received messages that are currently selected.
– Forward As—Forward as the selected personality the one or more received
messages that are currently selected.
– Redirect As—Redirect as the selected personality the one or more received
messages that are currently selected.
– Send Again As—Resend as the selected personality the one or more received or
composition messages that are currently selected.
information. Click the page number to display the topic. When you select this
command, Eudora walks you through the New Account Wizard, that is the name,
return address, login name, and incoming email server. Change these settings as
desired, and when you are complete, the new account is created. Once created, the
personality will be checking mail.
■ Properties—Modify the properties of the selected personality. You can modify only
one personality at a time. When you select this command, the Account Settings dialog
box displays, with its fields filled in with the information associated with that personality.
See the description of this dialog box later in this chapter.
■ Delete—Delete all selected personalities. Note, however, that you cannot delete the
<Dominant> personality. You are prompted to confirm the deletion for each personality
you have selected to delete. Note that these deletions are permanent and cannot be
undone! When you delete a personality, any messages associated with that personality
are reassigned to your Dominant personality. You can use the Delete key as a shortcut
for this command (you will still get the confirmation requests).
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You can also display the drop-down context menu and create a new personality by
right-clicking in a blank area of the Personalities window, off all personality items, when
none of the items are selected. When creating a new personality this way, you are walked
through the New Account Wizard as in the description of the “New” command above.
If you drag one or more received messages to a personality item in the Personalities
window, Eudora will “Reply As” that personality to the messages (hold down the Shift key
to Reply to All As).
Ad d ing a Ne w Pe rsona lity
Following are the basic procedures for setting up alternate accounts, followed by addi-
tional information on using personalities to send and receive mail. There are three types of
new personalities you can add.
■ Brand-new personality—see “Creating a New Personality” below.
■ Personality migrated from Netscape Messenger™, Microsoft® Outlook Express™, or
the page number to display the topic.
Cre a ting a Ne w Pe rsona lity
To create a new personality (alternate email account), do the following.
1
2
3
From the Tools menu, choose Personalities, or click the Personalities window’s tab if
it is a deselected window in a tabbed group. The Personalities window appears.
Right-click anywhere inside the Personalities window to display the drop-down context
menu.
From the context menu, choose New. The first New Account Wizard window, Account
Settings, appears.
New Account Wizard Account Settings window
4
Select Create a brand new email account and click Next. The next New Account
Wizard window, Personality Name, appears.
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New Account Wizard Personality Name window
5
In the Personality Name text box, enter the name to identify this Personality only, for
example “Business.” Click Next and the next New Account Wizard window,
Personal Information, appears.
New Account Wizard Personal Information window
6
In the Your Name text box, enter your name. Click Next and the next New Account
Wizard window, E-mail Address, appears.
New Account Wizard E-mail Address window
7
In the email Address text box, enter your full email address and click Next. The next
New Account Wizard window, Login Name, appears. This is your return address.
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8
In the Login Name text box, enter your login name. This is the account name you use
to gain access to your email from your Internet Service Provider (ISP). Click Next and
the next New Account Wizard window, Incoming Email Server, appears.
New Account Wizard Incoming email Server window
9
In the Incoming Server text box, enter the name of your incoming server. Your ISP or
system administrator should provide you with the name of this server for this account.
10 At the bottom of this window, select the type of incoming server you will be using, POP
or IMAP. Click Next and the next New Account Wizard window, Outgoing email
Server, appears.
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New Account Wizard Outgoing Email Server window
11 In the Outgoing Server text box, enter the name of your outgoing server. If you do not
want authentication when sending mail, uncheck the Allow authentication box. See
Incoming server name. Click Next and the Success window appears.
New Account Wizard Success window
12 Click Finish. You have successfully entered your new personality. Your new person-
ality will be checking mail whenever you retrieve mail.
Click the page number to display the topic.
Im p orting Se tting s to Cre a te a Ne w Ac c ount
To set up a newly migrated account from Netscape Messenger 4.0 and earlier, Microsoft
Outlook Express 5.0, and Outlook 98 as an alternate or multiple personality account using
the New Account Wizard, do the following.
1
From the Tools menu, choose Personalities, or if the Personalities window is in a
visible tabbed window, click its tab.
2
In the Personalities window, right-click to display the drop-down context menu. Choose
New. The New Account Wizard window, Account Settings, appears.
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New Account Wizard Account Settings window
3
Select Import settings from an existing email account. This option appears only if
Eudora recognizes that you can import settings from another program. Click Next and
the next New Account Wizard window, Personality Name, appears.
New Account Wizard Import Settings window (importing Netscape)
4
5
(From Outlook) To import your email messages, select Import Mail. To import your
address book entries, select Import Address Book Entries. Go to step 8.
Note. If an Import button does not display in the Import Settings dialog box, Eudora
cannot detect a program to import from.
If you want to import your Netscape Messenger address book, select Netscape Navi-
gator and the account you want to migrate. The following window appears.
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New Account Wizard Import Settings window (importing Netscape)
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(From Netscape) To import your email messages, select Import Mail. To import your
address book entries, select Import Address Book from LDIF file. LDIF means LDAP
Data Interchange Format.
Before you import your Netscape Address Book, you must first save it in LDIF format.
To save your address book in LDIF format, do the following.
a Launch Netscape Communicator.
b From the Communicator menu, choose Address Book.
c From the File menu in Netscape Communicator, choose Save. The Save dialog
box appears.
d Name the file while retaining the .ldif extension and save it on your computer.
e Then, in the Eudora Import Settings window, click Browse to locate the address
book file you just saved.
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To migrate your email account, click Next. Eudora transfers all settings including
personalities, incoming and outgoing server names, real name, return name, and login
name.
Important. It may take a long period of time for the migration to occur depending on
how much mail, the complexity of your settings, and the size of your address book that
you are importing into Eudora. During the migration, if the process stops because of a
corrupt message, you must go into your Netscape Messenger 4.0 and earlier or
Microsoft Outlook Express 5.0 or 98 and delete the corrupt message to resume the
migration.
The Success window appears indicating that your migration was successful. Once migra-
tion occurs, the settings you are importing are immediate, and your mail is migrated.
Note. When the migration is occurring, notice in the Mailbox window that a mailbox tree
begins to form. For example, you will see the folder “Outlook” and all its mailboxes listed
underneath. A plus sign (+) next to the folder name indicates that other folders/mailboxes
are contained within this folder.
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Ad d ing a Pe rsona lity via the Ac c ount Se tting s Dia log
You can add a new personality without going through the New Account Wizard series of
windows, but via the Account Settings dialog box. Instead of entering information per
window, you enter all the information on two tabbed panels in one dialog box, the Account
Settings dialog box.
To add a personality via the Accounts Settings dialog box, do the following.
1
From the Tools menu, choose Personalities, or if the Personalities window is in a
visible tabbed window, click its tab.
2
In the Personalities window, right-click to display the drop-down context menu. Choose
New. The New Account Wizard window, Account Settings, appears.
New Account Wizard Account Settings window
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Select Skip directly to advanced account setup. The Account Settings dialog box
window appears, and you begin to enter information into the fields. To continue, see
the next section “Account Settings Dialog.”
Ac c ount Se tting s Dia log
This tabbed dialog box appears when you select “Skip directly to advanced account setup”
from the New Account Wizard Account Settings window, or when you right-click on a
personality in the Personalities window and choose Properties from the drop-down context
menu. When you display the dialog box, enter the information in the fields. If you are modi-
fying an existing personality, the fields are filled in with the information associated with the
personality you have selected.
After you make your changes in the dialog box, click OK to save them, Cancel to discard
them, or Help for more help.
Note. Any changes you make to your dominant personality in this dialog box are also
changed where they are mirrored in relevant options of the Options dialog box. The same
is true in reverse; changes you make in the Options dialog box are carried over here,
when you next open this dialog box.
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Ge ne ric Prop e rtie s
This dialog box window contains the general characteristics associated with this person-
ality.
Sample Account Settings (Generic Properties panel)
Following are option descriptions for the Generic Properties panel.
Personality Name—Enter a descriptive name to describe the personality (for example,
Business or My PC Account). <Dominant> indicates your dominant personality.
Your dominant personality is your principal email account. All of your initial email settings
are for your dominant personality. If you do not specify a personality, your dominant
personality is used.
Note that the name shown here may be different from the Real Name associated with the
personality (see below).
Real Name—Enter the real name of this personality—generally a first and last name. The
text you enter here is included in the From: field of all your outgoing messages from this
personality and identifies the source to your recipients. It appears before your return
address in the message header.
Return Address—Enter the return email address used in outgoing messages and recipi-
ents’ replies for this personality, if this address is different from the personality’s incoming
mail account. The address you enter here is included in the From: field of all your outgoing
messages from this personality, and when a recipient replies to a message from this
personality, the reply is sent to this address. If you do not enter an address in this field,
Eudora uses the personality’s incoming mail account as the return address. Incoming mail
accounts are usually of the form loginname@incomingmailserver. For example, suppose
field.
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Note. If you do enter an address in this field, first test the address to be sure that mail sent
to it is indeed delivered to you. If you use an invalid return address, no one will be able to
reply to mail sent from this personality.
Login Name—Enter the name you use to login to this email account. For example, in the
after the at-sign “@” is the name of the incoming mail server. See “Incoming Mail” on
page 200. Click the page number to display the topic.
SMTP Server—Enter the name of the outgoing-mail server for this personality. SMTP
stands for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol. Outgoing messages you send are routed
through this server. If the computer selected by this personality’s incoming mail account
also runs on an SMTP server, you can leave this field blank. See “Sending Mail” on
page 203. Click the page number to display the topic.
Allow Authentication—Eudora can log in to an SMTP server when sending mail, just like
it does for receiving mail. Not all SMTP servers require or allow such authentication.
Eudora will attempt authentication to servers that allow it. The preferred SMTP authentica-
tion method is CRAM-MD5. If CRAM-MD5 is not available, LOGIN or PLAIN will automati-
Default Domain—Enter the domain name that Eudora automatically adds to an unquali-
fied name addressed in messages sent from this personality. An unqualified name is a
name that doesn’t have an “@” sign followed by a domain name. This can be used to save
time when addressing large numbers of messages to users in the same domain. Also,
different personalities can be used to send messages to different domains. For example,
you can use one personality to send work-related messages to the domain myfirm.com,
and another personality to send personal messages to the domain in your home email
address or to your school account (for example, myschool.edu).
Default Stationery—Select the stationery to use for all outgoing messages sent from this
personality from the drop-down list, or select <No Default> for no default stationery. For
more details about using stationery with alternate personalities, see “Linking a Signature
page number to display the topic.
Default Signature—Select the signature to use for all outgoing messages sent from this
personality from the drop-down list. If you select a signature, Eudora automatically
attaches that signature to the end of all outgoing messages sent from this personality. You
can always change the signature in a particular outgoing message using the Signature
drop-down list in the composition window. For more details about using signatures with
page 203. Click the page number to display the topic.
Note. If the stationery you chose has a signature attached to it, that signature will override
the signature you select here.
Check Mail—If this is selected, mail checking is activated for this personality in the
following ways:
■ If you have specified a number in the “Check for mail every _ minutes” option in the
Checking Mail options window, then when automatic mail-checks are performed at
these intervals, mail for this personality is checked as well.
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■ Each time you do a manual check for mail by choosing the Check Mail command from
the File menu or via another method, mail is checked for this personality as well. When
you create a personality, this option is checked by default.
If the Check Mail option is turned off, mail for this personality is not checked during manual
or automatic mail checks unless you override the setting. To override and check the mail
for the personality, choose Check Mail from the drop-down context menu (right-click) in
the Personalities window.
Inc o m ing Ma il
This panel contains settings that identify and configure the incoming mail server to be
used in receiving mail for this account.
When Configuration = POP:
Sample Account Settings (Incoming Mail panel, POP configuration)
Following are option descriptions for the Incoming Mail panel (POP configuration).
Server—This is the name of the incoming-mail server for this personality. All incoming
messages to this personality are routed through this server.
Configuration—This indicates which email protocol the incoming mail server uses: POP
(Post Office Protocol) or IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol). Ask your email admin-
istrator which one to use, if you are not sure.
The settings in the rest of this panel depend on whether you’ve chosen POP or IMAP in
this field. Settings for both configurations are described below.
Leave mail on server—If selected, then during mail checks, incoming mail for this
personality is left on the incoming mail server and a copy is transferred to your PC. If this
turned off, then when mail is checked, incoming mail for this personality is deleted from
the incoming mail server after it is transferred to your PC. For more details, see “Managing
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Delete from server after _ days—This option has a check box for turning on or off and an
edit box for specifying the number of days mail that was left on the POP server should be
saved before being deleted. It is a good idea not to leave copies of your messages on the
POP server indefinitely, as this will create mail storage problems on the server.
Delete from server when emptied from Trash—If selected, any messages that are
deleted from your Trash mailbox are also deleted from the POP server. Messages are
retained in your Trash mailbox until deleted. For details, see “Managing Your Mail on the
Skip messages over _ K in size—If selected, messages over the specified size are
downloaded only in part. These messages include the first few lines, and a statement that
says the message is not complete. This can be useful on slow connections. For details,
display the topic.
Authentication style—This specifies which POP account authentication technology to
use for this personality: Passwords, Kerberos, APOP, or RPA. Ask your email adminis-
trator which one to use. If you use Eudora at home, most likely your Authentication Style is
Password. CompuServe users should use the RPA authentication method.
When Configuration = IMAP:
Sample Account Settings (Incoming Mail panel, IMAP configuration)
Following are option descriptions for the Incoming Mail dialog box (IMAP configuration).
IMAP Mailbox Location Prefix—This specifies the mailbox location prefix that IMAP will
use when locating your mailboxes on the incoming mail server. An example prefix is
/usr/mail. Ask your email administrator what to enter here, if you are not sure.
For new mail, download—These two settings let you control the way incoming mail is
downloaded from the IMAP server. One setting will always be marked.
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Minimal Headers Only—If selected, only a limited set of message headers is down-
loaded for each incoming message. The message’s status, From: field, date/time,
server status, and subject are initially retrieved. Typically, you will see an open
diamond for the server status, which indicates a partial retrieval. Opening or
previewing the message retrieves the message body. If you have a non-text attach-
ment, then opening it will retrieve the attachments.
Full message except attachments over _ K—If this setting is selected and a number
is entered in the edit box, any attachments larger than the specified size will not be
downloaded with the message. If the setting is zero (default), all attachments are
downloaded, regardless of size.
When I delete a message—These options (you must choose one) let you control the way
you want your deleted messages handled.
Mark it as deleted—Select this option to mark your messages on the IMAP for dele-
tion. These messages are not removed from the server until you choose to remove
display the topic.
Move it to (mailbox)—Select this option to move your deleted messages to a specific
mailbox. The default is your Trash mailbox.
Authentication style—This specifies which IMAP account authentication technology to
use for this personality: Passwords, Kerberos, or CRAM-MD5. Ask your email adminis-
trator which one to use. The default is CRAM-MD5. If CRAM-MD5 is not being used, then
it will use passwords.
Mod ifying a Pe rsona lity
To modify an existing personality, do the following.
1
2
From the Tools menu, choose Personalities, or if the Personalities window is in a
visible tabbed window, click its tab.
Open the Personalities window and right-click the desired personality to display the
drop-down context menu.
3
4
From the context menu, choose Properties. The Account Settings dialog box appears.
on page 83. Click the page number to display the topic.
All options other than those specified in the New Account Wizard or the Account Settings
dialog box cannot be changed for alternate personalities; they are effective for all. If you
want to change other options for a personality or use a separate set of mailboxes for an
page number to display the topic.
De le ting a Pe rsona lity
You may delete any account except your dominant personality. To delete a personality, do
the following.
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From the Tools menu, choose Personalities, or if the Personalities window is in a
visible tabbed window, click its tab.
2
3
Open the Personalities window and select the personality you want to delete.
Press the Delete key. A warning appears asking you if you’re sure you want to delete
this personality. Click OK.
The selected personality is deleted.
Linking a Sig na ture a nd Sta tione ry to a Pe rsona lity
In Eudora, you can link a signature and a stationery to an existing personality via the
Account Settings dialog box. For example, if you have a “Business” personality, you can
link your “Business” signature and “Business” stationery to this personality. For creating
Important. Before you can link a signature and stationery to a personality, you need to
create them first.
To link a signature and stationery to a personality, do the following.
1
From the Tools menu, choose Personalities or if the Personalities window is in a
visible tabbed window, click its tab.
2
3
Select the personality and right-click to display the drop-down context menu.
From the context menu, choose Properties. The Accounts Settings’ Generic Proper-
ties panel for this selected personality appears.
Account Settings Generic Properties panel
4
In the Default Stationery drop-down list, select the stationery for this personality.
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In the Default Signature drop-down list, select the signature for this personality. Note
that if the stationery you just selected has a signature linked to it, this signature over-
rides any signature you select here.
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Click OK. This personality is now linked with the stationery and signature you chose
from the drop-down lists.
Se le c ting a Pe rsona lity in a Me ssa g e He a d e r
You can select the account you want to use directly in the header of your outgoing email
message. Just click the arrow to the left of the From: field, and a drop-down list appears
showing your different personalities. Select the personality you want to use for this
message.
The current personality will have a dot next to the personality’s name. Also, to display the
personalities drop-down list, press Alt + R.
See the following example.
Personality drop-down list in a message header
Using a Pe rsona lity in a Me ssa g e
The easiest way to create an outgoing message from a specific personality is to choose
the one you want from the From: field’s drop-down list. See the previous section “Selecting
a Personality in a Message Header. However, there are several other ways to do it. See
the following.
1
From the Tools menu, choose Personalities or select the Personalities window tab if
grouped in a displayed tabbed window.
2
In the Personalities window, right-click the desired personality to display the
drop-down context menu.
3
4
From the context menu, choose Message.
From the Message submenu, choose New Message As. Or, select the desired
personality and press Enter. Or, simply double-click the desired personality. A new
message opens from that personality.
When the composition window opens in response to any of the three message-creation
methods as previously described, the default signature for the selected personality is
used. But if a stationery file was selected or a default stationery file is specified in the
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account’s options, then the signature stored with the stationery file is used. However, you
can always change the signature drop-down list in the composition window. For details,
Once you open a new composition message from a particular personality, you can change
your message’s personality by doing the following.
1
2
In an open message, click the From: header or right-click to display the drop-down
context menu.
In the From: field of the message header, choose the personality. Or from the context
menu, choose Change Personality. From its submenu, select a new personality. The
From: field of the message header changes to the information associated with the new
personality for that message.
Note. If you are composing a message and decide to change the personality, the signa-
ture and stationery assigned to that personality in the Account Settings dialog box change
as well.
When Eudora changes a personality as it responds to a message, it assigns the same
personality under which it received the message. For example, if you receive a message
sent to your Home account, your replies to that message are sent from your Home
account.
There are two ways to change the personality of a response. The first is to initiate the
response and then change the personality, using the drop-down context menu’s Change
Personality submenu.
The second way is to change the personality associated with the original message to
which you are responding. Open that message and change its personality using the
Change Personality submenu. From then on, all of your replies to that message will be
sent from the newly assigned personality. The message does not have to be open. Just
right-click on a message or set of messages in a mailbox’s TOC. Select “Change Person-
ality” and select the desired personality.
Note. You can also set up a filter to automatically assign a desired personality to incoming
or outgoing messages that satisfy the filter criteria. See the Make Personality action under
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Working with Mailboxes
Op e ning a Ma ilb ox
To open a mailbox, select it from the Mailbox menu, or double-click it in the Mailboxes
window.
Note. The unread message icon appears in the Mailbox menu whenever a mailbox or
folder contains unread messages that are less than five days old. Also any mailboxes or
folders in the Mailboxes window that contain unread messages are displayed as bold.
Und e rsta nd ing the Com p one nts of a Ma ilb ox
Mailbox windows contain all of your incoming and outgoing message summaries. If the
“Show message preview pane” option is selected in the Viewing Mail options window,
mailbox windows also show the message preview pane, the bottom half of the window in
topic.
To open a mailbox, do the following.
■ From the Mailbox menu, choose the mailbox you want to open, or double-click its icon
or name in the Mailboxes window.
Mailbox window
Me ssa g e Sum m a rie s
Each line in the list portion of a mailbox window represents a message and is called a
message summary. Outgoing messages that are in any mailbox other than Out are shown
with italicized message summaries.
To select one or more message summaries, use one of the following options:
■ To select one summary, click it.
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■ To select a consecutive range of summaries, select a summary, hold down the Shift
key, and select another summary. Or, drag the mouse over the summaries to select
them—as long as you begin on an unselected summary.
■ To select all of the summaries that have the same information in a particular column,
hold down the Alt key and click one column in the summary. For example, if you click
the Status column for one summary, all of the summaries with that status are selected.
■ To make non-consecutive selections, hold down the Ctrl key and select summaries.
■ To find messages by name or subject, type the first few letters of a name or subject,
and Eudora selects the message.
Each message summary is divided into columns. The column names are shown below
with the corresponding icons that appear in the column headings.
Status
Priority
Attachments
Label
Sender/Recipient (Who)
Date
Size
Server Status
Subject
You can show or hide these columns using the Display options window. See “Display” on
page 209. Click the page number to display the topic.
A message’s Status, Priority, Label, Personality, and Server Status can be changed
directly in the mailbox window. To do this, select the messages you want to change and
click the right mouse button inside the selection. Select an option from the drop-down list
to make your change.
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To select the display of lines in the message summaries portion of mailbox windows—hori-
zontal lines to separate summaries and vertical lines to separate columns—select the
“Show mailbox lines” option in the Display options window.
Sta tus Colum n
This column displays the message status, which is one of the following.
The message has not been read (all mailboxes except Out), or is
queueable or sendable but has not been queued or sent (Out
mailbox only).
<blank> The message has been read (all mailboxes except Out), or is not
yet able to be queued or sent because it has no recipients in the
To or Bcc: fields (Out mailbox only).
The message has been replied to.
The message has been forwarded.
The message has been redirected.
The message has been sent (outgoing messages only).
The message is queued to be sent (outgoing messages only).
The message is queued to be sent at a specified time (outgoing
messages only).
The message was transferred from the Out mailbox before being
sent.
The message is being processed for sending.
You can change the status of one or more selected messages, or an open message, from
Read (blank) to Unread ( ) or from Unread to Read by pressing Shift+Space (all mail-
boxes except Out).
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Priority Colum n
This column displays the message priority. You can use the drop-down list to set a partic-
ular priority.
Highest priority
High priority
<blank> Normal priority
Low priority
Lowest priority
For more information on message priorities, see “Setting the Message Priority” on
page 27. Click the page number to display the topic.
Atta c hm e nts Colum n
If a message has attached documents, this column displays the attachment icon, a paper
clip holding a sheet of paper.
La b e l Colum n
This column displays the message label. You can assign labels to messages, either manu-
the page number to display the topic. When a message summary is assigned a label, the
entire summary changes color to match the label color.
To assign a label to an existing message, do the following.
1
Select the message in the TOC you want to label.
Right-click to display the drop-down list.
2
3
From the drop-down list, choose Change Label. Or from the Message menu, choose
Change then Label. The Label submenu appears.
4
Choose the label you want for this message.
Note. Label colors and titles are assigned using the Labels options. See “Labels” on
page 219. Click the page number to display the topic.
Se nd e r/ Re c ip ie nt Colum n (Who)
This column shows the sender of the message (for incoming messages) or the intended
recipients (for outgoing messages).
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Da te Colum n
This column displays the date and time the message was composed, or, for timed
messages, the date and time the message is scheduled to be sent. Date formats,
including age-sensitive indications such as the day of the week or “Today,” are set in the
display the topic.
Size Colum n
This column displays the size of the message in kilobytes, K (1 K = 1,024 bytes).
Se rve r Sta tus Colum n
This column displays the action that is done to the corresponding incoming message on
the server. The next time you check mail, the server status you requested is automatically
completed.
Fetched
Don’t change the message on the server. A solid
diamond indicates that the message has been
Not fetched fetched; an open diamond indicates that the
message has not yet been fetched.
Fetched
but not
(IMAP only) Retrieve messages from the IMAP
server, but not all attachments have been
attachments fetched.
Fetch
Retrieve the whole message from the server.
Delete
Delete the message from the server.
Fetch then Retrieve the whole message, then delete it from
Delete the server.
Note. To control the mail transfer for a POP server, you can also use the Mail Transfer
options window. For details, see “Checking for Mail with Special Server Instructions” on
Sub je c t Colum n
This column displays the subject of the message. The sender originally typed this informa-
tion into the message header, but you can modify it. See “Editing Incoming Messages” on
page 55. Click the page number to display the topic.
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Disp la ying a nd Re sizing Colum ns
To indicate which columns you want displayed in your mailboxes, do the following.
1
From the Tools menu, choose Options.
2
Scroll through the category list, and select Mailboxes. The Mailboxes options window
appears.
3
In the Show Mailbox Columns list, select the column boxes you want to display. If you
Click the page number to display the topic.
To resize a column in a mailbox window, move the mouse pointer until it is over the column
heading divider to the right of the column you want to resize, then drag the divider to the
position you want. The column divider moves to the new location, and the mailbox is
redrawn.
You can shrink a column only as far as its left divider. If you do that, a double divider line
appears in place of the column, and its contents are hidden. To redisplay the column, drag
the right divider line to the right.
Using the Ma ilb ox Size Disp la y
In the lower left corner of the message summary part of each mailbox window, three
numbers show the size information for that mailbox. The first is the number of messages
in the mailbox; the second is the total amount of space those messages require; the third
is the amount of disk space that is wasted with the mailbox.
Mailbox size display
Wasted space is created when messages are deleted or transferred from a mailbox.
To manually clean up the wasted space in all mailboxes, do the following.
1
Click the mailbox size display (for that mailbox only), or from the Special menu,
choose Compact Mailboxes for all mailboxes.
Important. Try not to keep too many messages in your In, Out, or Trash mailboxes
because it slows down your system’s performance. If you wish to keep these messages,
it’s better to transfer them to other mailboxes.
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Me ssa g e Pre vie w Pa ne
If the “Show message preview pane” option is selected in the Viewing Mail options
window, then the message preview pane appears in roughly the bottom half of the mailbox
The message preview pane shows the key headers and the message body of the
currently selected message in the message summary list. If the full message body is not
visible in the preview pane, scroll bars are displayed, allowing you to view the rest of the
message. Only one message in a mailbox can be previewed at a time.
To move the keyboard focus from the message summary list to the message preview
pane and back again, press Tab or F6. Or simply click in the preview pane to put the focus
there.
When keyboard focus is in the preview pane, you can do any of the following, as you can
in an open incoming message window.
■ Press the spacebar to page down through the message.
■ Use the arrow keys, as set in the Miscellaneous options window (unmodified or with
Ctrl or Alt), to switch to the next or previous message in the mailbox. See “Miscella-
■ Use standard keyboard shortcuts such as Ctrl+R for Reply, Ctrl+D for Delete, etc. See
■ Right-click anywhere in the preview pane to display a drop-down list with commands
appropriate for the previewed message.
■ Click an attachment icon or name to open the attachment.
■ Click a URL (hot link) to launch the application for that URL.
If the “Show message preview pane” option is selected in the Viewing Mail options
window, you can press F7 to show and hide the preview pane within the current mailbox
only. However, this does not control the visibility of the preview pane in other mailboxes.
Also, you can do this by clicking on the separator bar between the message list and the
preview pane.
You can change the height of the preview pane relative to the message summary list. Just
position the mouse pointer over the separator bar between the list and the preview pane
and drag the bar up or down.
If the “Show message preview pane” option is turned off in the Viewing Mail options
window, only the message summaries are shown in any mailbox window.
If the preview pane option is selected and the “Mark previewed messages as read after _
second(s)” option is selected in the Viewing Mail options window, the current message is
marked as read (blank in the Status column) after the specified number of seconds. You
can always change the message’s status back to Unread (•) by pressing Shift+Space
while the message is selected or open (press again to change back to Read). If the “Mark
previewed...” option is turned off, previewed messages are never automatically marked as
display the topic.
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Creating Mailboxes and Folders
Note. Eudora performs the auto-marking behavior only when you manually select or
preview messages, not when it performs actions such as automatic mail checks or
filtering.
Cre a ting Ma ilb oxe s a nd Fold e rs
Eudora lets you create mailboxes to hold messages, and folders to hold mailboxes.
There are three ways to create mailboxes and folders.
■ Using the New command from the Mailbox menu and folder submenus.
■ Using the New command from the drop-down context menu in the Mailboxes window.
topic.
■ Using the New command from the Transfer menu. See “Transferring Messages” on
page 106. Click the page number to display the topic.
Note. Depending on whether your incoming mail server uses the POP or IMAP protocol,
there are some differences in the way mailboxes and mail folders are created, stored, and
managed. For more information, see “Mailbox and Folder Management: POP vs. IMAP
Cre a ting a Ma ilb ox or Fold e r Using the Ma ilb ox Me nu
To create a new mailbox or mail folder, do the following.
1
From the Mailbox menu, choose New, or from a mail folder submenu (to put the
mailbox in that folder). The New Mailbox dialog box appears.
New Mailbox dialog box
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3
To create a mailbox, type in the new mailbox name and click OK. The mailbox is
created and added to the Mailbox and Transfer menus and to the Mailboxes window.
To create a mail folder, type the name of the new mail folder and select the Make it a
folder option. Click OK to create the folder. The New Mailbox dialog box appears
again.
4
Type the name of a mailbox to create within the new folder, then click OK. The new
folder and its mailbox are displayed in the Mailbox and Transfer menus and in the Mail-
boxes window.
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Using the Ma ilb oxe s Wind ow
The Mailboxes window lets you create new mailboxes and folders, remove and rename
them, and move mailboxes among folders. Mailboxes or folders that are bolded have
unread messages.
By default, the Mailboxes window is provided as the first window in a five-window tool
group docked vertically to the left side of the main Eudora window.
To manage mailboxes and folders from the Mailboxes window, do the following.
1
From the Tools menu, choose Mailboxes, or click the Mailboxes window’s tab if it is
part of a visible tabbed window group.
For more information on how to manipulate the Mailboxes window alone and as part of
page number to display the topic.
Mailboxes window
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3
4
To open a mailbox or folder within the window, double-click it, or click it once and press
Enter. You can move among the folders and mailboxes using the up and down arrow
keys, or close or open folders using the left and right arrow keys.
You may start typing the name of the mailbox or folder you want, and it is highlighted
when you have typed enough unique characters to identify it (the item must be
displayed, so a mailbox that is in a closed folder cannot be selected).
Right-click any item in the Mailboxes window and a drop-down list appears whose
commands let you, depending on the item, create, find messages, remove, and
rename mailboxes and folders, open existing mailboxes and folders, and empty the
trash from the Trash mailbox.
The folder trees displayed in the Mailboxes window, and some of the operations available
from the drop-down list, depend on what protocol your mail server uses, POP or IMAP. For
more information on these differences, see “Mailbox and Folder Management: POP vs.
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Cre a ting a Ne w Ma ilb ox or Fold e r
To create a new mailbox or folder in the Mailboxes window, do the following.
1
From the Tools menu, choose Mailboxes, or click the Mailboxes window’s tab if it is
part of a visible tabbed window group.
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3
Right-click a folder.
From the drop-down list, choose New. A dialog box appears requesting the name of
the new mailbox or folder.
4
Type in the new name and select the Make it a folder option if you want to make it a
folder; click OK. If you chose to make it a folder, enter the name of the mailbox within
the new folder when the dialog box appears again, and click OK. The new mailbox or
folder appears in the lists and is added to the Mailbox and Transfer menus.
Re na m ing a Ma ilb ox or Fold e r
To rename a mailbox or folder, do the following.
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2
3
From the Tools menu, choose Mailboxes, or click the Mailboxes window’s tab if it is
part of a visible tabbed window group.
Click the name of the mailbox or folder, pause, then click again to highlight the name.
Or, right-click the item and choose Rename, or click once on the item and press F2.
Type in the new name. Press Enter to accept your change, or Esc to cancel it.
Moving a Ma ilb ox from One Fold e r to Anothe r
To move a mailbox from one folder to another, do the following.
1
From the Tools menu, choose Mailboxes, or click the Mailboxes window’s tab if it is
part of a visible tabbed window group.
2
3
Click to select the mailbox you want to move.
Drag it to where you want it.
Re m oving a Ma ilb ox or Fold e r
To remove a mailbox or folder, do the following.
Important. You cannot undo this deletion.
1
From the Tools menu, choose Mailboxes, or click the Mailboxes window’s tab if it is
part of a visible tabbed window group.
2
Right-click it and choose Delete from the drop-down list, or click once on it to highlight
it and then press the Delete key.
If you choose to remove a mailbox in which messages are still stored, or a folder in which
other mailboxes or folders are stored, you are prompted to confirm the deletion for each
such item selected. Click Remove it to delete the current item for which you are being
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prompted, or click Remove all to remove all items selected for deletion and no further
prompts will appear. Or click Cancel to cancel the deletion. If you delete a non-empty
mailbox or folder, all messages, mailboxes, and folders contained within the mailbox or
folder are also deleted.
Ma ilb ox a nd Fold e r Ma na g e m e nt: POP vs. IMAP
The location of your mailboxes and mail folders depends on whether your incoming mail
server for your account uses the POP or IMAP protocol.
If your incoming mail server uses POP, then all of your mailboxes and mail folders are
created and stored on your computer. If your incoming mail server uses IMAP, then all of
your mailboxes and mail folders are created and stored on the IMAP server.
The parallel situation holds true if you have multiple email accounts: mailboxes and folders
for all of your POP accounts are stored on your computer; mailboxes and folders for all of
your IMAP accounts are stored on the respective IMAP servers.
Mail folders stored on an IMAP server can contain not only mailboxes, but also messages.
Mail folders stored on a POP server can contain only mailboxes, not messages.
You create an IMAP server account using the New Account Setup wizard for your domi-
nant personality, or using the Account Settings dialog box accessed from the Personalities
Click the page number to display the topic.
The Mailboxes window is the main tool for managing your IMAP mailboxes and mail
folders. In the Mailboxes window, right-click one of the folders or mailboxes in an IMAP
hierarchy and select an item from the drop-down list. See “Using the Mailboxes Window”
Note. The additional commands for IMAP are “Refresh Mailbox List” and “Resynchronize
Mailbox.”
Some mailboxes stored on your IMAP server may have been created by others and made
accessible to you. For some of these mailboxes, you may have both “read and write”
permission; that is, you can read the messages stored in them, can change or delete the
messages. Other mailboxes may give you only “read” permission; you can only read the
messages, not change or delete them.
If you have multiple personalities (email accounts) and the incoming mail servers for all of
them use POP, then you will have only one top-level mail folder, named “Eudora Mail” by
default. If the incoming mail server for at least one of your personalities uses IMAP, then
you can have multiple top-level mail folders; one to hold mail from all of your POP
account, and one top-level folder for each of your IMAP accounts. The name of a top-level
IMAP folder is the personality name for that IMAP account.
For more information on managing your mail on POP and IMAP servers, see “Managing
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De le ting a Me ssa g e
As a safeguard against inadvertent deletions, two steps are used to delete a message
from your computer: first put the message in the Trash, then empty the Trash. If your
incoming mail server uses IMAP, the procedure is slightly different, as described later.
POP Proc e d ure
To put a message in the Trash, do the following.
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Click to select the message.
From the Message menu, choose Delete, or from the Transfer menu, choose Trash.
Also, you can just press the Delete key or click the Delete toolbar button. The message
is transferred to the Trash mailbox.
Note. To cancel a deletion to the Trash, from the Edit menu, choose Undo.
To delete the messages in the Trash mailbox (that is, remove them permanently from your
PC), do the following.
■ From the Special menu, choose Empty Trash. Or, if the Mailboxes window is open on
your desktop, right-click on the Trash mailbox in the window and choose Empty Trash
from the drop-down menu.
You can set up Eudora to warn you if you try to delete unread, queued, or unsent
messages. To do this, use the Extra Warnings options windows to select those options.
Quitting Eudora empties the contents of the Trash mailbox when the “Empty Trash when
Click the page number to display the topic.
Finally, if you want to delete just a few messages from the Trash mailbox, open the Trash
mailbox, and do the following.
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2
Click to select the desired messages.
From the Message menu, choose Delete, or press the Delete key. Deleting a message
from the Trash removes it completely.
IMAP Proc e d ure
If you have the When I delete a message, move it to Trash option turned off in the
display the topic), all new messages are delivered to your IMAP server and are kept there
until you actively delete them.
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You must perform two steps to remove a message from your computer: first mark it for
deletion, then remove marked messages.
To mark for deletion a message stored in an IMAP mailbox or folder, do the following.
1
Click to select the message.
2
From the Message menu, choose Delete. Notice that the message has a red X in the
server status column.
To unmark the message for deletion, click to select it. Then from the Message menu,
choose UnDelete.
To remove all messages marked for deletion in the current IMAP mailbox, choose
Remove Deleted Messages. The messages are completely removed not only from
your PC but also from the IMAP server.
Important. Once you remove marked messages using the “Remove Deleted Messages”
command, these messages are gone and cannot be restored; so use this command with
caution.
Autom a tic a lly De le ting Atta c hm e nts
When you delete messages, you can have their attachments automatically deleted. To do
this, select the “Delete attachments when emptying Trash” in the Attachments options
windows. To do this, be sure the attachments are still in the Attach Directory or the direc-
tory you have specified for attachments. If you have this option selected, and want to
delete a message but save its attachment, move the attachment into another directory
display the topic.
Tra nsfe rring Me ssa g e s
You can transfer messages to any of your mailboxes. There are several ways to do this.
■ Click to select the message(s) you want to transfer, then choose a mailbox from the
Transfer menu.
■ Click to select the message(s) you want to transfer, then right-click on the selection
and choose a mailbox from the Transfer drop-down menu.
■ Drag a message summary to an open mailbox window or to a mailbox icon in the Mail-
boxes window.
To put a copy of a message in another mailbox instead of transferring the message, hold
down the Shift key and use one of the transfer options above. This is useful if you want to
file a message in more than one mailbox.
If you try to transfer a message to the Out mailbox, an alert appears informing you that
some header information may be removed from the message during transfer. Click Yes to
transfer the message.
Important. Don’t forget to clean out your Out mailbox once in awhile to increase your
system performance.
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Note. You can undo mailbox transfers using the “Undo” command from the Edit menu.
Using the Tra nsfe r Me nu
The Transfer menu is one way to transfer messages among your mailboxes. With a
current message open, or message summaries selected, choose a mailbox from the
Transfer menu. The messages are transferred from their previous mailbox to the mailbox
you selected.
Dra g g ing Me ssa g e s
You can drag messages from one mailbox to another using the message summaries or
the Tow Truck icon in an open message window.
To drag a message summary to another mailbox, do the following.
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2
Click to select the message summary or summaries.
Drag the summary into any open or minimized mailbox window, or any mailbox in the
Mailboxes window. When you release the mouse button, the message is transferred.
To drag an open message to another mailbox, hold down the mouse over the Tow Truck
icon and drag the message into any open mailbox or any mailbox in the Mailboxes
window. When you release the mouse button, the message is transferred.
When dragging to the Mailboxes window, pause over a closed folder. The folder tempo-
rarily opens making its mailboxes visible so that you can complete the drop operation. The
folder closes again when you complete or cancel the drop.
Note. You can only drag messages around if the “Allow drag and drop transfers” option is
number to display the topic.
Cre a ting a Ma ilb ox or Fold e r During Tra nsfe r
To create a mailbox and transfer the current message into it at the same time, do the
following.
■ From the Transfer menu, choose New instead of the name of a mailbox. The New
Mailbox dialog box appears.
You can create a new mailbox or mail folder. For details, see “Creating Mailboxes and
current message is transferred into the new mailbox.
To create the new mailbox without transferring the message into it, select the “Don’t
transfer, just create mailbox.”
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Filte ring Me ssa g e s
Important. If you are using Eudora in Light mode, you have access to fewer features
when using Eudora’s Filtering functionality.
Many of the email management functions in Eudora can be done automatically using
filters. For example, you can automatically reply to a request for information, transfer all
the messages from your children into a personal mailbox, and label all the messages from
your customers as “Hot.”
A filter can be thought of as a personal “valet” or “butler” that takes your mail and does
certain things to it that you specify. One kind of valet might watch for particular mail from a
mailing list and move it into a mailbox, open the message, and play a sound. Another
might look for other kinds of mail and give it a label color, a high priority, and a new subject
line. You can create as many of these “valets” or “butlers” as you like, and you can give
each of them from one to five instructions on what to do with your mail that fits a certain
set of criteria, based on information in the header of the message and the message body.
Quic k a nd Sim p le Filte rs with the Ma ke Filte r Com m a nd
The simplest filters are those that transfer incoming messages to a particular mailbox
based on the sender of the message or one or more of the recipients. For example, each
time you check your mail, you may want to have Eudora take all of the incoming
messages it receives from your friend Joe and automatically transfer them into a mailbox
you’ve called “Mail from Joe.” To get Eudora to do this, you set up a simple filter.
For new users, the Make Filter dialog box provides an easy way to learn how to use filters.
Once you are comfortable with the simple filters created this way, you can go on to make
more complex, powerful filters using the Filters window. Experienced users will find that
the Make Filter dialog box provides a rapid, convenient method for making a simple
transfer filter.
To open and use the Make Filter dialog box, do the following.
1
Open an incoming or outgoing message containing the information you want in your
filter, or select one or more message summaries in a mailbox.
2
From the Special menu, choose Make Filter. Or right-click in the body of the open
message, or in the selection of message summaries, or in the preview pane for a
single-selected message, and choose Make Filter from the drop-down menu. The
Make Filter dialog box appears.
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Make Filter dialog box with sample filter
Ma tc h Cond itions
The Match Conditions area of the dialog box helps you set up the criteria that will deter-
mine whether a particular message will be acted on by this filter.
You can specify that the type of messages you are interested in should be Incoming
and/or Outgoing. You can also specify that this should be a Manual filter (described
below). You can check and uncheck any combination of the three boxes: Incoming,
Outgoing, and Manual.
Note. If the messages you selected when you chose Make Filter were in any mailbox
other than your Out mailbox, the Incoming and Manual check boxes are checked automat-
ically. If the messages you selected were in your Out mailbox, the Outgoing and Manual
check boxes are checked automatically.
■ Incoming—If this box is selected, then any incoming message that satisfies the
content match condition you specify will be acted on according to the action you’ve
specified in this filter.
■ Outgoing—If this box is selected, then any outgoing message that satisfies the
content match condition you specify will be acted on according to the action you’ve
specified in this filter. The matching and action occurs after the message has been
sent.
■ Manual—If this box is selected, then when you select one or more message summa-
ries in a mailbox window and choose Filter Messages from the Special menu, the
incoming and/or outgoing messages selected that satisfy the content match condition
you specify will be acted on according to the action you’ve specified in this filter. This
option is useful when testing your filter or manually filtering messages that you have
already received or sent.
Note. If Incoming or Outgoing is selected (or both), the filter is automatic; that is, Eudora
performs the filter operation behind the scenes, automatically, when you send or check
mail. If you now also select Manual, the filter becomes both automatic and manual,
meaning, you can now manually perform the filter operation by selecting Filter Messages
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from the Special menu while message summaries are selected in a mailbox window—but
Eudora still filters the messages automatically during mail sends and checks. In short,
checking Manual does not “turn off” Eudora’s automatic filtering for that filter.
Also, making a filter manual also gives you a good way to test the filter to your needs as
soon as you set it up, rather than having to wait until the next time you send or check mail.
After creating a manual filter with the Make Filter dialog box, check to see that it does what
you want by selecting Filter Messages from the Special menu. Your open message or
selected message summaries are immediately filtered according to the new filter.
You can choose one of three content matches: From, Any Recipient, or Subject.
From (selected by default)—Select to match the message against the From: field—the
sender—of the messages you selected. You can then edit the field. The From: field of a
target message must contain the information in this box but does not have to exactly equal
it. Note that if you selected multiple messages and they do not have a common sender,
the From: field is unselectable and is left blank.
Any Recipient—Select to match the message against any of the recipients in the
messages you selected (recipients are contained in the To: and Cc: fields and, in an
outgoing message, the Bcc: field). Choose one recipient from the drop-down menu
(accessed from the menu button next to the field), or edit the text in the field. Note that the
information you enter in the field must be contained in any of the recipient fields of the
target message but does not have to exactly equal any recipient field.
Subject—Select to match the message against the Subject: field of the messages you
selected. If you have selected multiple messages and they do not have a common
subject, this field is left blank. In either case you can edit the field. The subject line of a
target message must contain the information in this box but does not have to exactly equal
it.
Ac tion Are a
The Action area of the window lets you determine the one action that will be performed on
messages that satisfy the Match Conditions you’ve specified for this filter. The three action
choices are all message-transfer actions; they transfer the filtered message to a mailbox.
For messages that satisfy your match conditions, your simple filter will transfer the
messages to either a new mailbox, an existing mailbox, or your Trash mailbox.
Transfer to New Mailbox—Select to transfer the filtered message to a new mailbox that
you will specify. The text field is filled in with a suggested new-mailbox name based on
your selected content match condition (From, Any Recipient, or Subject). You can change
this name if you like. The In Folder field is a label showing you the folder in which your new
mailbox will be created. By default, this is the same folder that holds the mailbox
containing the messages you’ve selected. The new mailbox is created as soon as you
create this filter.
Note. You can set the value of the “In Folder” field to your own desired default folders
based on the chosen match condition: From, Any Recipient, or Subject. Use the three
Eudora.ini file entries FilterFromFolder, FilterRecipFolder, and FilterSubjectFolder, respec-
tively. Enter the path as it appears on the mailbox window. For example: FilterFrom-
to display the topic.
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Transfer to Existing Mailbox—Select to transfer the filtered message into one of your
existing mailboxes. Select the mailbox from the button next to the field. The default
mailbox is the In box. When you click the button, a version of the Transfer menu appears,
letting you choose the mailbox from the Transfer menu.
Note. Also, you can create a new mailbox in the Filters window by choosing New from the
drop-down mailbox menu. This is handy for creating a new mailbox within another folder.
Delete Message (Transfer to Trash)—Select to delete the message that satisfies the filter
match conditions, transferring it to your Trash mailbox. This feature is useful for deleting
junk email, or “spam” as it is called in the Internet world. Test this filter to make sure
messages you really want to keep don’t go to the Trash mailbox.
Buttons
■ Create Filter—When you have set up your match conditions and filter action, click
Create Filter to create the filter. The filter is added to the bottom of your filters list in the
Filters window (discussed below). The filter is available immediately and will act on
messages that satisfy the conditions at the next mail check, mail send, or selection of
the “Filter Messages” command, as appropriate. Filters are processed from top to
bottom of the filters list.
■ Add Details—Alternately, after setting up the filter information, click Add Details to
both create your filter and also open the Filters window. You can add additional infor-
mation to your new filter and make it more powerful or just change it. The filter is added
to the bottom of your filters list and is immediately available in the form in which it was
set up in the Make Filter dialog box. Any changes you make in the Filters window must
be saved before they become effective. Following is more information on the Filters
window.
■ Cancel—Click Cancel to cancel the filter if you change your mind. The filter is
cancelled and your changes are not saved.
De ta ile d Filte rs with the Filte rs Wind ow
The Make Filter dialog box, discussed previously, lets you create quick, simple filters that
perform one operation—a mail transfer—based on one match condition—a piece of
header information. The Filters window lets you create more complex, powerful filters that
use multiple match conditions and perform multiple filter actions. You can also use the
Filters window to create simple filters such as those created by the Make Filter dialog box.
To open the Filters window to create or modify a filter, do the following.
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From the Tools menu, choose Filters, or click on the Filters window’s tab if it is part of
a visible tabbed window group. The Filters window appears, and any filters you have
created are listed on the left. For more information on how to manipulate the Filters
window alone and as part of a tabbed window, see “Managing Your Windows in
Filters window showing an example filter
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To add a new filter, click New or to modify a filter, click an existing filter to select it.
Select the options for how you want the filter to be used: as an automatic filter to be
invoked on any Incoming and/or Outgoing mail and as a Manual filter that can be
invoked when you choose Filter Messages from the Special menu. Any combination
of these options works.
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5
Define the criteria for the filter by using the header item drop-down menus and the text
fields to specify which header items should include a particular string of text. You can
define two related terms for the criteria so that your filter is as specific as possible. For
Define the action or actions to be taken on messages that fit the criteria and save the
the topic.
Eudora places a small icon to the left of the filter in the list for some action you have
selected for that filter—up to five icons/actions per filter.
Note. Filters are automatically named based on the first term of the criteria for the filter.
You can reorder them by dragging a filter up or down in the list.
You should reorder your filters to indicate what order you want your messages filtered, and
grouping your filters will make them easier to find.
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When the filters are invoked (automatically or manually), each message is matched
against each filter in order from top to bottom. If the message meets a filter’s criteria, the
actions are done as specified until there are no more actions. Then the message is
matched against the next filter. If at any point a “Skip Rest” action is done, the remaining
actions for that filter (if there are any) are performed on that message, the rest of the filters
in the filters list are skipped for that message. The next message is filtered, again going
from top to bottom down the filters list.
Filter order matters when a message addressed to you is also sent to a mailing list you’re
on. If you have a filter that always places messages addressed to you into a personal
mailbox, then you want Eudora to perform the filter for your personal mailbox before any
other filtering.
You can change the width of the filters list to create more or less space for your list. To do
this, put the arrow over the vertical “splitter” bar to the right of the list and drag the line to
the left or right.
The next two sections refer exclusively to the Filters window. For information on the match
conditions and filter actions in the Make Filter dialog box, see “Quick and Simple Filters
Filte r Crite ria (Ma tc h Are a )
Each filter in the Filters window can use one or two “terms” as its criteria, connecting them
as appropriate with the conjunction drop-down menu.
Header—Use this field to specify which message header items you want the filter to
search. You can choose an option from the drop-down menu or enter one yourself. This is
helpful if you want to use a header item that does not appear on the menu, such as
X-Priority. The selections are as follows:
■ To:
■ From:
■ Subject:
■ Cc:
■ Reply-To:
■ «Any Header»
■ «Body»
■ «Any Recipient»
■ «Personality»
The «Any Header» option searches all message headers (including hidden headers that
are shown with the BLAH BLAH BLAH option). The «Body» option searches the message
body. The «Any Recipient» option searches all possible recipient items (To:, Cc:, Bcc:).
The «Personality» option searches the name of the personality (email account) associated
with the message. You will most likely want to search for both the To: and Cc: fields when
receiving mail. If so, you should use <<Any Recipient>> instead of To: or Cc:.
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Use the match type (“contains” is the default) drop-down menu to control how the header
item is matched with the text string in the text field. The match options are as follows:
contains or doesn’t contain—If the specified header item contains or does not contain
the text string, filter the message. It allows other text to surround the text string.
is or is not—If the specified header item is or is not an exact match of the text string, filter
the message.
starts with or ends with—If the specified header item starts with or ends with the text
string, filter the message. The starts with item refers to the first non-whitespace character
after the colon, so any spaces after the colon are ignored.
appears or doesn’t appear—If the header item appears or does not appear in the
message, filter the message (the text field is ignored). This is useful for filtering messages
based only on the types of fields they contain. For example, some messages contain a
Reply-To: header, some don’t.
intersects nickname—If the text string is included in a nickname, whether it is a full
address or a nickname within the nickname, filter the message.
matches regexp (case sensitive)—If the specific item matches the regular expressions
characters with case sensitivity, filter those messages.
Note. Regular Expressions is an advanced and complex method of searching for text.
Regular Expression is a search string that uses special characters to match text charac-
ters. For example, if you are filtering messages sent to you by two people, choose From in
the first drop-down options list, then choose matches regexp. Then type their usernames
between parentheses separated by a vertical slash, for example
(bobclark)|(janedoe)in the text box. Eudora searches and displays all messages
from these two people. For more information on regular expressions, refer to the
readme.txtfile in your Eudora folder or click on the following Web site URL
matches regexp—If the specific item matches the regular expressions characters, filter
those messages.
Enter text in the text field boxes to specify the text strings that the filter is searching for.
Important. It is recommended that the contents of the text boxes be kept as specific and
brief as possible. The greater the complexity, the less likelihood of a match.
Be sure not to enter a header label in the text box as part of the text string. For example, to
filter all messages from Justine, do not enter “From: Justine” in the text box. Rather, select
“From:” in the Header field, and enter simply “Justine” in the text box.
Use the conjunction drop-down menu (“ignore” is the default) to link the two terms. The
conjunction options are as follows:
ignore—Ignore the second term. If the message matches the first term, filter the
message.
and—If the message matches both the first and second terms (but not just one alone),
filter it.
or—If the message matches either term (or both), filter it.
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unless—If the message matches the first term, filter it unless the message also matches
the second term, in which case do not filter it. (This lets you exclude certain variations of
the first term.)
Filte r Ac tions
For a filter you’re creating or modifying in the Filters window, all messages that match the
filter criteria are acted on as specified with the Actions drop down menus. Each filter can
do up to five things to a message that matches the criteria. You can use the same action
twice if it does not directly affect the original message. For example, “Copy To” can be
used twice, but not “Transfer To.”
Some filter actions have an associated icon. For these actions, Eudora places the action
icon next to the filter in the filters list. Up to five icons can appear per filter.
The Action options are as follows.
None—No action.
Make Status—Assigns the selected status to message summaries.
Make Priority—Assigns the selected priority level to messages. If you select a set level
from the drop-down menu, messages are set to that priority. If you select Raise or Lower,
messages are raised or lowered one priority level based on their pre-filter level.
Make Label—Assigns the selected label to messages. Label colors and names are set in
the topic.
Make Personality—Assigns the selected personality to messages. For outgoing
messages, the message is not sent from the assigned personality. For incoming
messages, all your responses to the message will be from the assigned personality until
you change the personality associated with the incoming message or your response. For
display the topic.
Make Subject—Assigns the new subject to message summaries (does not affect the
subject in the message itself). If you choose this option, the entire subject of the message
is replaced with the new subject. Use the “&” symbol to stand for the old subject if you
want to add the new subject to the old subject. For example, entering New Subject [was &]
results in New Subject [was Old Subject].
Play Sound—Plays the selected sound when messages are filtered.
Speak—Plays a voice to alert you of a message being filtered. Who and Subject fields
display as well as a drop-down list where you can choose a voice type. Check Who to
hear the voice read the sender’s name and Subject to hear the voice read the subject line.
Note. After you select Speak, the Who and Subject fields and a drop-down voice list
appear. If these fields are grayed out, you must install Microsoft’s Speech Engine appli-
cations. For more information, please refer to the readme.txtfile in your Eudora
folder.
Open—Opens the mailbox and/or message when a message is received. If you set a
previous action to filter messages into a mailbox, then that mailbox is opened.
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Print—Prints one copy of each message.
Notify User—Notifies you “As Normal” and/or “In Report” when messages are received.
The “As Normal” option notifies you based on the options you have selected in the Getting
Attention options. The “In Report” option notifies you by opening the Filter Report window
and displaying in that window a filter report that details what filter actions have been done.
Notify Application—Notifies the selected application when messages are received, and
provides information from the message. Specify the application to use and the part of the
message to be included.
Use the Browse button
to select an application, or enter the command line yourself.
The command line should include the path to the executable, any options, and the
following substitution variables, all separated by blank spaces:
%1
%2
%3
%4
%5
%6
Date
To
From
Subject
Cc
The entire message
For example, the command line to send the subject of a message to a pager might look
like this:
C:\apps\pager.exe -c %4
Forward To—Forwards messages to the email address given. Forwarded messages are
placed in the queue in the Out mailbox and sent the next time you send queued
messages.
Redirect To—Redirects messages to the email address given. Redirected messages are
placed in the queue in the Out mailbox and sent the next time you send queued
messages.
Reply with—Replies to messages with the selected stationery message. Replies are
placed in the queue in the Out mailbox and sent the next time you send queued
messages. One typical use of this action is to reply to specific senders with stationery
telling them that you’re on vacation: “I’m out till the 10th. I’ll reply to your message when I
display the topic.
Note. For filter actions Forward to, Redirect to, and Reply with, the resulting new
message will always be queued regardless of your sending mail settings. If you want
the message sent automatically, you need to have the Checking Mail settings set to
“Automatically check mail every _ minutes” and “Send on check” enabled. See
Server Options—Sets the message’s server status to Fetch and/or Delete. Use this only
if POP is your incoming server type.
Copy To—Copies messages to the selected mailbox.
Transfer To—Transfers messages to the selected mailbox.
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Skip Rest—Stops filtering for the message. The message is not matched to the rest of the
filters in the filter list.
Cre a ting a n Auto-Re p ly Me ssa g e
(Sponsored and Paid modes only)
You can create an email message that can be sent to people automatically when you are
on vacation or away from your computer. This message is called an auto-reply. You create
an auto-reply by using Eudora’s stationery and filter functions.
Before you create the auto-reply, make sure that the Check for mail every _ minutes
(the value you enter must be greater than 0) and Send on check options are turned on in
number to display the topic.
Also, make sure you have entered your incoming mail server’s password for your current
session or have Eudora save your password.
To create an auto-reply, do the following.
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Write your auto-reply message using Eudora’s Stationery functions. Once the
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From the Tools menu, choose Filters. The Filters window appears.
In the Match section, choose a header from the Header drop-down list. Select a
header that matches the header in the messages to whom you want to send your
auto-reply. <<Any Recipient>> is the most common for an auto-reply.
Important. If you choose <<Any Recipient>>, all recipients including mailing list you
subscribe to will receive your auto-reply.
For example, to set an auto-reply only to messages sent to your user name, just select
<<Any Recipient>>, then choose “contains.” In the text box, enter your user name. You
can match others as well, but it may cause a large number of emails to be auto-replied.
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In the Action section, choose Reply with in the first drop-down list.
In the text box to the right of the first drop-down list, enter the name of the stationery.
Click OK. The stationery message you created will be sent to the people you indicated
in this filter.
Important. Remember to delete this filter when you want your auto-reply message to
stop.
Sorting Me ssa g e s Within Ma ilb oxe s
When you check your mail and new messages come into your In box or are filtered into
other mailboxes, the new messages are placed in their mailboxes in the order in which
they arrive. By default, these new messages appear at the bottom of the message
summary list in the mailbox window. Note that this is not necessarily a strict date order,
since occasionally messages may arrive out of date order. (The date indicates when the
message was sent, not when you receive them.)
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Similarly, when you transfer messages to another mailbox, those messages appear at the
bottom of the message summary list in that mailbox.
You can sort messages in a mailbox by status, priority, attachment, label, sender, date,
size, server status, subject, and group by subject. You can sort these messages in either
ascending or descending order one column at a time or by combining several columns in
the sort.
Sim p le So rting
You can access Eudora’s sort feature to perform a simple sort in three ways:
■ By clicking the column header you want to sort. For example, if you click the Who
column, senders of your messages are sorted in alphabetically order.
■ By right-clicking anywhere on the column headings. The context menu appears for you
to choose a sort criteria for that column. For example, if you choose the item to sort in
descending order, the mailbox sorts from top to bottom.
■ By choosing the Sort from the Edit menu. The Sort submenu appears for you to choose
a column heading to sort.
Note. The normal sort order is ascending, for example, with the most current dates at the
bottom of the list. If you hold down the Shift key and click the column header, the sorting
becomes descending. You can mix ascending and descending sorts when sorting more
than one column at a time.
Following is the context menu that appears when you right-click the Who column heading.
Mailbox sorting context menu
In each column heading, you can choose if that heading has no sort, is sorted in
ascending order, or sorted in descending order. Also, you can group subjects together by
choosing Group by Subject, which keeps messages with the same subject together all
the time.
Messages (including replies) with the same subject, such as a work project are kept
together in the mailbox regardless of whether you sort by Date, Sender, and so on. A
checkmark next to the Group by Subject option in the context menu indicates that the
option is active.
New messages that come into a sorted mailbox will automatically be placed in the correct
sorted order. For example, if you have a mailbox sorted by date, and you want all of the
messages to be grouped by subject, any new messages will be grouped with other
messages containing the same subject in a chronological.
Note. You can also sort message in the Find Messages window when the Results panel is
active.
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Com p le x so rting
You can perform complex sorting by holding down the Ctrl key and click one column, then
another column, and so on. The columns are sorted in the order you clicked on them. For
example, if you click the Subject column first and then the Date column, the subjects in
this mailbox sort alphabetically and then chronologically. You will notice numbers in each
column header indicating the order of the sort. See the following example.
Complex sorting by subject and then date
To perform a complex sort, you can click two columns or all eight! To cancel the sort, just
click on the column that displays 1. All the sort criteria will cancel.
Using the Find Com m a nd
Eudora incorporates a Find command that searches for specific text within a single
message, multiple messages, or even multiple mailboxes. To display the Find submenu of
commands, do the following.
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From the Edit menu, choose Find.
Find submenu (under the Edit menu)
Find ing Te xt Within One Me ssa g e
To search for text within a single message, do the following.
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Open a message.
From the Edit menu, choose Find.
From the Find submenu, choose Find Text or press Ctrl+Shift+F. The Find dialog box
appears, with the blinking insertion point located in the text field.
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Find dialog box
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In the text field, type the text you want to find.
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Check Match whole word only to match the text as whole word (not embedded in
another word). Check Match case to match the case of the entered text.
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When finished, click the Find Next button.
To continue searching in the same message for the next occurrence of the text, click
the Find Next button in the Find dialog box, or choose the Find Text Again command
from the Find submenu. These commands are equivalent and limit the search to the
same message. Repeating these commands cycles through the matches in the open
message only.
Starting at the cursor’s current position in the message, Eudora searches the current
message for the specified text. If no match is found, the not found alert appears.
If the search is successful, the message is scrolled to the first point where the match is
found and the matching text is highlighted.
Note. You can search for text in the messages summaries area of a mailbox. Just place
your cursor in the summaries window and choose Find from the Edit window. Choose
Find Text and enter the text you want to find in the Find Text dialog box. Eudora will high-
light the first occurrence of the text.
Stop p ing a Find
If you want to stop Eudora from continuing a search, click the Stop button in the progress
window, or press the Esc key.
Find Me ssa g e s
Important. If you are using Eudora in Light mode, you have access to fewer features
when using Eudora’s Search functionality.
You can perform complex searches through messages in all or a selected number of mail-
boxes or folders. Once your search is complete, you can sort, delete, and view the
resulting messages. You can search for a specific piece of information in all your mail or
just search for a particular item that matches the criteria you set. Set up the criteria for
your search by selecting options from the drop-down lists and by entering text.
To set up criteria for a message search, do the following:
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From the Edit menu, choose Find or press Ctrl+F. The Find submenu appears.
From the Find submenu, choose Find Messages. The Find Messages dialog box
appears.
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Find Messages dialog box
In the Find Messages dialog box, your mailboxes appear along with check boxes. If the
boxes are checked, Eudora will perform a search in these mailboxes according to the
criteria you are about to set up. To omit a mailbox from the search, just deselect the
box.
If you right-click in the Find Messages window, a context menu appears allowing you to
clear all the check marks so you can select the mailboxes to search. Choose Clear All
to clear the check marks or choose Check All to check all the mailboxes.
Find Messages context menu (right-click)
The top part of the dialog box is where you select and enter criteria for your search.
Each search can use up to five “terms” and “conjunctions” as its criteria, connecting
them as appropriate. Eudora remembers the previous criteria if you close and reopen
the Find Messages dialog box. The drop-down and conjunction lists displaying the
criteria you can select are shown, as follows:
Find Messages drop-down and conjunction options lists
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In the drop-down criteria list (Anywhere is the default), choose where in the message
you want Eudora to search for text. Following is a description of each option.
Anywhere—Choose this option to search everywhere in the message including all
header fields and message body.This includes headers that are normally exposed only
with the Blah Blah Blah icon button turned on.
Headers—Choose this option to search only in the header fields of the message. This
includes headers that are normally exposed only with the Blah Blah Blah icon button
turned on.
Body—Choose this option to search only in the body of the message.
Attachment Name(s)—Choose this option to search only attachment names in the
message.
Summary—Choose this option to search text entered in only the header From: and
Subject: fields of the message.
Status—Choose this option to search for messages by status. A status drop-down
options list displays (the default is Unread). You can choose from Unread, Read,
Replied, Forwarded, or Redirected. The conjunction field defaults to is.
Priority—Choose this option to search for messages by priority. A priority drop-down
options list displays (the default is Highest). You can choose from Highest, High,
Normal, Low, or Lowest. The conjunction field defaults to is.
Attachment Count—Choose this option to search the number of attachments joined
to each message. A counter appears for you to select the desired number, or you can
type the number in the text box. The conjunction field defaults to is.
Label—Choose this option to search for messages by label. Choose Label, and the
labels drop-down options list displays (the default is None). You can choose from the
labels you previously set up. The conjunction field defaults to is.
Date—Choose this option to search for messages by date. Once selected, today’s
date appears. Click the down arrow to display the current month’s calendar. Using the
arrows on the calendar, you can display the preceding or succeeding months and
years. Choose the date to or from where you want the search to begin.
Size—Choose this option to search for messages by their file size (in kilobytes). A
counter appears for you to select the desired number of kilobytes, or you can type the
number in the text box. The conjunction field defaults to is.
Age—Choose this option to search for messages by age (in days). A counter appears
for you to select the desired number of days, or you can type the number in the text
box. The conjunction field defaults to is.
Personality—Choose this option to search for messages by account. A drop-down list
displaying your previously set up personalities appears. Select the desired personality.
Mailbox Name—Choose this option to search for messages in a specific mailbox.
Enter the name of the mailbox in the text box. This works well if you selected several
mailboxes but only wanted certain mailboxes that matched the criteria you selected.
To—Choose this option to search text entered in only the To: header field of the
message.
From—Choose this option to search text entered in only the From: header field of the
message.
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Subject—Choose this option to search text entered in only the Subject: header field of
the message.
CC—Choose this option to search text entered in only the Cc: header field of the
message.
BCC—Choose this option to search text entered in only the Bcc: header field of the
message.
Any recipient—Choose this option to search text entered in only the To:, Cc:, and Bcc:
header fields of the message.
In the example below, Headers was selected from the drop-down options list as the
first criteria.
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After you select the option from the drop-down list, select a conjunction to link the first
option with the text you will be searching for. The conjunction drop-down lists are
shown below.
Conjunction drop-down lists
Anywhere
Headers
Body
Attachment Name (s)
Summary
Mailbox Name
To
From
Subject
Date
CC
Age
BCC
Size
Any Recipient
Priority
Attachment Count
Status
Label
Personality
Following is a description of each conjunction option in the drop-drop list.
contains—If the specific item contains the text string, search and display those
messages. This allows for other surrounding text.
contains word—If the specific item contains the exact word, search and display those
messages.
does not contain—If the specific item does not contain the text string, search and
display those messages.
is—If the specific item is an exact match, search and display those messages.
is not—If the specific item is not an exact match, search and display those messages.
starts with—If the specific item starts with the text string, search and display those
messages.
ends with—If the specific item ends with the text string, search and display those
messages.
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matches regexp—If the specific item matches the regular expression string of charac-
ters, search and display those messages. Regular Expression is a search string that
uses special characters to match text characters. For example, if you are searching for
messages sent to you by two people, choose From in the first drop-down options list,
then choose matches regexp, then type their usernames between brackets separated
by a vertical pipe symbol, for example (bobclark)|(janedoe)in the text box.
Eudora searches and displays all messages from these two people. For more informa-
tion concerning regular expressions, refer to the readme.txt file in the Eudora folder, or
click the following URL:
Note. Regular Expressions is an advanced and complex method of searching for text.
is after/is before (Date only)—If the date is after or before the date displayed, search
and display those messages.
is greater than/is less than (Age, Size, Priority, Attachment Count only)—If the
specific item is greater than or less than the number indicated, search and display
those messages.
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Once you have chosen the conjunction, enter the text string that you are searching for,
or choose a value from the drop down list if one appears. In the text box, you can enter
as much text as you want. In the following example, a username was entered.
Example of search criteria for a one level search
In the above example, if you click Search, Eudora will search through all of your mail-
boxes for every message that contain the text Ronanywhere in the header portion of
the message.
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To continue adding a second level of criteria (you can add up to five levels), click More.
Choose and enter more criteria to further streamline the search as in the following
example. You can also select Match All or Match Any to include or differentiate the
criteria from one level to the other. “Match All” will find messages that match all of the
criteria you entered; “Match Any” will find messages that match any of the criteria you
entered.
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Example of search criteria for a two level search
In the above example, if you click Search, Eudora will search for every message
through every selected mailbox that contains the word speakeranywhere but only if
the text Kenis somewhere in the header.
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To continue adding a third level or criteria, click More. Choose and enter more criteria
to further reduce the search. Click Search to display the messages that contain the
criteria you entered. Although this example shows three levels of criteria, you can click
More to continue entering more criteria; click Fewer to return you one level back. The
Search button is disabled if you have a blank text box.
Example of search criteria for a three level search with results
In the above example, if you click Search, Eudora will search for every message
through every mailbox that contains the word speakerin either the message header
and body but only if the text Ronis somewhere in the header. However, it will for
messages that contain the word messagein the message body only.
The messages that fulfill the search criteria appear in the Results window.
Important. The Search feature will not work if you have any text boxes blank. You can
click Fewer to reach a level where all text boxes are filled to conduct your search.
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Search context menu (right-click)
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To sort the messages, click the column headings to sort by that column. To sort in
descending order, click the column header again.
To open a message, select and double-click the message, or right-click to display
the context menu. Choose Open Message.
To open the mailbox where this message resides, highlight the message, right-click
to display the context menu. Choose Open Mailbox.
To delete a message, highlight the message and press the Delete key, or right-click
to display the context menu. Choose Delete Message.
Sa ving a Me ssa g e to a File
To save a message to a separate text file on your PC, do the following.
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Open or select the messages you want to save.
From the File menu, choose Save As. The Save As dialog box appears.
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Save As dialog box
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Enter the name you want to give the text file and select the appropriate options.
In the Save as type drop-down menu, choose Text Files.
When selected, Include Headers retains the first message’s header information in the
saved document. If this is not checked, only the body of the messages is saved.
When selected, Guess Paragraphs removes extraneous carriage returns from the
message and leaves returns only at the ends of paragraphs. It also converts multiple
spaces into tabs.
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Once you’ve made all of your choices, click Save.
If you select multiple messages from a mailbox window and choose Save As, all of the
messages are saved to a single file.
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Wind ow Sta te s a nd Ta b b e d Wind ows
Every window in Eudora exists in one of three states.
■ Normal
■ Docked
■ Floating
You can use these different window states to set up Eudora the way you want to see it on
your screen. These states are described below and in the following sections.
A tabbed window is a collection of windows combined into a single window in which each
window has its own tab, for activating and dragging. A tabbed window can exist in any of
the above three window states: normal, docked, or floating. Tabbed windows are
discussed separately below.
Note. Only tool windows, those windows accessible from the Tools menu, except the
Options dialog box, can exist as docked windows, floating windows, and tabbed windows.
All other windows in Eudora, particularly the mailbox TOC windows and message
windows, exist only in the normal state and cannot be combined into tabbed windows.
The tool windows that can be docked, floating, or tabbed are as follows, in their order
down the Tools menu.
■ Filters
■ Filter Report
■ Mailboxes
■ File Browser
■ Stationery
■ Signatures
■ Personalities
■ Task Status
■ Task Errors
■ Address Book
■ Directory Services
■ Link History
Note. If you minimize and then restore the main Eudora window, then all normal, docked,
and floating Eudora windows, including tabbed windows, are also minimized and restored
with it.
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Closing a tool window does not erase its contents, unless the contents are saveable and
you choose to discard changes. When you close a tool window or a tabbed window, the
content, state, and position of the window or of all windows in the tabbed window are
preserved. The preservation of content is useful for “persistent data” such as filter reports
and directory service queries. If you try to close or de-activate a tool or tabbed window
with unsaved changes, Eudora asks if you want to save the changes.
Note. If you are using Eudora in Sponsored mode, an ad window appears at the left-hand
bottom of your screen. The ad window is the minimum size that corresponds to the ad
being displayed, and this window is not moveable.
Norm a l Wind ows
A window is in the normal state if it is restricted to the window work area of the main
Eudora window and cannot be dragged out of the main window.
Sample normal windows inside the main Eudora window
Normal windows can be moved around within the window work area. They can also be
minimized, and can be maximized to completely fill the visible window work area. When a
normal window is maximized, its title bar partially blends with the main window title bar.
Normal windows can overlap other normal windows and are obscured by both docked and
floating windows.
The title bar of a normal window contains the window-menu icon (far left) and three stan-
dard window buttons (far right): minimize/restore, maximize/restore, and close.
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A tool window in the normal state, whether alone or in a tabbed group, can be dragged out
of the confines of the main Eudora window, but it must first be converted to a dockable or
floating window. To perform this conversion, do the following.
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To display the drop-down context menu, right-click the window’s border or tab.
To turn the command off, from the context menu choose Float In Main Window. The
checkmark disappears.
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To turn the command on, from the context menu choose Allow Docking. A check
mark appears.
A non-tool window in the normal state, such as a mailbox window or a message window,
can never be dragged out of the confines of the main Eudora window.
To convert a docked or floating window to a normal window, right-click the docked or
floating window’s border or tab, and choose “Float In Main Window” from the drop-down
context menu.
Doc ke d Wind ows
A window is dockable if it is capable of being attached to one of the four edges of the main
Eudora window. A window is said to be in the docked state if it is currently attached to one
such edge.
Sample windows docked to the main Eudora window
Note. Some application programs identify the docking feature by using terms such as
“gravity,” “snap,” “glue,” “sticky,” “join,” and the like.
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Docked Windows
Only tool windows, whether alone or tabbed, are dockable. All other windows in Eudora,
particularly message windows and mailbox windows, are not dockable.
Note. The main toolbar, although not a window, is also dockable to any edge of the main
Eudora window or to another dockable window.
Dockable windows can be docked to any edge of the main Eudora window and to each
other. You can also dock multiple windows along a single edge of the main window.
When you dock a window to the main window, the visible window work area is reduced.
Docked windows cannot be obscured by normal windows, but they can be obscured by
floating windows.
To make a window dockable, do the following.
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To display the drop-down context menu, right-click the window’s border or tab.
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To turn off the command, from the context menu choose Float In Main Window. The
check mark disappears.
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To turn on the command, choose Allow Docking. A check mark appears.
To then dock the window, drag the window to an edge of the main Eudora window or to
another docked window. When the ghosted docking rectangle appears, indicating that
the window will be docked, release the mouse button. The window attaches to the
main window edge or the other window.
Some windows are more convenient to use when docked vertically (tall-and-narrow), while
others are more convenient to use when docked horizontally (short-and-wide). Examples
of windows that work better as tall-and-narrow windows are the Mailboxes window and the
File Browser window. Examples of windows that work better as short-and-wide windows
are the Task Status window and the Filter Report window.
Following are descriptions of the controls in docked windows.
Grip p e r Ba r
The gripper bar, also called the grab handle, is the double line at one edge of the docked
window. Drag the window by the gripper bar to undock it from the main window frame. The
window now floats; you can leave it as a floating window, or you can dock it to any edge of
the main window or to another docked window.
Note. The toolbar has a gripper bar.
Zoom Button
When two or more windows are docked on the same edge of the main window, Eudora
activates each window’s zoom button. This button appears next to the “x” close button and
contains a small triangle. Click the zoom button to minimize, maximize, or restore the
width or height of that docked window relative to the other docked windows adjacent to it.
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Close Button
The close button contains an “x” and appears next to the zoom button. Click the close
button to close the docked window.
Re size Ba r
When two windows are docked side by side along one edge of the main window, a bar
appears between them, called the resize bar. Drag this bar up or down, or to the left or
right, as appropriate, to enlarge one of the docked windows and reduce the other.
Floa ting Wind ows
A window is in the floating state if it floats above the main Eudora window and can be
placed anywhere on the desktop, including outside the main Eudora window. In this way, a
floating window is a standard Windows “Always on Top” window, like tool palettes in paint
programs.
Sample floating windows
Only tool windows, whether alone or tabbed, can be made to float. All other windows in
Eudora, particularly message windows and mailbox windows, cannot be made to float.
Note. The main toolbar, although not a window, can be made to float by undocking it from
the main Eudora window using the gripper bar.
All windows in Eudora can be thought of as “living” in one of three layers or areas.
■ Normal windows live in the window work area, the bottom layer.
■ Docked windows live at the level of the main Eudora window’s border, the middle layer.
■ Floating windows live at the level above the main Eudora window, the top layer.
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Therefore, a floating Eudora window floats above all other Eudora windows except other
floating windows.
The title bar of a floating window contains, in addition to the title, only the Close button.
This distinguishes the window from a normal window when both appear to be in the
window work area. A normal window’s title bar contains the window-menu icon and three
standard buttons. Note that a floating window can be dragged outside of the main Eudora
window, whereas a normal window cannot.
You can diagonally resize any floating window in Eudora. Simply position the pointer over
any window corner, and click and drag to enlarge or reduce.
To convert a window to a floating window, either undock it from the main window, if it is
docked, or do the following.
1
To display the drop-down context menu, right-click the window’s border or tab.
2
To turn off the command, from the context menu choose Float In Main Window. The
checkmark disappears.
3
Then choose Allow Docking to turn off the command. The checkmark disappears. For
a docked window, you can also temporarily override the Allow Docking command and
suspend docking by holding down the Ctrl key while dragging the window. The window
drags as a floating window.
Ta b b e d Wind ows
A tabbed window is a collection of tool windows combined into one window. Each tool
window in the tabbed window has its own window tab.
Sample tabbed windows
A window tab has two purposes:
■ It lets you bring the window to the front of the group to display it by clicking on the tab.
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■ It serves as a “drag handle” that lets you drag the tool window from one tabbed window
to another, so that you can reorganize your tabbed windows and create new tabbed
windows.
Only tool windows, those windows accessible from the Tools menu, except the Options
dialog box, can be combined into a tabbed window. All other windows in Eudora, particu-
larly mailbox windows and message windows, cannot be combined into a tabbed window.
A tabbed window can be normal, docked, or floating. You can convert a tabbed window
from any state to any other state.
If a tabbed window shows a title bar, the title in the bar is the name of the active window in
the group.
Eud ora ’s De fa ult Ta b b e d Wind ows
Eudora comes with three default tabbed windows, shown in the previous figure, which
together include all eleven tool windows.
The first default is a vertically oriented tabbed window that is docked to the left side of the
main window and contains the following five tool windows, with tabs in left-to-right order.
■ Mailboxes
■ File Browser
■ Stationery
■ Signatures
■ Personalities
The second default tabbed window is a normal window that contains these five tool
windows, with tabs in left-to-right order. To display this window, choose one of the member
windows from the Tools menu.
■ Directory Services
■ Address Book
■ Filters
■ Filter Report
■ Link History
The third default tabbed window is a docked window that contains two tool windows, with
tabs on the left side in top-to-bottom order. To display this window, display one of the
member windows from the Tools menu.
■ Task Status
■ Task Errors
Note. The far-left window is the default window that will appear. To change this default
window, select the window you want to appear as the default, and drag it to the far-left
information. Click the page number to display the topic.
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As described later in this section, you can reorganize these default tabbed windows any
way you like. Your newly arranged tabbed window will be preserved when you quit and
restart Eudora.
Note. Due to file format incompatibilities, if you upgrade from a pre-4.0 version of Eudora,
you will lose the previous docking state of your Mailboxes window and toolbar. Eudora will
reset the toolbar and docking states to the default configuration noted above. However,
customized toolbar information is preserved; only the size and location of your toolbar may
change.
Op e ning a nd Ac tiva ting Ta b b e d Wind ows
To open a tabbed window that’s hidden, open any of its member windows by selecting the
appropriate command from the Tools menu. The tabbed window opens with the selected
window as the active (frontmost) window.
If the tabbed window is already visible and you wish to display one of its member windows
that is currently not active, simply click the member window’s tab. You can also select the
appropriate item from the Tools menu. The desired window comes to the front of the
tabbed group.
You can also use the tool window’s keyboard shortcut, if it has one, to open or activate the
tool window in its tabbed window.
Re org a nizing Ta b b e d Wind ows
You are not restricted to the default tabbed window arrangements supplied with Eudora.
You can mix and match tabbed windows any way you like.
At one extreme, you can have each of the tool windows in its own container with its own
tab. At the other extreme, you can have all tool windows combined into one tabbed
window. In between, you can have multiple tabbed windows open at once, mixed and
matched to suit your purposes.
To move a window from one tabbed group to another, drag the window tab from the first
group and drop it onto the second.
While the drag operation is in progress, the cursor changes and Eudora displays a small
ghosted rectangle when you are over a valid drop location.
If you drop the window tab onto another tab in the second group, the new window tab is
inserted at that position and the other tabs are displaced to accommodate it. If you don’t
drop the tab onto an existing tab, Eudora adds the new tab at the “end” of the group of
existing tabs. The end depends on the location of the tabs in the tabbed window: top,
bottom (the default), left, or right. For example, with tabs along the bottom, the “end” is the
far right.
Note that the relocated window takes on the window state — normal, docked, or floating
— of the destination tabbed window.
To reorganize the left-to-right or top-to-bottom order of tabs within a tabbed window, just
drag the tabs left and right or top and bottom. The drop scheme is the same as that
described above.
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Cre a ting a Ne w Ta b be d Wind ow
To create a new tabbed window, drag one of the tabs from an existing tabbed window and
drop it onto an exposed portion of the window work area. If the window work area is
completely obscured — a normal window is maximized, for example — then drop the tab
onto the status bar.
The dropped window converts into a normal tabbed window with a single tab. To convert
the window to docked or floating, do the following.
1
2
To display the drop-down context menu, right-click the tab or the window border
To turn off the command, from the context menu choose Float In Main Window. The
check mark disappears.
3
4
to turn on the command, choose Allow Docking. The check mark appears.
While dragging the floating or docked window, you can hold down the Ctrl key to
temporarily suspend docking behavior. When you release the key, docking behavior
resumes.
Ta b Disp la y in Sing le -Ta b b e d Wind ows
If a tool window is in a tabbed window by itself, with one tab, you can hide or show the tab
by doing the following.
1
2
To display the context menu, right-click the tab or the window border.
From the Tab Location submenu, choose Show Single Tab.
Note. You cannot hide the tabs in a tabbed window with two or more tabs.
Ta b Conte nts, Loc a tion, Auto-Ac tiva tion
■ Tab Contents—A window tab contains both the icon and the text label associated with
that window. If there is room enough in the tabbed window, both the icon and the label
appear on each tab. If there is not enough room, only the icon appears for each tab. If
only the icon is visible, pause the mouse pointer over the tab icon and Eudora will
display the tab text in a Tooltip.
■ Tab Location—By default, Eudora arranges window tabs along the bottom edge of a
tabbed window. Sometimes, however, it is more convenient to have the tabs appear
along a different edge. For example, in a short-and-wide tabbed window (one that is
docked horizontally), you can improve the visibility of the window’s contents by moving
the tabs to the left edge. To change the location of the tabs in a tabbed window,
right-click one of the tabs or on the window border, and choose a new location from the
Tab Location submenu of the context menu.
■ Tab Auto-Activation—During a drag and drop operation, if you pause the mouse
pointer over the tab of an inactive window in a tabbed window, that window becomes
active (is brought to the front), and you can complete the drop. For example, if you
drag received messages to the Mailboxes window when it is inactive in a tabbed
window, and pause the pointer over the Mailboxes window’s tab, the window becomes
active and you can drop the messages in a mailbox. Note that tab auto-activation is
disabled when you are dragging a tool window tab.
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Closing Ta b b e d Wind ows
To close a tabbed window, click the “x” close button in the upper-right corner of the
window.
Alternately, right-click any tab in the window or on the window border, and choose Hide
from the drop-down context menu.
Note that when you close or hide a tabbed window, the contents of all member windows,
and the state and position of the tabbed window, are all preserved. When you redisplay
the tabbed window, the active window shows its prior contents and the tabbed window
appears in its prior state and position.
However, if you attempt to close or hide a tabbed window in which the active window
contains unsaved changes, or you attempt to deactivate that active window by making
another window active in the group, Eudora asks you if you want to save your changes.
Wind ow Conte xt Me nu
If you right-click the tab or border of a single tool window, or on any tab or the border of a
tabbed window, Eudora displays a context menu containing window-management
commands.
Window context menu
Ta b Loc a tion
This submenu is always available on the window context menu. It lets you change the
location of the tabs in a tabbed window and lets you show and hide the tab in a
single-tabbed window.
By default, Eudora places window tabs at the bottom of a tabbed window. Choose Top,
Bottom, Left, or Right from this submenu to move the tabs to the top of the tabbed window,
the bottom, or the left or right side. Eudora places a bullet (radio button) next to the current
tab location selection.
Changing tab locations can sometimes increase the visible space within a tabbed window.
For example, a short-and-wide tabbed window (one docked horizontally) might show more
content if you move the tabs to the left side.
“Show Single Tab” is available in a single-tabbed window and lets you show or hide the
tab. A checkmark next to the command indicates that the tab is shown (the default). This
command is not available in a tabbed window containing two or more tabs; you cannot
hide the tabs in such a window.
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Allow Doc king
This command controls the dockability of floating and docked windows. It is available only
when the “Float In Main Window” command is deselected. It is not available for normal
windows when “Float In Main Window” is selected.
A checkmark next to the command indicates that it is selected.
When this command is on for a docked or floating window, the window can be docked to
any edge of the main Eudora window.
When “Allow Docking” is deselected for a docked window, the window is converted to a
floating window and cannot be redocked. When the command is turned off for a floating
window, the window cannot be docked.
Even with “Allow Docking” selected, you can hold down the Ctrl key while dragging a
docked or floating window to suspend dockability until you release the key.
Hid e
This command is always available on the context menu.
Choose Hide to close the tool window or tabbed window. “Hide” performs the same func-
tion as the “Close” command (Ctrl+F4) on the standard MS Windows window context
menu.
Note, however, that when you hide or close a tool window, its content, state, and position
are all preserved. And when you hide or close a tabbed window, the content, state, and
position of all member windows are preserved. Thus, if you hide and redisplay a floating
tabbed window, the window floats in its same position.
If you attempt to hide or close a tool window that contains unsaved changes, or a tabbed
window in which the active window contains unsaved changes, Eudora asks if you want to
save your changes.
To redisplay a tool window after you’ve hidden it, choose it from the Tools menu. To redis-
play a tabbed window after you’ve hidden it, choose one of its member windows from the
Tools menu. The tabbed window redisplays with the selected window active. You can use
keyboard shortcuts to reappears hidden tool or tabbed windows where appropriate.
Floa t In Ma in Wind ow
This command is always available on the drop-down context menu.
Selecting this command (indicated by a checkmark next to the command) converts a
docked or floating window to a normal window. Deselecting this command converts a
normal window to a docked or floating window.
Note that the availability of the “Allow Docking” command depends on the state of this
command. “When Float In Main Window” is selected (checked), “Allow Docking” is
unavailable (the window is normal). When “Float In Main Window” is deselected, “Allow
Docking” is available.
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Eud ora Toolb a r
The main toolbar is a strip of buttons that gives you easy access to your frequently used
Eudora commands.
Main Toolbar
The toolbar can be moved to wherever you want it on the screen. Just hold down the left
mouse button on the gripper bar, which is the double-line at one end, and drag the toolbar
around until you find a place you like. You can dock it to any edge of the Eudora window
(left, right, top, or bottom), or you can dock it to another dockable window, or you can put it
anywhere on your desktop in the floating state.
The descriptions of the default icons are listed below.
Trash
Opens In box.
Opens Out box.
Checks for mail.
display the topic.
Creates new message.
to display the topic.
Replies to sender’s message.
display the topic.
Replies to all recipients of the message including the sender.
display the topic.
Forwards the message.
display the topic.
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the page number to display the topic.
Opens next message.
Opens previous message.
Attaches a file to the message.
to display the topic.
Checks spelling.
display the topic.
Click the page number to display the topic.
Opens address book.
display the topic.
Sends the message to the printer.
Activates context sensitive help.
Opens new message and displays QUALCOMM’s PureVoice™
recorder/player.
Vie wing the Ma in Toolb a r
To show or hide the main toolbar, select or deselect the “Show toolbar” option in the
topic.
If the “Show cool bars” option is selected in the Display options window, the toolbar
buttons have a flat look, and a button appears raised only when you position the mouse
pointer over it. If this option is deselected in the Display options, the toolbar buttons
always appear raised.
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To see a description of each toolbar button, position the mouse pointer over the button; a
description appears in the status bar at the lower-left of the main Eudora window if the
“Show status bar” option selected in the Display options windows. If the “Show toolbar
tips” option is selected in the Display options, a toolbar tip appears when you pause the
mouse pointer over a toolbar button.
Ad d ing , Moving , a nd Re m oving Toolb a r Buttons
(Sp o nso re d a nd Pa id m o d e s o nly)
Ad d ing Toolb a r Buttons
To add buttons to the main toolbar, do the following.
1
Right-click anywhere on the toolbar, even on a button, to display the drop-down list.
From the drop-down list, choose Customize. The Customize toolbar window appears.
Customize toolbar window
2
The Customize window contains six tabbed panels: General, Mailboxes, Plugins,
Recipients, Stationery, and Personalities. Each of these panels lets you add toolbar
buttons for functions related to the tab title.
Note. The procedures for adding a toolbar button from each panel are similar.
3
4
In each panel, choose an item from the categories list on the left, and the corre-
sponding button icons for that category are shown in the Buttons section on the right.
Click to select one of the button icons and view a description of the button’s function in
the Description field at the bottom of the panel. These descriptions also appear in the
status bar of the main Eudora window if the bar is currently displayed when you posi-
tion the mouse pointer over the button icon. In this case, you don’t have to click the
button.
Note. In these button descriptions, any instruction to hold down the Shift key means to
do so when you are actually using the button from the toolbar, not when you are adding
the button to the toolbar, and not when you are clicking on the button in the Customize
window to view its description. For example, if you click the New Message button in the
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main toolbar, a new composition window opens. If you hold down the Shift key and
click the New Message button in the main toolbar, the Message Options dialog box
appears, allowing you to select options for creating a new message (Personality and
Stationery).
5
6
Drag the button icon to your desired position on the toolbar.
Note. If you need help at any time during toolbar customization, click the Help button in
the Customize dialog box.
When you are finished adding toolbar buttons, click the Close button to close the
Customize dialog box.
Following are specific instructions for the tabbed panels of the Customize window:
■ General—The Categories list contains names of menus and submenus. The buttons
correspond to commands on these menus and submenus. For more information on the
page number to display the topic.
■ Mailboxes—The Mailboxes list shows the same view as your Mailboxes window, open
it by choosing Mailboxes from the Tools menu. To add a toolbar button for a mailbox,
click the mailbox and drag the appropriate button to the toolbar. If the mailbox is in a
closed folder, double-click the folder icon to open it and display its contents (or click the
plus-sign [+] to open the folder), then click the mailbox and drag the desired button to
the toolbar. Note that you cannot add a toolbar button for a mail folder. For more infor-
Click the page number to display the topic.
■ Plugins—The Plugins list shows installed message and resource plug-ins. You can
add a plug-in button to the toolbar so that just by clicking on the button, you launch the
plug-in application. Note that if you elected to install QUALCOMM’s PureVoice
voice-messaging software plug-in when you installed Eudora, Eudora automatically
adds a toolbar button for the PureVoice plug-in at the extreme right of the toolbar. See
installing and using plug-ins. Click the page number to display the topic.
■ Recipients—The Recipients list on the left shows all recipients that are listed on your
Quick Recipient List, which is the list of recipients to whom you frequently send mail.
number to display the topic. The buttons correspond to functions you can perform
when addressing and sending mail to recipients on your list: New Message To,
Forward To, Redirect To (all on the Message menu), and Insert Recipient (on the Edit
menu). If there are no recipients on your Quick Recipient List, the Recipients area of
this dialog box panel is empty.
■ Stationery—The Stationery list shows all of your stationery files. The buttons corre-
spond to stationery-related commands: New Message With, Reply With, and Reply to
All With, all under the Message menu. For more information on using stationery, see
■ Personalities—The Personalities list shows all of your email accounts if you use
multiple personalities (multiple accounts). The buttons correspond to person-
ality-related commands, such as the Message menu Change Personality command.
For more information on using multiple personalities, see “Using Alternate Email
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Moving a Toolb a r Button
To change the placement of a button on the main toolbar, hold down the Alt key and drag
the button to where you want it.
Re m oving a Too lb a r Button
To remove a button from the main toolbar, hold down the Alt key and drag the button off
the toolbar.
Ad d ing a nd Re m oving Se p a ra tors
To add a separator line between two toolbar buttons where no line currently exists, first
determine which button is farther from the gripper bar when the toolbar is docked. Now
hold down the Alt key and carefully drag that button a little bit in the direction opposite the
gripper bar. A separator line will be inserted between the two buttons. Be sure to drag the
button less than one button-width away from its position; if you overdrag it, you will hop
over the adjacent button and reposition the dragged button on the toolbar.
To remove a separator line from between two toolbar buttons, again determine which of
the two buttons is farther away from the gripper bar when the toolbar is docked. Now hold
down the Alt key and drag that button toward the gripper bar. The separator line is
removed. Alternately, you can hold down the Alt key and drag the other button slightly in
the direction away from the gripper bar, and that will remove the separator line. Again, be
careful not to drag either button too far, or you will reposition it past the adjacent button on
the toolbar.
Eud ora Ta skb a r
The Eudora taskbar appears along the bottom edge of the window work area in the main
Eudora window, and normally shows the QUALCOMM logo at the right.
Sample Eudora taskbar and status bar
The Eudora taskbar displays a button for each normal Eudora window that is open or mini-
mized. The taskbar provides a convenient way to switch between normal windows by
clicking buttons, without having to display the different windows from the Window menu.
The Eudora taskbar is modeled after the Windows 95/98 and Windows NT 4.0 system
taskbars, which usually appear at the bottom of the screen — but there are important
differences, as noted below.
To show or hide the Eudora taskbar, do the following.
1
2
From the Tools menu, choose Options.
Scroll through the category list and select Display. The Display options window
appears.
3
Select or deselect Show MDI task bar option.
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Any normal Eudora window that is open or minimized is represented by a button on the
taskbar. This includes composition messages, received messages, mailbox windows, and
any tool windows or tabbed windows that are in the normal state. Any open tool or tabbed
windows that are in the docked or floating state are not represented as buttons on the
taskbar.
If a tabbed window is represented by a button on the taskbar, the button shows the name
and icon associated with the active tool window in that tabbed window.
Click a taskbar button to make that normal window active. The window comes to the front
of the stack of all normal Eudora windows.
If you right-click a taskbar button, the standard Windows context menu displays, letting
you Restore, Minimize, Maximize, or Close that normal window.
If you right-click an exposed area of the taskbar (not on a button), the standard Eudora
drop-down context menu displays.
If you drag an object over a taskbar button and pause for several seconds, Eudora acti-
vates the normal window associated with that button. For a tabbed window, Eudora acti-
vates the tabbed window with the indicated window active. You can then complete the
drag and drop operation into the normal window. For a tabbed window, you can further
pause the pointer over one of the inactive window tabs, and that window becomes active
and you can complete the drop.
Each taskbar button displays both the window icon and the window title of the normal
window. If there is not enough room to display the entire title, Eudora truncates the title
and places an ellipsis (...) to indicate the truncation. If you pause the mouse pointer over
such a button, Eudora displays the entire window title in a tooltip.
If you have many normal windows open or minimized, the taskbar buttons shrink so that
all buttons are visible. When the bar becomes sufficiently crowded, the QUALCOMM logo
is hidden to make room.
Note that, unlike with the Windows 95/98 and Windows NT 4.0 taskbars, you cannot move
the Eudora taskbar to another edge of the main Eudora window; it always stays at the
bottom of the window work area. You also cannot resize the taskbar as a separate item. It
resizes automatically, however, when you resize the main Eudora window.
Ma in Wind ow Ic on
The main window icon displays when Eudora’s main window is minimized on the Windows
95/98/NT 4.0 Taskbar. This icon provides a unique indication of when new mail has been
delivered, when outgoing messages are queued, or both.
Normal
This is the normal state of the icon. There is no new
mail and no messages are queued and waiting to be
sent.
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New Mail
The mailbox is open and has a letter in it, indicating that
new mail has been delivered.
Queued Messages
The flag on the side of the mailbox is in the up position,
indicating that you have outgoing messages queued for
delivery.
New Mail/Queued Messages
The mailbox is open and has a letter in it and the flag on
the side of the mailbox is in the up position, indicating
that new mail has been delivered and outgoing
messages are queued for delivery.
A New Mail notification icon in the Windows 95/98/NT 4.0 System Tray (clock area) also
tells you when new mail has arrived. If you hold the mouse over the icon, a tooltip tells you
how many messages you have. If you double-click the icon, Eudora is brought to the fore-
ground. The icon goes away when you click the mouse button, or press a key, inside the
Eudora window.
New Mail notification icon
Filte r Re p ort Wind ow
Eudora generates a filter report if the “Generate Filter Report” option is selected in the
Getting Attention options window. This report can be viewed in the Filter Report window.
To open the Filter Report window, do the following.
■ From the Tools menu, choose Filter Report. Or, if the Filter Report window is in a
visible tabbed window, click its tab.
Sample Filter Report window
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If the generation of a filter report is enabled via the option mentioned above, then each
time a filter operation is performed, Eudora adds the entry or entries to the Filter Report
window and activates the window.
The Filter Report window displays three columns of data.
■ Mailbox—Lists the names of the mailboxes into which messages have been filtered
during the current Eudora session. Each listing represents one filter operation for that
mailbox.
■ Messages—Lists the number of messages filtered into each mailbox in the Mailbox
column during the filter operation.
■ Time—Lists the time that the messages were filtered into each mailbox in the Mailbox
column during the filter operation.
By default, the entries in the window are sorted by time. However, you can click the
column headings and sort the display by mailbox names (Mailbox) or by the number of
messages filtered (Messages).
Note. Whenever new entries are added to the list, Eudora always appends them to the
bottom of the list in order of arrival, ignoring the current sort order. Simply click a column
heading to re-sort.
Select one or more entries in the list and double-click the selection, or press Enter, and
Eudora opens the mailbox windows associated with those selections.
The Filter Report listing is a cumulative log of the filter actions for the current Eudora
session. Eudora automatically clears the log when you quit the program.
Closing the Filter Report window does not erase the contents of the filter report. Only quit-
ting Eudora erases this information.
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File Browse r Wind ow
Use this window to browse the Windows desktop. For example, you can use this window
to find files to attach to new outgoing messages.
To open the File Browser window, do the following.
1
From the Tools menu, choose File Browser. Or, if the File Browser window is in a
visible tabbed window, click its tab.
Sample File Browser window
The File Browser window performs some, but not all of the functions of the standard
Windows 95/98 and Windows NT 4.0 Explorer programs.
Note. The File Browser window is not an exact replica of Windows Explorer.
The File Browser window contains three controls:
■ Drive Selector (top box)—A drop-down list in this field contains a fixed set of
high-level folders on your system, just like the corresponding control in Windows
Explorer. The Drive Selector field determines what appears in the Folder Browser
(middle section). When you first launch Eudora, the Drive Selector automatically sets
itself to the drive containing your Windows folder. Note that the first entry in the
drop-down list is a shortcut called “My Attachments” that points to your Eudora attach-
ments folder.
■ Folder Browser (middle section)—This is a tree control that displays the folder hier-
archy whose root is the selection entered in the Drive Selector field. For example, if in
the Drive Selector box you choose the C: drive, then the Folder Browser displays the
folder tree-hierarchy branching down from the C: drive folder. Right-click a folder item
in the Folder Browser to display the standard Windows context menu for that folder.
■ File List (bottom section)—This is a list control that displays the files contained in the
folder selected in the Folder Browser. You can select one or more file items in the list,
then right-click the selection to display the standard Windows context menu for those
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files. (Eudora does not fill in the “Send To” submenu on the context menu.) When
selecting multiple items, use the Shift key to select a range of items, and use the Ctrl
key for disjoint selections.
The File List control shows these four columns:
■ Name—Displays the name of the file and the icon associated with the file.
■ Type—Based on the file name extension, displays the file type as set in the Options
dialog box of Windows Explorer.
■ Size—Displays the size of the file in kilobytes (K), where 1K = 1,024 bytes.
■ Modified—Displays the date and time that the file was last modified.
As in Windows Explorer, you can click any of the four column headings to sort the listing
by the data in that column.
You can also resize the widths of the columns by dragging the separator line between the
column heading labels. Position the pointer over the separator until you see a splitter
cursor, then drag the line to left or right.
In the File List control, double-click an item in the Name column, or select one or more
items in the column and press Enter to open the selected items. For program files, this
action launches the program. For document files, this action generally launches the regis-
tered viewing or editing application for that document. Eudora displays an error dialog box
if it is unable to open a file in this way.
To adjust the relative heights of the Folder Browser and File List controls, position the
pointer over the separator bar between the Folder Browser and File List controls until the
splitter cursor appears, then click and drag the separator up or down. Note that the File
Browser window maintains a minimum height for the Folder Browser and File List controls,
so you cannot close them all the way.
To manually refresh the File Browser window display, right-click anywhere in the File
Browser window but not on a Folder Browser item or File List item, then choose “Refresh”
from the drop-down context menu.
Tip. A good place to right-click is in the Drive Selector box. Alternately, press the F5 key
while keyboard focus is in the File Browser window.
You can select one or more files in the File List control and drag them to a message
composition window to attach those files to that outgoing message. This is especially
handy if you keep the File Browser window docked and open. For multiple file selections,
use the Shift key to select a range, and use the Ctrl key to make disjoint selections.
You can also select one or more items in the File List control and drag them to another
application that can receive such files.
In general, the File Browser window lets you drag items out of the window (copying them
rather than moving them), but the window is not a proper drop target; you cannot drop
items into the window that you’ve dragged from elsewhere on your desktop. In particular,
you cannot move files by dragging them to a target folder in the Folder Browser control.
You also cannot drag and drop items within the File Browser window (from one control to
another, for example). You can, however, manage the files and folders in the window using
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the commands on the window’s context menu, such as Cut, Copy, Paste, and Delete. To
display the drop-down context menu to use these commands, you must first select the file
you want then right-click.
Ba c kg round Ta sks (m ulti-thre a d ing )
In Eudora, you can retrieve, send, and compose mail at the same time! While sending and
retrieving mail, you can compose a message, access Directory Services to look up
addresses, edit stationery and signatures, read mail, etc. because retrieving and sending
mail now occurs in the background.
The Task Status window is used to display sending and receiving activity as it happens.
For example, when you check and send mail simultaneously, the progress of these func-
tions are displayed in the Task Status window. Also, you can send messages from
different personalities at the same time.
The Background Tasks options found in Options under the Tools menu allow you to set
parameters that determine how background tasks behave, and what kind of information
you want to see in the Task Status window. In other words, you can configure the behavior
of background tasks. Also, you can set the Task Status and/or the Task Error windows to
be brought to the front of other windows in Eudora when activity occurs.
In the Background Tasks options window, you can indicate the number of seconds of user
inactivity before your newly retrieved mail is actually processed by Eudora. If you have
automatic mail checking set up in the Checking Mail options, Eudora will retrieve the mail
in the background from the incoming server at those time intervals. But Eudora will not
process it until there is no user activity performed on your computer for the amount of
seconds you indicate in the Background Tasks options window. An envelope displayed on
the status bar, located at the lower right-hand corner of the Eudora window, indicates that
there is retrieved mail to be processed; that is, messages to be filtered and placed in mail-
boxes.
Technical Note. In the background, Eudora retrieves and sends mail; in the foreground,
Eudora processes attachments and applies filters.
If you check your mail manually, it is retrieved from the server immediately and delivered
to Eudora without waiting for user inactivity. However, if you do a manual check and then
perform a task in Eudora while Eudora is retrieving your mail, Eudora will wait for user
inactivity before processing your newly retrieved mail. When this occurs, the envelope
displays on the status bar until the user inactivity time specified has been reached.
Important. The envelope that displays on the status bar only indicates that mail is waiting
to be processed. It does not mean that you have new mail waiting on the server. When
your mail is processed, user inactivity time is needed for your mail to be filtered and
attachments decoded. Your inactivity allows you to decide when you want your mail
processed.
Envelope displayed on the status bar
If you click once on the envelope, the mail is processed. If you right-click on the envelope,
a drop-down list appears.
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Envelope’s drop-down list
Choose Process All Waiting Tasks to send or retrieve your messages in the background.
Choose Show Task Status to display the Task Status showing background activity.
Ta sk Sta tus Wind ow
The Task Status window displays background activity: retrieving mail from incoming
servers and sending mail to outgoing servers. Mail can be retrieved and sent from each of
To access and display the Task Status window, do the following.
1
From the Tools menu, choose Task Status. Or, if the Task Status window is in a visible
tabbed window, click its tab.The Task Status window appears.
Task Status window
Notice the progress indicators on the status bar located at the right-hand bottom of the
Eudora window. A progress bar and spinning black and white ball indicate that back-
ground tasks are occurring.
Progress bar and task progress indicator
On the progress bar or spinning indicator, click to display the Task Status window.
Right-click to display the indicator’s drop-down list.
Task indicator’s context menu
Choose Stop All Tasks to cancel the tasks currently occurring.
Choose Go offline to disconnect from the server. An alert window appears letting you
know that you are offline and cannot connect to the server. This is useful if you are
using a laptop computer.
Choose Show Task Status to display the Task Status window.
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You can see if your sent messages are sent, queued, or processing in your Out
mailbox.
The following icons display to the left of the message name in your Out box:
Message is sent.
Message is queued.
Message is processing.
Following are field descriptions for columns in the Task Status window.
Task—(default) An icon and its description displays in this column indicating what function
Eudora is performing. In the above example, the Send icon appears.
Persona—This column is available only if have set up more than one personality. If
checked, the Personal column displays the personality name for the given task.
Status—(default) Displays a general description of the tasks current status, for example,
“Logging into POP server.”
Details—Displays more information of the tasks’ status including network protocol
commands.
Progress—(default) Displays a progress bar indicating the overall progress of the tasks.
Ta sk Error Wind ow
The Task Error window displays an error message as it occurs. In the example below, a
password error appears. You can indicate if you want the Task Error window brought to the
to display the topic.
To access and display the Task Status window, do the following.
1
From the Tools menu, choose Task Errors. Or, if the Task Error window is in a visible
tabbed window, click its tab.The Task Error window appears.
Task Error window displaying an error
Notice the task error icon on the Eudora tool/status bar at the lower- right of the main
Eudora window. Click this icon to display the Task Error message, as shown below.
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Task Error message
Click Details to expand the message as follows.
Task Error details
Following are field descriptions for the Task Error details window.
Persona—The personality name associated with this error appears.
Title—The name of the Eudora function when this error occurred.
Status—The name of the system function when this error occurred.
Info—More information on this error appears, if any.
Time—The time and day of this error appears.
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Link History
(Sp o nso re d a nd Pa id m o d e s o nly)
Link History is a new option on the Tools menu that displays Internet web site URLs,
attachments, and ads that have appeared in Eudora.
To display your link history, do the following.
1
From the Tools menu, choose Link History. The Link History window appears.
Link History window
2
To view a link in the list, double-click the item or click to highlight it, then click View. To
remove the link from the list, click Remove.
If you right-click in the Link History window, a context menu appears.
Link History context menu
Copy—copies the link item to the clipboard.
View—displays the link item’s web site page.
Remove—deletes the link item.
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Change Date Display—displays a submenu allowing you to set reminders when to see
the link, bookmark the link, or sort the link items by date.
Change Date Display submenu
Note. The items in this window expire and do not appear after 30 days.
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Using the Address Book
The Address Book is where you keep information about individuals or groups with whom
you correspond. Each entry in the Address Book includes a nickname for a person or
group, the full email address, a real name, any contact information, and any notes. You
can also use the Address Book to put nicknames on the Quick Recipient List, and to
address a new message.
To open your Address Book, do the following.
1
From the Tools menu, choose Address Book, or press Ctrl+L. Or, if the Address Book
is an inactive window in an open tabbed window group, click its tab. See “Managing
page number to display the topic.
Address Book with sample entries
All of the Address Book entries are kept in files. The example above shows files for Busi-
ness, Family, and Friends (Eudora Nicknames is the default file). You can show or hide the
entries in a file by double-clicking on the file. The icon shows an open or closed book
depending on whether the file is open or closed.
You can use the “View By” option to display the entries using any of the fields except the
Notes field. For example, if you want to view the entries by nicknames, choose “View By
Nickname” from the drop-down list. If you view by a field that doesn’t contain any data, the
entry appears with «».
Note. Eudora remembers your selection in the “View By” field when you quit and restart
the program.
You can also start typing in the list of entries, and the appropriate entry is selected when
you enter enough unique characters to identify it.
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To page up and down in the list of entries, use the arrow keys. To resize the list, drag the
divider.
To close and open the right-hand side of the Address Book, use the close («) and open (»)
buttons.
Important. To move the keyboard focus back and forth between the left and right sides of
the Address Book, press F6.
To move quickly through the tabbed panels on the right side of the Address Book, use the
Ctrl+Tab, Ctrl+PgUp, Ctrl+PgDn, Ctrl+Home, and Ctrl+End keys.
Cre a ting a n Ad d re ss Book within your Ad d re ss Book
(Sp o nso re d a nd Pa id m o d e s o nly)
To create an address book within your Address Book, do the following.
1
From the Tools menu, choose Address Book, or press Ctrl+L. Or, if the Address Book
is an inactive window in an open tabbed window group, click its tab.
2
Click New, or right-click anywhere in the entry list to display the drop-down list and
choose New. A dialog box appears asking what you want to call the new address book,
for example “Family” as shown.
Creating a new address book entry
3
Enter a name for the entry and select Make it an Address Book, then click OK to
create it. The address book file appears in the list, and you can now add new entries to
your newly created address book.
Ad d ing a n Ad d re ss Book Entry
To create a new entry or entries to be included in the newly created address book, do the
following.
1
From the Tools menu, choose Address Book, or press Ctrl+L. Or, if the Address Book
is an inactive window in an open tabbed window group, click its tab.
2
Either click New in the Address Book, or right-click anywhere in the entry list to display
the drop-down list and choose New. The New Nickname dialog box appears.
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Creating a new nickname entry
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Enter a Nickname for the entry in the text box.
A nickname, sometimes called an alias, is an easily remembered, shorter substitute for
the email address in the entry. Nicknames can be used in place of proper email
addresses in the To, Cc, and Bcc header fields of outgoing messages. You can enter a
name in the Nickname text box for one person or for a series of persons. For example,
“buddies” may be a nickname that stands for a list of five email addresses for five
friends of yours. You’ll be sending mail addressed to “buddies” rather than having to
enter those five email addresses in the recipient fields.
Note. You cannot use the actual email address as the nickname. It must be different.
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Specify which address book this entry belongs to by choosing a name from the “in
Address Book” drop-down list if you have multiple address books, for example
“Family.”
If you want the nickname on your recipient list, select Put it on the recipient list.
Important. You cannot create a file within a file so do not select the “Make it an
Address Book” option.
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To create the entry, click OK.
Select the Address(es) tab, then enter the complete email addresses of the people (or
person) to be included in the nickname, separating the addresses with commas or
returns This is the only area you can use a return to separate addresses. You can also
use nicknames in this field, but be sure that any nicknames you use are defined in their
own entry. You can use a mix of nicknames and complete email addresses.
Adding the email address to your Address Book
Note. Be sure there is no other information in this field except addresses or nick-
names, or your messages will be addressed incorrectly.
8
Select the Info tab, and in the Name text box, enter the real name of the person or
group. If there is just one address for the entry, the real name and the address are
included in the To: field for your recipient to see. If there is more than one address for
the entry, the real name is the only thing included in the To: field for your recipients—
they do not see the whole list of recipients. If there is nothing in the Name field, the
recipients do see the whole list.
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Changing, Moving, Copying, and Deleting Entries
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In the Postal Address, Phone, and Fax text boxes, enter the contact information for
the person or group.This information is not included in outgoing messages. Entering
this information is optional.
Adding other information to your Address Book
10 To add any additional information regarding the person or group, click the Notes tab.
We recommend that you have at most 2,500 entries per file. If you have a large
number of entries, you may want to consider using a Ph server. For information, see
11 To save your changes to the Address Book, from the File menu choose Save.
Cha ng ing , Moving , Cop ying , a nd De le ting Entrie s
To change the nickname for an entry, see the next section, “Renaming a Nickname.”
To make other changes to an entry—that is, to change any information in the Address(es),
Notes, or Info tabs—select the entry from the list and edit the fields as appropriate.
To move or copy an entry to a file, do the following.
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2
Right-click the address book entry to display the drop-down list.
From the drop-down list, choose Move To to move an entry or Copy To to copy an
entry. The Choose a Nickname File dialog box appears so that you can select the file to
which you want to move or copy the entry.
Choose a Nickname File dialog box
3
You can move an entry (or entries) to a different file by dragging it, or copy it by holding
down the Shift or Ctrl key and then dragging it.
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You cannot move an entry into the file it is already in, but you can copy an entry into its
file. A “Copy of [Entry]” is created.
To delete an entry or an address file, select it from the list and click the Delete button or
press the Delete key. Or, right-click it and select Delete from the drop-down list. You
cannot remove the Eudora Nicknames file.
If a nickname file is set to read-only, meaning you cannot change it, you cannot move
or copy entries into it, or delete an entry from it.
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To save your changes, from the File menu, choose Save.
Tip. Add a button for the File menu’s “Save” command to your main toolbar as a handy
way to save Address Book changes.
Re na m ing a Nic kna m e
To change the nickname for an Address Book entry, do the following.
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Set the View By field to Nickname and make sure the desired entry appears in the list.
Click the nickname for the entry, pause, and click it again. You can then edit the nick-
name in the edit box that appears.
Alternately, click the nickname once to highlight it, then press F2 and edit the nick-
name. Or, click the nickname to highlight it, right-click the selection to display the
drop-down list, choose Rename from the menu and edit the nickname in the edit box.
Important. If you change a nickname, be sure to correct any entries that reference that
nickname.
Ad d re ssing a Ne w Me ssa g e from the Ad d re ss Book
You can open and address a new message from the Address Book using the To:, Cc:, and
Bcc: buttons.
To create a new message from the Address Book, do the following.
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2
Select the entry you want to address the mail to.
Click To:, Cc:, or Bcc:. A new composition window appears with the selected nick-
name(s) inserted in the appropriate field.
Tip. To select multiple entries in sequence, hold down the Shift key, or to select entries
non-consecutively, hold down the Ctrl key.
Note. Also, you can double-click an entry to enter that nickname in a header field. A new
composition window is opened and the nickname is entered in the To: field automatically. If
a composition window is open when you double-click, the nickname is entered in the
header field that last had keyboard focus.
To address the message with the completely expanded address or addresses for that
entry, rather than the entry’s nickname (the addresses are listed in the Address(es) field
for the entry), select the “Expand Nickname” option.
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Once the composition window appears, you can use the To:, Cc:, and Bcc: buttons to
insert additional nicknames into the corresponding fields, subject to the following restric-
tions.
If the Address Book is a docked or floating window, either alone or as part of a tabbed
window group, the To:, Cc:, and Bcc: buttons apply to the topmost composition window, if
any. If the Address Book is a normal window, either alone or as part of a tabbed window
group, the To:, Cc:, and Bcc: buttons apply to the composition window, if any; that is,
immediately under either the Address Book or the tabbed window group containing the
Address Book. For more information on docked, floating, normal, and tabbed windows,
topic.
Ma ke Ad d re ss Book Entry Com m a nd
The Make Address Book Entry command is used to create entries in your Address Book
and is especially helpful for making group entries.
To use the Make Address Book Entry command in the Address Book, do the following.
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2
In the Address Book, click to highlight several different entries by holding down the
Shift key to select multiple entries in sequence, or the Ctrl key to make non-consecu-
tive selections.
From the Special menu, choose Make Address Book Entry.
Make Address Book Entry from the Address Book
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The Make Address Book Entry dialog box appears prompting you for the nickname of
the new entry. The Address(es) field of the new entry will include the nicknames for
the entries you selected, not the real addresses.
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Note. When the Address Book is docked or floating, the Make Address Book Entry
command applies to the Address Book only if the keyboard focus is in the Address Book.
When the Address Book is a normal window, this command applies to the Address Book
only if it is the topmost normal window, or if the tabbed window group containing it is the
topmost normal window and the Address Book is the active window in the group.
Using the Make Address Book Entry command in a mailbox, do the following.
1
2
In the mailbox, click to highlight several different entries by holding down the Shift key
to select multiple entries in sequence, or the Ctrl key to make non-consecutive selec-
tions.
From the Special menu, choose Make Address Book Entry. The Make Address Book
Entry dialog box appears prompting you for the nickname of the new entry. Follow the
instructions for creating a new entry. If the current message is an outgoing message,
the new entry will include all of the addresses in the To:, Cc:, and Bcc: fields. If the
current message is an incoming message, the new entry will include the address in the
From: field. If multiple messages are current; that is, if several message summaries are
selected in a mailbox window, addresses are taken from each message and are all put
in the new entry.
Note. The Make Address Book Entry command uses the Replying options. If the “Include
yourself” option is selected, your address is included in the new entry. If this option is
deselected, your address is not included. To determine who you are for the “Include your-
self” option, Eudora uses the addresses listed under your “me” nickname, if you have one
set up.
To use the Make Address Book Entry command in an open message window, do the
following.
■ From the Special menu, choose Make Address Book Entry. The Make Address Book
Entry dialog box appears, prompting you for the nickname of the new entry.
Follow the instructions for creating a new entry. If the open message is an outgoing
message, the new entry will include all of the addresses in the To:, Cc:, and Bcc: fields.
If the open message is an incoming message, the new entry will include the address in
the From: field. If multiple messages are open, addresses are taken from only the
currently active (topmost) open message. Also see the note above about the “Include
yourself” option.
Using the Make Address Book Entry command in the Directory Services window, do the
following.
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the topic.
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In the Results list, select the items you want to include in the entry.
From the Special menu, choose Make Address Book Entry. The Make Address Book
Entry dialog box appears so that you can name the nickname. The real name and
email address of each selected target is included in the new entry.
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Finish Ad d re ss Book Entry Com m a nd
By using the Finish Address Book Entry command, you can enter a unique portion of a
nickname in the To:, Cc:, or Bcc: fields of a message, then from the Edit menu, choose
Finish Address Book Entry, and the nickname will be completed for you. You must enter
the characters in the nickname that make it unique, or Eudora will not know which nick-
name to use. For example, if you have two nicknames, joan and john, you would have to
display the topic.
To insert the real addresses for the entry, instead of the nickname, do the following.
■ Hold down the Shift key and from the Edit menu, choose Finish Address Book Entry.
To set this to happen all the time, select the “Automatically expand nicknames” option
number to display the topic.
Using Ce ntra l Ad d re ss Book File s on a Se rve r
You can set up central Address Book files on a server and configure Eudora clients so that
they refer to the central files.
Important. You should be an expert user or an administrator to perform this function.
First, be sure the files are plain text, have a .txt extension, and are formatted as follows:
one nickname on each line with the real addresses separated by commas, and one line for
notes and info with the Notes text following the Info data. For example:
note Wow <fax: 222.2223><phone: 222.2222><address:1234 Street>
<name:Wow Inc.>My favorite company
Then, for each client application, add an “ExtraNicknameDirs” entry to the [Settings]
section of the Eudora.ini file. This entry should be followed by the list of directories that
contain Address Book files, separated by semicolons (;). Any Address Book files located
in those directories are added to the Address Book. You will need to exit and re-open
Eudora to see the new entries.
Using Ad d re ss Book File s Not Cre a te d b y Eud ora
To use an Address Book file that was not created in Eudora, put the file in the Nickname
directory located in your Eudora folder, and be sure the format is as shown in the previous
section “Using Central Address Book Files on a Server.” You will need to exit and reopen
Eudora to see your new entries in the Address Book.
Note. You can migrate your address book from Netscape Messenger, Outlook Express,
Click the page number to display the topic.
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Using the Quic k Re c ip ie nt List
The Quick Recipient List is your list of recipients to whom you often send mail.
To add a nickname to the Quick Recipient List, do the following.
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From the Tools menu, choose Address Book, or press Ctrl+L. Or, if the Address Book
is an inactive window in an open tabbed window group, click its tab.
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3
4
Click to select the desired entry in your Nickname list.
Right-click the selected item to display the drop-down list.
From the drop-down list, choose Add to Recipient List. The entry’s nickname is
added to the Quick Recipient List, and the entry is bolded in the Address Book list.
To add an email address to the Quick Recipient List, do the following.
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3
Open the Address Book.
Select the text that makes up the full address.
From the Special menu, choose Add as Recipient.The recipient’s email address is
added to your Quick Recipient List.
To remove an entry from the list, do the following.
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2
3
4
Open the Address Book.
Click to select the desired entry in your Nickname list.
Right-click the item to display the drop-down list.
From the drop-down list, choose Remove From Recipient List. The entry’s nickname
is removed from the Quick Recipient List and the entry is unbolded in the Address
Book list. Or, select the item you wish to remove from the Remove Recipient submenu
under the Special menu.
To open a new message addressed to someone on your Quick Recipient List, do the
following.
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2
From the Message menu, choose New Message To, Forward To, or Redirect To.
From the displayed list, select the nickname. A new message window appears
addressed to the nickname you selected.
To insert a recipient into a message that you have already opened, do the following.
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2
Move the cursor to where you want the recipient.
From the Edit menu, choose Insert Recipient. The Insert Recipient submenu
appears.
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From the Insert Recipient submenu, choose the recipient. The recipient you choose is
inserted into the opened message.
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Including Nicknames on the Quick Recipient List
To insert the real address(es), instead of a nickname, do the following.
1
Hold down the Shift key and from the Edit menu, choose Insert Recipient. The Insert
Recipient submenu appears.
2
From the Insert Recipient submenu, choose the recipient. The real address of the
recipient is inserted in the message. To set this to happen all the time, select the “Auto-
matically expand nicknames” option in the Miscellaneous options window. See “Miscel-
More than one recipient from the Quick Recipient List can be added to the To:, Cc:, and
Bcc: fields of any message. If you use the Insert Recipient submenu, commas are added
where necessary.
Inc lud ing Nic kna m e s on the Quic k Re c ip ie nt List
To include a nickname in the Quick Recipient List, do the following.
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2
Right-click the appropriate Address Book entry in the list to display the drop-down list.
From the drop-down list, choose Add to Recipient List. The nickname for the selected
entry is included on the Quick Recipient List, and the entry is bolded in the Address
Book list.
To remove a nickname from the Quick Recipient List, do the following.
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2
Right-click the item in the Address Book list to display the drop-down list.
From the drop-down list, choose Remove From Recipient List. The nickname for the
selected entry is removed from the Quick Recipient List, and the entry is unbolded in
the Address Book list.
If you change a nickname, the Quick Recipient List is updated as appropriate. For details
Click the page number to display the topic.
Note. You can add or remove multiple nicknames to or from the Quick Recipient List by
selecting multiple entries before right-clicking. Hold down the Shift key to select multiple
entries in sequence, or the Ctrl key to select entries non-consecutively.
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Eudora lets you look up information about people on the Internet, within your company,
and in your Eudora Address Book using four directory service protocols.
■ Ph
■ Finger
■ Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
■ Eudora Address Book
To use directory services to search for someone, do the following.
1
From the Tools menu, choose Directory Services. Or, if the Directory Services
window is an inactive window in a visible tabbed window group, click its tab. The Direc-
tory Services window appears.
Directory Services window with an example query
The directory service protocols available for your search are listed in the Protocols section
of the window. For more information, see “Using Directory Service Protocols” on
page 172. Click the page number to display the topic.
The databases you can use to look up your target individual are listed in the Databases
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Keeping the Directory Services Window on Top
Ke e p ing the Dire c tory Se rvic e s Wind ow on Top
To keep the Directory Services window on top so that you can easily continue using it,
select the “Keep On Top” option located at the bottom of the left pane. Eudora remembers
the state of this option when you quit and restart the program.
Note. The behavior of this option is subject to the restrictions in the section “Considering
Ma king a Que ry
To look someone up on the Internet, within your company, or in your Eudora Address
Book, open the Directory Services window and do the following.
Important. If you are using Eudora in Light mode, you cannot make multiple or simulta-
neous queries.
1
In the Databases list, select the database(s) you want to search in your query.
To select a database, click the checkbox to the left of the database until a checkmark
appears in the box. You can select multiple databases, and you can use multiple proto-
cols. You must select at least one database in the list for Eudora to perform the query.
Note. Eudora remembers which databases you’ve selected when you quit and restart
the program.
2
3
In the Query field, type a text string you want to search against.
If one or more of your selected databases use a protocol other than Ph, your entry in
this field is always interpreted as a name. If you have only Ph servers selected as your
databases, you can enter any commands that Ph will interpret.
To start the query, press Enter or click Start. The query begins, and the Start button
changes to Stop.
To stop the query before it is completed, click the Stop button. When the query is
completed, or if you click Stop to cancel the query, the Stop button changes back to
Start.
Autom a tic Na m e Com p le tion in Dire c tory Se rvic e s
(Sp o nso re d a nd Pa id m o d e s o nly)
When looking up names in Eudora’s Directory Services, Eudora remembers the name and
places it in a directory services history file. So whenever you begin typing a name, a
drop-down list of names from your history file displays alphabetically. Just select the
desired name from the list, and the name’s information appears. Following is an example
of the auto name completion function.
Directory Services Auto Name Completion
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Re a d ing Que ry Re sults
Your query results are listed in the left half of the Directory Services window, in the results
list (top view) and the details pane (bottom view). You can resize the two views relative to
each other by dragging the separator up or down.
The results list consists of one-line summaries of the “hits” or successful targets of your
query. These are listed by four columns:
■ Name—indicates the username (or other name) of the target.
■ Email—is the email address of the target.
■ Phone—is the target’s telephone number.
■ Database—tells you in which of your selected databases the target was found.
Click a column heading to sort the results list alphabetically or numerically by that column.
Shift-click to sort in reverse order.
To resize the columns, drag the divider line to the right of the desired column to the left or
right. Note that the columns resize dynamically during a query, to accommodate the width
of each target’s data.
The Status field displays the status of your query, such as Ready, Connecting, Getting
Data, etc. and the number of items found as shown in your summary list. This number is
updated dynamically until the query is complete or you stop it.
If the results list does not fit in the available viewing space, scroll bars appear to let you
navigate through the remaining part of the list.
To view the details of a result in the details pane, select the result in the results list by
clicking once on it. The full data appears in the details pane. If nothing is selected in the
results list, the details pane is blank. If multiple summaries are selected in the results list,
the details pane lists the details for each item, with each item separated by a divider line.
To select multiple items in the results list, use the Shift key to select a continuous range, or
use the Ctrl key to make non-consecutive selections.
Scroll bars appear in the details pane if the displayed information cannot fit in the viewing
space.
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Addressing a Message from the Directory Services
Ad d re ssing a Me ssa g e from the Dire c tory Se rvic e s Wind ow
You can create and address a message with the query results in the Directory Services
window.
To create a new message, do the following.
Important. Make sure there are no outgoing messages already open.
1
2
3
Perform your query.
Click to select one or more summaries in your results list.
Click the To:, Cc:, or Bcc: button. A new message is created, and it is addressed
appropriately with the selected query results.
To add an address to an existing message, do the following.
Important. Make sure the message you want to address is active.
1
From the Tools menu, choose Directory Services, or if the Directory Services window
is an inactive window in a visible tabbed window group, click its tab. The Directory
Services window appears.
2
3
4
Perform the query.
Click to select one or more summaries in the results list.
Click the To:, Cc:, or Bcc: button. The addresses from the selected query results are
added to the appropriate field of the current message.
Note. The behavior of the To:, Cc:, and Bcc: buttons is subject to the restrictions in
Ma king a n Ad d re ss Book Entry from Que ry Re sults
You can make a nickname from your query results in the Directory Services window and at
the same time add the entry to your Address Book.
To make a nickname from your query results, do the following.
1
From the Tools menu, choose Directory Services, or if the Directory Services window
is an inactive window in a visible tabbed window group, click its tab. The Directory
Services window appears.
2
3
4
Perform the query.
Click to select one or more summaries in the results list.
From the Special menu, choose Make Address Book Entry. The Make Address Book
Entry window appears so that you can name the nickname. The real name and email
address for each selected query result is included in the new entry.
Note. The use of this command from this window is subject to the restrictions in “Consid-
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Printing Your Que ry Re sults
You can print and print preview the results of your query as shown in the details pane.
First perform your query, then select one or more summaries in the results list. The details
pane lists the details of each selected item, with each item’s details separated by a divider
line.
To preview your query details for printing, do the following.
■ From the File menu, choose Print Preview. The Print Preview window appears,
showing how the query details will look when printed.
To print your query details, do the following.
■ From the File menu, choose Print.
Note. The use of these commands from this window is subject to the restrictions in the
next section, “Considering the State of the Window.”
Consid e ring the Sta te of the Wind ow
The behavior of some Eudora features internal and external to the Directory Services
window depends on the state of the window. For definitions of window states, see
When the Directory Services window is in the docked or floating state, either alone or as
part of a tabbed window group, the following applies.
■ Keep on top setting in the window is ignored.
■ To:, Cc:, and Bcc: buttons in the window apply to the topmost composition window, if
any.
■ Special menu’s Make Address Book Entry command, and the File menu’s Print
Preview and Print commands apply to the Directory Services window only if the
keyboard focus is in that window.
When the Directory Services window is in the normal state, either alone or as part of a
tabbed window group, the following applies.
■ Keep on top setting in the window is obeyed.
■ To:, Cc:, and Bcc: buttons in the window apply to the composition window, if any,
immediately under the Directory Services window or the tabbed window containing it.
■ Special menu’s Make Address Book Entry command and the File menu’s Print
Preview and Print commands apply to the Directory Services window only if it is the
topmost normal window and is active, Or if the tabbed window containing it is the
topmost normal window and the Directory services tab is active.
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Using Directory Service Protocols
Using Dire c tory Se rvic e Protoc ols
Protocols are used to access in Directory Services to find information on persons by
entering their name, email address, etc. The Protocols section of the Directory Services
window lists the directory service protocols available to you to use when looking up indi-
viduals via these services.
Eudora comes with four installed protocols.
■ Ph
■ Finger
■ LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol)
■ Eudora Address Book
Note. The Eudora Address Book protocol does not appear in the list until you have
created an Address Book in Eudora.
Click the column heading, Registered Drivers, to sort the protocols alphabetically.
Shift-click the column heading to sort in reverse order.
You can resize the column by dragging the divider line to the right of the column heading
to the left or right.
The use of the New Database button shown in this section of the window, is described
Using Dire c tory Se rvic e Da ta b a se s
The Databases section of the Directory Services window lists the databases that are avail-
able to you for searching for individuals over the Internet, within your company, or in your
Address Book.
Eudora comes with these servers already configured by default.
■ ldap.bigfoot.com
■ ldap.switchboard.com
■ ldap.whowhere.com
■ ldap.infospace.com
■ ldapbiz.infospace.com
■ ldap.four11.com
■ Eudora Nicknames—or the name of your nicknames file. This last item appears only if
you have a Eudora Address Book set up.
You can modify or delete these databases, and you can also create new databases. See
the following sections for more information.
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You use the databases in this list to perform your lookup queries. To perform a query, you
must first select one or more databases in the list. To select a database, click the
checkbox to the left of the database name until a checkmark appears in the box. If no
databases are selected, you cannot perform a query.
You can select multiple databases to perform a query, and you can mix protocols.
Click a column heading to sort this list by that column, alphabetically. Shift-click the
column heading to sort in reverse order.
To resize columns, position the mouse pointer over the divider line to the right of the
desired column, and drag the line to the left or right.
The use of the Modify button in this section of the window is described in “Modifying an
Ad d ing a Ne w Da ta b a se (Se rve r)
In addition to the default directory service databases that already come configured with
Eudora, you can add new Ph, Finger, and LDAP databases for your Directory Services
queries. By adding a new database, you can then query that database for names, email
addresses, phone numbers, etc. Databases are created from the Protocols section of the
window, and they must be created using one of these three listed protocols.
Important. You must be able to identify the server by its description and its host name
before you can add it to Directory Services.
Note. You cannot create a new database using the Eudora Address Book protocol in the
list. Nickname files must be created from the Address Book window. See “Using the
Ph Da ta b a se
Ph is an online, fully indexed, fast-access white-pages directory service developed and
freely distributed by the Computer and Communications Services Office at the University
of Illinois at Urbana.
To add a new Ph database, do the following.
1
2
In the Protocols list, click the Ph protocol to select it.
Click New Database. Or, just double-click Ph in the Protocols list. The New Database
window, General panel, appears.
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Ph Database window, General panel
3
In the General panel, enter a descriptive name for the Ph server, its Host Name or IP
address of the Ph server, and the Port in the respective fields. The default port for Ph
is 105. Don’t change this port number unless you know for certain that the port number
is not 105.
4
Select the Attributes tab to display the Attributes panel. The Attributes pane appears.
Ph Database window, Attributes panel
In the Attributes panel, you can add, edit, or remove attributes that display in the
Results List (top-half of left window) and in the Details List (bottom-half of left window).
An example Results and Details Lists are shown below.
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Results and Details Lists (left pane of Directory Services window)
Results List
Details List
Re sults List
In the Results List, the data associated with the Ph attributes you name appear in the
columns on the left pane of the Directory Services window. You do this by mapping
attributes to one of the three special “Present A” field selections: Name, Email(w), and
Phone(w). See step 5.
For example, if you want to display the data associated with the Ph attribute
“Full_Name” in the column named “Name” in the Results List, add an attribute mapping
for “Full_Name” with “Name” selected as the “Present As” value.
De ta ils List
Any attribute name can be renamed before it appears in the Details List. This is done
via the Present As field. Simply replace the text in the Details List with alternate text.
For example, if your Ph server is configured to display an attribute called Full_Name
but you want only Name to display, you need to map “Full_Name” to “Name” using the
“Present As” field. Therefore, any Ph query you perform on that server would display
the “Full_Name” data in the Name column in the Results List.
5
To add an attribute mapping to the attributes list, click Add. To edit an attribute
mapping, click the attribute on the list and click Edit. Edit the attribute name. To
remove an attribute mapping, click to select it and then click Remove.
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Add an Attribute
6
When you are finished making entries or changes, click OK. The attributes are added
to or changed in the database.
Attributes panel showing new attribute
If you added a new database, the database is added to the Databases list with its
checkbox.
Fing e r Da ta b a se
Finger is an Internet directory service similar to Ph.
To add a new Finger database, do the following.
1
In the Protocols list, click the Finger protocol to select it.
2
Click New Database. Or, just double-click Finger in the Protocols list. The New Data-
base window, General panel, appears.
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Finger Database window, General panel
3
4
In the General panel, enter a descriptive name for the server, the Host Name or IP
address of the server, and the Port in the respective fields. The default port for Ph is
79. Don’t change this port number unless you know for certain that the port number is
not 79.
To create the new Finger database, click OK. A Finger database is created.
LDAP Da ta b a se
LDAP means Lightweight Directory Access Protocol. An LDAP server is a service that
provides information about individuals. You can look up virtually anyone on the Internet
using public LDAP servers. And furthermore, you can add new LDAP servers to query in
Eudora.
To add a new LDAP database, do the following.
1
2
In the Protocols list, click the LDAP protocol to select it.
Click New Database. Or, just double-click LDAP in the Protocols list. The New Data-
base window, Network panel, appears.
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LDAP Database window, Network panel
3
In the Network panel, enter a descriptive name for the server, the Host Name or IP
address of the server, and the Port number in the respective fields. If you select the
This server requires me to log on option, new fields appear in which to enter an
Account name and a Password. However, most LDAP servers do not require you to
log in. Enter values in these fields if you have specific instructions from your LDAP
administrator to so do.
4
Select the Attributes tab to display the Attributes panel.
LDAP Database, Attributes panel
In the Attributes panel, you can add, edit, or remove attribute mappings using the
buttons displayed just below the window. You use the Attribute list to manage how
information appears in the query results list and query results details portion of the
screen.
5
To add an attribute mapping, click Add. The Add Attribute list appears.
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LDAP Database window, Attributes panel, Add Attribute
6
In the Attribute Name text box, enter the name for the attribute you wish to add a
mapping for, for example, cn for common name. You must know the raw field names
for the particular LDAP server you are adding.
Listed are the most common raw LDAP field name attributes.
■ c — Country, expressed in a two-letter country code, for example US (United
States), CA (Canada), UK (United Kingdom), FR (France), etc.
■ st — State or province, expressed in a two-letter state code, for example, California
(CA), Massachusetts (MA), Ontario (ON). etc. Also, if a country is considered a
“state,” for example, France, then this field can show a city name, such as Paris.
■ l — Location, that is a city, county, etc., for example San Diego, Montreal, London,
Paris, etc.
■ mail — Person’s email address. More than one email address may be listed, and
more than one search listing may be returned for an individual with multiple email
addresses.
■ gn — Also Givenname. The person’s first name and/or middle initial, or any part of
the person’s name before the last name, for example, John W, A Raymond,
etc.Titles are sometimes given, such as Dr., Ms., etc.
■ sn — Person’s surname or last name. Suffixes are sometimes given, such as Jr.,
III, M.D., Esq., etc.
■ cn — Person’s common name. This includes the given name: first, middle initial,
prefix and the person’s last name including suffixes.
■ o — Organization, which includes companies, universities, non-profit organizations,
government agencies, etc.
7
In the Presented As text box, enter the text for the attribute you wish to see displayed
on the query results list, or click the down arrow to display some common attribute
names.
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Note. Three of the four columns in the query results list window can be assigned to any
attribute you wish, but you cannot change the name of the column heading. To change
the attribute that is assigned to each column, enter an attribute in the Attribute Name
field, such as, cn, sn, gn, etc. Then select either Name, Email(w), or Phone(w) in the
“Present As” list, which corresponds to the Name, Email, and Phone columns in the
Results List. You cannot change what appears in the "Database" column. It always
contains the name of the server where the data was found.
For example, if you want to display “cn” in the Name column, “TelephoneNumber” in
the Phone column, and “mail” in the Email column, you would set up the attributes like
this.
Attribute Name
Present As (from drop-down list)
cn
Name
TelephoneNumber
mail
Phone(w)
Email(w)
Attribute Name
In the Details portion of the Results window, you can assign more readable attribute
names.
Attribute Name
Present As (from drop-down list)
l
Location
State
st
If you were to assign the names above, “State:Texas” would display instead of
“St:Texas.”
In the attribute list, check the only display these attributes box if you want to limit
what appears to only those attributes that are mapped.
Note. In the Present As drop down list, there is a choice called Not Displayed. If you
choose “Not Displayed,” you can prevent a particular attribute from being displayed.
For example, mapping the c (country) attribute to “Not Displayed” will have “c”
removed from the displayed results in the Details List. This is useful if there is an
usually long or confusing attribute you don’t want to display in the window.
8
Select the Search Options tab to display the Search Options panel.
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LDAP Database window, Search Options panel
9
On the Search Options panel, specify the Search timeout by moving the bar indi-
cator. You can adjust the bar indicator for a short to long timeout.
10 In the Maximum number of matches to return text box, you can select the up arrow
to increase or the down arrow to decrease the number of matches you’d like to see
displayed. Or select the No Limit option to specify unlimited matches.
11 In the Search Base text box, you can specify a part of the LDAP server to limit your
search. See your LDAP administrator to specify the value in this field. However, the
default is usually sufficient.
12 In the Worldwise Search Filter, you enter a type of search filter to form word queries.
cn=*^0* is the default. The ^0 is substituted for each word to form a set of word
queries. The purpose of this filter is to form a term for a word and then (AND) the terms
together. Examples appear below.
Query: John Smith
Configuration: default (cn=*^0*)
Filter:
(& (cn=*John*)(cn=*Smith*) )
Records in which “cn” attributes contain “john” and “smith” are returned. Using the wild-
card asterisks (*) before and after “john” and “smith” would return matches such as
“Johnathon Smithson.” If you wish to search whole words, remove the wildcard aster-
isks. The above example would also return records such as "John Dean Smith" and
"Smithers Johnson."
Query: John Smith
Configuration: ( | (cn=*^0*)(sn=*^0*)(gn=*^0*)(givenname=*^0*))
Filter:
(&
(|(givenname=*John*)(cn=*John*)(sn=*John*)(gn=*John*))
(|(givenname=*Smith*)(cn=*Smith*)(sn=*Smith*)(gn=*Smith*))
)
The default search filter in this example would possibly return more records than the
default because it searches more fields for a substring match of the word.
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13 In the Whole-query Search Filter, you enter a type of search filter to create a term for
the whole query. You can set this filter as an alternate (OR) for the worldwise search
filter results. Examples appear below.
Query: John Smith: whole query search filter
Configuration:
whole word (cn=*^0*)
word-wise (|(cn=*^0*)(sn=*^0*)(gn=*^0*)(givenname=*^0*))
Filter:
(|
(cn=*John Smith")
(&
(|(givenname=*John*)(cn=*John*)(sn=*John*)(gn=*John*))
(|(givenname=*Smith*)(cn=*Smith*)(sn=*Smith*)(gn=*Smith*))
)
)
14 Select the Log tab to display the Log panel.
LDAP Database window, Log panel
15 In the Log panel, specify whether you want to generate log files and if so, how to store
them; specify whether you want to enable logs for Protocol interactions and/or a
Configuration data load/store.
16 Enter a Log file name or select one using the Browse button. And if you want new
logs to replace the old ones, select the Overwrite existing log file option.
17 When all your information is entered in the New Database window, click OK and your
new LDAP database is created with its checkbox.
Mod ifying a Da ta b a se
You can modify any Ph, Finger, or LDAP database in your Databases list.
Note. You cannot modify a Eudora Address Book database from the Directory Services
window, but you can view the path where the file is stored. Nickname files must be modi-
Click the page number to display the topic.
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To modify an existing database, do the following.
Important. You can only modify one database at a time. Multiple selections disable the
modify feature.
1
2
Click the database name or icon in the Databases list to select it.
Click Modify. Or, just double-click the database in the list. The Modify Database
window appears with its text boxes pre-filled with information from the selected data-
base.
3
4
In the Modify Database window, make your changes.
To save the changes and close the window, click OK, or click Apply, save the changes
and leave the window open. You can then make additional changes and save or
discard them.
The Modify Database window will differ depending on the protocol you’ve selected. For
Click the page number to display the topic.
Note. If you attempt to modify a Eudora Address Book database, the Modify Database
window merely displays the path where the address book file is stored.
De le ting a Da ta b a se
To delete a database, do the following.
1
2
Click the database name or icon in the Databases list to highlight the item
Click Delete. You are prompted to confirm the delete. Click Yes and the database is
removed from the list. Click No and the deletion is cancelled, and the database
remains.
You can delete multiple databases at once; use the Shift key to select a range in the list, or
use the Ctrl key to select items non-consecutively.
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Using Menu Commands
Introd uc tion
This section describes Eudora’s menu commands. Each menu is illustrated, and each
command is described. Additional commands are available by pressing the Shift key while
choosing menu commands.
If there is a shortcut to the menu command, it appears to the right of the command on
each menu. Just press Ctrl and the appropriate keyboard character to access that
command.
File Me nu
This menu provides basic file and mail functions.
File Menu
New File—Create a new text file.
Open File...—Open an existing text file.
Open Attachment—Open the attachment on the cursor line (Shortcut: Enter).
Close—Close the current window.
[Shift] Close—Close all windows.
Save—Save the changes to the topmost window.
[Shift] Save—Save the changes to all open windows.
Save As...—Save the current message(s) to a text file.
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Save As Stationery—(Sp o nso re d a nd Pa id m o d e s o nly) Save the current message to
a stationery file. (Stationery files have the .sta extension and, by default, are saved in your
Stationery directory.)
Send Queued Messages—Send all messages that have been queued for delivery.
[Shift] Send Queued Messages—Display the Mail Transfer Options dialog box.
Check Mail—Pick up new mail from the incoming mail server (POP or IMAP).
[Shift] Check Mail—Display the Mail Transfer Options dialog box.
Print...—Print the current message(s) or window.
Print Preview—Display the Print Preview window, giving a preview of how the current
item(s) to be printed will look when printed.
Print Setup...—Display the Print Setup window, where you can set the printing options.
Import —Display the Import Mail & Addresses dialog box to import your messages and
address book from Netscape Messenger 4.0 or Microsoft’s Outlook ‘98 and Express 5.0.
Exit—Exit (quit) the Eudora application.
Ed it Me nu
This menu provides text editing tools.
Edit menu
Undo—Reverse the most recent action taken. (In the example above, the last action was
typing.) You can undo the last 50 actions in reverse order.
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Redo—Redo the most recent action that was undone with the Undo command. You can
redo up to the last 50 actions (depending on how many were undone).
Cut—Delete the selected text and place it on the clipboard.
Copy—Copy the selected text and place it on the clipboard.
Paste—Paste the contents of the clipboard.
Paste Special—Paste copied text as unformatted, Rich Text Format (RTF), Eudora stan-
dard, or Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML) text
Paste As Quotation—Paste the contents of the clipboard as quoted text. Preceding each
line of text is a quote character, which is a right angle-bracket (>) if there are no styles, or
an “excerpt bar” (|) if there are styles.
Clear—Delete the selected text.
Text—Apply text styles to the selected text or paragraph. Includes such commands as
Typewriter (fixed-width font), Bulleted List, Clear Formatting (remove all styles), and
Make Hyperlink (create a clickable link from a piece of text, or an embedded graphic to a
URL).
Insert—Insert objects in the body of a composition message. Includes the commands
Picture... (insert an embedded graphic file) and Horizontal Line (insert a horizontal rule
as a separator).
Select All—Select the entire contents of a message or a mailbox.
Wrap Selection—Insert carriage returns into the selection, as appropriate.
Finish Address Book Entry (Sp o nso re d a nd Pa id m o d e s o nly)—Complete the partial
text of a nickname.
Insert Recipient—Insert the chosen recipient. (The submenu lists the recipients on your
Quick Recipient List.)
Find—Search for the designated character string.
Sort—Sort the message summaries in ascending order in a mailbox by the selected
column.
[Shift] Sort—Sort the message summaries in descending order by the selected column.
Check Spelling (Sp o nso re d a nd Pa id m o d e s o nly)—Perform a spelling check on the
entire message or the selected text (displays the Check Spelling dialog box).
[Shift] Check Spelling—Perform an inline spelling check on the entire message or the
selected text (highlights misspelled words in red double-underline: right-click a highlighted
word to correct the spelling).
display the topic.
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Mailbox Menu
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This menu lets you open a mailbox or bring an open mailbox to the front. It also lets you
create new mailboxes and mail folders.
Mailbox menu
In—Open the mailbox where incoming messages are stored until deleted or transferred to
another mailbox.
Out—Open the mailbox where messages you compose are stored, where queued
messages are held until actually sent, and where copies of sent messages may be initially
stored.
Trash—Open the mailbox where deleted messages are stored.
New...—Display the New Mailbox dialog box to create a new mailbox.
[Your Mailboxes]—Open the selected mailbox that you have created, or create a new
mailbox in a folder that you have created. Below the New... command on the Mailbox
menu, all of your top-level mailboxes are listed, followed by all of your top-level mail
folders. (Mail folders can contain other mail folders as well as mailboxes.) Navigate
through the menu system to open a mailbox that resides within a folder, or to create a new
mailbox within that folder, using the New command on the folder submenu.
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This menu lets you create, send, and delete messages.
Note. If you hold down the Shift key while selecting any of the message composition
commands in the top half of the Message menu — from New Message down to and
including Redirect To — the Message Options dialog box appears, which lets you select
the Personality and optional Stationery for the message.
Message menu
New Message—Open a new message composition window.
Reply—Reply to the sender of the current message.
Reply to All—Reply to the sender and all original recipients of the current message.
Forward—Forward the current message to someone else.
Redirect—Redirect the current message to someone else.
Send Again—Resend a message rejected by the mail system. You can also use this
command to resend saved or copied messages to avoid retyping message body text or
message header text. However, if you try to resend a received message with an attach-
ment. The attachment is not included in the newly sent message.
New Message To—Send a message to someone on your Quick Recipient List.
Forward To—Forward a message to someone on your Quick Recipient List.
Redirect To—Redirect a message to someone on your Quick Recipient List.
New Message With—Open a new message window with the selected stationery.
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Transfer Menu
Reply With—Open a reply message with the selected stationery. Reply to the sender of
the message only.
Reply to All With—Open a reply message with the selected stationery. Reply to the
sender and all original recipients of the message.
Send File or Attach file—Attach a file to the current message or a new message, respec-
tively.
Attach—Use an attachment plug-in to create and attach a special file to the current
message or a new message. Example: A QUALCOMM PureVoice voice-message attach-
to display the topic.
Send Immediately or Queue For Delivery—Send the message right now, or put it in the
queue to be sent the next time queued messages are sent depending on whether Imme-
the page number to display the topic.
Change—Change the queuing, status, priority, label, server status, or personality of the
selected messages or current message.
Note. Changing the personality changes the associated stationery and signature.
Delete—Transfer the current message into the Trash mailbox (POP server), or mark the
message for deletion (IMAP server).
UnDelete—Unmark the message for deletion (IMAP server only).
Purge Messages—Remove all messages marked for deletion (IMAP server only).
Removes these messages from both your PC and the IMAP server.
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This menu lets you transfer the current message(s) to another mailbox, either an existing
mailbox or a new mailbox that you create.
Note. Holding down the Shift key while selecting any of the items on the Transfer menu
transfers a copy of the current message(s) to the selected mailbox and leaves the original
messages where they are.
Transfer menu
In—Transfer the current message(s) to the In mailbox.
Out—Transfer the current message(s) to the Out mailbox.
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Trash—Transfer the current message(s) to the Trash mailbox.
New...—Display the New Mailbox dialog box to create a new mailbox and transfer the
current message(s) into that mailbox, all in one step. You can specify to create the mailbox
only, and not transfer the messages.
[Your Mailboxes]—Transfer the current message(s) into the selected mailbox that you
have created, or into a new mailbox that you create. Below the New command on the
Transfer menu, all of your top-level mailboxes are listed, followed by all of your top-level
mail folders. (Mail folders can contain other mail folders as well as mailboxes.) Navigate
through the menu system to transfer the current message(s) to a mailbox that resides
within a folder, or to create a new mailbox within that folder and transfer the current
message(s) into that mailbox, all in one step, using the New command on the folder
submenu.
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This menu lets you use additional Eudora functions.
Special menu
Filter Messages—Filter the open message or the selected message(s) against all the
manual filters in your Filters list. Useful for filtering messages after you have received
them, especially after creating new filters.
Make Filter—Open the Make Filter dialog box to create a simple transfer filter based on
information in the open message or the selected message(s).
Make Address Book Entry...—Create an Address Book entry from the current message,
the Address Book, or the Directory Services window.
Add as Recipient—Add the selected text, usually a full email address, to your Quick
Recipient List.
Remove Recipient—Select a recipient from this submenu to remove the recipient from
your Quick Recipient List.
Empty Trash—Delete all messages from the Trash mailbox. As a result of this action,
these messages are completely removed from your computer.
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Compact Mailboxes—Reclaim unused space in all mailboxes.
Forget Password(s)—Make Eudora forget your passwords, so that next time mail is
checked for one of your password-controlled mail accounts, the password must be
entered first. Useful if you step away from your desk in a non-secure area.
Change Password...—Change the account password for one of your pass-
word-controlled incoming mail accounts (POP or IMAP server). It is good security practice
to change your password(s) periodically.
Message Plug-ins Settings...—Open the Installed Message Plug-ins dialog box, which
lets you set the options for those installed message plug-ins that have settable options. In
the open Installed Message Plug-ins dialog box, click the desired plug-in (scroll through
the list if necessary) and then click the Settings... button, which will only be available if the
plug-in has settings. In the displayed Plug-in Settings dialog box, set the options you want
and click OK to save your changes and close the dialog box. When you are finished
setting your plug-in options from the Installed Message Plug-ins dialog box, click the Close
button to close the dialog box. Example: QUALCOMM’s PureVoice voice-messaging
plug-in gives you the option to begin recording automatically, as soon as you launch the
Click the page number to display the topic.
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All of Eudora’s tool windows and the options dialog boxes can be opened from this menu,
as well as the Options dialog box. Select a tool window name to open that window, or
select Options... to open the Options window and set your options
Tools menu
Filters—Display the Filters window, which lets you create, modify, and remove message
filters.
Filter Report—Display the Filter Report window, which provides a report of all filter opera-
tions (transfers to mailboxes) since the last time Eudora was opened. Note: For these filter
reports to be generated, you must turn on the Generate filter report option in the Getting
the topic. This option is turned off by default.
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Mailboxes—Display the Mailboxes window, which lets you manage your mailboxes and
mail folders.
File Browser—Display the File Browser window, which lets you browse through your
desktop and drag attachments to new messages and otherwise (partially) manage your
files and folders. The File Browser window is not a full replica of MS Windows Explorer.
Stationery (Sp o nso re d a nd Pa id m o d e s o nly)—Display the Stationery window, which
lets you create, manage, and apply your stationery files. See “Using Stationery” on
page 70. Click the page number to display the topic.
Signatures—Display the Signature window, which lets you create, manage, and apply
the topic.
Personalities (Sp o nso re d a nd Pa id m o d e s o nly)—Display the Personalities window,
which lets you create, modify, manage, and apply your personalities. See “Using Multiple
Task Status—Display the Task Status window, which lets you see Eudora checking mail
for and sending mail from each of your personalities simultaneously.
Task Error—Display the Task Error window, which lets you see a detail summary of any
error that may occur while in Eudora.
Address Book—Display the Address Book window, which lets you create, manage, and
apply entries that contain nicknames (shorthand names for groups of email addresses)
and associated information. In the Address Book window, you can also create multiple
Address Book files for storing nickname entries. Nicknames provide a quick and conve-
nient way to address e-mail, especially to multiple recipients and to people you corre-
to display the topic.
Directory Services—Display the Directory Services window, which lets you look up
people on the Internet, on your local network (e.g., within your organization), or in your
Eudora Address Book(s). The Directory Services window is similar to an Internet “White
topic.
Link History (Sp o nso re d a nd Pa id m o d e s o nly)—Display the Link History window,
which displays active links you have received in Eudora (including ads if you are using
Eudora in the Sponsored mode). You can activate the link and view its information in this
number to display the topic.
Options...—Display the Options windows, which lets you set preferences for a variety of
categories in Eudora. In the open Options window, click a category in the category list,
then set the options for that category. Click OK to save your changes and close the
window. You can make changes in multiple categories before clicking OK. See “Setting
the page number to display the topic.
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Window Menu
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All of Microsoft Windows’ standard Window menu options are listed in this menu including
the names of all normal Eudora windows that you currently have open (tabbed window
groups are listed by the currently active window in the tabbed group). Note that this menu
on page 129 for more information on normal, docked, floating, and tabbed windows. Click
the page number to display the topic.
Window menu
Cascade—Display all open normal Eudora windows in a cascading fashion (diagonally
offset from each other in a stack).
Tile Horizontal—Display all open normal Eudora windows in a tiled (edge to edge)
fashion with horizontal edges touching (top to bottom).
Tile Vertical—Display all open normal Eudora windows in a tiled (edge to edge) fashion
with vertical edges touching (left to right).
Arrange Icons—Arrange all Eudora window icons, representing minimized normal
Eudora windows, in a line at the bottom of the Eudora main window work area. These
icons are also represented by buttons on the Eudora taskbar.
Send To Back—Send the topmost open normal Eudora window to the back of all
displayed windows. A tabbed window group is considered a single window for this
purpose.
[Your Windows]—All normal Eudora windows that are open appear here. Tabbed
windows are represented as single windows, identified by the currently active window in
the group. Select the desired window to bring that window (or the tabbed group containing
it) to the front of all displayed windows.
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Go to this menu to get help, read a tip, register Eudora, insert system configuration, or see
information about this release.
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Help menu
Topics—Display the online Help contents.
Context Sensitive Help—Display context-sensitive Help. Selecting this command
attaches a question mark icon to the mouse pointer. You then click any screen object in
Eudora (icon, menu command, text field, etc.), and a Help window appears containing
help for that object.
Technical Support—Display a Eudora Help window containing information on getting
more help and, optionally, contact information for the Eudora Technical Support group.
tion on how to obtain technical support directly from the Eudora Technical Support group if
you are eligible to receive it. Click the page number to display the topic. If you are eligible
for this support, and you complete the registration process, contact information for the
Eudora Technical Support group will be displayed in this help window.
Report A Bug—Displays a new composition window addressed to Windows Eudora Bugs
at Qualcomm. If you are having technical problems with Eudora, just answer the questions
in the email message.
Tip of the Day—Display the Tip of the Day window.
Payment & Registration—Display the Payment and Registration dialog box, which lets
Click the page number to display the topic.
Insert System Configuration—Insert text containing detailed information about your
system configuration into the message body of a new composition message.
Eudora-related configuration files may also be attached to the composition message when
you select this command. Use this feature when reporting bugs or when corresponding
with the Eudora Technical Support group.
About Eudora...—Display the About Eudora screen, which contains information on this
release, a link to the Eudora web site, and developer and support team credits.
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Setting Eudora Preferences
Introd uc tion
To display category windows where you can specify how you want to use Eudora, select
Options from the Tools menu. By selecting or turning off criteria on these windows, you
customize Eudora to suit your needs.
The many Options categories are described in this section. When you first install Eudora,
the Options windows contain preset settings.
After you totally finished changing the settings in all categories, click OK. Your settings will
be changed.
Note. For your convenience, some options appear in more than one category. For
example, your return address appears in both the Getting Started options window and the
Sending Mail options window. Changing an option in one category changes the option in
all categories in which it appears.
Important. For advanced users only: if you need to use an Esoteric Settings plug-in, copy
esoteric.epifrom the Extra stuff subfolder into your main Eudora Pro folder. This will
allow an interface to several features in your options settings. You will notice additional
icons appearing at the end of the category list in Options.
Ge tting Sta rte d
On the Getting Started options window, you can determine the minimum information
necessary to send and receive mail. The information here is for your “dominant” person-
ality, which is your principal email account.
To display the Getting Started options window, do the following.
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From the Tools menu, choose Options.
Click the Getting Started icon. The Getting Started options window appears.
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Getting Started options window
Select the options you want to change. Options are described below.
Real name—This is the real name assigned to your principal account, generally your first
and last name. The text you enter here is included in the From: field of all your outgoing
messages from this account. It identifies you to your recipients.
Return address—This is the return email address used in outgoing messages and recipi-
ents’ replies, if this address is different from your incoming mail account. The address you
enter here is included in the From: field of all your outgoing messages from this account,
and when a recipient replies to a message from this account, the reply is sent to this
address. If you do not enter an address in this field, Eudora uses your incoming mail
account as the return address. Incoming mail accounts are usually of the form login-
name@incomingmailserver. For example, suppose your incoming mail account is
Note. If you do enter an address in this field, first test the address to be sure that mail
sent to it is indeed delivered to you. If you use an invalid return address, no one will be
able to reply to your mail.
Mail Server (Incoming)—This is the name of the incoming-mail server for your principal
email account. All incoming messages to your primary account are routed through this
server. Use the Incoming Mail options window to specify whether this server uses POP
(Post Office Protocol) or IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol). A sample server
name might be worldmail.myfirm.com.
Login Name—This is the name you use to log in to your primary email account for
accounts that require a user login. For example, in the incoming mail account
login name.
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SMTP server (outgoing)—This is the name of the outgoing mail server for your principal
email account. All outgoing messages sent from your primary account are routed through
this server. If the computer that your primary incoming mail account is selected also runs
an SMTP server, you can leave this field blank. SMTP stands for Simple Mail Transfer
Protocol.
Allow Authentication—Eudora can log in to an SMTP server when sending mail, just like
it does for receiving mail. Not all SMTP servers require or allow such authentication.
Eudora will attempt authentication to servers that allow it. The preferred SMTP authentica-
tion method is CRAM-MD5. If CRAM-MD5 is not available, LOGIN or PLAIN will automati-
Che c king Ma il
The Checking Mail options determine how Eudora checks for and receives incoming mail
messages sent to your principal email account (dominant personality).
To display the Checking Mail options window, do the following.
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From the Tools menu, choose Options.
Click the Checking Mail icon. The Checking Mail options window appears.
Checking Mail options window
Select the options you want to change. Options are described below.
Mail Server—This is the name of your incoming-mail server as entered in the Mail Server
details. Click the page number to display the topic.
Login Name—This is the login name you entered in the Login Name field of the Getting
number to display the topic.
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Check for mail every _ minute(s)—If you enter a number greater than zero in this field,
then at regular intervals, Eudora automatically checks your incoming mail server for new
mail and transfers to your PC any mail addressed to your primary account. The number
you enter here specifies the number of minutes between automatic mail-checks. It’s a
good idea to set this at no less than 15 minutes. Checking mail more frequently may over-
work your incoming mail server. This option only works when Eudora is running. Entering
0 in this field turns off automatic mail-checking.
Don’t check without a network connection—If this is selected, Eudora will not attempt
to retrieve mail unless you are connected to a network.
Don’t check when using battery—If this is selected and your PC is running on battery
power, mail is not automatically checked even if automatic mail-checking is selected; that
is, the “Check for mail every _ minute(s)” field has a number greater than zero in it.
Send on check—If this is selected, any messages that are queued in the Out mailbox are
sent when a mail-check is performed, whether the mail-check is automatic or manual. If
this is turned off, messages queued in the Out box are not sent during a mail check.
Save password—If this is selected, your password is remembered even if you quit and
restart Eudora, so you’ll never be prompted to enter it. If this is turned off, you must enter
your password each time you quit and restart Eudora. Select this option only if your PC is
in a secure place.
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The Incoming Mail options determine how Eudora receives incoming messages
addressed to your primary email account (dominant personality). The options configure
the incoming mail server name that is entered in the Mail Server (Incoming) field in the
Getting Started options window.
To display the Incoming Mail options window, do the following.
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From the Tools menu, choose Options.
Click the Incoming Mail icon. The Incoming Mail options window appears.
Listed below are field descriptions for Incoming Mail:
Server configuration—Specify which email protocol the incoming mail server uses: POP
(Post Office Protocol) or IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol). If you are not sure
which server to use, ask your email administrator.
The options in the rest of this window depend on whether you’ve chosen POP or IMAP in
this field. Options for both configurations are described below.
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Incoming Mail options window (POP)
Leave mail on server—If this is selected, Eudora copies incoming messages to your PC
and leaves the message on the POP server. If this is turned off, Eudora transfers incoming
messages to your PC and deletes the message from the POP server. For important infor-
page number to display the topic.
Delete from server after _ day(s)—If this option is selected, mail will be saved for the
number of days you specify before being deleted from the POP server. It is a good idea
not to leave copies of your messages on the POP server indefinitely, as this will create
mail storage problems on the server.
Delete from server when emptied from Trash—If this is selected, any messages that
are deleted from your Trash mailbox are also deleted from the POP server.
Skip messages over _ K in size—If this is selected, messages over the specified size
are downloaded only in part. These messages include the first few lines and a statement
that says the message is not complete. This can be useful on slow connections.
Note. If you want to retrieve the full message after it has been partially retrieved,
right-click on the message and change the server status.
Offline—If this is selected, Eudora won’t attempt to make any connections. This is a good
option to have selected if you’re using Eudora on a laptop computer that is not continu-
ously connected.
Authentication style—This specifies which POP account authentication technology to
use for this account: Passwords, Kerberos, APOP, or RPA. Ask your email administrator
which one to use if you are not sure. Use RPA for CompuServe.
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Server configuration = IMAP:
Incoming Mail options window (IMAP)
IMAP Mailbox Location Prefix—This specifies the mailbox location prefix that IMAP will
use when locating your mailboxes on the incoming mail server. An example prefix is
/usr/mail. Ask your email administrator what to enter here if you are not sure.
For new mail, download—These options (you must choose one) let you control the way
incoming mail is downloaded from the IMAP server.
Minimal headers only—If this option is selected, only a limited set of message
headers, and nothing else, is downloaded for each incoming message. (That means
the remaining message headers, the message body, and any attachments are not
initially retrieved for the message.) By accessing each part of the message, you can
retrieve the remaining portion from the server.
Full message except attachments over _ K—If this option is selected, the full
message (full set of message headers and the message body) and any attachments
smaller than the specified size are downloaded for each incoming message. Also, any
attachments larger than the specified size are not downloaded with the message. To
download all of your IMAP attachments, enter a large number in this field. If you enter 0
in the text box, all attachments regardless of size are retrieved.
When I delete a message—These options (you must choose one) let you control the way
you want your deleted messages handled.
Mark it as deleted—Select this option to mark your messages on the IMAP for dele-
tion. These messages are not removed from the server until you choose to remove
display the topic.
Move it to (mailbox)—Select this option to move your deleted messages to a specific
mailbox. The default is your Trash mailbox.
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Authentication style—This specifies which IMAP account authentication technology to
use for this account: Passwords, Kerberos, or CRAM-MD5. Ask your email administrator
which one to use if you are not sure. CRAM-MD5 is the default. If CRAM-MD5 is not
detected, Eudora will use Passwords.
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The Sending Mail options determine how Eudora sends your outgoing messages from
your primary email account (dominant personality).
To display the Sending Mail options window, do the following.
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From the Tools menu, choose Options.
Click the Sending Mail icon. The Sending Mail options window appears.
Sending Mail options window
Select the options you want to change. Options are described below.
Return address—This is your return email address, if different from your incoming mail
display the topic.
Domain to add to unqualified addresses—This is the domain name that Eudora auto-
matically adds to an unqualified address in messages sent from your primary account. An
unqualified address is an address that doesn’t have the @ sign followed by a domain
name. This can be used to save time when addressing large numbers of messages to
users in the same domain.
SMTP server—This is the name of the outgoing mail server for your principal email
account. All outgoing messages sent from your primary account are routed through this
server. If the computer that your primary incoming mail account is on also runs an SMTP
server, you can leave this field blank. SMTP stands for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol.
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Allow authentication—Eudora can log in to an SMTP server when sending mail, just like
it does for receiving mail. Not all SMTP servers require or allow such authentication.
Eudora will attempt authentication to servers that allow it. The preferred SMTP authentica-
tion method is CRAM-MD5. If CRAM-MD5 is not available, LOGIN or PLAIN will automati-
cally be used.
Immediate send—If this is selected, the rightmost button in the toolbar of the message
composition window is labeled Send. Clicking this button immediately sends the message
to the SMTP server. If this option is turned off, the button is labeled Queue and clicking on
it places the message in the Out mailbox marked ready for delivery (Q).
Send on check—If this is selected, any messages from your primary account that are
queued in the Out mailbox are sent when mail is checked for this account, whether the
mail-check is automatic or manual.
Select a default Stationery for new messages (Sp o nso re d a nd Pa id m o d e s o nly)—
This is the default stationery to be used in all outgoing messages from your dominant
account. Select a stationery file from the drop-down list, or select <No Default> for no
default stationery. If a stationery file is selected, that file is used when you open new
messages from this account (except with the Redirect or Send Again commands). The
message toolbar in the composition window is set according to how the stationery
message was saved, regardless of how the options below are set. But, you can always
Click the page number to display the topic.
Select defaults when not using Stationery (Sp o nso re d a nd Pa id m o d e s o nly)—The
values you choose for the following options apply only when you are not using a default
stationery file, that is, when the “Select a default Stationery for new messages” option,
above, is set to <No Default>, if you have selected a default stationery file from the
drop-down list, then the values below are ignored. Instead, Eudora uses their corre-
sponding values that were set when the stationery file was saved. So, for example, if you
choose default stationery that uses a custom signature and you set the default signature
drop-down list below to your Standard signature, your Standard signature will be ignored
and the custom signature will be used.
Default signature—This sets the default signature to be used in all outgoing messages
sent from your dominant account. Select a signature from the drop-down list, or select
<No Default> for no default signature. If a signature is selected, that signature is used on
the toolbar of new messages from your primary account. You can always change the
signature in a particular outgoing message from the toolbar Signature drop-down list.
Click the page number to display the topic.
Word wrap— If this is selected, Eudora automatically inserts carriage returns in long lines
when a message is sent, creating roughly 76 characters per line. This makes the message
legible on the recipient’s computer. It is a good idea not to include your own carriage
returns within paragraphs if you have this option on. Use carriage returns only to create
new paragraphs. We strongly recommend that you leave this option selected. The default
stationery overrides this option (see above).
Keep copies—If this is selected, a copy of each message you send is kept in the Out
mailbox. If this option is turned off, outgoing messages are put in the Trash mailbox after
they are sent. Default stationery overrides this option (see above).
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May use quoted-printable—If this is selected, Eudora uses quoted-printable encoding
when necessary, such as when sending messages that contain special characters or long
lines of text. If this option is turned off, quoted-printable encoding is never used. We
recommend that you leave this option selected. Default stationery overrides this option.
Tabs in body of message—If this is selected, pressing the Tab key within the message
body inserts a tab. If it is turned off, pressing the Tab key within the message body moves
the cursor to the To: field. Default stationery overrides this option (see above).
Inte rne t Dia lup
The Internet Dialup options determine how Eudora manages your Internet telephone
connection.
To display the Internet Dialup options window, do the following.
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From the Tools menu, choose Options.
Click the Internet Dialup icon. The Internet Dialup options window appears.
Internet Dialup options window
Have Eudora connect using Dial-up networking—If this is selected, the specified
dial-up connection (referred to in Windows NT 4.0 as a "phonebook entry") is used when
Eudora does any network operation. This option is available only if you have installed the
dial-up networking services with Windows 95/98 or Windows NT 4.0.
When Eudora established the connection:
Hang-up after receiving and sending—If this is selected, the connection terminates
each time mail is retrieved and sent.
Close connection on Exit—If this is selected, the phone connection terminates when
you exit Eudora.
Entry:—Use the drop-down list to select a dial-up connection in this field. You must have
dial-up networking set up in Windows.
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New—Select to create a new dial-up networking entry. See the online user manual for
information on creating a dial-up networking entry.
Edit—Select to edit the current entry displayed in the Entry field box. For example, you
would edit phone number.
Only do automatic mail checks when a network connection is already established—
If this is selected, Eudora will do an automatic mail check only if you are connected to a
network.
Re p lying
The Replying options determine how replies are created.
To display the Replying options window, do the following.
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From the Tools menu, choose Options.
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Scroll and click the Replying icon. The Replying options window appears.
Replying options window
Select the options you want to change. Options are described below.
Map Ctrl+R to “Reply to All”—If this is selected, when you hold down the Ctrl key and
press R, a new message is created addressed to all of the recipients of the original
message as well as the sender.
Copy original’s priority to reply—If this is selected, your replies use the same priority as
the original message.
Automatically Fcc to original mailbox (Sp o nso re d a nd Pa id m o d e s o nly)—If this is
selected, replies are automatically copied to the same mailbox that contains the original
message with the exception of the In box replies which are copied to the Out box.
Include signature on reply—If this is selected, your default signature will be included on
all of your replies automatically.
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Quote only the selected text—If this is selected, only the text you highlight in a received
message will appear on the reply message.
When replying to all—This specifies how to address a reply. If “Include yourself” is
selected, when you “Reply to all” as described above, your address is left in the address
list of the new message and you receive a copy of your own reply. If this option is turned
off, the default, your address is removed from the reply message and you do not receive a
copy of the reply. If “Put original To: recipients in Cc:” option is selected (the default is
turned off), the addresses of the original message recipients are moved from the To: field
to the Cc: field of the reply-to-all message. Only the address of the original sender is
placed in the To: field.
Atta c hm e nts
The Attachments options determine how Eudora sends and receives file attachments.
To display the Attachments options window, do the following.
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From the Tools menu, choose Options.
Scroll and click the Attachments icon. The Attachments options window appears.
Attachments options window
Select the options you want to change. Options are described below.
Encoding method—This specifies what default encoding method to use for attached
documents: MIME, BinHex, or Uuencode. To change the method for just the current
message, use the Attachment Type popup in the outgoing message window. For details,
topic.
Put text attachments in body of message—If this is selected, Eudora puts any
plain-text attachment you send directly within the message body, as if it were typed in
manually.
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Attachment directory—This specifies what directory will receive incoming attachments.
To specify a folder, single-click the folder name button. A dialog box appears prompting
you to select a folder. The default folder is the Attach sub-folder of your Eudora Pro folder.
Delete attachments when emptying Trash—If this is selected, Eudora automatically
deletes an attachment received with a message when that message is deleted from your
system; that is, when the message is emptied from the Trash. The attachment must still be
in the folder defined as the Attachments Folder. If you want to save an attachment but
delete the message, move the attachment to another folder or turn off this option.
Delete automatic attachments—This specifies how to handle attachments to automati-
cally generated messages, such as is created with the “Insert System Configuration”
command.
Never—If this is selected, automatic attachments are never deleted from the attach-
ment directory.
After sending message—If this is selected, automatic attachments are deleted from
the attachment directory when their corresponding messages are sent.
When message emptied from Trash—If this is selected, automatic attachments are
deleted from the attachment directory when their corresponding messages are
emptied from the Trash.
Fonts
The Fonts options determine how Eudora displays and prints text. Note that the choices
available for each option, and the default, may depend on the fonts installed in your
system.
To display the Fonts options window, do the following.
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From the Tools menu, choose Options.
Scroll and click the Fonts icon. The Fonts options window appears.
Fonts options window
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Select the options you want to change. Options are described below.
Message—These fields list the proportional and fixed-width fonts to be used for displaying
the text in your received and composition messages and in the message preview pane in
mailbox windows. Also included are the size of each font and the use of proportional or
fixed-width font by default.
Proportional—Specify the proportional font to use in message windows and the
preview pane. Spacing is adjusted according to each character’s width.
Fixed-width—Specify the fixed-width font to use in message windows and the preview
pane. Every character requires the same amount of space.
Use proportional font by default—If this option is selected, message windows and
the preview pane use your specified proportional font by default. If this option is turned
off, message windows and the preview pane use your specified fixed-width font by
default.
Size—Specify the size of the font to be used for text in message windows and the
preview pane.
Printer—These fields list the font and size to be used when printing any text from Eudora
using the Print... command messages, text files, signature files, etc.
Font—Specify the font to use when printing text from Eudora.
Size—Specify the font size to use when printing text from Eudora.
Screen—These fields list the font and size to be used when displaying any Eudora screen
text other than that displayed in received and composition messages and the message
preview pane. This includes text files, signature files, and message summaries in mailbox
windows.
Font—Specify the font to use when displaying all other screen text in Eudora.
Size—Specify the font size to use when displaying all other screen text in Eudora.
Disp la y
The Display options determine how Eudora displays various objects in the main Eudora
window and the category icons in the Options list.
To display the Display options window, do the following.
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From the Tools menu, choose Options.
Scroll and click the Display icon. The Display options window appears.
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Select the options you want to change. Options are described below.
Show toolbar—If this option is selected, Eudora displays the main window toolbar.
Show toolbar tips—If this option is selected, holding the mouse pointer over a button in
the main window toolbar displays a very brief description of that button’s function.
Show cool bars—If this option is selected, the main window toolbar buttons have a flat
look and only become raised when you position the mouse pointer over the button. If this
option is turned off, the main window toolbar buttons always have a raised look.
Show status bar—If this option is selected, Eudora displays a status bar at the bottom of
the main window. The status bar provides a brief description of menu items and toolbar
buttons. Also information about background tasks, if running, appears.
Show category icons—This option allows you to turn the Category icons in Options on
and off.
Show MDI task bar—If this option is selected, Eudora displays the Eudora taskbar at the
bottom of the window work area. This taskbar contains buttons for all open and minimized
normal Eudora windows, such as mailboxes, email, and Address Book.
Vie wing Ma il
The Viewing Mail options determine how Eudora displays incoming and outgoing
message windows and the message preview pane in mailbox windows.
To display the Viewing Mail options window, do the following.
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From the Tools menu, choose Options.
Scroll and click the Viewing Mail icon. The Viewing Mail options window appears.
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Select the options you want to change. Options are described below.
Message Window—These options determine how Eudora displays received and compo-
sition messages.
Use Microsoft’s viewer—If this is turned off, Eudora displays advanced formatting,
graphics, and multimedia in incoming and outgoing messages, using its own built-in
viewer. If this is selected, Eudora takes full advantage of the Web browser capabilities
of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 3.0 or later by showing Web content right in incoming
and outgoing messages or linking to the Internet, without your having to open the Web
browser. This option is available only if you have Microsoft’s Internet Explorer version
3.0 or higher installed and available on your system.
Message window width—This specifies the width of new and received message
windows (in characters). This option has no effect on what your mail looks like when it
is sent. When mail is sent, Eudora wraps at or before 76 columns.
Note. If you use a proportional font, Eudora sets the window width based on the
average width of the characters in the font.
Message window height—This specifies the height of new and received message
windows (in lines).
Note. If the “Zoom windows when opening” option is selected, received message
window heights are automatically adjusted to the height of the message text.
Preview Pane—These options determine the visibility and behavior of the message
preview pane that appears at the bottom of mailbox windows.
Show message preview pane—If this option is selected, Eudora displays the
message preview pane in mailbox windows. The preview pane previews a single
selected message. A splitter between the preview pane and the message summary list
lets you resize the preview pane relative to the list.
Mark previewed messages as read after _ second(s)—If this option is selected and
the “Show message preview pane” option is turned on, the message currently selected
in the mailbox window and previewed in the preview pane is automatically marked as
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read (blank in the Status column) after the specified number of seconds. If this option is
turned off, a previewed message will not automatically be marked as read. Note: You
can use the Shift+Space shortcut to convert a message back and forth between the
Unread ( ) and Read status.
Automatically open next message—If this is selected, deleting or transferring the
current message opens the next message in the mailbox, but only if that message is
unread.
Zoom windows when opening—If this option is selected, new message windows auto-
matically open to their “zoomed” size. The zoomed size is computed on a
window-by-window basis. For message windows, zoomed size is just long enough to
display all of the message (but no longer than the main window), and as wide as the
Message window width setting. Composition windows zoom to the height specified by the
Message window height setting.
Allow executables in HTML content—If this is selected, you are able to run programs
such as Java™ Applets, JavaScript™, VB Script™, and ActiveX™ Controls that are
embedded in an HTML message. For security reasons, you may want to leave this option
turned off.
Ma ilb oxe s
The Mailboxes options determine how Eudora displays various objects in mailbox window
columns. It also allows you to configure Eudora to select and drag message(s) for mailbox
transfers.
To display the Mailboxes options window, do the following.
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From the Tools menu, choose Options.
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Scroll and click the Mailboxes icon. The Mailboxes options window appears.
Mailboxes options window
Select the options you want to change. Options are described below.
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Show Mailbox Columns—These options determine which columns appear in mailbox
windows. Select an option to display that column in all mailbox windows. The options are
Status, Priority, Attachment, Label, Sender, Date, Size, Server status, and Subject.
Show mailbox lines—If this option is selected, lines appear in the message summaries
portion of mailbox windows: horizontal lines to separate message summaries, and vertical
lines to separate columns.
Close messages with mailbox—If this is selected, all opened messages in a mailbox will
close automatically when you close the mailbox.
Select newly inserted messages (FUMLUB)—If this is selected, the first message of the
most current block of unread messages is highlighted in the Table of Contents window
when new messages are added to a mailbox, for example, when receiving new messages
as a result of a mail check. FUMLUB means First Unread Message of the Last Unread
Block. For example, you may have a series of unread messages in a mailbox scattered
throughout your Table of Contents. The first message of the last block of unread
messages listed in your Table of Contents is selected.
When dragging in a mailbox:
Allow drag and drop transfers—If this is selected, you can transfer a message to
another mailbox using drag and drop: select one or more messages in a mailbox, drag
them to another mailbox, and drop them in the target mailbox. Also, you can drag and
drop messages to a mailbox displayed in the Mailboxes window.
Allow drag-select of messages—If this is selected, you can click and drag on adja-
cent messages to select them as a group in the Table of Contents window. This allows
you to transfer a group of messages to a mailbox or to delete them if the “Allow drag
and drop transfers” is selected. The drag select works only if the drag starts on an
unselected (not highlighted) message.
Style d Te xt
The Styled Text options determine when to use style information in outgoing and incoming
messages.
To display the Styled Text options window, do the following.
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From the Tools menu, choose Options.
Scroll and click the Styled Text icon. The Styled Text options window appears.
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Styled Text options window
Select the options you want to change. Options are described below.
Show formatting toolbar—If this is selected, the formatting toolbar appears by default in
new message windows. If this is turned off, the formatting toolbar is hidden by default in
new message windows. This toolbar lets you easily format text styles in new messages.
When sending mail with styled text (HTML)—This specifies what to do with HTML text
styles when you send mail. The styles are delivered to your recipients using the Hyper
Text Markup Language (HTML) format. However, the styles your recipient sees depends
on how well their email software supports this standard. HTML is the text formatting stan-
dard used in the World Wide Web by Web browsers and newer email applications. HTML
allows you to use enriched text, which includes different fonts, color, sizes, bold, etc. Also,
HTML lets you imbed pictures and create bullet lists in the emails you send.
Send plain and styled version in message, Send styled text only, Send plain text
only—These options only apply to messages that have some styled content. Plain text
messages are always sent as just plain text. If a message does have styled text, then
these options control which versions of the message are sent: an HTML version, a
plain text version, or both an HTML and a plain text version in the same message. If
you send plain and styled text, your recipient will be able to view your message even
though their email program does not support HTML; they view the message in plain
text only.
Ask me each time—If this is selected, you are warned when you try to send or queue a
message with text styles. And you are given the option to send just a plain text version,
just an HTML version, or both in a single message.
When the body of a message has no styles, but the signature does has styles: Send
the signature with styles—If this is selected, signature with styled text is sent with a
message that has no styled text. If this is turned off, then the signature is sent but the text
styles are removed.
Note. If selected, the signature becomes one with the message. However, if an attach-
ment is included with you message, this option turns off.
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The Spell Checking options control the behavior of Eudora’s built-in spelling checker when
it performs a spelling check on the body of a message composition window, a text file, or a
signature file. You can also change these options from the Spelling Options dialog box,
accessed by clicking the Options button in the Check Spelling dialog box (accessed via
the Edit menu).
To display the Spell Checking options window, do the following.
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From the Tools menu, choose Options.
Scroll and click the Spell Checking icon. The Spell Checking options window appears.
Spell Checking options window
Select the options you want to change. Options are described below.
Ignore capitalized words—The spelling checker ignores words that begin with a capital
letter, such as proper nouns.
Ignore words with all capitals—The spelling checker ignores words that contain all
capital letters, such as acronyms.
Ignore words with numbers—The spelling checker ignores words that contain numbers.
Ignore words with mixed case—The spelling checker ignores words that contain a
mixture of uppercase and lowercase characters.
Report doubled words—The spelling checker reports words that appear twice in
sequence in text and identifies them as Doubled words.
Suggest words—If this is selected, then when the spelling checker encounters an
unknown word, it displays Eudora’s suggestions for the correct spelling of the word in the
Suggestions field of the Check Spelling dialog box. You can also select any combination of
the suggestion options: Phonetic words (off by default), Split words (on by default), Typo-
graphic words (on by default).
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Note. If Eudora has no suggestions for the word in its dictionary, then no suggestions are
listed.
Check spelling:
Automatically as you type—If this option is selected, misspelled words will automati-
cally be double-underlined and highlighted once you press the Spacebar after typing a
word.
Only when requested—If this option is selected, you can invoke the spell checker if
you wish after you type your message.
Outgoing messages:
Ignore original text—The spelling checker ignores any text that is preceded by a
quote mark, which is an excerpt bar (|). Eudora assumes that this text was originally
from another message, and therefore does not need to be spell-checked.
Warn me when sending/queueing message with misspellings—If this option is
selected, Eudora displays a warning if you attempt to queue or send a message in
which it has detected spelling errors.
Auto-Com p le tion
(Sp o nso re d a nd Pa id m o d e s o nly)
The Auto-completion options determine how you will use the name auto-completion
feature to complete names and email addresses in the To:, Cc:, and Bcc: fields on the
message headers of your outgoing messages. Eudora completes the names by looking
for the names in either your history file or address book.
To display the Auto-completion options window, do the following.
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From the Tools menu, choose Options.
Scroll and click the Auto-completion icon. The Auto-completion options window
appears.
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Auto-completion options window
Select the options you want to change. Options are described below.
Address Book—Select to make available the nicknames you’ve previously set up in your
address book to auto-complete in the To:, Cc:, and Bcc: fields in the message header.
Turn off to not display nicknames from your address book in the drop-down name list.
History File—Select to make available the names from your history file to auto-complete
in the To:, Cc:, and Bcc: fields in the message header. Turn off to not display names and
email addresses from your history file in the drop-down name list.
The history file consists of names and email addresses that appear in the To:, Cc:, and
Bcc: fields in the messages you send, reply to, or forward.
Use drop down list for completion choices—Select to display the drop-down name list
when you begin to type a name in the To:, Cc:, or Bcc: fields. Turn off to not display the
drop-down name list.
Names should appear in alphabetical order—Select to display names in the drop-down
list in alphabetical order. Turn off to display names based on usage.
Add the from lines of replied-to messages—Select to add the name appearing in the
From: field from a received message that you replied to. This name and email address
goes into your history file.
Time to wait before popping up Auto-completion box in milliseconds—Enter the
number of milliseconds you want to wait before the auto-completion drop-down list
appears for you to choose a name. The larger the number, the longer the wait. Zero indi-
cates that the name list will appear immediately.
Maximum number of entries to keep in history:—Enter the number of names you want
to keep in your history file at any given time. As you add names, the old entries are
removed leaving the amount of names equal to the number you entered in this field.
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Da te Disp la y
The Date Display options determine how Eudora displays message dates in the Date
column of mailbox window message summaries.
To display the Date Display options window, do the following.
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From the Tools menu, choose Options.
Scroll and click the Date Display icon. The Date Display options window appears.
Date Display options window
Select the options you want to change. Options are described below.
Display dates using—This specifies what time zone to use to display dates.
Sender’s timezone—If selected, messages appear with the sender’s time and date,
as determined by the sender’s time zone.
Local timezone—If selected, messages appear with your time and date, based on
your local time zone.
Date formats [default: Fixed]—These options and fields specify how to display message
dates whether with a fixed or an age-sensitive format and the specific formatting for the
selected option. A fixed format means that all dates appear under the same formatting
rule. An age-sensitive format means that message dates appear differently depending on
how old the messages are. Formatting is entered in the text fields using the format key at
the bottom of the Date Display Options window (discussed further below).
Fixed [defaults: %1 %2 %4]—If this is selected, all message dates appear using the
formatting entered in the edit field, based on the formatting key (see below). The
default format (%1%2%4) specifies that all message dates will be in this format:
message time followed by message date followed by message time zone (but only if
the message did not originate from your local time zone). Example:
02:56PM11/21/97-0800.
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Age-sensitive—If this is selected, message dates appear differently based on the age
of the messages. The three age categories are RECENT, OLD, and ANCIENT. The
age of a message is measured from the date and time at which the message was
composed or sent, based on the sender’s email package, and this depends on your
setting for the Display dates using option. RECENT messages are all those that are
"younger" than the hours you specify in the Hours to be OLD field. ANCIENT
messages are all those that are older than the "expiration time" entered in the Hours to
be ANCIENT field. OLD messages are all those ages which falls between that of
RECENT and ANCIENT messages: they are older than the number of hours specified
in the Hours to be OLD field, but younger than the number of hours specified in the
Hours to be ANCIENT field. The date display format for all messages falling in the
RECENT, OLD, and ANCIENT categories is determined by your entry in the RECENT
format, OLD format, and ANCIENT format fields, respectively.
RECENT format [default: %1]—Your entry in this field determines the format in which
the dates of RECENT messages appear. RECENT messages are all those younger
than the number in the Hours to be OLD field. The default RECENT format of %1 and
the default Hours to be OLD of 24 means that all messages from the past 24 hours
appear with the time.
Hours to be OLD [default: 24]—Your entry in this field determines the point at which
RECENT messages become OLD messages. The default entry of 24 hours means
that messages become OLD after one day.
OLD format [default: %3]—Your entry in this field determines the format in which the
dates of OLD messages appear. OLD messages are those that are older than the
Hours to be OLD but younger than the Hours to be ANCIENT. The default OLD format
of %3, the default Hours to be OLD of 24, and the default Hours to be ANCIENT of 168
means that all messages older than one day and younger than one week appear with
the day of the week.
Hours to be ANCIENT [default: 168]—Your entry in this field determines the point at
which OLD messages become ANCIENT messages. The default entry of 168 hours
means that messages become ANCIENT after a week.
ANCIENT format [default: %2]—Your entry in this field determines the format in which
the dates of ANCIENT messages appear. ANCIENT messages are all those older than
the number in the Hours to be ANCIENT field. The default entry of %2 and the default
Hours to be ANCIENT of 168 means that all those messages older than a week appear
with the date.
Note. Use the format key displayed at the bottom of the window to determine how to
program entries in the Fixed field and the format fields (RECENT, OLD, and ANCIENT). In
each field, enter %1 to stand for the Time, enter %2 to stand for the Date, enter %3 to
stand for the Day of the week, and enter %4 to stand for the Time zone, but only if the
message did not originate from the local time zone. Separate each entry with a space to
improve readability of the display output: for example, %1%2%4.
La b e ls
The Labels options determine the title and color of the seven labels that can be used to
categorize messages.
To display the Labels options window, do the following.
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From the Tools menu, choose Options.
Scroll and click the Labels icon. The Labels options window appears.
Labels options window
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To change a label title, type the new title in the field to the right of the label number. To
change a label color, single-click the label number to display the Color dialog box.
Color dialog box
You can select from one of the pre-defined Basic colors or create your own Custom colors.
To assign a basic color to a label, select the color and click OK. To create a custom color,
click Define Custom Colors to display the custom colors palette.
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Custom colors palette
To define a custom color, do the following.
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Select one of the 16 custom color boxes.
Using the mouse pointer, click anywhere on the color palette to select the color Hue
and Saturation. Use the color control bar to the right of the color palette to adjust the
color.
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When you are satisfied with the color, click Add to Custom Colors.
Once you have completed creating the custom colors, select the desired label color
and click OK.
Ge tting Atte ntion
The Getting Attention options determine what Eudora does when it is running in the back-
ground and wants your attention, or when new mail arrives.
To display the Getting Attention options window, do the following.
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From the Tools menu, choose Options.
Scroll and click the Getting Attention icon. The Getting Attention options window
appears.
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Getting Attention options window
Select the options you want to change. Options are described below.
Use an alert dialog box—If this is selected, an alert dialog box notifies you when new
mail is received. You will see the alert dialog box only if Eudora is in the foreground.
Open mailbox—If this is selected, mailboxes are automatically opened when new mail
arrives in them, and the first unread message of the last unread batch of messages is
selected.
Play a sound—If this is selected, a sound is played when Eudora needs attention. To
select a sound (.wav) file, click the long, horizontal button below the “Play a sound” option
(the button is blank by default). Browse until you find your sound file. When the “Select
sound file” dialog box appears, select a sound and click Open.
Generate filter report—If this is selected, a filter report is generated when filters are
used. Filter reports appear in the Filter Report window, accessed from the Tools menu.
Note that this option must be on for such reports to appear in that window.
Note. These notifications can be changed on a per message basis using Filters. See
Ba c kg round Ta sks
The Background Tasks allow you to set parameters that determine how background tasks
behave and what kind of information you want to see in the Task Status window. In other
words, you can configure the behavior of background tasks. Also, you can set the Task
Status and/or the Task Error windows to be brought to the front of other windows in
In the Background Tasks options window, you can indicate the number of seconds of user
inactivity before your newly retrieved mail is actually processed by Eudora. If you have
automatic mail checking set up in the Checking Mail options, Eudora will retrieve the mail
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in the background from the incoming server at those time intervals. But Eudora will not
process it until there is no user activity performed on your computer for the amount of
seconds you indicate in the Background Tasks options window. An envelope displayed on
the status bar, located at the lower right-hand corner of the Eudora window, indicating
there is retrieved mail to be processed; that is, messages to be filtered and placed in mail-
boxes.
Technical Note. In the background, Eudora retrieves and sends mail; in the foreground,
Eudora processes attachments and applies filters.
To display the Background Tasks options window, do the following.
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2
From the Tools menu, choose Options.
Scroll and click the Background Tasks icon. The Background Tasks options window
appears.
Background Tasks options window
Select the options you want to change. Options are described below.
Task Status Columns—These options determine which columns appear in the Task
Status window. Check the box next to the field column that you want to display. The
options are Task, Persona, Status, Details, and Progress.
Task—Displays an icon with a short description of the tasks’ actions.
Persona—This column is available only if there is more than one personality set up. If
checked, the Personality column displays the personality name for the given task.
Status—Displays a general description of the tasks current status, for example, “Logging
into POP server.”
Details—Displays more information of the tasks’ status including network protocol
commands.
Progress—Displays a progress bar indicating the overall progress of the tasks.
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Wait for _ seconds of user inactivity before processing downloaded messages—
[default: 20 seconds) If Eudora is retrieving mail automatically in the background, the
amount of time set in this field indicates the idle time Eudora waits before delivering mail
to your mailboxes and folders. For example, if you are composing a message and Eudora
is retrieving mail in the background, Eudora will not deliver the mail until you stop typing
for the amount of time indicated here. If the you set the time for 5 seconds, Eudora
delivers your mail if you stop typing for at least 5 seconds. This field is beneficial if you
don’t want to be interrupted too frequently while using Eudora. If the number in this field is
large, you’ll get fewer interruptions.
Bring error window to front—Select this option to have the Task Error window brought
to the front when an error occurs.
Bring task status window to front—Select this option to have the Task Status window
brought to the front when a task occurs, for example sending or receiving mail.
Autom a tion
The Automation options let you control and exchange information with Eudora from other
programs that support the Windows Automation Interface, such as Microsoft Visual Basic.
These options give you external access to Eudora mail folders, mailboxes, and messages,
and to the Eudora application itself. With automation enabled, you can create, delete, and
move Eudora mail folders, mailboxes, and messages, as well as get notification of these
three operations when they are performed manually. You can also get lists of the
subfolders under folders and of the messages within mailboxes. For more information on
the automation feature, see the following Web site, click the following URL.
http://eudora.qualcomm.com/developers, where you can find up-to-date auto-
mation SDKs (Software Developer’s Kits) and documentation.
To display the Automation options window, do the following.
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From the Tools menu, choose Options.
Scroll and click the Automation icon. The Automation options window appears.
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Automation options window
Select the options you want to change. Options are described below.
Automation enabled from this machine—If this option is selected, you can perform the
automation operations described above from the computer on which Eudora is installed.
Extra Wa rning s
The Extra Warnings options determine whether you are warned before making a possible
mistake. Most of the warnings appear with an option to stop that warning from being
displayed again. You can toggle warnings to be either on or off.
To display the Extra Warnings options window, do the following.
1
2
From the Tools menu, choose Options.
Scroll and click the Extra Warnings icon. The Extra Warnings options window
appears.
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Extra Warnings options window
Select the options you want to change. Options are described below.
Delete unread mail—If this is selected, you are warned if you try to delete mail that is
marked unread.
Delete queued mail—If this is selected, you are warned if you try to delete mail that is
queued to be sent (marked
or
for timed-queue) in the Out mailbox.
Delete unsent mail—If this is selected, you are warned if you try to delete messages that
are marked sendable (with a bullet in the Out mailbox) but not yet sent.
Queue a message with no subject—If this is selected, you are warned if you try to
queue a message that contains no text in the Subject line. It is considered a point of email
etiquette to give each message a subject.
Queue a message bigger than _ K [default: 500]—If this is selected, you are warned if
you try to queue or send a message that is greater in size than the specified number. This
number must be between 0 and 1000000 (one million, no commas). This size includes
messages and attachments.
Quit with messages queued to be sent—If this is selected, you are warned if you try to
quit Eudora while there are still queued messages in your Out mailbox.
Empty the Trash mailbox—If this is selected, you are warned if you try to empty the
Trash mailbox (one way is using the Special menu Empty Trash command). Once
messages are deleted from the Trash, they are completely gone from your system.
Start Eudora and it’s not the default mailer—If this is selected, you are warned if you try
to start Eudora when it’s not the default mailer. When Eudora is the default mailer,
<mailto:> commands open a Eudora message, regardless of what application the
command is in.
Switch views for Find—If this is selected, you are warned if you try to perform a Find
operation (using the Edit menu Find submenu) while viewing an incoming message using
the Microsoft Internet Explorer version 4.0 viewer. The warning indicates that Eudora will
switch to a different viewer to complete the Find operation. Eudora uses Internet Explorer
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(IE) 4.0 as the default viewer if IE 4.0 is installed on your system and the “Use Microsoft’s
Click the page number to display the topic.
Launch a program from a message—If this is selected, you are warned if you try to
launch a program from a message. For security reasons, you should never launch a
program sent to you from an unknown source, or if you’re not expecting a program without
performing a virus check on the file. Do not launch any program if you don’t know the
sender.
MAPI
The MAPI options control the Eudora MAPI Server. Eudora’s MAPI support allows you to
quickly attach documents to email messages directly from the application that created the
document. Without MAPI, you must first save the document, remember what folder the
document is in, switch to Eudora, and then remember to manually attach the document to
the outgoing message. MAPI streamlines this process dramatically.
To email the current open document from your word processor, select the Send command
from your word processor’s File menu. This automatically activates Eudora and attaches a
snapshot of the open document to a new composition message. The MAPI system stan-
dardizes how messages are handled by client applications so that each client application
does not need to have a custom code for each target messaging application. MAPI
accomplishes this by providing a standard application program interface used by all
MAPI-enabled client applications. An additional MAPI feature supported by Microsoft
Office applications is the ability to add a “routing slip” to a Word, Excel, or PowerPoint
document. This routing slip contains a list of email recipients obtained from the MAPI
subsystem. Once a document has an embedded routing slip, then it can be semi-automat-
ically routed as an attachment via email to all recipients listed in the routing slip. Once the
routing is complete, the annotated document is returned back to the original sender.
Note. Close all other MAPI applications before changing Eudora’s status as a MAPI
server.
To display the MAPI options window, do the following.
1
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From the Tools menu, choose Options.
Scroll and click the MAPI icon. The MAPI options window appears.
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Select the options you want to change. Options are described below.
Use Eudora MAPI server—If “Never” is selected, the Eudora MAPI server is turned off
and is never automatically loaded. If “When Eudora is running” is selected, the Eudora
MAPI server is selected when Eudora is running. If “Always” is selected, the Eudora MAPI
server is selected and is always loaded on startup.
Delete MAPI attachments—If “Never” is selected, MAPI attachments are never deleted
from the attachment directory. If “After sending message” is selected, MAPI attachments
are deleted from the attachment directory when their corresponding messages are sent. If
“When message emptied from Trash” is selected, MAPI attachments are deleted from the
attachment directory when their corresponding messages are emptied from the Trash.
Send single MAPI file attachment as inline attachment (TXT and HTML files only)—
Select this when you need to have the MAPI client send a single TXT or HTML file as an
attachment with no body text. Eudora turns off the “Text As Attachment” button in the
outgoing message toolbar (if it is selected), so that the document is sent to the recipient as
inline text in the message body. This allows MAPI clients, such as Internet Explorer, to
pass Web pages and other HTML and TXT documents right into the body of the Eudora
message. (The “Text As Attachment” button, if turned on in the outgoing message toolbar,
instructs Eudora to attach text files, such as TXT and HTML, to the message rather than
incorporating the text into the message as part of the message body. The default state of
this button is controlled by the “Put text attachments in body of message” option in the
the topic.)
Ad va nc e d Ne twork
The Advanced Network options control some of Eudora’s advanced network functions.
Important. Consult your email administrator before modifying any of these options.
To display the Advanced Network options window, do the following.
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2
From the Tools menu, choose Options.
Scroll and click the Advanced Network icon. The Advanced Network options window
appears.
Advanced Network options window
Select the options you want to change. Options are described below.
Network open timeout _ seconds [default: 300]—This option lets you set the number of
seconds before an attempt to make a network connection will time out. For some servers
(especially those with heavy loads), the attempt to establish the network connection can
take longer than it takes to send data back and forth once the connection has been made.
A familiar example: When you are browsing the World Wide Web, you may find that it
takes a while to connect to a server, but then, once you have connected to the server, the
Web page can seem to download quickly. This option therefore gives you the ability to set
a different (and usually longer) timeout for establishing the network connection. This
setting is different from the setting for the timeout after the connection has been made.
The latter timeout is set via the “Network timeout after _ seconds” option, below.
Network timeout after _ seconds [default: 300]—This option lets you set the number of
seconds before an established network connection will time out. See the discussion above
for the “Network open timeout _ seconds” option.
Network buffer size of _ bytes [default: 4096]—This option lets you set the size, in bytes,
of the buffer that Eudora uses to transfer information to and from the server.
Note. If you are having trouble transferring large messages, the size of this buffer may be
decreased.
Cache network info—This option causes Eudora to remember the results of previous
database functions when using the Winsock connection method. This speeds up database
functions within a single Eudora session.
Unload Winsock DLL after closing socket—If you are using Winsock dialer, select this
option if you like to have your computer dial and hang-up between functions, for example
sending and receiving mail.
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Auto Config ure
Eudora needs basic information from you to send and receive mail. Normally you enter
this information in the first few windows of the Options windows, but if you like, you can
use the Auto Configure options to retrieve these basic settings from an ACAP server. Your
email administrator can let you know if such a server is available to you. ACAP, which
stands for Application Configuration Access Protocol, is a communications protocol that
lets email and other applications store setup data on and retrieve it from a central server.
To display the Auto Configure options window, do the following.
1
2
From the Tools menu, choose Options.
Scroll and click the Auto Configure icon. The Auto Configure options window appears.
Auto Configure options window
Select the options you want to change. Options are described below.
Server Name—In this field, enter the name of the ACAP server you wish to connect to in
order to retrieve the Eudora settings. If you are not sure what to enter here, see your email
administrator.
User Name—Enter your user name required for connection to the ACAP server. Your
email administrator can provide you this name if you do not know it.
Password—Enter your password required for connection to the ACAP server. See your
email administrator for your ACAP password.
Retrieve Settings Now—After you have entered the Server Name for the ACAP server,
your User Name, and your Password (see above), click this button to retrieve your Eudora
settings from the ACAP server. The retrieved settings replace your current Eudora
settings.
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Ke rb e ros
These options control the Kerberos authentication system. If your network uses Kerberos
for authentication, the appropriate options are provided by your email administrator.
To display the Kerberos options window, do the following.
1
2
From the Tools menu, choose Options.
Scroll and click the Kerberos icon. The Kerberos options window appears.
Kerberos options window
Select the options you want to change. Options are described below.
Kerberos POP3 port—This is the port that the Kerberos POP server is listening on.
Realm—This is the network realm that the Kerberos server resides in.
Service name [default: rcmd]—This is the type of service that you’re requesting.
Service format [default: %1.%4@%3]—This is the name of the ticket that Eudora
requests from the Kerberos server. The formatting key below this field indicates what to
enter. Enter %1 to stand for the service name entered in the Service name field; enter %2
to stand for the full domain name of the POP host; enter %3 to stand for the realm entered
in the Realm field; enter %4 to stand for the name of the POP host.
Note. For more information about Kerberos, see the following Web site. Click the following
Misc e lla ne ous
The Miscellaneous options determine additional Eudora capabilities that are not catego-
rized with other functions.
To display the Miscellaneous options window, do the following.
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From the Tools menu, choose Options.
2
Scroll and click the Miscellaneous icon. The Miscellaneous options window appears.
Miscellaneous options window
Select the options you want to change. Options are described below.
Switch messages with:
Unmodified arrow keys—If this is selected and if there is an incoming message
window open on the screen, the up or left arrow key closes the current message and
opens the previous message in the mailbox. The down or right arrow key closes the
current message and opens the next message in the mailbox. If this option is turned
off, the arrow keys can be used to move the cursor (insertion point) within messages
and in the preview pane.
Note. The preview pane will get updated to correspond to the current message in
focus. This can be an easy way to read your mail. To enable the preview pane, see
Even if this option is selected, the arrow keys do not switch messages if there is an
outgoing message topmost on the screen.
Ctrl+arrow keys—If this is selected, you can switch messages by holding down the
Ctrl key and pressing the arrow keys. The switching behavior is described above under
the Unmodified arrow keys option. The Ctrl+arrow keystrokes do not work when
composition windows are open on the screen.
Alt+arrow keys—If this is selected, you can switch messages by holding down the Alt
key and pressing the arrow keys. The switching behavior is described above under the
Unmodified arrow keys option. The Alt+arrow keystrokes do work when composition
windows are open on the screen.
Empty Trash when exiting—If this is selected, the Trash mailbox is emptied when you
exit Eudora. If this is turned off, the Trash is only emptied when you select “Empty Trash”
from the Special menu.
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Say OK to alerts after _ second(s) [default: 120]—If this is selected, any alerts that
announce a problem with the network communication automatically go away after the
specified number of seconds. Many network problems are temporary, so this allows
Eudora to try the communication again. This is most useful if you have automatic
mail-checking enabled for any of your accounts.
Turbo redirect by default—If this is selected, the behavior of the Redirect command is
changed. If you frequently redirect mail to a particular person, make that person’s email
address correspond to a nickname and also add it to your recipient list in your Address
Book. When you get an email message that you want to redirect, select the message, then
choose Redirect to from the Message menu, and select the recipient. The message gets
queued as a redirected message to the recipient, and the original received message gets
deleted. This method can be used to redirect a large number of messages.
If this option is turned off, then selecting Redirect to a recipient will open the message and
wait for you to send/queue the message. The original message is kept, but its status is
changed to “redirected.”
Intercept Netscape mailto URLs—If this is selected, a new Eudora message options
when you execute a Netscape "mailto:" command by clicking on an active email address
in a Web page. However, Eudora must be running for this function to work.
Include outdated ‘Return-Receipt-To’ (Sp o nso re d a nd Pa id m o d e s o nly)—If this is
turned off, Eudora uses the “Disposition-Notification-To:” header in return receipt requests
to request that you be sent a notification when your message appears by the recipient. If
this is selected, Eudora also sends the "Return-Receipt-To:" header in return receipt
requests. This header is understood by some older mail delivery systems, and may return
you a receipt when your message is delivered to your recipient’s mailbox. The
"Return-Receipt-To:" header cannot give you any information about whether or not your
recipient displayed your mail, and is not supported by many newer mail delivery systems.
Your recipient must specify that he/she wants to send you a return receipt for you to
receive it.
Automatically expand nicknames (Sp o nso re d a nd Pa id m o d e s o nly)— If this is
selected, nicknames in message headers are replaced with the real addresses when you
switch fields. If turned off, the nickname is expanded when the message is sent.
Auto-save messages every _ minutes—Enter the number of minutes between
auto-save intervals. In case of a system shut-down, the messages saved are from the
most current auto-save. You can find your saved messages in your Out mailbox.
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Eud ora Mod ifie rs
Many operations in Eudora can be implemented by holding down one or more “modifier”
keys. Eudora uses the Shift, Ctrl, and Alt keys as modifiers. Keys you need to press are
displayed between brackets ([ ]).
[Shift] + Check Mail—Display the Mail Transfer Options dialog to define the interaction
with your POP account.
[Shift] + Queue/Send—Open the Change Queueing dialog.
[Shift] + Insert Recipient—Insert the address(es) instead of the nickname.
[Shift] + [Ctrl] + ,—Expand the nicknames in the current field to their real addresses (the
cursor must be in the appropriate field).
[Shift] + Finish Address Book Entry—Finish the Address Book entry with the
address(es) instead of the nickname.
[Shift] + Sort command—Sort in descending order.
[Shift] + Transfer—Put a copy of the current message in the selected mailbox and leave
the original where it is.
[Shift] + Wrap Selection—Remove the carriage returns from the selected text (unwrap).
[Shift] + Save—Save changes to all open windows.
[Shift] + Close—Close all open windows.
[Shift] + Exit—Set all open windows to open again when Eudora is next started.
[Shift] + Check Spelling—Perform an “inline” spelling check of the entire message or
selected text. Misspelled words are highlighted in red double-underline. Right-click on a
highlighted word and select the correct spelling from suggestions on a drop-down list.
[Shift] + [Space]—Switch the status of the open incoming message, or one or more
selected incoming messages, from “read” to “unread” or from “unread” to “read.”
[Ctrl] + [Space]—Reset the current or selected text in the message body of a composition
window to the default character formatting.
[Ctrl] + Drag window or toolbar—Temporarily suspend docking while dragging a dock-
able window or the main toolbar.
[Alt] + Drag toolbar button—Move the button on the toolbar.
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Eud ora Shortc uts
The shortcuts for Eudora functions are as follows:
[Ctrl] + 0
[Ctrl] + 1
[Ctrl] + 6
[Ctrl] + ’
[Ctrl] + ;
[Ctrl] + ,
[Ctrl] + A
[Ctrl] + B
[Ctrl] + C
[Ctrl] + D
[Ctrl] + E
[Ctrl] + F
Open Out mailbox
Open In mailbox
Check spelling
Paste as quotation
Find next
Finish address book entry (nickname)
Select all
Make text bold
Copy to clipboard
Delete
Send immediately or Queue for delivery
Open Find Messages window
[Ctrl] + [Shift] + F Open Find Text dialog box
[Ctrl] + H
[Ctrl] + I
Attach document
Make text italic
Filter messages
Make address book entry (nickname)
Open Address Book
Check mail
[Ctrl] + J
[Ctrl] + K
[Ctrl] + L
[Ctrl] + M
[Ctrl] + N
[Ctrl] + O
[Ctrl] + P
[Ctrl] + Q
[Ctrl] + R
New message
Open file
Print
Exit (quit) Eudora
Reply
[Ctrl] + [Shift] + R Reply to all
[Ctrl] + S
[Ctrl] + T
[Ctrl] + U
[Ctrl] + V
Save current window
Send queued messages
Make text underlined
Paste from clipboard
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[Ctrl] + W
[Ctrl] + X
Close window
Cut to clipboard
[Ctrl] + Y
Directory Services
[Ctrl] + Z
Undo
[Ctrl] + [tab]
[Shift] + F4
[Shift] + F5
[Shift] + F10
Switch between opened mailboxes and messages
Tile windows horizontally
Cascade Windows
Open right-click pop-up menu for selected item
[Shift] + [Space] Toggle current message status between Read and Unread
[Alt] + A
Jump to Attached line in Composition window; Sort by Attachments in
Table of Contents
[Alt] + B
[Alt] + C
[Alt] + D
Jump to Bcc line in Composition window
Jump to Cc line in Composition window
Sort by Date in table of contents window
[Alt] + [Shift] + D Sort by reverse Date in table of contents window
[Alt] + E
[Alt] + F
[Alt] + H
[Alt] + K
Edit Menu
File Menu
Help Menu
Sort by size in table of contents window
[Alt] + [Shift] + K Sort by size reversed in table of contents window
[Alt] + L Sort by Labels column in table of contents window
[Alt] + [Shift] + L Sort by Labels column reversed in table of contents window
[Alt] + M
[Alt] + O
Message Menu
Jump to To line in Composition window; sort by Who column in table
of contents window
[Alt] + [Shift] + O Sort by Who column reversed in table of contents window
[Alt] + R
[Alt] + S
[Alt] + T
[Alt] + U
[Alt] + V
Transfer Menu; Jump to From line in Composition window
Special Menu
Tools Menu
Jump to Subject line in Composition window
Sort by server status in table of contents window
[Alt] + [Shift] + V Sort by reversed server status in table of contents window
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[Alt] + W
[Alt] + X
Arrows
Window Menu
Mailbox Menu
Move from one message to another in a mailbox (depends on your
Miscellaneous Options).
[Enter]
Select the outlined button in any dialog, alert, or window; open the
selected messages or open/edit the selected item(s); or open the
attachment on the cursor line.
[Space]
Open a selected message summary or close the current message.
For long messages, scroll the message down one page.
[Esc]
[Delete]
F1
Stop any operation currently in progress.
Delete the selected text or item.
Display help and context-sensitive help.
F2
Rename the selected item in a tool window (e.g., the Mailboxes
window or the Address Book).
F3
Find again.
[Alt] + F3
Enter the selected text in the Find window.
Refresh the view in the File Browser window.
F5
F6
Toggles between the two halves of a split window (in composition
windows, the Address Book, the Filters window, and, when the
preview pane appears, mailbox windows).
[Ctrl] + [Alt] + F6 Send the topmost window to the back of all displayed windows.
F7
Show or hide one half of a split window (current window only): in
composition windows, show/hide the message header; in mailbox
windows, show/hide the message preview pane (if it is set to display).
[Home]
[End]
Scroll to the beginning of the mailbox window or to the beginning of
the line in a message.
Scroll to the end of the mailbox window or to the end of the line in a
message.
[Page Up] [Page Down] Scroll up or down through the window.
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Rig ht Mouse Button
The commands that are available from the right mouse button are generally the same as
those on the main menu and toolbar; the right mouse button simply offers another access
method.
To use the right mouse button commands, position the mouse pointer over a Eudora
window and click the right mouse button (called a right-click), then select a command from
the popup menu that appears. The contents of the popup menu vary depending on which
window you are in and what tasks you might need to perform while in that window.
Right-click in an open incoming message and select View Source (if available) from the
popup menu to view the formatting of the HTML text in a text file. Right-click in the
message and select Send to Browser (if available) to view the HTML message in your
Web browser.
If you want to turn the main toolbar or the status bar on or off in the main Eudora window,
right-click on the gray area of the toolbar or status bar and select the item you want to
show or hide: Toolbar or Status Bar.
If you have Eudora minimized as a button on the Windows 95/98/NT 4.x Taskbar, you can
check for new mail without maximizing the Taskbar button. To do so, place the mouse
pointer over the Eudora Taskbar button, click the right mouse button, and select Check
Mail.
Ma il Stora g e
When you install Eudora, it creates a number of files and directories within the assigned
directory. In addition, Eudora creates additional files and directories as needed for mail-
boxes, signatures, stationery, nicknames (Address Books), and other functions. The major
Eudora files and directories are described.
Ad Cache Directory
All ad files downloaded to Eudora are kept in this directory.
Attach Directory
Incoming attachments are saved in the Attach directory until you specify another directory
using the Attachment directory button in the Attachment Options (Tools:Options:Attach-
ments). See the Eudora User Manual section “Receiving Attachments” for more details.
DirectoryServices Directory
Eudora uses the DirectoryServices directory to store the dll files for the Directory Services
protocols that you use in the Directory Services window. See the Eudora User Manual
section “Using Directory Services” for more details on these protocols.
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Embedded Directory
Eudora uses the Embedded directory to store JPEG image files that you insert into the
body of outgoing messages using the Insert Picture... command under the Edit menu.
Eudora deletes these files from this directory when the messages containing the images
are emptied from the Trash mailbox. See the Eudora User Manual section “Inserting
Objects in Message Text” for more details.
Filters Directory
Filters are saved in the Filters directory. See the Eudora User Manual section “Filtering
Messages” for more details on creating and using filters.
Imap Directory
Eudora uses the Imap directory to store your IMAP mailboxes and messages.
Nickname Directory (Address Books)
Address Book entries are saved in the Nickname directory, in the default Eudora Nick-
names file. If you have created additional Address Book files, they are kept under their
own name in the Nickname directory. See the Eudora User Manual section “Using the
Address Book and Quick Recipient List” for more details on creating and using Address
Book files and Address Book entries (nicknames).
Plugins Directory
number to display the topic.
Sigs Directory
The Standard and additional signature files are kept in the Sigs directory. These files are
stored with the .txt extension. See the Eudora User Manual sections “Using a Signature”
and “Signature Window” for more details on creating and using signatures.
Stationery Directory
Your stationery files are kept in the Stationery directory. Stationery files are stored with the
.sta extension. See the Eudora User Manual sections “Using Stationery” and “Stationery
Window” for more details on how to create and use stationery files.
descmap.pce
Mappings between mailbox names and file names are stored in the descmap.pce file.
Eudora.cnt, Eudora.hlp
The Eudora.cnt and Eudora.hlp files contain, respectively, the table of contents informa-
tion and the help text for Eudora’s online help topics, accessed when you select Topics
from the Help menu. These two files must be kept in the same directory.
Eudora.exe
Eudora.exe is the Eudora application executable file. You may find it convenient to keep a
shortcut of this file on your Windows desktop: double-click on the shortcut icon to open
Eudora.
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Eudora.ini
Your Options information is saved in the Eudora.ini file, along with other information. This
file contains notes that describe each entry. For more information, see the “EUDORA.INI
Settings File” topic in the Help Topics dialog of the online help (Contents tab), accessed by
Click page number to display options.
eudora.log, eudorlog.old
Eudora can keep records of all mail transfers. These records are kept in the eudora.log
and eudorlog.old files. The eudorlog.old file is overwritten and a new eudora.log file is
created when the eudora.log file reaches its approximately 100K maximum size. To
enable logging, set the LogLevel entry in the [Debug] section of the Eudora.ini file. For
more information, see the [Debug] section of the “EUDORA.INI Settings File” online help,
accessed by selecting Topics from the Help menu.
filters.pce
Names and extensions for Eudora filters are saved in the filters.pce file.
finger.ini, LDAPInit.ini, ph.ini
The finger.ini, LDAPInit.ini, and ph.ini files are used to store settings information for the
Finger, LDAP, and Ph protocols used in the Directory Services window.
in.mbx, out.mbx, trash.mbx
These files hold your mail. You’ll see files like these for every mailbox you create.
Note. These files are in UNIX mail format.
Mail folders that you create are stored as directories with the .fol extension. Mail
folders contain mailboxes and other mail folders.
in.toc, out.toc, trash.toc
These files are the tables of contents for your mailboxes. They make it much faster for
Eudora to access your mail. You’ll see files like these for every mailbox you create.
lmos.dat
This file contains information about the messages on your mail server. (lmos = leave mail
on server.)
nndbase.toc
This file is the table of contents for your nicknames. Extra nickname files are stored in the
Nickname directory (see above).
nndbase.txt
Your nicknames are saved in the nndbase.txt file. Note that this file contains the nick-
names only, while the files in the Nickname directory (see above) contain the full data for
each Address Book entry—which includes the nickname and more.
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Readme.txt
This file contains the Eudora Readme, a text file that contains important, release-current
information and instructions that might not be included in the Eudora User Manual, the
Eudora Reference Manual (if not included the user manual), the Eudora Quick Start
Guide, or the Eudora Online Help.
*.tlx, *.clx
Dictionary information is stored in the .tlx and .clx files.
Plug -ins (Exte nd e d Me ssa g ing Se rvic e s)
Plug-ins are special add-ons that can be installed to add features to Eudora. For example,
you could use a language conversion plug-in to translate a message to another language,
a security plug-in to automatically secure a message, or a text manipulation plug-in to
change lowercase to uppercase. Plug-ins interface to Eudora using the Extended
Messaging Services Application Programming Interface (EMSAPI).
To make plug-ins available to Eudora, put them in the Plugins directory in your Eudora
directory, then restart Eudora. Depending on the plug-in type, it will be available in Eudora
in the following ways:
■ The Message Plug-ins submenu (under the Edit menu) typically includes plug-ins that
are used to modify the text of a message. These are referred to as on-request plug-ins.
Some samples of these types of plug-ins are available with Eudora: Sort, UpperLower,
and Unwrap.
■ Icons in the message window are typically for plug-ins that are used to manipulate
messages as they are sent or when they are received. These are referred to as
on-transmission and on-display plug-ins.
■ The Tools menu typically includes plug-ins that are used to do tasks that are not
directly related to Eudora functions. These are referred to as tools plug-ins.
■ The Attach submenu (under the Message menu) typically includes plug-ins that are
used to create and attach particular files to a message. These are referred to as
attachment plug-ins. (Example: QUALCOMM’s PureVoice™ voice-messaging plug-in,
for recording and attaching voice messages to your outgoing messages.)
■ Plug-ins that are automatically used when a message is received are not available
through the user interface. These are referred to as on-arrival plug-ins.
To see all of your currently installed plug-ins, select Message Plug-ins Settings... from the
Special menu. The Installed Message Plug-ins dialog appears. If an installed plug-in has
any settings options, you can use the Settings... button to change them. For information
Wide Web site <http://www.eudora.com>.
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The Me ssa g ing Ap p lic a tion Prog ra m Inte rfa c e (MAPI)
MAPI is an interface that lets you send email messages from any MAPI-compatible appli-
cation, such as your Web browser, word processor, spreadsheet, graphics application,
etc.
MAPI-compatible applications have a Send or Send Mail option in the File menu. When
you select the option, the Eudora MAPI server displays a new outgoing message with your
current document attached. All you need to do is address the message, type any details
you want to include in the body of the message, and click Send or Queue.
To run the Eudora MAPI server, set the options in the MAPI category of the Eudora
Options windows. To display the MAPI Options, select Options... from the Tools menu and
number to display the topic.
You have several options in the MAPI Options dialog for loading the Eudora MAPI server.
You can set it to always run or to run only when Eudora is running, or you can specify that
it never run. These three options open or exit the server as soon as you select them.
Note. When you are running the Eudora MAPI server, Microsoft Exchange will not work. If
you need to use Exchange, turn off the Eudora MAPI server.
You also have several options for saving or deleting MAPI attachments. When you use
MAPI to attach a file and send a message, that file is immediately copied into the Attach
directory (or a directory you have specified). You can use the MAPI options to save those
copies (never delete them), or to delete them after sending their corresponding messages,
or to delete them when their corresponding messages are emptied from the Trash.
Last, you have an option to send a single MAPI text file attachment (TXT and HTML files
only) as an inline attachment — text in the body of the Eudora message — rather than as
a “rider,” or normal attachment, to the message. So, for example, you can pass a Web
page from your Web browser directly into the body of a Eudora message, for your recipi-
ents to read right in the message itself: they don’t have to open an attachment.
Putting Multip le Use rs on One Com p ute r
If you have a multiple-user license for Eudora, you can set things up so that more than one
Eudora user can be on a single computer. This also works if you have multiple e-mail
accounts (multiple personalities), but you don’t want your alternate personalities to use the
same set of mailboxes. You will need to exit and reopen Eudora to switch users or
accounts.
To have multiple users on one computer, do the following:
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2
3
4
For each user, create a shortcut to the Eudora executable file (Eudora.exe).
Right-click on the new shortcut and select Properties.
Click the Shortcut tab.
In the Target field, add the path to the user’s Eudora.ini file, as shown in the example
below.
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Specifying a mail directory
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To start Eudora, users simply double-click on their shortcut. A new Eudora.ini file will
be created for each user located in the directory specified in the Target: field.
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Introd uc tion
Eudora uses Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) to transfer your outgoing mail to your
SMTP server machine, which in turn uses SMTP to send your mail to the world at large.
Mail from the world at large arrives on your incoming Post Office Protocol (POP) or
Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) mail server, where it waits for Eudora to pick it
up with either POP version 3 or IMAP version 4. The mail Eudora sends and receives is
constructed in accordance with RFC 822 and RFC 2045 (MIME).
Eudora mail transport overview, POP (similar for IMAP)
POP
Check Mail
POP/SMTP
Server
Your PC
SMTP
Send Queued Messages
The World at Large
Outg oing Ma il
When you send an email message to someone, Eudora uses SMTP to send the mail to
your local SMTP server computer. That computer then sends the mail to your addressee’s
computer, also (usually) by means of the SMTP protocol.
Why doesn’t Eudora talk directly to your addressee’s computer? For one thing, it would
take a lot longer for your mail to leave your computer because your computer would have
to call up each addressee’s computer and deliver your mail. For another, some computers
are “hard to find”; it’s much better to let another computer “hunt” for your addressee than
to make your computer do it. Finally, sometimes your addressee’s computer won’t be
available when you want to send mail. The SMTP server handles this by holding your mail
until the other computer is ready to accept it, eliminating the inconvenience of having
unsent messages hanging around on your computer.
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Inc om ing Ma il
When somebody sends you mail, other computers use the SMTP protocol to deliver the
mail to your POP or IMAP server. Your POP or IMAP server puts mail in your “mail drop,”
where it stays until the Eudora program picks it up. When you check your mail, Eudora
uses POP version 3 or IMAP version 4 to pick up your mail and move it to your computer.
Why doesn’t Eudora use SMTP to receive your mail? SMTP works best when the
computers it knows about are always ready for mail. Unless you wanted to run Eudora 24
hours per day, seven days a week, SMTP wouldn’t work very well for you. It also doesn’t
work well in lab environments, where you might use any number of different computers.
More Inform a tion
If you want to know more about the Internet in general, consult the book Internetworking
with TCP/IP, by Douglas Comer, 1988, Prentice-Hall ISBN 0-13-470154-2 025.
If you want to know more about SMTP, RFC 822, POP version 3, MIME, and IMAP, the
official standards are:
RFC 821, “Simple Mail Transfer Protocol” by Jonathan B. Postel
RFC 822, “Standard for the Format of Internet Text Messages” by Dave Crocker
RFC 1939, “Post Office Protocol, Version 3” by Marshall Rose
RFC 2045, “Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions” by Ned Freed and Nathaniel
Borenstein
RFC 2060, “Internet Message Access Protocol, Version 4 Rev 1” by Mark Crispin
You can find the RFCs by anonymous ftp to ds.internic.net, in the rfc directory. Or, in
your Web browser, go to <http://ds.internic.net/ds/dspg1intdoc.html>.
See Internetworking with TCP/IP for details.
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Whe re to Ge t More Inform a tion on MAPI
For more information, supplementary to this technical report, visit our online MAPI FAQ at
the web site <http://www.eudora.com/developers>.
Wha t Doe s MAPI Do?
Eudora’s MAPI support allows users to quickly attach documents to email messages
directly from the application that created the document. Without MAPI, users must first
save the document, remember what folder the document is in, switch to Eudora, and then
remember to manually attach the document to the outgoing message.
MAPI streamlines this process dramatically. To email the current, open document from
your word processor, select the Send command from your word processor’s File menu.
This automatically activates Eudora and attaches a snapshot of the open document to a
new composition message.
The MAPI system standardizes how messages are handled by client applications so that
each client application does not have to have custom code for each target messaging
application. MAPI accomplishes this by providing a standard application program interface
used by all MAPI-enabled client applications.
An additional MAPI feature supported by Microsoft Office applications is the ability to add
a “routing slip” to a Word, Excel, or PowerPoint document. This routing slip contains a list
of email recipients obtained from the MAPI subsystem. Once a document has an
embedded routing slip, then it can be semi-automatically routed as an attachment via
email to all recipients listed in the routing slip. Once the routing is complete, the annotated
document is returned back to the original sender.
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MAPI Ove rvie w
Let’s start with a picture:
16-bit MAPI
32-bit MAPI
client application
client application
MAPI.DLL
MAPI32.DLL
Eudora
A MAPI client application is any 16-bit or 32-bit Windows application that knows how to
access the standard MAPI messaging functions in a library known as a DLL (Dynamic
Link Library). The functions in the MAPI DLL allow a MAPI client application to transpar-
ently and generically access a MAPI service provider. A MAPI service provider is the
application that handles the receipt, transmission, and storage of messages. Examples of
MAPI client applications (“front-ends”) include Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel. Exam-
ples of MAPI service providers (“back-ends”) include Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft
Fax.
All 16-bit client applications use the 16-bit MAPI.DLL and all 32-bit client applications use
the 32-bit MAPI32.DLL. The MAPI and MAPI32 DLLs are “twins” which contain the same
list of MAPI functions—they are parallel implementations of the 16-bit and 32-bit MAPI
functions. These DLLs are provided by Microsoft as standard components of Windows
95/98 and Windows NT. The MAPI DLLs are normally installed in the Windows 95/98
SYSTEM directory (SYSTEM32 for Windows NT).
When a MAPI client application wishes to send a document, it simply loads the appro-
priate MAPI library (DLL) and calls the defined MAPI functions. The MAPI DLL takes care
of routing the messaging and authentication requests to the appropriate MAPI service
provider application, displaying the address book user interface, and returning address
book and messaging data to the MAPI client application. The MAPI DLL also provides an
optional user interface for user authentication. For example, the user may need to supply
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a user name and password to the mail system in order to “log on” to the mail system. (The
Eudora implementation of MAPI does not implement authentication since Eudora itself
requires authentication to access the POP3 and IMAP4 servers.)
Eud ora Im p le m e nta tion of MAPI
Eudora implements a subset of the full MAPI library by providing two “replacement DLLs”
for the standard Microsoft MAPI DLLs. The Eudora EUMAPI.DLL is a replacement for the
16-bit Microsoft MAPI.DLL and the Eudora EUMAPI32.DLL is a replacement for the 32-bit
Microsoft MAPI32.DLL. The Eudora MAPI DLLs must be located in the same directory as
the Eudora program.
The Eudora MAPI DLLs implement the standard Simple MAPI functions detailed in the
MAPI specification. The MAPI specification also defines Extended MAPI functions,
however, the Eudora MAPI DLLs implement only the Simple MAPI subset.
Note. The Eudora MAPI implementation requires all MAPI client applications to use only
the Simple MAPI functions supported by the Eudora MAPI DLLs.
MAPI client applications which use only the basic Simple MAPI calls will generally not be
able to tell the difference between the Eudora MAPI DLL functions and the Microsoft MAPI
DLL functions.
It is important to understand that MAPI client applications load the MAPI DLL libraries at
runtime whenever they need to access the MAPI functions. Each client application
expects to find either the 16-bit MAPI.DLL file or the 32-bit MAPI32.DLL file in a common,
application-independent location (generally the Windows SYSTEM directory). Therefore, it
is not sufficient to copy the EUMAPI.DLL and EUMAPI32.DLL Eudora DLL files into the
Windows SYSTEM directory alongside the standard Microsoft MAPI.DLL and
MAPI32.DLL files. For client applications to find the Eudora MAPI DLLs, the DLL files
must be named MAPI.DLL and MAPI32.DLL. This creates a conflict since most Windows
installations will have the MAPI.DLL and MAPI32.DLL files preinstalled in the Windows
SYSTEM directory to support Microsoft Exchange.
Note. Eudora is able to swap the Eudora EUMAPI and EUMAPI32 DLLs with the
Microsoft MAPI and MAPI32 DLLs when the user launches Eudora, and is able to unswap
the Eudora MAPI DLLs when the user exits Eudora.
This approach gives the user the most flexibility and preserves the user’s ability to use
Microsoft Exchange and/or Microsoft Fax when Eudora is not running. If we “permanently”
install the Eudora MAPI DLLs over the existing Microsoft MAPI DLLs, then applications
(such as the Microsoft Fax service bundled with Microsoft Exchange) which rely on the
Microsoft MAPI DLLs will no longer work. This is clearly unacceptable for users who need
to use MAPI for both Microsoft Exchange and Eudora.
Eud ora MAPI Sta rtup Proc e d ure
When launched, Eudora runs the following “swap” procedure when the user has selected
either the “Always” or the “When Eudora is running” MAPI Server option in Eudora (see
display the topic.)
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Check to see whether or not the Eudora MAPI DLLs are already installed in the
Windows SYSTEM directory. If so, then you are finished.
2
3
Check for existing Microsoft MAPI.DLL and MAPI32.DLL files. If found, rename
MAPI.DLL to MAPI.000 and rename MAPI32.DLL to MAPI32.000. (If a MAPI.000 file
already exists, then Eudora uses MAPI.001, MAPI.002 etc.)
Copy the EUMAPI.DLL and EUMAPI32.DLL files from the Eudora program directory to
the Windows SYSTEM directory as MAPI.DLL and MAPI32.DLL, respectively.
Eud ora MAPI Shutd own Proc e d ure
When shutdown, Eudora runs the following “unswap” procedure when the user selects
1
Check to see whether or not the Eudora MAPI DLLs are already installed in the
Windows SYSTEM directory. If not, then you are finished.
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3
Delete the Eudora MAPI.DLL and MAPI32.DLL files.
Rename the MAPI.000 and MAPI32.000 files, if any, to MAPI.DLL and MAPI32.DLL,
respectively. (If a MAPI.001, MAPI.002, etc. file exists, then Eudora renames the one
with the highest number.)
Eud ora DLL Swa p p ing Re stric tions
It is important to note that there are several restrictions with the above Eudora swap and
unswap procedures: The Eudora swap and unswap procedures can only run successfully
if the MAPI.DLL and MAPI32.DLL are not currently “in use” by one or more MAPI client
applications.
When a MAPI client application loads a MAPI or MAPI32 DLL file, Windows “locks” the
DLL file while the library is loaded into memory to show that the file is “in use.” Eudora can
normally detect that the MAPI.DLL and/or MAPI32.DLL files are “in use.” If Eudora detects
that a MAPI or MAPI32 DLL is locked, it displays an error message and skips the swap or
unswap procedure.
When Eudora is forced to skip the swap or unswap procedure, this means that the MAPI
DLLs are in the wrong “state” with respect to Eudora — that is, 1) the Microsoft MAPI
DLLs could be installed even after Eudora starts, or 2) the Eudora MAPI DLLs could be
installed even after Eudora shuts down. To prevent this from happening, use the following
procedure when using Eudora MAPI:
1
2
3
4
5
6
Start Windows.
Start Eudora.
Start any MAPI client applications.
Send attachments to Eudora via the installed Eudora MAPI interface.
Shutdown all MAPI client applications.
Shutdown Eudora.
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Exit Windows.
Once Eudora’s MAPI DLLs get into the wrong “state” with respect to Eudora, you cannot
correct the state mismatch until all MAPI client applications unload the MAPI DLLs and
Windows is able to unlock the DLL file. Since the MAPI DLLs are shared by multiple MAPI
client applications, Windows does not unlock the MAPI DLL file until the last MAPI client
application is shut down. Therefore, to force all MAPI client applications to unload the
DLLs, you must shutdown all MAPI client applications.
Important. When running 16-bit MAPI client applications under Windows NT, then Eudora
cannot detect the lock placed on the MAPI DLLs by Windows unless the SHARE program
is running. This means that Eudora can inadvertently perform the DLL swap and/or
unswap procedures while the MAPI DLL is loaded into memory. This almost always
causes Windows to become unstable and can lead to crashes in MAPI client applications
as well as in Windows itself.
Note. If you run 16-bit MAPI client applications under Windows NT, then you should
always run the SHARE program.
The good news is that Windows 95/98 implements the SHARE functionality without
requiring you to explicitly run the SHARE program. By default, Windows NT only imple-
ments the SHARE functionality for 32-bit applications. If you are running a 16-bit applica-
tion under Windows NT, then you must run the SHARE program explicitly.
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MIME and Mapping
Wha t Is MIME?
MIME stands for Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions. MIME serves two major purposes
— it allows mail applications to tell one another what sort of data is in mail, and it also
provides standard ways for mail applications to encode data so that it can be sent through
the Internet mail system.
MIME Enc od ing
The Internet uses the SMTP protocol to move mail around. SMTP is limited to the
US-ASCII character set (see the “Mail Transport” section of this manual). This is a
problem for people who speak languages other than American English and so need
accented characters or non-American English letters, or for people who want to use
special symbols like the bullet.
MIME provides a way around this restriction. It offers two encodings, “quoted-printable”
and “base64.” These encodings use US-ASCII character codes to represent any sort of
data you like, including special characters or even non-text data.
Quoted-printable is used for data that is mostly text, but has special characters or very
long lines. Quoted-printable looks just like regular text, except when a special character is
used. The special character is replaced with an “=” and two more characters that repre-
sent the character code of the special character. So, a bullet in quoted-printable looks like
“=95.”
However, there are some other things that quoted-printable does. For one, since it uses
an “=” to mean something special, equals signs must themselves be encoded (as “=3D”).
Second, no line in quoted-printable is allowed to be more than 76 characters long. If your
mail has a line longer than 76 characters, the quoted-printable encoding will break your
line in two, and put an “=” at the end of the first line, to signal to the mail reader at the other
end that the two lines are really supposed to be one. Finally, a few mail systems either add
or remove spaces from the ends of lines. So, in quoted-printable, any space at the end of
a line gets encoded (as “=20”) to protect it from such mail systems.
Let’s try an example. Here’s a passage of text that you might type on your computer:
«Il est démontré, disait-il, que les choses ne peuvent être autrement;
car tout étant fait pour une fin, tout est nécessairement pour la
meilleure fin.»
Without any encoding, this might show up on your recipient’s screen as:
+Il est dimontri, disait-il, que les choses ne peuvent btre autrement;
car tout itant fait pour une fin, tout est nicessairement pour la
meilleure fin.;
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This corruption happens because SMTP cannot handle the special characters. However, if
you and your recipient both have MIME, quoted-printable encoding would be used, and
your text would show up properly:
«Il est démontré, disait-il, que les choses ne peuvent être autrement;
car tout étant fait pour une fin, tout est nécessairement pour la
meilleure fin.»
While your mail was actually in transit, however, it would have looked like:
=ABIl est d=E9montr=E9, disait-il, que les choses ne
peuvent =EAtre =autrement; car tout =E9tant fait pour une fin, tout est
n=E9cessairement =
pour la meilleure fin.=BB
Base64 encoding is another way to protect binary data from the SMTP mail system.
However, Base64 makes no attempt to be legible, and is most appropriate for non-text
data.
MIME La b e ling
The other important part of MIME is that it lets mailers communicate what kind of data is in
a message (or part of a message). The primary mechanism used for this is the
Content-Type header:
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
A content-type header is divided into three parts; the content type, the content subtype,
and the parameters. In this case, the content type is “text,” meaning the message contains
mostly legible text. The content subtype is “plain,” which means there aren’t any formatting
commands or anything like that embedded in the text. Finally, “charset=iso-8859-1” is a
parameter; in this case, it identifies the character set the message uses.
The major content types are:
text, legible text
image pictures and graphics
audiosound
video moving pictures
message, messages, or pieces of messages
multipart,several different kinds of data in a single message
Pra c tic a l Issue s
There are really only two things you sometimes need to do with Eudora and MIME. One is
that it may occasionally be necessary to turn off quoted-printable encoding. Another is that
you may want to know how to define mappings between computer file extensions, MIME
types, and Macintosh types.
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Turning Off Quote d -Printa b le Enc od ing
Eudora automatically uses quoted-printable encoding if your mail contains special charac-
ters. Eudora also uses quoted-printable encoding for attached plain text files. If your recip-
ients don’t have MIME, quoted-printable may hurt more than it helps. If that’s the case, just
turn off the QP button in the message Toolbar when you are sending text files to those
recipients.
Ma p p ing Be twe e n File Exte nsions, MIME Typ e s, a nd Ma c intosh Typ e s
Since Eudora needs to have the appropriate extensions on attachment filenames in order
to open them up from the message, Eudora has the ability to map between file extensions,
MIME types and subtypes, and Macintosh creators and types. Messages received by
Eudora can grab the MIME type/subtype and/or Macintosh creator/type from an attach-
ment and map that into the correct file extension. Also, on outgoing messages, Eudora
can make sure that attachments are encoded with the correct MIME type/subtype and/or
Macintosh creator/type depending on the file extension of the attachment being sent.
Eudora knows about some MIME types. However, since new MIME types are being
defined all the time, it may be necessary to add to Eudora’s knowledge from time to time.
Adding new mappings between the various types only requires editing the EUDORA.INI
file with a text editor (like the one that comes with Eudora).
There is a section in the EUDORA.INI file labeled [Mappings], followed by some entries,
one per line. Each entry is called a map. A map defines when the mapping should occur
(which can be “in,” “out,” or “both”), followed by an equals sign and five parameters. These
five parameters are (in order) the computer file extension, the Macintosh creator code, the
Macintosh type, the MIME type, and the MIME subtype. Here are some sample entries:
[Mappings]
both=gif,,,image,gif
both=mpg,,,video,mpeg
both=doc,MSWD,,,
in=xls,XCEL,,,
out=xls,XCEL,XLS4,,
both=eps,,EPSF,application,postscript
A map marked “in” only tries to match the map to messages that you receive. A map
marked “out” only tries to match the map to messages that you send. A map marked
“both” tries to match the map to both incoming and outgoing messages.
The first map above says that any incoming MIME message that has a part type of
“image” and subtype of “gif” will get saved to a file with the extension “.gif.” It also specifies
that outgoing messages that have an attachment with the file extension “.gif” will get the
MIME type of “image” and subtype of “gif” if the encoding method of the message is
MIME. The second map is similar to the first map in structure, but uses a different file
extension and MIME type and subtype.
You can use map entries to move between computer file extensions and Macintosh
creator and type as well. The third map says that if an incoming message has an attach-
ment with the Macintosh creator “MSWD” (which is the Macintosh creator for Microsoft
Word) then the file extension of the attachment when saved to disk should be “.doc” (the
file extension that Word for Windows uses). Since the map is marked as “both,” it will also
give attachments with the extension “.doc” on outgoing messages the Macintosh creator
of “MSWD” if the encoding method of the message is BinHex.
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Note that the Macintosh type from this map is empty. This allows multiple types to be
recognized with just one mapping. This is nice for “in” maps because it allows you to cover
a range of creator/type pairs with one map. You must be careful in using this type of map
with an “out” or “both” mapping, though, because an outgoing attachment that matched
this map would have a Macintosh creator, but no Macintosh type. Some Macintosh appli-
cations cannot open files with a missing type. Microsoft Word for the Macintosh can open
files without a type, so this map is fine being marked “both.”
Microsoft Excel for the Macintosh is an example of a program that can't open a file with an
empty type. This is why there are two maps for Excel (the fourth and fifth maps above).
The incoming map for Excel is like the one for Microsoft Word, but the outgoing map
explicitly defines the Macintosh type.
The last map shows that you can have both Macintosh creator/type and MIME
type/subtype in one entry. This map says that if an incoming message has an attachment
that is encoded in MIME and has the “application/postscript” type/subtype, or has a
BinHex attachment with the Macintosh type of “EPSF,” then the resulting file will have an
“.eps”extension. Similarly, if an outgoing message has an attachment with the extension
“.eps” and if the MIME encoding is being used for the message, then the attachment will
get the “application/postscript” MIME type/subtype. If the message was using the BinHex
encoding, then the attachment would get the Macintosh type of “EPSF.”
But what happens if an attachment matches more than one map? Eudora will try and find
the best match. For example, if you had the following [Mappings] section:
[Mappings]
in=xls,XCEL,,,
in=xlc,XCEL,XLC3,,
and you received a message with an attachment that had a Macintosh creator of “XCEL”
and a Macintosh type of “XLC3” (a Microsoft Excel Chart), then the file would get an
extension of “.xlc” since the first map only matched the Macintosh creator, but the second
map matched both the Macintosh creator and type.
Eudora can receive attachments that have both a MIME type/subtype and a Macintosh
creator/type. Eudora understands attachments with the MIME type/subtype “applica-
tion/applefile,” which has Macintosh creator/type information embedded in it. With this
type of attachment, Eudora will consider a match with the Macintosh creator/type as a
“better” match than a match with the MIME type/subtype.
Finally, if an incoming attachment matches two different maps to the same degree (e.g.,
both maps have the same MIME type/subtype with different file extensions), then Eudora
will use the file extension in the first matching map.
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Anonym ous FTP (ftp .e ud ora .c om )
QUALCOMM’s Eudora Division has an anonymous FTP server, ftp.eudora.com, that has
information and software related to Eudora. These are located within the eudora directory.
Included are POP3, Ph, and password changing servers, the srialpop program, current
product information, dialup files, and more. Also look under the directory
eudora/eudorapro/windows/extras.
Eud ora Inform a tion
The information in this manual was correct at the time of printing. However, things happen
very quickly in the electronic world, meaning that some of this information may already be
out of date. For the very latest information about Eudora, send email to
Ob ta ining a n Inte rne t Em a il Se rve r
Post Office Protocol (POP) and Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) Servers are
available for a variety of platforms. If you would like to run a POP or an IMAP server on
your own system, we suggest the following servers:
■ Windows NT – QUALCOMM’s Eudora WorldMail™ Server. WorldMail supports POP3
and IMAP4 as well as LDAP and Ph directory services. Microsoft Windows NT 4.x
Server or Workstation is required.
■ Macintosh – QUALCOMM’s Eudora Internet Mail Server™ (EIMS). EIMS supports
POP3 as well as Ph directory services. EIMS requires a Macintosh 68030 or higher
(Mac IIx, IIcx, SE/30, or better) or a PowerPC®.
■ UNIX – QUALCOMM’s QPopper. QPopper 2.4 is available via anonymous ftp from
ftp.eudora.com. QPopper versions are available for a number of UNIX systems.
■ VAX/VMS – VAX/VMS systems may try either the Multinet package from TGV, or
IUPOP3, available via anonymous FTP from ftp.indiana.edu.
For information on QUALCOMM’s family of Internet Email Servers, send e-mail to
<[email protected]> or visit the World Wide Web site
<http://www.eudora.com>.
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Ph Server Source Code
Ph Se rve r Sourc e Cod e
A server for the Ph protocol is available via anonymous FTP from ftp.eudora.com.
Pa ssword Cha ng e Se rve r
Three sample UNIX servers for Eudora’s Change Password... command (on the Special
menu) are available via anonymous FTP from ftp.eudora.com.
Wind ows Soc ke ts Prod uc ts
Demos of Windows Sockets 1.1 compliant stacks and applications are available via anon-
ymous ftp from papa.indstate.edu in the directory winsock-l.
For those with World Wide Web (WWW) browsers, try the following sites. Click the URL to
display website.
The Consummate Winsock Applications list: http://cws.internet.com/
The Ultimate Collection of Winsock Software: http://www.tucows.com/
WinSite: http://www.winsite.com
Ke rb e ros
You can get the necessary files and information for setting up Kerberos authentication in
Eudora from ftp.eudora.com in the directory
eudora/eudorapro/windows/extras/kerberos. Be sure to read the installation instruc-
tions to ensure that Kerberos is set up properly.
To learn more about the Kerberos authentication system, click on the following URL to
display website. http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www
Sp e lling Dic tiona rie s
There are additional spelling dictionaries that are compatible with Eudora’s built-in spelling
checker. They are available via anonymous ftp from ftp.eudora.com in the directory
eudora/eudorapro/windows/extras/dictionaries. To configure Eudora to use these
dictionaries, look at the online help (select Topics from the Help menu) under
EUDORA.INI File, [Settings] MainLexfiles.
De ve lop e r Inform a tion
If you are a software developer and are interested in how to have your application used or
integrated with Eudora, click on the following URL:
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Introd uc tion
As of version 4.0, Eudora no longer supports the built-in Serial Dialup (shell) connection
method found in previous versions of Eudora. Eudora now requires that you use the
Microsoft SLIP/PPP Dialup Networking connection method that is a standard feature of
both Windows 95/98 and Windows NT 4.x.
The Microsoft SLIP/PPP Dialup Networking facility offers the following advantages over
the retired Eudora Serial Dialup feature:
■ TCP/IP running on top of SLIP/PPP is inherently more reliable than a Serial Dialup
connection because reliable, end-to-end data transmission is an integral feature of
TCP/IP.
■ A SLIP/PPP dialup connection is application-independent and supports TCP/IP, IPX,
and NetBEUI protocols. Eudora Serial Dialup was not generic and applied specifically
to checking and sending mail with Eudora.
■ A SLIP/PPP connection supports transmission of binary data, as required by the
IMAP4 protocol.
■ Microsoft Dialup Networking supports a wider range of modem hardware, and naviga-
tion scripts are generally modem-independent.
As with the old Serial Dialup function, Eudora can use Microsoft Dialup Networking to
automatically dial your mail server, check and/or send mail, and then automatically hang
up the connection.
Ge ne ra l Ste p s
Following are the general steps necessary to set up Microsoft Windows to use Microsoft
Dialup Networking. If you have already set up Microsoft Dialup Networking and can
successfully connect to your Internet Service Provider, then skip to the section “Config-
uring Eudora to Auto-Dial the Phonebook Entry” following.
1
Make sure you have a SLIP/PPP account – You must arrange for SLIP/PPP account
access through your Internet Service Provider. If you can choose between SLIP and
PPP, we recommend PPP.
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3
4
Install your modem – Configure Microsoft Windows so that it recognizes your modem
hardware.
Install networking components – Configure your MS Windows networking software
to include the TCP/IP protocol.
Install Dialup Networking components – Configure your MS Windows networking
software to include the Microsoft Dialup Networking tool and the Remote Access
Services.
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5
Define a Phonebook entry – The Microsoft Dialup Networking tool lets you create
multiple “phonebook” entries, one for each of your Internet Service Providers.
Configure the Phonebook entry to automatically dial the modem, establish a SLIP/PPP
session, and, if applicable, auto-configure your IP address and DNS server
address(es).
6
Configure Eudora to auto-dial – Eudora can use a Dialup Networking Phonebook
Entry to automatically dial your mail server, check and/or send mail, and hang up the
connection when the mail transfer is complete.
Config uring Dia lup Ne tworking und e r Wind ows 95/ 98
Dialup Networking is an optional component of Windows 95/98. Before configuring Dialup
Networking, you should install your modem and make sure the Windows 95/98 networking
software includes support for the TCP/IP protocol. Consult your Microsoft documentation
for details on installing your modem, configuring the TCP/IP protocol, and installing the
Dialup Networking tools.
After you install Dialup Networking, follow these steps to define a new Phonebook entry:
1
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Double-click on the My Computer icon to open an Explorer window. Then double-click
on the Dialup Networking icon to open the Dialup Networking folder.
Double-click on the Make New Connection button to display the Make New Connec-
tion Wizard.
Enter the name you want to associate with your Internet Service Provider. Also, select
your modem in the drop-down list. Then click Next.
In the edit box, enter the phone number for your Internet Service Provider. Then click
Next.
Click Finish on the last page of the New Connection Wizard to complete the creation
of the Phonebook entry.
In the Dialup Networking folder, right-click on the icon for the Phonebook entry you
have just created, and select the Properties command.
While testing your new Phonebook entry, configure Dialup Networking to display a
terminal window after your modem has connected to the remote computer. To do this,
click the Configure… button to display the modem configuration properties. Select the
Options tab, then check the Bring up terminal window after dialing option. Click OK
to accept the change.
8
9
Back in the Properties dialog for your Phonebook entry, click the Server Type…
button to display the Server Types dialog. In the Type of Dial-Up Server drop-down
list, select either SLIP or PPP as appropriate. Also, uncheck the NetBEUI and IPX
network protocols, but make sure that the TCP/IP protocol is checked. Finally, uncheck
the Log on to network and Enable software compression options.
In the Server Types dialog, click the TCP/IP Settings… button to display the TCP/IP
Settings dialog.
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10 If your Internet Service Provider has assigned you a specific (static) IP address, select
the Specify an IP address option, then enter that address in the field. Otherwise, if
your provider assigns IP addresses dynamically via Dynamic Host Configuration
Protocol (DHCP), then keep the default Server assigned IP address setting.
11 If your Internet Service Provider supports DHCP, then the name server addresses will
automatically be configured by DHCP, and you should keep the default Server
assigned name server addresses setting. Otherwise, select the Specify name
server addresses option, then enter the server addresses assigned by your Internet
Service Provider. Click OK to accept the TCP/IP Settings changes.
12 Back in the Server Types dialog, click OK to accept the changes.
13 Back in the Phonebook Entry Properties dialog, click OK to accept the changes.
14 You should now be back in your Dialup Networking folder. Double-click on your new
Phonebook entry to dial your Internet Service Provider. Your modem should immedi-
ately dial the phone number defined in your Phonebook entry, and Windows 95/98
should prompt you for your username and password.
15 Once your modem negotiates the connection with the remote system, you typically
then have to “log in” to that remote system by entering the username and password
assigned to you by your Internet Service Provider. Some systems require that you first
press Enter to display a login prompt, then enter the username and password. In any
event, once you are “logged on” (authenticated), some providers automatically start
your SLIP or PPP session, while others require that you take an extra step, such as
typing ppp, to initiate a PPP session. Carefully note the exact steps you must take in
order to manually log in and establish a SLIP/PPP session: you will need this informa-
tion in order to automate the login process, as described in “Defining a Login Script.”
Config uring Dia lup Ne tworking using Wind ows NT 4.x
Dialup Networking is an optional component of Windows NT 4.x. Before configuring
Dialup Networking, you should make sure Windows NT recognizes your modem and also
make sure your Windows NT networking software includes support for the TCP/IP
protocol. Consult your Microsoft documentation for details on installing your modem,
configuring the TCP/IP protocol, and installing the Dialup Networking tools. To properly
configure TCP/IP, you may need some information from your Internet Service Provider
regarding your IP address and your DNS server(s).
After you install Dialup Networking, follow these steps to define a new Phonebook entry:
1
Double-click on the My Computer icon to open an Explorer window. Then double-click
on the Dialup Networking icon to launch the Dialup Networking tool.
2
3
Click the New… button to display the New Phonebook Entry Wizard.
Enter the name you want to associate with your Internet Service Provider, then click
Next to display the Server page.
4
Most Internet Service Providers use a terminal server or a Unix server to support dialup
users. Therefore, you should generally check all three boxes to indicate that (1) you
are calling the Internet, (2) it is okay to send your plain text password, and (3) the
server expects login information. Ask your email administrator or your Internet Service
Provider if you are unsure about these settings.
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Click Next to display the Modem or Adapter page.
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Select your modem from the list, then click Next to display the Phone Number page.
In the edit box, enter the primary phone number for your Internet Service Provider. If
your provider has alternate phone numbers, click the Alternates… button and enter
the alternate phone numbers. Click Next to display the Serial Line Protocol page.
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9
Select PPP or SLIP as appropriate to your Internet Service Provider (most providers
now support PPP), then click Next to display the Login Script page.
When initially testing dialup connections to your Internet Service Provider, we recom-
mend that you select the Display a terminal window option. Once you can manually
establish a dialup connection, you can then automate the dialup connection with a
login script (see “Defining a Login Script” later for details). Click Next to display the IP
Address page.
10 If your ISP has assigned you a specific (static) IP address, then enter that address in
the field. Otherwise, if your provider assigns IP addresses dynamically via DHCP, then
keep the default Server assigned IP address setting. Click Next to display the Name
Server Addresses page.
11 If your ISP supports DHCP, then the name server addresses will automatically be
configured by DHCP and you should leave the default addresses of 0.0.0.0. Otherwise,
enter the server addresses assigned by your Internet Service Provider. Click Next to
display the final page of the Phonebook Wizard.
12 Click Finish to create your new Phonebook entry.
13 Back in the Dialup Networking tool, select your new Phonebook entry in the drop-down
list, then click Dial to dial your Internet Service Provider. Your modem should immedi-
ately dial the phone number defined in your Phonebook entry.
14 Once your modem negotiates the connection with the remote system, you typically
then have to “log in” to that remote system by entering the username and password
assigned to you by your Internet Service Provider. Some systems require that you first
press Enter to display a login prompt, then enter the username and password. In any
event, once you are “logged on” (authenticated), some providers automatically start
your SLIP or PPP session, while others require that you take an extra step, such as
typing ppp, to initiate a PPP session. Carefully note the exact steps you must take in
order to manually log in and establish a SLIP/PPP session: you will need this informa-
tion in order to automate the login process, as described in “Defining a Login Script.”
De fining a Log in Sc rip t
Here is a sample login script for an Annex terminal server:
proc main
transmit "^M"
waitfor "Annex username:" until 30
if FALSE == $SUCCESS then
goto Failure
endif
transmit $USERID + "^M"
waitfor "Annex password:" until 30
if FALSE == $SUCCESS then
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goto Failure
endif
transmit $PASSWORD + "^M"
waitfor "Permission granted" until 30
if FALSE == $SUCCESS then
goto Failure
endif
transmit "ppp" + "^M"
Failure:
set screen keyboard on
halt
Done:
endproc
Based on your experience with manually connecting to your Internet Service Provider, you
may need to change the Annex username: and Annex password: strings to match the
prompts displayed by the machine to which you are connecting. You may or may not need
to transmit the ppp command after the system accepts your username and password. The
Dialup Networking tool automatically replaces the $USERID and $PASSWORD variables
with your Dialup Networking username and password so that you don’t expose your user-
name and password in an unencrypted plain text file.
To use this login script, you must first save the file to a known location on your disk. By
convention, Dialup Networking script files have an SCP file extension.
To use the script under Windows 95/98:
■ Launch the Dial-up Scripting Tool found on the Start:Programs:Accessories menu.
■ Select the Phonebook entry from the Connections list box and enter the script file-
name in the File name field.
■ Click the Apply button to accept your changes.
■ Click the Properties button to display the properties dialog for your Phonebook entry.
■ Click the Configure button to display the modem properties dialog. Then select the
Options tab.
■ Uncheck the Bring up terminal window after dialing option. Now click OK to accept
your changes.
■ Back in the properties dialog for your Phonebook entry, click OK to accept your
changes.
To use the script under Windows NT 4.x:
■ Open the Dialup Networking tool, and from the dropdown list select the Phonebook
entry you want to change.
■ Click the More button, then select the Edit entry and modem properties… item from
the button menu.
■ In the Edit Phonebook Entry dialog, select the Script tab, click the Run this script
option, and then enter the name of your saved login script.
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Creating a Desktop Phonebook Shortcut
This script is compatible with both Windows 95/98 and Windows NT 4.x Dialup Networking
tools. If the login sequence fails, then the script will halt, leaving you free to attempt a
manual login via the popup Dialup Networking terminal window.
Cre a ting a De sktop Phone b ook Shortc ut
You may find it convenient to create a desktop shortcut to your Phonebook entry, some-
thing we recommend.
To create a Phonebook shortcut under Windows 95/98:
1
Open the Dialup Networking folder, then drag a Phonebook icon to your Windows
desktop.
2
To rename the shortcut label, select the shortcut icon and press F2, or just click on the
shortcut label twice, slowly.
To create a Phonebook shortcut under Windows NT 4.x:
1
Open the Dialup Networking tool, click the More button, and select the Create
shortcut to entry… item.
2
Choose a name for the shortcut in the Save dialog, then save the shortcut to your
Desktop folder.
To test the Dialup Networking connection, double-click on the shortcut icon on your
Desktop. Once your Phonebook entry successfully and automatically creates a TCP/IP
connection to your Internet Service Provider, you are ready to configure Eudora to auto-
matically dial the Phonebook entry.
Config uring Eud ora to Auto-Dia l the Phone b ook Entry
If you connect to your Internet Service Provider with a modem, you can easily configure
Eudora to automatically “dial on demand” using Microsoft Dialup Networking. Eudora only
needs a connection to your provider when performing network operations such as
checking or sending mail, or when performing a directory services lookup. When Eudora is
configured to auto-dial, it automatically hangs up the connection when the network opera-
tion is complete.
Before you can configure Eudora to auto-dial, you must create and configure a Microsoft
Dialup Networking Phonebook entry to automatically connect to your Internet Service
Provider (see the procedures above).
To auto-dial a Dialup Networking Phonebook entry, start Eudora, select Options... from
the Tools menu to display the Options dialog, then click on the Advanced Network cate-
gory. Check the Automatically dial & hangup this connection option. In the Entry list,
select the Phonebook entry you want to dial. In the Username edit box, enter the user-
name, if any, that is required to log in to your Internet Service Provider (this is the value
that is substituted for the $USERID variable in your Dialup Networking script). Check the
Save password option if you want Eudora to save your Dialup Networking password in
the Eudora.ini file. If you leave the Save password option turned off, then Eudora will
prompt you to enter your password each time it auto-dials the Phonebook entry.
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To test the auto-dial capability, make sure your modem is not already connected, then
select the Check Mail command from the File menu in Eudora. Eudora will automatically
dial your Internet Service Provider, log in, establish a TCP/IP connection, transfer any new
mail, and automatically hang up when the mail transfer is complete.
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EUDORA.INI Se tting s File
The EUDORA.INI file is where Eudora keeps most of the settings. It is a standard
Windows INI file, and may be edited with any text editor.
Note. Since Windows caches information from INI files in memory while the program is
running, you should never change the EUDORA.INI file while Eudora is in use. If you need
to make a change, first quit Eudora, then edit the file, and then restart Eudora.
The EUDORA.INI file is divided into a number of sections, the following of which appears
by default:
■ [Settings]
■ [Mappings]
■ [Window Position]
■ [Tool Bar]
■ [DirectoryServices]
■ [Debug]
Op tiona l Se c tions
The following sections will appear in the INI file only when the appropriate conditions are
met or the appropriate items created:
■ [Personalities] This section appears only when you have created alternate email
accounts (personalities).
■ [Stationery] This section appears only when you have created stationery files.
■ [Open Windows] This section appears only when there are windows currently open in
Eudora.
■ [WazooBars] This section appears only when normal Eudora windows are currently
open or minimized on the desktop (and thus buttons appear on the Eudora taskbar,
which is what this section controls).
■ [Recent File List] This section appears only when files have been opened since the
most recent Eudora startup.
Note. We strongly urge that you do not change the values in these optional sections of the
INI file, and rather make any changes from the interface. For example, personalities can
be created and edited from the Personalities window, and stationery can be created and
edited from the Stationery window. Both windows are available from the Tools menu.
The values of the settings in each of these optional sections reflect the current values of
the objects or conditions; there are no "default" values per se.
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Na m e a nd Loc a tion of the INI File
The default name is EUDORA.INI and the default location is in the mail directory. But the
name and location can be changed.
To specify a different INI file from the EUDORA.INI that is not in the mail directory, add a
second parameter to the command line in the Program Item for Eudora, for example:
Command Line: c:\apps\eudora.exe c:\mymail c:\inis\myeudora.ini
To use a different INI file that is in the mail directory:
Command Line: c:\apps\eudora.exe c:\mymail myeudora.ini
Command Line: c:\apps\eudora.exe c:\mymail\myeudora.ini
This is a way to have multiple settings for one set of mailboxes, nicknames, etc. For
example, you may have multiple email accounts in which you receive mail, but want to
collect mail from all of the accounts in one place. You could set up separate Program
Items for each account (each having a different INI file on the command line), and
switching between accounts would be as simple as double-clicking on a Program Item.
And for an even more tricky specification, if the first parameter is an INI filename without a
path, then the mail directory is searched through the normal process of checking the
EUDORA environment variable and then using the executable directory.
Examples:
SET EUDORA=c:\mymail
Command Line: c:\apps\eudora.exe myeudora.ini
will use c:\mymail as the mail directory and c:\mymail\myeudora.ini as the INI file.
SET EUDORA=myeudora.ini
Command Line: c:\apps\eudora.exe
will use c:\apps as the mail directory and c:\apps\myeudora.ini as the INI file.
De fa ult INI file
When an entry in the EUDORA.INI file is not found, Eudora will look in the DEUDORA.INI
file located in the same directory as the EUDORA.EXE file. The [Mappings] section of the
DEUDORA.INI file acts as though it was appended to the end of the [Mappings] section of
the EUDORA.INI file.
Examples:
SET EUDORA=c:\mymail
Command Line: c:\apps\eudora.exe myeudora.ini
will use c:\mymail as the mail directory and c:\mymail\myeudora.ini as the INI file.
SET EUDORA=myeudora.ini
Command Line: c:\apps\eudora.exe
will use c:\apps as the mail directory and c:\apps\myeudora.ini as the INI file.
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Se tting s
Entry
Default Value
Description
AllowDefPlugins
1
Controls whether or not EMSAPI plug-ins can be
automatically added to the toolbar.
AllowOverwriteMode
AltClickMoveSummary
1
1
Controls whether or not toggling the Insert key puts the
message editor into overwrite mode. Helpful for people
who use the Ctrl+Insert and Shift+Insert accelerators for
Copy and Paste and have a tendency to linger on the
Insert key after letting go of the Ctrl/Shift key.
When you hold down the <Alt> key while clicking on an
item in a mailbox, all messages in that mailbox with the
same item are selected (e.g. <Alt> clicking on a subject
will select all messages in that mailbox with the same
subject). If this switch is on, then the selected messages
will be grouped together as well. You can temporarily turn
this off by holding down the <Shift> key while doing the
<Alt> click.
BackgroundColor
0
Specifies an RGB triple (in hexadecimal) for the color to
use for the "workspace" area of the main Eudora window.
Can be used in conjunction with the BackgroundImage
entry for choosing a color better suited for the image
being displayed. Examples: white is "FFFFFF", black is
"000000", and blue is "0000FF". This setting does *not*
require QuickTime to be installed.
BackgroundImage
BadPasswordString
0
Specifies an image to be displayed in the "workspace"
area of the main Eudora window (called "Application
Background" in the Appearance tab of the Control
Panel->Display options). It needs to be specified as a full
path name. This setting requires QuickTime to be
installed.
password
When the POP server returns an error on sending the
PASS command, the password will only be erased when
the error response includes this text.
BlackTocLines
0
1
If on, and displaying lines is mailboxes, draw lines as
black instead of gray.
CenterUnreadStatus
When on (1), centers the bitmap in Mailbox menu items
that indicate that the mailbox has unread messages. If the
display of this bitmap is not correct, turn this switch off (0).
CheckOwnerFreq
CompactDisk%
0
5
How often (in seconds) Eudora should check the
OWNER.LOK file to see if another instance of Eudora has
been started on the same set of mailboxes.
What the amount of "wasted space" taken up by deleted
messages in a mailbox as a percentage of total free disk
space must be before the mailbox automatically gets
compacted when closed.
CompactMailbox%
50
What the percentage of "wasted space" taken up by
deleted messages in a mailbox must be before the
mailbox automatically gets compacted when closed.
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Entry
Default Value
Description
CompactOutgoingPlugins
0
Controls whether the outgoing EMSAPI plug-ins on the
composition message window toolbar should be separate
buttons or contained within one button that pops up a list
of all outgoing plug-ins. By default, all outgoing plug-ins
get their own toolbar button.
CompSummaryItalic
DesDllName
1
In mailboxes other than the Out mailbox, display the
summaries of outgoing messages in italics.
des32.dll
0
The name of the DLL implementing the DES encryption
routines for use with Kerberos version 4, e.g., des32.dll
EditAllHeaders
Controls whether or not the (by default, non-editable)
From: and Attached: headers in the composition
message window.
EnrichedSoftLine
EudoraPassPort
ExcerptBars
72
106
2
Number of characters sent on a line before adding a soft
newline when sending styled text.
Default port number for the Eudora password-changing
service (epass).
HTML style sheet parameter for excerpt bars. Can use
this to change the width, color, and style of excerpt bars.
(Only works when using the Microsoft viewer).
ExtraHeaders
Extra headers that are sent with each outgoing message.
If multiple headers are to be sent, separate each with
"\r\n". For example,
"ExtraHeaders=X-Header1: foo\r\nX-Header2: bar".
ExtraNicknameDirs
FilterFromFolder
FilterRecipFolder
FilterSubjectFolder
List of directories to search for additional nickname files.
Multiple directories can be entered, separated by
semicolons (;).
When doing a Make Filter, the name of the mailbox folder
to place the default named mailbox that is created when
filtering based on whom the message is from.
When doing a Make Filter, the name of the mailbox folder
to place the default named mailbox that is created when
filtering based on whom the message is to.
When doing a Make Filter, the name of the mailbox folder
to place the default named mailbox that is created when
filtering based on the subject of the message.
FindMatchCase
0
0
1
"Match Case" check box in the Find dialog.
FindSummariesOnly
FirstUnreadNormal
"Summaries Only" check box in the Find dialog.
When checking mail on a POP server, download any mail
that hasn’t been retrieved at this machine.
FirstUnreadStatus
FixCurlyQuotes
0
1
When checking mail on a POP server, download only
messages that haven’t been read on any machine.
If on, then if a message contains 7-bit characters except
for directional quotes, then those directional quotes are
turned in to regular non-directional quotes so that the
message may be sent out as 7-bit (no quoted-printable
encoding needed).
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Entry
Default Value
Description
GssDllName
GuessParagraphs
HTMLInPlainText
gssapi32.dll
For a user to specify the GSS/K5 DLL name.
0
0
"Guess Paragraphs" check box in the Save As... dialog.
HTML text would be displayed in messages in the Out
box
IdleTime
60
0
The number of seconds that Eudora has to be idle before
it will consider performing an automatic mail check.
IgnoreIdleOnManualCheck
Controls whether background tasks started manually (e.g.
Ctrl+M to do a Check Mail) should be processed
immediately after completing, or wait until a sufficient
amount of user idle time (see TaskMgrWaitTime below).
IMAPLeafMenu
0
1
Controls whether IMAP mailboxes with no child
mailboxes should be shown in the Mailbox/Transfer
menus as an entire menu or just a menu item. Default is
to just show it as a menu item.
IMAPPreviewPane
Controls whether or not IMAP mailboxes have a preview
pane. On slower networks, it may be desirable to turn off
the preview pane for IMAP mailboxes, but still have the
preview pane for local mailboxes. You can do that by
keeping the normal Preview Pane option turned on, but
turning this setting off (setting to 0).
IMAPRemoveOnDelete
0
Controls whether or not a message in an IMAP mailbox
that is deleted will be removed from the server mailbox
immediately. If this setting is off (the default), then you
can remove messages from the server mailbox that have
been marked to be deleted by using the
Message->Remove Deleted Messages menu item.
IncludeHeaders
0
1
"Include Headers" check box in the Save As... dialog.
InteractiveSpellCheck
When doing a spell check, controls whether you get
prompted with a dialog for each misspelled word, or each
misspelled word gets marked with a double red underline
(which then you can right-click on to get suggestions and
other options for the misspelled word). If you hold down
the Shift key while doing a spell check, the other method
of spell checking will be performed.
KerberosSetUserName
Krb4Dllname
0
Uses KClient SetUserName() function to set user name in
Kerberos system. Turning this switch on may cause
Kerberos tickets to be invalidated.
kerberos32.dll
0
The name of the Kerberos version 4 DLL, e.g.,
kerberos32.dll
LastSettingsCategory
LexPath
Last category that was displayed in the Options dialog.
Directory in which the dictionary files for spell checking
reside.
MainLexFiles
Main dictionary files. British dictionaries can be used by
changing this to british.tlx,british.clx
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Entry
Default Value
Description
MainWindowState
1
The state of the Main Window (normal = 1, minimized = 2,
or maximized = 3). The state is set when Eudora closes,
and the Main Window is set to this state the next time
Eudora starts up.
MaxConcurrentTasks
MDNSendAddress
NetscapeURLDDE
10
0
The maximum number of background tasks that can be
running at the same time. Note that if you are connected
over a modem (dialup networking connection) only one
network task at a time will be run, otherwise network
performance would suffer greatly.
Controls whether your return address should be used in
the MAIL FROM command for return receipts. RFC 2298
says that it should be empty in order to prevent mail
loops, but some SMTP servers reject that due to bad
spam-prevention heuristics.
1
If this setting is on, when clicking on a URL in a message
and Netscape Navigator is running, then Eudora will send
the URL to that open Navigator window. If this setting is
off (i.e. set to zero), then clicking on a URL in a message
will send the URL to the system, which will invoke the
default browser. Some Navigator users may want to turn
this setting off if they like the behavior of opening a new
window (as opposed to reusing an existing browser
window) when clicking on a URL in Eudora.
NetworkOpenTimeout
60
The number of seconds Eudora will wait for a response to
opening a connection before it gives up.
NewMailUpdateFrequency 25
Number of inital messages that have to be spooled before
message processing begins.
NoAutoSendPrecedence
list,bulk
When filtering incoming messages with precedence
headers of list or bulk, do not automatically create new
outgoing messages.
NoSplashScreen
OfflineLinkAction
0
0
If on, the opening splash screen will not be displayed.
Eudora displays the Offline Link Dialog if you click on an
http: link while offline (not connected to the Internet). That
dialog lets you choose what action should be taken
regarding that link the next time Eudora is online: ask you
if you want to launch the link, launch it without asking,
bookmark the link in your browser, or remind you later.
The dialog now has a checkbox that will make the action
you choose the default from then on, which means you
won’t see the Offline Link Dialog any more. It defaults to 0
= ask, and the other values are 1 = launch, 2 = bookmark,
and 3 = remind.
OwnerLok
1
If this is non-zero, an OWNER.LOK file will be created on
startup which helps to prevent possible corruption if
multiple instances of Eudora are used on the same set of
mailboxes.
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Entry
Default Value
Description
PasswordOKWordList
lock busy,own it, A comma-separated list of words that if found in the
of memory,
response text from an error from the POP PASS
assign stream,
ush of temp,
being unlock,
command that will not cause the password to be erased
(works in conjunction with the BadPasswordString entry
above). POP servers sometimes fail after sending the
hangup,timeout, PASS command for reasons other than your password
not owned,quota, was incorrect, and this entry allows greater control over
drop name,
recognition
when Eudora will decide to ask you again for your
password.
mode,accessible
by others,regular
file,flock,maillock,
few minute,locked
PhReturn
A string that is appended to every Ph command before
sending to the Ph server. For example, "PhReturn=return
all" would return all fields of the records returned by the
query, and "PhReturn=type=person" would return all
matches to the query with the additional filter that the
record is a person.
POPPort
110
Default port number for the POP service (pop3).
PreviewHeaders
To:,Subject:,Cc: A comma-separated list of headers that should be shown
in the preview pane. The matching is done on a prefix
basis, so any header that begins with one of these values
will be shown.
PreviewSplitterPos
0
If non-zero, then if a mailbox hasn’t already specified a
position for the splitter between the message list and the
preview pane, then the splitter will be positioned this
many pixels from the top of the mailbox window.
PreviewTableEnd
</table>\r\n
HTML markup for the end of the table that’s used to
display the headers in a preview pane.
PreviewTableRowEnd
</td></tr>\r\n
HTML markup for the end of the table row that’s used to
display the headers in a preview pane. Each header
appears in a separate row of the table.
PreviewTableRowStart
PreviewTableStart
<tr bgcolor=%s
HTML markup for the start of the table row that’s used to
text=%s><td>\r\n display the headers in a preview pane. Each header
appears in a separate row of the table.
<table
HTML markup for the beginning of the table that’s used to
cellspacing=
display the headers in a preview pane.
0 cellpadding=0
width=100%%
bgcolor=%s
text=%s>\r\n
PrintHeaders
ProgressIdle
1
3
When on (1), printed messages get headers and footers.
Number of seconds a foreground tasks continues before
the Progress window is shown. This prevents a
distracting flash of the Progress window for a task that
may take a long time, but in this instance only takes a
short time.
QuoteEnd
The string that gets inserted after the original text of a
forwarded message. A newline is added before the string.
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Entry
Default Value
Description
QuotePrefix
>
The string that precedes all lines of the original message
in a forwarded message
QuoteStart
The string that gets inserted before the original text of a
forwarded message. A newline is added after the string.
RasUseExisting Connection 1
When switching from a task from one personality to a task
of another personality and the two personalities have
different dialup networking connection entries, whether or
not the already connected dialup networking connection
should be maintained or a new dialup networking
connection made. It may be necessary to turn this setting
off (set to zero) if you have personalities that check mail
on servers that are behind firewalls, and require that you
dial in directly in order to connect to the mail server.
ReadMessageStyleSheet <STYLE
HTML style sheet used for displaying received messages.
TYPE=""text/css""
>\r\
n{font-family =
""%s""}\r\nTT
{font-family =
""%s""}\r\nBLOCK
QUOTE.CITE
{border-
left = solid
%s}\r\nBLOCKQU
OTE.CITE
{padding-left =
0.5em}\r\nBLOCK
QUOTE.CITE {m
argin-left =
0}\r\nBLOCKQUO
TE.CITE
{margin-top =
0.5em}\r\n
ReadRecieptAsk
ReadRecieptNo
ReadRecieptYes
ReplyAllAttribution
1
0
0
Ask user for read receipts.
Always deny read receipts without prompting.
Always return read receipts without prompting.
Attribution line when a Reply to All is done.
At %1, %2
you wrote:
ReplyAttribution
ReplyEnd
At %1, you wrote: Attribution line when a Reply is done.
The string that gets inserted after the original text of a
replied message. A newline is added before the string.
ReplyPrefix
ReplyStart
>
The string that precedes all lines of the original message
in a replied message
The string that gets inserted before the original text of a
replied message. A newline is added after the string.
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Entry
Default Value
Description
ReservedDosNames
aux,com1,com2,coReserved names of files that will not be used for
m3,com4,con,lpt1,lfilenames of attachments. These filenames are reserved
pt2,lpt3,lpt4,nul,pr for DOS, and can causes problems in actual files with
n
these names are created.
ReturnAddressFormat
SaveDialupPasswordText
SavePasswordText
%1 < %2>
Format of the From: field in outgoing messages. %1 is the
Real name, and %2 is the Return address.
Where your dialup password is saved (in an encrypted
format) if you have the Save Password switch turned on.
Where your POP password is saved (in an encrypted
format) if you have the Save Password switch turned on.
SearchAllmapAccounts
0
Controls whether all of your mailboxes in all IMAP
accounts will be looked at when searching, or just the
mailboxes in the IMAP account that you start the search
in (applies to local mailboxes as well, i.e. a search starting
in a local mailbox will only search your local mailboxes if
this setting is off).
SeenIntro
1
0
You can make the introduction window return by changing
the value to 0.
SendXAttachHeader
Controls whether or not the X-Attachment: header should
be sent out with outgoing messages that contains
attachments.
ShowAttachmentIcons
ShowMeTheErrors
1
0
Controls whether or not icons representing attachments
should be shown in the body of the message.
Controls whether or not to show the error dialog
immediately on send/receive errors. By default, errors are
listed in the Task Errors window, and that window is
brought to the foreground.
ShowProgress
1
0
Show/hide the Progress window.
ShowProgressInactive
If Eudora is not the foreground application, this controls
whether the Progress window should be shown or not.
SMTPAuthAllowed
SMTPAuthBanished
0
Allows you to add authentication to your SMTP server.
CRAM-MD5
It should contain a comma-separated list of authentication
schemes whose use is to be disallowed. The security
conscious should set it to "LOGIN,PLAIN", as this
ensures that your SMTP server password will always be
strongly encrypted when it goes over the network. Users
of IPSWITCH’s Imail SMTP server should set it to
"CRAM-MD5" so as to avoid a bug of theirs.
SMTPAuthRequired
0
Allows you to require authentication when gaining access
to your SMTP server.
SMTPPort
25
72
Default port number for the SMTP service (smtp).
SMTPRecipientWrap
Column at which recipient headers (To: and Cc:) are
wrapped when sending a message.
StatBarBlink
0
Controls whether or not the icon shown in the status bar
for tasks that are waiting or have errors should blink.
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Entry
Default Value
Description
StatBarErrorAnimationRate 250
Controls the speed of the animated icon in the status bar
for tasks that are currently waiting (units in milliseconds
between images).
StatBarGraphWidth
100
The width (in pixels) of the background task progress bar
that shows up in the status bar. Set to zero to prevent the
progress bar from being displayed.
StatBarErrorRunningAnimati125
onRate
Controls the speed of the animated icon in the status bar
for tasks that currently have errors (units in milliseconds
between images).
StatBarWaitingAnimationRat500
e
Controls the speed of the animated icon in the status bar
for tasks that are currently waiting (units in milliseconds
between images).
StationerySignatureRules
StripDuplicateAddresses
1
1
Signature precedence is as follows: User’s selection;
Stationery’s signature; Personality’s signature. Set this to
0 to put Personality’s signature before Stationery’s.
When replying to a message, controls whether or not
duplicate copies of your email address will be removed
from the To: and Cc: headers. This helps to avoid buildup
of your email address in email conversations.
SwitchPreviewWithTab
TabooHeaders
1
When on, pressing the <Tab> key in a mailbox will switch
focus between the message list and the previewed
message.
X-UID,Received,StA comma-separated list of headers (without colons) that
atus,X-UIDL,
Message,In-
should not be shown when the "Show all headers" switch
(the "Blah Blah Blah" icon) is off for a message. The
Reply,X-Priority,Mi matching is done on a prefix basis, so any header that
me-Version,Conte begins with one of these values will not be shown.
nt-X-Persona,
Resent-Message,
Referenes,Return,
X-400,Mail-System
,Errors-To,X-List,
Delivery,
Disposition,
X-Juno,
Precedence,
X-Attachments,
X-MSMail,
X-MimeOLE
TabSpaces
0
If on, then when the Tab key is pressed while the cursor is
in the body of the message, spaces are inserted instead
of a tab character.
TabStop
8
0
3
How many spaces to insert for a <Tab> in the body of a
composition message.
TaskErrorKeepAll
TaskErrorLinesPerRow
When set, Eudora will not automatically remove errors
from the task error list.
Number of lines for each error in the Task Errors window.
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Entry
Default Value
Description
TaskErrorRemoveFromList
1
Controls whether or not to remove errors from the Task
Errors window after seeing the corresponding error
dialog.
TaskMgrWaitTime
20
The number of seconds in which the user has to be idle in
Eudora (which is defined as pressing any key or mouse
button) before background tasks are processed (see
IgnoreIdleOnManualCheck above for an exception case).
TaskStatusGraphBorderCol 0,0,0
or
RGB color of the border of the progress bar in the Task
Status window.
TaskStatusGraphCompleted 18,106,254
Color
RGB color of the completed portion of the progress bar in
the Task Status window.
TaskStatusGraphRemainCol129,207,254
or
RGB color of the remaining portion of the progress bar in
the Task Status window.
TaskStatusRecvGraphComp18,106,254
letedColor
RGB color of the completed portion of the progress bar in
the Task Status window for receiving mail.
TaskStatusRecvGraphRema129,207,254
inColor
RGB color of the remaining portion of the progress bar in
the Task Status window for receiving mail.
TimeZone
TimeZone=xxxnnn Where xxx, yyy are timezone abbreviations like PST,
yyy
PDT, CDT, and nnn is the offset in hours WEST of GMT
(those that are east of GMT shoud enter a negative
number here). xxx is the timezone during Standard Time
and yyy is the timezone during Daylight Savings Time. If
you do not change your clocks during Daylight Savings
Time, leave yyy blank. Here are some samples:
TimeZone=PST8PDT TimeZone=MET-1
If you don’t specify a TimeZone entry, then a Date: header
will not be put in outgoing messages, which is fine for
most because their mail server will insert the correct
Date: header. If you don’t get messages bounced
because of a missing Date: header, then leave the
TimeZone entry alone.
TocDateLeeway
10
Number of seconds that the date on a mailbox .TOC file
can be behind the .MBX file that Eudora will not flag as
being out of date. Helpful for network file systems,
especially Windows NT Server which seems to have
problems correctly time/date stamping files.
ToobarDisplay
UnreadExpires
1
5
Fixes toobar icon corruption.
The number of days after which a message is no longer
used to determine if a mailbox has unread messages in it.
URLHelper
The full path of the application used to launch URLs.
Display URLs in blue underline style.
URLHighlight
1
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Mappings
Entry
Default Value
Description
UsePOPSend
0
If UsePOPSend is on, Eudora will send mail using the
POP3 extended command XTND XMIT. Since this is an
optional command for POP3, many POP3 servers do not
support this command (Berkeley’s popper, however,
does). There are pros and cons to using POP3 to send
your mail. It provides a level of security since it requires a
username/password pair to send mail messages, unlike
SMTP. It is faster than SMTP, especially when checking
for new mail at the same time. It doesn’t check for valid
recipients until the entire message is sent, and some
implementations (Berkeley’s popper, for example) won’t
tell you which recipients are invalid and will send the
message to the valid recipients anyway.
UserChangeLex
UserIgnoreLex
UserSuggestLex
uchange.tlx
uignore.tlx
usuggest.tlx
Filename of user-defined list of words to change when
spell checking.
Filename of user-defined list of words to ignore when
spell checking.
Filename of user-defined list of words to suggest when
spell checking.
WebLinkReminderLaterNum360
Minutes
When you get a link reminder, if you select Remind Me
Later, the minimum wait until the next reminder.
WordWrapColumn
76
When the "Word wrap" switch is on, this is the column in
which lines in outgoing messages are wrapped.
WordWrapMax
80
When the "Word wrap" switch is on, this is the length at
which a line in an outgoing message is considered too
long and must be wrapped.
WordWrapOnScreen
0
If this is on (set to non-zero), then the composition
window will automatically wrap text on the screen at the
number of characters specified in WordWrapColumn,
regardless of the width of the window.
Ma p p ing s
This is a sample [Mappings] section. It is not a default for Eudora if you have a missing or
empty [Mappings] section. The [Mappings] section contains information for mapping
between computer file extensions, Macintosh creator and type, and MIME type and
subtype for attachment files (in that order). Entries marked "in" work on only incoming
messages, and entries marked "out" work on only outgoing messages. Entries marked
"both" work on both incoming and outgoing messages.
number to display the topic.
out=txt,ttxt,TEXT,text,plain
both=doc,MSWD,,application,msword
in=xls,XCEL,,,
out=xls,XCEL,XLS4,,
both=xlc,XCEL,XLC3,,
both=xlm,XCEL,XLM3,,
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both=ppt,PPT3,SLD3,,
both=wp,WPC2,.WP5,application,wordperfect5.1
both=zip,,,application,zip
both=rtf,,,application,rtf
both=ps,,,application,postcript
in=eps,,EPSF,,
out=eps,dPro,EPSF,application,postscript
both=mpg,,,video,mpeg
both=jpg,,,image,jpeg
both=gif,,,image,gif
both=tif,,,image,tiff
both=pct,,PICT,,
both=mac,MPNT,PNTG,,
Wind ow Position
The [Window Position] section saves the positions of the standard windows (not your
mailbox windows and message windows).
Entry
Default Value
0,0,0,0
CheckSpellingWindowPosition
FindWindowPosition
MainWindowPosition
ProgressWindowPosition
SignatureWindowPosition
TextFileWindowPosition
60,345,580,480
0,0,640,480
0,0,0,0
10,60,630,240
0,0,600,460
Tool Ba r
This section reflects the current settings of the main Eudora toolbar. If you create addi-
tional Eudora toolbars, then additional [Tool Bar] sections will appear in the INI file.
Note. We strongly recommend that you do not change any of the settings in the [Tool Bar]
section(s) of the INI file, and that you instead make any changes to any Eudora toolbar
from the toolbar customization dialog (Customize dialog). This dialog is accessed by
right-clicking anywhere on the toolbar and selecting Customize... from the drop-down
The [DirectoryServices] section controls the use of the Directory Services window
(accessed from Eudora's Tools menu) and its associated databases. For more information
on Directory Services, see its dedicated section in the Eudora User Manual.
Note. Of the entries listed below, only those marked with an asterisk (*) are user-settable.
Entry
Default
Value
Description
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OldKeepOnTopcpCoverted
What in pre-4.0 versions of Eudora used to be [Settings]
AddressKeepForeground is now KeepOnTop in this
section. KeepOnTop saves the check state of the "Keep On
Top" check button in the Directory Services window.
Eudora uses this entry (OldKeepOnToPConverted) to
determine if the AddressKeepForeground entry from a
pre-4.0 version of Eudora has been mapped to the current
version. When Eudora 4.x is run for the first time, it sets the
KeepOnTop entry (described below) equal to the value of
AddressKeepForeground. In addition, it also sets this entry
equal to 1 so that the next time Eudora is run, it reads the
check state from KeepOnTop rather than from
AddressKeepForeground.
PanesY*
This entry reflects the height of the Directory Services
window when Eudora was last shut down.
LeftPaneX*
RightPaneX*
This entry reflects the width of the left pane of the Directory
Services window when Eudora was last shut down.
This entry reflects the width of the right pane of the
Directory Services window when Eudora was last shut
down.
KeepOnTop*
This entry reflects the check state of the "Keep On Top"
check button in the Directory Services window when
Eudora was last shut down.
LDAP:ldap.bigfoot.com*
This entry reflects the check state of the LDAP database
"ldap.bigfoot.com" when Eudora was last shut down. The
check state of other LDAP databases is reflected in similar
entries.
Ph:ph.bigfoot.com*
This entry reflects the check state of the Ph database
"ph.bigfoot.com" when Eudora was last shut down. The
check state of other Ph databases is reflected in similar
entries.
Eudora Address
Book:Eudora Nicknames*
This entry reflects the check state of the Eudora Address
Book database "Eudora Nicknames" when Eudora was last
shut down. The check state of other Eudora Address Book
databases is reflected in similar entries.
Finger:hostname.
domain.com*
This entry reflects the check state of the Finger database
"hostname.domain.com" when Eudora was last shut down.
The check state of other Finger databases (or daemons) is
reflected in similar entries.
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DIRSERV-Major
This entry reflects the major version of DirServ.dll that was
last registered. Combined with the minor version of this
DLL (see the next entry below), Eudora at run time
determines whether the DLL is a newer version than the
one last registered so that it can register the new COM
objects, if any, in the newer DLL.
DIRSERV-Minor
ISOCK-Major
ISOCK-Minor
This entry reflects the minor version of DirServ.dll that was
last registered. See the description above for
DIRSERV-Major.
This entry reflects the major version of ISock.dll that was
last registered. A similar description as the one in
DIRSERV-Major above applies.
This entry reflects the minor version of ISock.dll that was
last registered. A similar description as the one in
DIRSERV-Major above applies.
EUDORABK-Major
EUDORABK-Minor
LDAP-Major
This entry reflects the major version of EudoraBk.dll that
was last registered. A similar description as the one in
DIRSERV-Major above applies.
This entry reflects the minor version of EudoraBk.dll that
was last registered. A similar description as the one in
DIRSERV-Major above applies.
This entry reflects the major version of Ldap.dll that was
last registered. A similar description as the one in
DIRSERV-Major above applies.
LDAP-Minor
PH-Major
PH-Minor
This entry reflects the minor version of Ldap.dll that was
last registered. A similar description as the one in
DIRSERV-Major above applies.
This entry reflects the major version of Ph.dll that was last
registered. A similar description as the one in
DIRSERV-Major above applies.
This entry reflects the minor version of Ph.dll that was last
registered. A similar description as the one in
DIRSERV-Major above applies.
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Debug
De b ug
The [Debug] section controls aspects of the Eudora log file. The Eudora log file is a handy
tool for debugging network connections, especially when using the dialup connection
method.
Entry
Default Value
Description
LogFileName
EUDORA.LOG
The name of the log file.
LogFileSize
LogLevel
1000
The size (in KB) of the log file that, when reached,
will cause the log file to be copied to the file
EUDORLOG.OLD and a new log file to be started.
11 (which is bits 1, 2, A bit-mapped value telling what type of information to
and 4)
log:
Bit 1 (1): Sending of a message
Bit 2 (2): Receipt of a message
Bit 3 (4): Dialup script navigation commands
Bit 4 (8): Alert messages
Bit 5 (16): Progress messages
Bit 6 (32): All bytes sent
Bit 7 (64): All bytes received
Bit 8 (128): Corrupt mailbox TOC file messages
Bit 9 (256): Basic EMSAPI translator messages
Bit 10 (512): Advanced EMSAPI translator
messages
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Wha t to Do First
Occasionally, you may encounter a problem or bug when using Eudora. This section
includes information to help you solve those problems. You can also check the Eudora
Technical Support Web Pages, click the following URL:
If you are having problems, try the following.
■ Be sure that you have the current release of Eudora.
■ Be sure that your incoming mail account (POP or IMAP) is set correctly. This mail
account may be different from your e-mail address, so double-check to see that you
have entered the proper information in the Return address, Mail Server (Incoming),
and Login Name fields of the Getting Started options (Tools>Options>Getting
Started). Incoming mail accounts are usually of the following format: login-
name@mailservername
■ Be sure your SMTP server is set correctly in the SMTP server field of the Sending Mail
options (Tools>Options>Sending Mail). This server may or may not be the same
display topic.
■ Be sure you are entering your password correctly, paying attention to uppercase and
lowercase letters (make sure the [Caps Lock] key is off).
■ Be sure the date is correct on your computer, especially the year.
■ Be sure Eudora can find your winsock.dll. If Eudora cannot find it, be sure the Path
line in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file includes the directory that contains the
winsock.dll. Or, if you do not want to edit your AUTOEXEC.BAT file, try copying
your winsock.dllinto your Eudora directory.
■ Run ScanDisk to check for problems on the hard drive.
■ If you’re having trouble with your mailboxes (especially with repeated requests to
rebuild a mailbox’s table of contents), quit Eudora and find the mailbox’s .toc file in the
Eudora directory. Change the .toc extension to .000, then open Eudora and see if the
problem persists.
■ On Windows 95/98: If you’re having other problems, especially crashes, remove all of
the items in your Startup directory (C:\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\StartUp), then
restart Windows while holding down the F8 key. In the Startup menu, select Safe
Mode. Then open Eudora and see if the problem persists.
Errors
The following are possible errors and alerts you could receive from Eudora, and sugges-
tions for fixing them.
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“-ERR Maildrop lock busy”
This usually happens after your PC has “hung” during a mail check and you are now
attempting to re-connect to the mail server. The best thing to do is to contact your
e-mail administrator and report that you have a POP3 server process that needs to be
disconnected.
“503 Need RCPT (Recipient)”
You must include at least one recipient in the To: field of your outgoing message in
order for the message to be delivered. If you have a nickname in the To: field, be sure
that in the Address Book at least one e-mail address or valid nickname is included in
the Address(es) tab. If the Address(es) tab is blank, there are no recipients and this
causes the error.
“Error getting a network socket. Cause: no buffer space available (10055)”
The buffers the error message is referring to are TCP buffers. TCP/IP stacks need
buffers in which they can store data that goes to/from the network. Since at a low level
the data has to be sent to a hardware device, the buffers generally have to be in low
memory (i.e., < 1MB). This is valuable space for most users, so most TCP/IP stacks
have a way of controlling how many of these buffers the user wants allocated. If you’re
using a lot of other network applications at the same time (especially the X Window
System, which uses a buffer for each window), then you might get this error. The other
time this error might occur is when the TCP/IP stack is not correctly marking buffers as
being unused, so you have a buffer not being used that the stack thinks is being used.
“Could not rename lmos.tmp to lmos.dat”
Quit Eudora, and go to your Eudora directory. Find the files called lmos.tmpand
lmos.datand delete them both (lmos.tmpmay not be there: that’s not a problem).
On your next mail check you may get some mail that you have already received, but
that should only happen once.
“This recipient is not acceptable to your SMTP server” or “Relay Denied”
This error messages displays if you have multiple personalities and have any relay
restrictions to stop spam messages turned on. Turn the relay restriction function off.
Form a tting a nd Printing
The following are possible formatting and printing problems, and suggestions for fixing
them.
You received a message containing columns and the columns are not lining up
correctly.
Your message font is probably a proportional font. Change your display font in the
Fonts Options (Tools>Options>Fonts): set the “Fixed-width” option to a non-propor-
tional font (such as Courier New or Courier), and uncheck the “Use proportional font by
default” option.
You have a message that is printing with strange line breaks.
When most e-mail programs send out messages, they insert hard returns at around 75
to 80 characters. (If they didn’t, some e-mail applications would be able to display only
the first 80 characters or so of a very long line of text.) What’s happening with your
message is that the width of the line that fits on the printed page is shorter than 75 to
80 characters, so the hard returns end up in the wrong place.
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The solution is to make the print font smaller, or choose a print font in which the letters
are printed closer together—like Helvetica instead of Courier New, for example. To do
this, change the Font and Size options in the Printer section of the Fonts options
Misc e lla ne ous
Password check for sending mail, not just for checking mail
SMTP servers, which are used to send mail for most e-mail accounts, do not require a
password for access the way a POP server does. However, if the POP daemon your
server is using is descended from the UC Berkeley POPper, you can use the POPSend
protocol, which routes SMTP calls through the POP server, so that the POP server will
require the password.
If you turn this feature on in your POP server, add this line to the [Settings] section of the
Eudora.ini file:
UsePOPSend=1
This means you will have to enter your password to send as well as check mail. However,
this is not terribly secure, because users who know what they are doing can simply
remove that .ini file line or uncheck the “Use XTND XMIT” option and disable the feature. It
protects you against inexperienced but unscrupulous users.
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Address Book. The Address Book is where you keep information about individuals or
groups that you correspond with.
Alias. Another name for an existing user’s address. In Eudora, an alias is also called a
nickname.
Application Configuration Access Protocol (ACAP). ACAP is a protocol which allows
applications to store and retrieve arbitrary configuration data from a central server.
Attachments. Any file can be attached to and sent with a Eudora message. Most of the
time, an attached document functions like a “rider” to the email message, and does not
appear within the message text. Instead, the name of the document is displayed automat-
ically in the Attached field in the message header.
Authenticated Post Office Protocol (APOP). APOP is an MD5-based login command
that does not send passwords in clear text over the network.
Automation. You can control and exchange information with Eudora from other programs
that support the Windows Automation Interface, such as Microsoft Visual Basic. These
options give you external access to Eudora mail folders, mailboxes, and messages, and to
the Eudora application itself.
BinHex. This is an attachment decoding method best used for recipients on a Macintosh
with an email reader that is not MIME-compliant.
Blind Carbon Copy (Bcc). In this header field, you enter email addresses or nicknames
of people to whom a blind copy of the message is to be sent. These recipients are not
displayed in the message header, and the recipients in the To or Cc fields will not know
that a copy went to these addresses.
Body. The part of an email message that contains the main text of the message. The body
can contain text, graphics, sound, and video clips.
Browser. A World Wide Web client that is able to send and receive messages using HTTP
and read and format HTML documents.
Challenge-Response Authentication Mechanism-Message Digest 5 (CRAM-MD5).
The CRAM-MD5 algorithm is an encryption strategy for exchanging passwords between
the Internet mail server and a client. Using CRAM-MD5, passwords are not sent in clear
text.
Client. A computer or software program that accesses resources over the Internet. It is
also an application that requests a server to perform a function. In the Internet mail envi-
ronment, the term client indicates a mail user agent, for example, Eudora Pro.
Daemon. Daemons are generally server programs. They run continuously and are avail-
able when clients wish to initiate a session. However, an SMTP daemon periodically acts
as a client when it needs to forward messages that are not to be delivered locally.
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Dialup Networking. This is a specified dialup connection (referred to in Windows NT 4.0
as a "phonebook entry") used when Eudora does any network operation. This option is
available only if you have installed the dial-up networking services with Windows 95 or
Windows NT 4.0.
Distribution list. A group of recipients to whom users can refer by a common name (for
example, a distribution list called Marketing). When users address a message to a distri-
bution list, all members of the distribution list receive the message.
Domain. In general, a group of computers and other devices under the management of a
single administrator or administrative entity. In Windows NT, a domain is a group of
servers that share common security policy and user account databases. In the Internet, a
domain identifies a range of IP addresses and mail-forwarding information. See DNS.
Domain Name System (DNS). The naming service used by Internet Mail to support
message routing. It maps domain addresses to IP addresses so Internet messages can
be delivered to a particular server.
Envelope. The part of an email message that contains the information needed to forward
a message to the recipients. The envelope is important to messaging servers and is not
usually seen by users.
File Transfer Protocol (FTP). Using this protocol, you can transfer files over the Internet.
Filters. A filter in Eudora sorts your mail as it is being delivered. You set up filter parame-
ters for your specific needs, for example, all messages from your father can be filtered to
your mailbox named DAD.
Finger. This is a directory services protocol. The Finger protocol is a server that allows
you to search for a person’s information, such as email address, phone number, etc.
Folder. This is a file you create in Eudora where you can add mailboxes. You can name
folders, for example FAMILY and your mailboxes can be named DAD, MOM, SIS, etc.
Folder Carbon Copy (Fcc). You use Fcc to place a copy of your message in a mailbox or
folder you designate.
Forward. This a Eudora function where you can forward an incoming message and its
attachments to another person.
Gateway. In general, software that translates information between one protocol and
another.
Header. The part of an email message that precedes the message. It contains information
such as the originator, recipient, and subject of the message. Also, it is used as an indi-
vidual header filed, such as the To header.
Home page. An HTML document that resides in a data directory and is the primary
starting point for anyone navigating that directory.
Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). HTML is used to create Web pages. A Web client
interprets HTML and displays documents and graphics accordingly. HTML also allows
document authors to establish hypertext links between documents in various locations on
the Internet and to create forms and image maps that enable users to interact with Web
documents. Eudora uses HTML to send and receive styled text.
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Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). HTTP is the standard way of transferring informa-
tion across the World Wide Web. It supports a variety of media and file formats across a
variety of platforms.
Internet. A giant, global network made up of many smaller networks all connected using
the TCP/IP protocol. The Internet is the network of networks which spans the globe.
TCP/IP is generally the network and transport protocol stack used to connect networks,
but protocol translating gateways enable non-TCP/IP networks to connect to the Internet
as well.
Internet directory. A directory that runs over TCP/IP and is widely implemented on the
Internet. A directory implementing Ph, LDAP, and Finger is an Internet directory.
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). IETF is the standards-setting body of the
Internet.
Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP). IMAP allows Eudora to access and manipu-
late electronic mail messages on a server, and it permits manipulation of remote mail-
boxes so they function like local mailboxes. IMAP4 provides a richer and more complex
set of functionality than the POP3 protocol. IMAP is also called an Incoming server.
Internet Service Provider (ISP). An ISP is the organization or company that provides you
with Internet access and email availability. For example, America Online (AOL) is an ISP.
IP address. The address that serves as a unique identifier of computers on the Internet. It
is a sequence of four small integers (each less than 256). When written, the numbers are
separated by periods, for example: 210.170.2.45. The DNS converts IP addresses to the
more familiar domain names.
Java. This is a programming language that allows software developers to write programs
to run on any computer platform, regardless of the operating system.
Kerberos. This is one of many authentication systems Eudora uses. If your network uses
Kerberos for authentication, the appropriate options are provided by your email adminis-
trator
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP). LDAP is a protocol that provides an
online, fully indexed, fast access white-pages directory service developed and freely
distributed by the Regents of the University of Michigan. LDAP is included in Eudora’s
Directory Services.
List Management Agent. An agent that manages distribution lists on behalf of users.
Mailbox. A location that stores messages for a single user.
Mailing List. This is usually a special interest group you can join on the Internet to receive
and send information. Once you belong to a mailing list, you can receive messages
anyone sends to this list. If you send email to the mailing list, every member of the list
receives your message.
Message Application Program Interface (MAPI). Eudora’s MAPI support allows you to
quickly attach documents to email messages directly from the application where you
created the document. Without MAPI, you would have to save the document, remember
what folder the document is in, switch to Eudora, and then remember to manually attach
the document to the outgoing message.
Message store. A collection of mailboxes.
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Multi-Purpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME). The is an attachment decoding method
best used for recipients with MIME-compliant email readers, regardless of what operating
system they are using. MIME is a set of extensions to the Internet Mail standards that
supports the inclusion of multi-part and multimedia files, such as sound and video, in email
messages.
Network. A group of connected computers that can communicate with one another.
Networks enable computers to share files and resources and exchange messages.
Nickname. In Eudora, a nickname is entered instead of an email address. For example, in
the Address Book where nicknames are set up, you can enter the nickname TERRY for
instead of Terry’s entire email address. Nicknames are also called aliases.
Personality. This is an alternate email account. In Eudora, you can access mail from
several email accounts at the same time. However, you must set up each account sepa-
rately using Eudora’s personality functions.
Ph. Ph (Phone book) is a protocol providing an online, fully indexed, fast access
white-pages directory service developed and freely distributed by the Computer and
Communications Services Office at the University of Illinois at Urbana.
POP3. The Post Office Protocol 3 is a protocol that provides a simple, standardized way
for users to access mailboxes and download messages to their computers. POP3 is also
called the Incoming server.
Postmaster. A special type of user responsible for maintaining the mail delivery system
for a particular group of computers. A postmaster is responsible for following up on
queries from users and other postmasters. Internet standards require that the postmaster
account be valid at every domain.
RAS. Windows NT Remote Access Service. This Windows 95 and NT service, when
configured correctly, allows your computer to connect to your ISP via a modem. You set
this up in Dial-Up Networking.
Redirect. This means that incoming messages can be sent to a new recipient “by way of”
you, maintaining the original sender’s address in the From field.
Request for Comments (RFC). In the Internet community, RFCs are a numbered
sequence of documents generally describing protocols for Internet communication. An
Internet standard protocol is also given a STD number in addition to an RFC number. Only
RFCs with a STD number are standards of the IETF. Some RFCs are historical or experi-
mental and are not standards. Others have not yet reached standard status. Still others
provide documentation about the Internet itself.
RPA. This is one of many authentication systems Eudora uses. Use RPA if CompuServe
is your ISP.
Server. An entity that provides a network service. A server can be hardware (such as a file
server), software (such as a mail server), or services (such as a transportation service). A
mail server is a program that accepts, relays, and delivers mail.
Shared folder. This is a folder that allows multiple users to receive mail in the same direc-
tory. Because all members of a shared folder can access messages in the shared folder, it
is not necessary to duplicate the same message for multiple users. Only IMAP clients
such as Eudora can access shared folders.
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Signature. A signature is a few lines of text automatically added to the end of an outgoing
message when it is sent. A signature can be whatever you want, but it is mostly used to
give contact information (telephone, address, etc.). You only use one signature at a time in
a message.
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP). SMTP is a protocol widely implemented on the
Internet for exchanging email messages. SMTP is also called an Outgoing server.
Stationery. Stationery files are templates you create for outgoing messages, for example,
a generic response when you are on vacation.
Table of Contents (TOC). The TOC in Eudora is the list of messages and their data
displayed in each mailbox or folder.
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP). TCP/IP is a set of protocols
for computer network communication. The protocols provide conventions for connecting
networks and routing traffic between them. It supports local area networks as well as inter-
connections between local area networks. TCP/IP protocols are described in IETF RFCs
and in numerous reference works.
Universal Resource Locator (URL). URLs are Internet addresses and links to pages and
sites that reside on the World Wide Web. For example, to display the Eudora Web page
on the Internet, you need the Eudora URL, which is www.eudora.com.
UNIX to UNIX Copy Protocol (UUCP). UUCP is a UNIX email protocol.
Uuencode. This is an attachment decoding method best used for recipients using PC or
UNIX systems that are not MIME-compliant.
Username. A character string by which users are known, for example ldempster. User-
name is also called Login name.
Winsock. Winsock is a connection method. There are two methods of making Winsock
calls using TCP/IP stacks: blocking and asynchronous.
World Wide Web. Also known as the Web, the World Wide Web is a graphical interface to
Internet resources. Web refers to the set of hypermedia pages accessible via the Internet.
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Address Book file storage 240
Address(es) tab 159
Index
Advanced Network options 228
After sending message
how to enter in Options 208
Age-sensitive (in Options) 219
Age-sensitive date formats 97
Alias 287
Click the page number to display the topic.
Align Center button 24
Align Left button 24
Align Right button 24
Symbols
Allow drag and drop transfers
how to enter in Options 213
Allow drag and drop transfers option 107
Allow drag select of messages
how to enter in Options 213
Alternate personalities 75
ANCIENT format 219
-, in the Status column 95
A
and option 114
Any Header field
in Filters 113
Any Recipient field
in Filters 113
appears option 114
Application Configuration Access Protocol
definition 287
Arrange Icons command 194
As Normal option 116
About Eudora command 195
ACAP
definition 287
Account Settings dialog, adding a new personality 83
Address Book
Add to Recipient List command 166
adding nicknames to the Quick Recipient List 166
addressing a message from 162
copying entries in 160
creating a message from 161
creating new entries in 158
definition 287
deleting entries in 161
displaying entries in 157
Expand Nickname option 161
Fax field in 160
file format 164
Make Address Book Entry command from 162
maximum entries in 160
moving entries in 160
Name field in 159
New button in 158
paging up and down in 158
Phone field in 160
Postal Address field in 160
Remove From Recipient List command 166
removing nicknames from the Quick Recipient List
renaming a nickname 161
resizing 158
saving changes to 161
Ask me each time
how to enter in Options 214
Attach directory 239
Attach submenu 190, 242
Attached field
in a forwarded message 64
in redirected message 65
Attaching a PureVoice audio file to a message 33
Attachment directory
how to enter in Options 208
Attachment directory button 54
Attachment directory for IMAP 60
Attachment directory option 239
Send File 190
Attachment Type popup 22
Attachments
attaching files to outgoing mail 32
automatically deleting 106
changing the Attachment Directory 54
definition 287
detaching from a message 32
dragging to attach 32
encoding 32
opening 53
receiving 53
Using central Address Book files on a server 164
View By option 157
Attachments column 96
Attachments Options
Attachment directory option 239
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Delete attachments when emptying Trash option 106
audio file
attaching to a message 33
C
Cache network info
how to enter in Options 229
Carriage returns inserted 31
Cascade command 194
Cc button
Authentication style
how to enter in Options
IMAP server 203
POP server 201
in Directory Services 170
in the Address Book 161
Cc field
Authentication, SMTP 46
Auto Configure options 230
Auto name completion
in Filters 113
in outgoing mail 25
directory services 168
Center command 30
Auto name completion (message header) 26
Auto-Completion options 216
Automatic spell check 35
Change Queueing command 44
Changing Eudora modes 17
Check for mail every ? minute(s)
how to enter in Options 200
Check mail
Automatically as you type
how to enter in Options 216
Automatically expand nicknames
how to enter in Options 233
Automatically Fcc to original mailbox
how to enter in Options 206
Automatically open next message
how to enter in Options 212
Automation options 224
automatically 47
Delete server status 57
entering password 49
Fetch button 57
Auto-Reply 117
Fetch server status 57
Auto-save messages every _ minutes
how to enter in Options 233
Fetch then Delete server status 57
Forget Password(s) command 49
from Windows Taskbar 239
IMAP server management 59
Leave mail on server option 56
manually check 48
Minimal Headers Only option 59
minimum interval 48
Save password option 50
Skip Attachments over ? K option 60
Skip messages over ? K in size option 57
Trash button 57
B
Background tasks in Options 222
Bcc
definition 287
Bcc button
in Directory Services 170
in the Address Book 161
Bcc field
to copy outgoing messages 47
BinHex
with special instructions 57
Check Mail option 85
Check Spelling command 187
Checking Mail 199
Checking Mail Options
Check for mail every ? minutes option 85
Save password option 50
Checking spelling
definition 287
BinHex encoding 32
BLAH BLAH BLAH button 52
blank, in the Status column 95
Blind copy
with Name field in Address Book 159
Body field
in Filters 113
Bold button 23
Bold command 30
Bottom command 138
Broken lines 31
Check Spelling command 37
Check Spelling dialog 38
Add button 39
Change all button 39
Change button 39
Change To field 39
Edit Dictionary button 39
Ignore all button 39
Browser 287
definition 287
Bulleted List button 24
Ignore button 39
Suggest button 39
Suggestions field 39
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Unknown field 38
Edit User Dictionary dialog
Add button 39
D
Daemon
definition 287
Databases
creating 173
Clear button 40
Delete button 40
Spelling Options dialog
modifying 182
Ignore capitalized words 40
Ignore words with all capitals 40
Ignore words with mixed case 40
Ignore words with numbers 40
Report doubled words 40
Suggest words 40
Databases, default (Directory Services) 172
Date column 97
Date Display Options 97, 218
Date formats
how to enter in Options 218
Date formatting 97
Choose a Nickname File dialog 160
Clear command 187
Decoding attachments 33
Default Domain option 85
Default signature
Clear Formatting button 24
Client 287
how to enter in Options 204
Default Signature option 85
Default Stationery option 85
Delete all messages on server option 58
Delete all messages that have been retrieved option 58
Delete attachments when emptying Trash
how to enter in Options 208
Delete attachments when emptying Trash option 106
Delete automatic attachments
how to enter in Options 208
Delete button 173
Close button, in a docked window 133
Close command 185
Close messages with mailbox
how to enter in Options 213
Color button 23
Color submenu 30
columns 284
Compact
all mailboxes 98
Delete from server after ? day(s)
how to enter in Options
one mailbox 98
Composition window 21
Compound Sorting 119
POP server 201
Delete from server after ? days option 56, 87
Delete From Server button 52
Delete from server when emptied from Trash
how to enter in Options
Configuration option 86
Connect using Dial-up networking
how to enter in Options 205
contains option 114
POP server 201
Contents tab 241
Delete from server when emptied from Trash option 58, 87
Delete messages marked for deletion option 58
Delete queued mail
how to enter in Options 226
Delete unread mail
Context menu, for tool windows 138
Copy & Unwrap command (Shift-Copy) 31
Copy blind
with Name field in Address Book 159
Copy command 187
how to enter in Options 226
Delete unsent mail
how to enter in Options 226
Deleting 183
Copy original’s priority to reply
how to enter in Options 206
Copy To action 116
Deleting a personality 88
Copy To command 160
Deleting a signature 69
Deleting mail
CRAM-MD5
from the IMAP server 60
definition 287
Deleting stationery 72
descmap.pce file 240
Detaching attachment 32
Dialup Networking
Creating a new alternate account (personality) 77
Creating a new tabbed window 137
Creating a vacation message 117
Customize command 142
Customize dialog 142
definition 288
Dictionary files 242
Customize the ads you see 18
Cut command 187
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Edit
addressing a message from 170
auto name completion 168
Bcc button 170
incoming mail 55
outgoing mail 29
Cc button 170
Edit menu
Insert Picture command 240
EIMS 257
E-mail server (Internet)
how to obtain 257
Embedded directory 240
Empty the Trash mailbox
how to enter in Options 226
Empty Trash command 105, 191
Empty Trash when exiting option 105
EMSAPI 242
creating a new database 173
default databases 172
Keep On Top option 168
looking someone up 168
making a nickname from 170
making a query 168
modifying an existing database 182
previewing query details for printing 171
printing query details 171
Protocols list 172
EMSAPI plug-ins 240
Encoding method
how to enter in Options 207
Encoding methods
Query field 168
reading your query results 169
Registered Drivers column 172
Start button 168
BinHex 32
Status field 169
MIME 32
Stop button 168
Uuencode 33
To button 170
ends with option 114
Enter key 51
ERR Maildrop lock busy 284
Error getting a network socket 284
Esoteric Settings plug-in 197
Eudora
starting and quitting 19
Eudora Address Book protocol 167
Eudora directory contents 239
Eudora Email, Introduction 13
Eudora established the connection
how to enter in Options 205
Eudora information 257
Eudora Internet Mail Server (EIMS) 257
Eudora modes 16
window state considerations 171
Directory Services command 193
Directory Services window 167
Directory Services directory 239
Display dates using
Display Options
Show cool bars option 141
Show MDI task bar option 144
Show status bar option 142
Show toolbar option 141
Show toolbar tips option 142
Display options 209
DNS 288
Docked windows 131
close button 133
Eudora Modifiers 235
Eudora Nicknames file 240
Eudora E-mail vs. Postal Mail 13
Eudora Quick Start Guide 15
Eudora Readme file 242
Eudora Shortcuts 236
Eudora taskbar 144
Eudora WorldMail Server 257
Eudora, latest version 18
Eudora.cnt file 240
gripper bar 132
resize bar 133
zoom button 132
Docking
turning on 139
Domain 288
Domain to add to unqualified addresses
how to enter in Options 203
Dominant personality 84
Don’t check when using battery
how to enter in Options 200
Eudora.exe file 240
Eudora.hlp file 240
Eudora.ini file 241
Debug 282
defaults 268
Mappings 278
Download Options 87
Settings 269
Tool bar 279
Drag and drop transfers
how to enter in Options 213
Window position 279
eudora.log file 241
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Excerpt bars
in quoted text with styles 63
Exit command 186
Notify Application action 116
Notify User action 116
Open action 115
or option 114
Expand Nickname option 161
Extended Messaging Services 242
Extended Messaging Services Application Programming
Interface 242
Play Sound action 115
Print action 116
Redirect To action 116
re-ordering 112
Extra Warnings Options 43
Try to delete unread, queued, or unsent mail 105
Extra Warnings options 225
Reply with action 116
Server Options action 116
Skip Rest action 117
speak action 115
starts with option 114
Transfer To action 116
unless option 115
F
Fax field 160
Fcc
Filters directory 240
Filters window 111
filters.pce file 241
Find 119
Stopping 120
Within a message 119
Find command 187
Find Messages in mailbox and folders 120
Find Next button 120
Find submenu 187
definition 288
Fetch all message headers to In mailbox option 58
File Browser window 148
File Transfer Protocol
definition 288
Find Text
Filter
in message summary area of mailbox 120
Find Text Again command 120
Find the latest versions of Eudora 18
Finger
definition 288
Finger Database 176
Finger protocol 167
definition 288
Filter icons 112
Filtering messages 108
Filters 108
finger.ini file 241
and option 114
appears option 114
automatically named 112
Conjunction popup 114
contains option 114
Fixed Width button 52
Fixed-width (fonts)
how to enter in Options 209
Fixed-width option 284
Floating windows 133
Folder
definition 288
Font popup 23
Font submenu 30
Fonts options 208
For new mail, download
how to enter in Options
IMAP server 202
Formatting text 29
Copy To action 116
creating an auto-reply 117
ends with option 114
Forward To action 116
ignore option 114
intersects nickname option 114
invoked from top to bottom 113
is not option 114
is option 114
Make Label action 115
Make Personality action 115
Make Priority action 115
Make Status action 115
Make Subject action 115
Match Type popup 114
Matching Text field 114
None action 115
Copy & Unwrap 31
Unwrap Selection 31
Wrap Selection 31
Forward
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Forwarded status (right arrow) 64
From field
Horizontal lines
inserting in outgoing message text 31
Hot link
in outgoing mail 34
Hot links
in incoming mail 55
in a forwarded message 64
in Filters 113
in outgoing mail 25
in redirected message 65
FTP
definition 288
ftp.eudora.com 257
Hours to be ANCIENT (in Options) 219
Hours to be OLD (in Options) 219
How should checking/sending be performed option 58
Full message except attachments over ? K
how to enter in Options
IMAP server 202
HTML formatting
viewing source 239
HTML message
Full message except attachments over ? K (IMAP server]
Incoming Mail options 60
FUMLUB 213
viewing in your Web browser 239
HTTP
definition 289
Hyperlinking text and graphics 30
Hypertext Markup Language
definition 288
G
HyperText Markup Language (HTML) 29
Hypertext Transfer Protocol
definition 289
Gateways 288
Generate filter report
how to enter in Options 222
Generate Filter Report option 146
Generate filter report option 192
Generic Properties tab 84
Getting Attention Options
and Notify User filter action 116
Generate Filter Report option 146
Open mailbox option 51
I
Icons
filters 112
IETF
definition 289
Play a sound option 51
ignore option 114
Use an alert dialog box option 51
Getting Attention options 221
Getting Started Options
Mail Server (Incoming) option 47
Getting Started options 197
Gripper bar
Ignoring previously read messages 56
Deleting a message from the server 60
Imap directory 240
IMAP Mailbox Location Prefix
how to enter in Options (IMAP) 202
IMAP Mailbox Location Prefix option 87
IMAP option 86
on the main toolbar 140
Gripper bar, in a docked window 132
Group Account Manager 288
Group by subject 118
IMAP server 245
Full message except attachments over ? K 60
how to obtain 257
Guess Paragraphs option 127
Macintosh 257
managing mail 59
UNIX 257
VAX/VMS 257
Windows NT 257
H
Help 15
Help button 15
Tip of the Day 16
Topics command 241
Help Topics dialog 241
Help with Eudora 15
Hide command 139
Hide the recipient list
with Name field in Address Book 159
Hiding tabbed/tool windows 139
Home page 288
IMAP version 4 245
IMAP, attachment directory 60
Immediate send
how to enter in Options 204
Import address book from Netscape Messenger 82
Import Mail command 186
Import settings from other e-mail programs 80
In mailbox 51
in.mbx file 241
in.toc file 241
definition 288
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Include Headers option 127
Include outdated ‘Return-Receipt-To’
how to enter in Options 233
Include signature on reply
how to enter in Options 206
Include yourself option 63
Incoming Mail Options 55
Delete from server when emptied from Trash option
ISP
definition 289
Italic command 30
Italics button 23
J
Java (definition) 289
Skip messages over ? K in size option 57
Incoming Mail options 200
Full message except attachments over ? K 60
Incoming mail server 47
Incoming Mail tab 86
K
Keep copies
how to enter in Options 204
Keep copies option 47
Kerberos 258
Incoming message window
Message body 53
Title bar 52
Toolbar 52
definition 289
Kerberos options 231
Keyboard focus 16
Key-stroke shortcuts 236
BLAH BLAH BLAH button 52
Delete From Server button 52
Fixed Width button 52
Pencil button 52
Priority popup 53
Retrieve From Server (Fetch) button 52
Subject field 53
L
Label column 96
Tow Truck icon 52
Labels
Incoming option 112
Incoming server
how to assign to messages 96
Labels options 219
how to enter in Options 198
Indent In button 24
Indent Out button 24
Launch a program from a message
how to enter in Options 227
LDAP Database 177
Info tab 160
LDAP protocol 167
Insert Picture command 240
LDAPInit.ini file 241
Leave mail on server
how to enter in Options
POP server 201
Insert System Configuration command 195
Inserting objects in outgoing message text 31
Installing and uninstalling Eudora 15
Intercept Netscape mailto URLs
how to enter in Options 233
Intercept Netscape mailto URLs option 55
Internet 289
Internet dialup options 205
Internet directory 289
Internet e-mail server
how to obtain 257
Internet Engineering Task Force
definition 289
Leave mail on server option 56, 86
Leave server status 97
Left arrow, in the Status column 63
Left arrow, in the Status column 95
Light mode 16
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol 167
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) 289
Line breaks 31
Link History option 193
Link history window 154
List Management Agent 289
lmos.dat file 241
lmos.tmp to lmos.dat 284
Login Name
Internet Explorer 53
Internet Message Access Protocol 245
Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) 289
Internet Service Provider
definition 289
intersects nickname option 114
IP address 289
how to enter in Options 198
M
Macintosh server (POP or IMAP)
is not option 114
is option 114
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Mail folder .fol directories 241
Mail folders
creating a nickname 158
hiding the recipient list 159
creating during transfer 107
creating in the Mailboxes window 102
creating using Mailbox menu 100
Make if a folder option 100
management on POP vs. IMAP server 103
removing in the Mailboxes window 102
renaming in Mailboxes window 102
storage 241
Main Toolbar 140
from Directory Services 163, 170
from open message window 163
from the Address Book 162
Make Filter dialog 108
Make Hyperlink button 24
Make Label action 115
Mail Server (Incoming)
how to enter in Options 198
Mail Server (Incoming) option 283
Mail storage 239
Make Personality action 115
Make Priority action 115
mail folders 241
mailboxes 241
Make Status action 115
contents 241
Make Subject action 115
POP and IMAP servers 103
Delete all messages on server 58
Delete all messages that have been retrieved 58
Delete messages marked for deletion 58
Fetch all message headers to In mailbox 58
How should checking/sending be performed 58
Retrieve messages marked for retrieval option 58
Retrieve new mail 58
Managing mail on the IMAP server 59
Delete command 61
Minimal Headers Only option 59
refreshing the mailbox list 62
Remove Deleted Messages command 61
resynchronizing a mailbox or folder 61
Skip Attachments over ? K option 60
UnDelete command 61
Managing mail on the POP server
Delete from server when emptied from Trash option
Send queued messages 58
Mailbox .mbx files 241
Mailbox .toc files 241
Mailboxes 289
Delete server status 57, 97
Fetch button 57
compacting all 98
compacting one 98
Leave mail on server option 56
Leave server status 97
Mail Transfer Options dialog 57
Skip messages over ? K in size option 57
Trash button 57
creating during transfer 107
creating in the Mailboxes window 102
creating using Mailbox menu 100
displaying columns 98
Make it a folder option 100
management on POP vs. IMAP server 103
message summaries 93
Manual option 112
Manually spell check 37
moving in the Mailboxes window 102
number of messages 98
Map Ctrl+R to “Reply to All”
how to enter in Options 206
MAPI 243
opening 93
removing in the Mailboxes window 102
renaming in the Mailboxes window 102
resizing columns 98
definition 289
MAPI options 227
Margins submenu 30
size display 98
Mark it as deleted
sorting messages in 117
IMAP server 202
space messages require 98
space wasted 98
transferring messages among 106
Mailboxes options 212
Mark previewed messages as read after ? second(s)
how to enter in Options 211
Mark previewed messages as read after ? second(s) op-
tion 99
May use quoted-printable
how to enter in Options 205
mbx files 241
Mailing List
definition 289
Menu, context
for tool windows 138
Mailing lists
300
Message
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Message body
Multiple accounts in Eudora 75
Multiple Eudora users on one PC 243
Multiple PCs
in incoming mail 53
in outgoing mail 26
checking mail from 55
Message header
Multiple personalities 75
in incoming mail 53
Message Plug-ins Settings command 192, 242
Message preview pane 51, 99
Message priority
Multiple recipients
creating a mailing list 158
hiding the recipient list 159
Multi-Purpose Internet Mail Extension (MIME) 290
Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions 253
how to set 27
Message store 289
N
Message summaries 93
Attachments column 96
changing the subject of 55
Date column 97
name completion
directory services 168
Name completion (message header) 26
Name field 159
Need RCPT (Recipient) 284
Netscape Messenger, import address book 82
Netscape Messenger, migrating from 80
Network 290
Label column 96
Priority column 96
resizing columns 98
selecting 93
Sender/Recipient (Who) column 96
Server Status column 97
Size column 97
Status column 95
Subject column 97
Network buffer size of _ bytes
how to enter in Options 229
Network open timeout _ seconds
how to enter in Options 229
Network timeout after _ seconds
how to enter in Options 229
Never
how to enter in Options 208
New button in Address Book 158
New button in Filters window 112
New Database button 172
New File command 185
New Message With submenu 189
Next time queued messages are sent option 44
Nickname
Who column 96
Message window height
how to enter in Options 211
Message window width
how to enter in Options 211
Message, creating an auto-reply 117
messages retrieved but not attachments 97
Migrating to create a personality 80
Base64 encoding 253
Content-type header 254
Macintosh creators 255
Macintosh types 255
Mapping 255
Quoted-printable encoding 253
Types 255
definition 290
MIME encoding 32
Minimal headers only
Nickname directory 240
Nicknames 159
how to enter in Options
IMAP server 202
adding to the Quick Recipient List 166
creating in the Address Book 158
removing from the Quick Recipient List 166
renaming 161
Miscellaneous Options
Allow drag and drop transfers option 107
Empty Trash when exiting option 105
Intercept Netscape mailto URLs option 55
Turbo redirect by default option 65
Miscellaneous options 231
Modifiers 235
nndbase.toc file 241
nndbase.txt file 241
None action 115
Normal windows 130
and taskbar 145
Notes tab 160
Notify Application action 116
Notify User action 116
Move it to (mailbox)
IMAP server 202
Move To command 160
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Outlook Express, migrating from 80
O
Offline
how to enter in Options
P
POP server 201
OLD format (in Options) 219
On or after option 45
Online Help 15
Online help 15
Open action 115
Open Attachment command 185
Open File command 185
Open mailbox option 51
Opening and configuring Eudora 15
Options command 193
or option 114
out.mbx file 241
Paid mode 16
Password
changing 50
server source code for 258
check when sending mail 285
entering 49
forgetting 49
remembering 49
Saving 50
Paste As Quotation command 187
Paste command 187
Paste Special command 187
Payment and Registration command 195
Pencil button 52
out.toc file 241
Outgoing message window
Message body 26
Personalities 75
migrating from Outlook Express, Outlook ’98,
Netscape Messenger 80
Personalities window 75
Personality
Message header
Attached field 25
Cc field 25
From field 25
Subject field 25
definition 290
deleting 88
To field 25
using in a message 90
Personality field
title bar 21
Toolbar 21
in Filters 113
Align Center button 24
Align Left button 24
Align Right button 24
Attachment Type popup 22
Bold button 23
Bulleted List button 24
Clear Formatting button 24
Color button 23
Personality Name field 84
Personality, adding via Account Settings dialog 83
Ph
definition 290
server source code 258
Ph Database 173
Ph protocol 167
ph.ini file 241
Phone field 160
Pictures
inserting in outgoing message text 31
Plain command 30
Play a sound
how to enter in Options 222
Play a sound option 51
Play Sound action 115
Plug-ins 242
POP option 86
Font popup 23
Indent In button 24
Indent Out button 24
Insert Object button 24
Italics button 23
Keep Copy button 22
Make Hyperlink button 24
Priority popup 22
Queue button 23
Quoted-Printable button 22
Return Receipt button 23
Send button 23
Signature popup 22
Size button 23
how to obtain 257
Tabs in Body button 22
Text As Attachment button 22
Typewriter button 24
Underline button 23
Word Wrap button 22
Outgoing option 112
Outgoing server (SMTP) 203
Macintosh 257
UNIX 257
VAX/VMS 257
Windows NT 257
POP version 3 245
POP vs. IMAP 103
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POP3 290
Send Queued Messages command 44
sending queued mail when checking mail 45
taking mail out of the queue 45
Queued (Q) status 43
Add to Recipient List command 165
Adding e-mail address to 165
Forward To submenu 165
Post Office Protocol 245
Post Office Protocol 3 (POP3) 290
Postal Address field 160
Postmaster user 290
Preview Pane 211
Print action 116
from Directory Services window 171
Print Preview command 186
from Directory Services window 171
Print Setup command 186
Printer (fonts)
how to enter in Options 209
printing with strange line breaks 284
Priority column 96
Insert & Expand Recipient submenu 166
Insert Recipient submenu 165
New Message To submenu 165
putting nicknames in 166
Redirect To submenu 165
Remove From Recipient List command 165
removing nicknames from 166
Removing recipient from 165
Quick Start Guide 242
Priority Popup
Quit with messages queued to be sent
how to enter in Options 226
Quitting Eudora 19
in incoming mail 53
in outgoing mail 22
Priority popup
Quoted-printable
default for replies 28
Turning off 255
in composition window 27
levels 27
Quoted-Printable button 22
Proportional (fonts)
R
how to enter in Options 209
PureVoice
attaching an audio file to a message 33
Purge Messages command 190
Put text attachments in body of message
how to enter in Options 207
Readme.txt file 242
Real name
how to enter in Options 198
Real Name option 84
RECENT format (in Options) 219
Redirect
automatically put new message in the queue 65
definition 290
no signature 66
Q
QPopper 257
Turbo redirect by default option 65
Query field 168
Redirect To action 116
Query results (Directory Services) 169
Queue a message bigger than ? K
how to enter in Options 226
Queue a message with no subject
how to enter in Options 226
Redirected status (diagonal arrow) 65
Redo command 187
Refresh command 149
Registered Drivers column 172
Registering Eudora 18
Regular expression in Find Messages window 124
Regular Expressions
Matches regular expressions in filters 114
Rejected messages, sending 66
Remote domain 290
Renaming a mail folder 102
Renaming a mailbox 102
Queue mail 43
Change Queueing dialog 44
editing before sending 45
for a certain time 44
Immediate send option 43
Next time queued messages are sent option 44
On or after option 45
Queue button 43
Queue For Delivery command 43
Right now option 44
Replied status (left arrow) 63
Reply
Send Message Right now option 44
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how to enter in Options 209
Select a default Stationery for new messages
how to enter in Options 204
Select All command 187
Select defaults when not using Stationery
how to enter in Options 204
Select newly inserted messages (FUMLUB)
how to enter in Options 213
Send button 23, 43
in a filter with stationery 73
Include yourself option 63
Put original To recipients in Cc field option 63
Reply command 63
with stationery 73
Reply to All With submenu 190
Reply with action 116
Replying Options
Send mail
all at once 43
Include yourself 63
at a certain time 44
Change Queueing dialog 43
Mail Transfer Options dialog 46
replies 63
Put original To recipients in Cc field option 63
Replying options 206
Send button 43
Reply-To field
Send Immediately command 43
Send Message Right now option 44
Send Queued Messages command 44, 46
sending queued mail when checking mail 45
with a password 285
in Filters 113
Resize bar, in a docked window 133
Retrieve From Server (Fetch) button 52
Retrieve messages marked for retrieval option 58
Retrieve new mail option 58
Retrieve only message headers 58
Return address
how to enter in Options 198
Return Address option 84
Return address option 283
Return Receipt button 23
RFC
definition 290
RFCs 246
Right arrow, in the Status column 64, 95
Right mouse button 239
Right now option 44
with server instructions 46
Send Message Right now option 44
Send on check
how to enter in Options 200, 204
Send on check option 45
Send plain and styled version in message
how to enter in Options 214
Send plain text only
how to enter in Options 214
Send queued messages option 58
Send styled text only
how to enter in Options 214
Send the signature with styles
how to enter in Options 214
Send To Back command 194
Send to Browser command 239
Sender/Recipient (Who) column 96
Sending Mail Options
Right-click
definition 239
RPA
definition 290
Immediate send option 43
Send on check 45
S
Sending Mail options 203
Sending rejected messages again 66
Save mail as text
Separator
adding to main toolbar 144
removing from main toolbar 144
Server 290
e-mail (Internet), how to obtain 257
Server configuration
how to enter in Options 200
Server option 86
Server Options action 116
Server Status column 97
as a single file 127
Guess Paragraphs option 127
Include Headers option 127
Save password
how to enter in Options 200
Save password option 50
Saving messages 41
Screen (fonts)
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Server status popup 57
Shared folder 290
Skip messages over ? K in size
how to enter in Options
POP server 201
Sharing a PC 243
Shift key
and toolbar buttons 143
Shift+Space 99
Skip Rest action 117
SMTP Authentication 46
SMTP authentication
for personalities 85
Shift+Space modifier
change to Read or Unread status 95
Show attachment icons
how to enter in Options 212
Show category icons
how to enter in Options 210
Show cool bars
how to enter in Options 210
Show cool bars option 141
Show formatting toolbar
how to enter in Options 214
Show Mailbox Columns
how to enter in Options 213
Show mailbox lines
SMTP server
how to enter in Options 203
SMTP server (outgoing)
how to mention in Options 199
SMTP Server option 85
SMTP server option 283
Sort submenu 187
Sort, group by subject 118
Sorting 117
Sorting in ascending order 117
Sorting in descending order 117
Spacebar 51
how to enter in Options 213
Show mailbox lines option 95
Show MDI task bar
how to enter in Options 210
Show MDI task bar option 144
Show message preview pane
how to enter in Options 211
Show message preview pane option 99
Show status bar
Speak action in Filters 115
Spell check as you type 35
Spell check manually 37
Spell Checking options 215
Sponsored mode 16
Start button 168
Start Eudora and it’s not the default mailer
how to enter in Options 226
Starting Eudora 19
starts with option 114
Stationery
how to enter in Options 210
Show status bar option 142
Show toolbar
definition 291
deleting 72
how to enter in Options 210
Show toolbar option 141
Show toolbar tips
how to enter in Options 210
Show toolbar tips option 142
Sidebars
modifying 72
Stationery command 193
Stationery directory 240
Stationery files
storage 240
Stationery messages
changing 72
in quoted text with styles 63
Signature
creating 72
definition 291
deleting 69
creating a default 73
deleting 72
Signature popup 22
opening 72
Signature window 67
Signatures
Stationery Window 70
Status
and redirect 66
and stationery 70
-, never sent 95
changing 69
creating 68
storage 240
, read or unsendable 95
Sigs directory 240
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol 245, 291
Size button 23
Size column 97
Size submenu 30
Status Bar command 239
Status column 95
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Status field, of Directory Services 169
Stop button 168
Tip of the Day command 195
Title bar
styled and plain text 29
Subject column 97
for incoming mail 52
for outgoing mail 21
tlx files 242
Subject field
To button
changing in message summaries 55
in a forwarded message 64
in Filters 113
in Directory Services 170
in the Address Book 161
To field
in incoming mail 53
in a reply 63
in outgoing mail 25
in Filters 113
Switch views for Find
how to enter in Options 226
System requirements 15
in outgoing mail 25
Attach File 32
toc files 241
Toolbar
adding a separator line 144
adding buttons 142
changing placement of a button 144
in incoming mail 52
in outgoing mail 21
main 140
removing a button 144
removing a separator line 144
show/hide 239
T
Tab key
switching fields with 25
and taskbar 145
closing 138
creating 137
default 135
opening and activating 136
reorganizing 136
using Shift key 143
Toolbar command 239
Top command 138
Tow Truck icon 52
tab display 137
Table of Contents 291
Tabs
Transfer To action 116
Transferring mail to another mailbox
and creating a mailbox or folder 107
by dragging it 107
by dragging the Tow Truck icon 107
transferring a copy 106
using the Transfer menu 107
Transferring mail to the Out mailbox 106
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
and the Save As command 127
Switching fields with 22
Tabs in Body button 22
Tabs in body of message
how to enter in Options 205
Tabs, windows
contents 137
location 137
showing and hiding 137
Task Error 222
Task Error command 193
Task Error window 152
Task Status 222
Trash button 57
trash.mbx file 241
trash.toc file 241
Task Status command 193
Task Status window 150
Taskbar buttons 144
Taskbar, Eudora 144
Technical Support command 195
Technical support information 18
Technical support number (858) 658-1292 18
Text As Attachment button 22
Text as Attachment button 32
Text symbols, display 23
Tile Horizontal command 194
Tile Vertical command 194
Timed status (clock icon) 45
Tip of the Day 16
Try to delete unread, queued, or unsent mail 105
Turbo redirect by default
how to enter in Options 233
Turbo redirect by default option 65
Typewriter button 24
U
Underline button 23
Underline command 30
Undo command 186
UNIX mail 241
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UNIX server (POP or IMAP)
how to obtain 257
Viewing Web pages 53
unless option 115
W
Warnings
Unload Winsock DLL after closing socket
how to enter in Options 229
Unqualified name, adding domain 85
Try to delete unread, queued, or unsent mail 105
When message emptied from Trash
how to enter in Options 208
When replying to all
how to enter in Options 207
When sending mail with styled text (HTML)
how to enter in Options 214
Where do I find information? 14
Who column 96
Window context menu 138
Window states 129
Window tabs
contents 137
location 137
showing and hiding 137
Windows
Unwrap Selection command (Shift-Wrap Selection) 31
URL
in outgoing mail 34
URLs
in incoming mail 55
Use an alert dialog box option 51
Use Directory button 54
Use Microsoft’s viewer
how to enter in Options 211
Use proportional font by default
how to enter in Options 209
Username 291
Using a personality in a message 90
Using a Signature in a Message 69
using offline 62
UUCP
definition 291
Uuencode
docked 131
floating 133
normal 130
Windows NT server (POP or IMAP)
how to obtain 257
Windows Sockets 258
Winsock
definition 291
Uuencode encoding 33
definition 291
winsock.dll 283
V
Vacation message, creating 117
VAX/VMS server (POP or IMAP)
how to obtain 257
View Source command 239
Viewing an incoming HTML message in your Web brows-
er 239
Word wrap
how to enter in Options 204
World Wide Web 291
WorldMail Server 257
Viewing HTML formatting 239
Viewing Mail Options 53
Mark previewed messages as read after ? second(s)
option 99
Z
Show attachment icons option 53
Show message preview pane option 99
Viewing Mail options 210
Zoom button, in a docked window 132
Zoom windows when opening
how to enter in Options 212
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