Using Eudora 6 Using Eudora 6
Eudora is a graphical mail client that runs on Windows (and Macintosh) computers. The current version is Eudora 6.0.
Whenever you start Eudora, you get a dialogue box telling you that "Eudora is not the default mail program. Would you like it to be the default mail program?" You can check the box "Don't ask me anymore." You must then select Yes or No to the default mail question.
One time you will see the dialogue box that tells you "SpamWatch has been disabled." Click OK to close the box.
Before opening mailboxes, Eudora shows you a Tip of the Day unless you uncheck "Show Tips at Startup." You can view the daily tip from Help | Tip of the Day.
From a computer on the Engineering Computer Network, go to Start | All Programs | Mail & Scheduling | Eudora to start the program. When you launch Eudora and provide your password, Eudora opens to your Inbox.
You can sort your mail by subject, sender, date, etc., by clicking on the appropriate column. By default, Eudora displays your messages in date sent order.
Icons for (l. to r.) Check Mail; New Message; Reply; Reply All; Forward; Attach Document
To write and send mail, click on the New Msg button on the toolbar, pressing Ctrl N, or going to Message | New Message. A new window opens.
To: The message recipient(s). Enter here the person(s) to whom you want to send the message.
From: Automatically filled in with your name and email address.
Subject: Put something here. It can give the recipient a clue about the content of your message.
Cc: [Carbon copy] Enter here the person(s) who are receiving the message for information purposes.
Bcc: [Blind carbon copy] Enter here the person(s) to get the message. No one else who receives the message knows that this person(s) has received the message.
Attached: Documents to be included with the message. Click on the Attach icon or go to Message | Attach to open the Attach File dialogue box that lets you browse file listings to select the documents to send. You can select more than one document in the same directory by holding the Ctrl key as you select the desired files. Click the Attach button when you’ve selected the desired files in the current directory.
To send email to some one in the college or on campus, open the Directory Services
window. In the Query area, enter the name or part of the name for the person you
want to send mail to. The illustration shows the directory entry for Fred Streicher.
To send mail, select his entry (it is highlighted) and press the To: button.
To delete a message, highlight that message in the message list, or open it.
Then press the Trash icon 
in the toolbar, select Message | Delete, or press Ctrl
D. Eudora moves the message to the Trash to be deleted in seven days.
Go to Special | Make Address Book Entry (or press Ctrl
K). If the message is open, follow the same steps. Eudora uses the full
name as the nickname; you may want to change to nickname to something shorter.You can create mailboxes and folders to organize your saved mail. To create a new mailbox, go to Mailbox | <Dominant> | New…. Name the mailbox. If you want to create a folder, which can hold mailboxes, click the option Make it a folder when you create a new mailbox. All mailboxes and folders appear in the left-hand column listing. You may need to right click the <Dominant> mailbox and select Refresh Mailbox List to see new listings.
To save a message in a folder other than your Inbox, drag the message from the current window to the folder you want to save it in. Or us the menus: Transfer | Dominant | mailbox or Transfer | Dominant New | mailbox to create a new folder as you file the message. You can move the message to folders on the mail server or to your local mail folder on your home directory or hard drive. To save a message as a file, select the message, then go to File | Save As. Eudora will name the document using the subject line text, but you can change the name.
Eudora lets you create and use multiple signatures. To create a signature, go to Tools | Signatures right click in the window that opens and select New…. Name the signature and then enter the text. To set a signature as the default one, go to Tools | Options | Composing Mail and select the signature file in the Signature pull-down menu. To choose the signature file to use with a message you are writing, click on the pull-down arrow (circled in the illustration) in the signature field to select the desired signature. To change your signature, select from the Signatures window, double click the one to edit, make changes, then save it (File | Save).
Signatures are .txt files saved in H:\Mail\Sigs.
Eudora lets you check mail from many different mail servers. The engineering mail account is the dominant account or personality. If you have another email account as well as an engineering mail account, you can create a personality for the other mail account. Before you begin, find the name of the incoming and outgoing server for the other mail account. Go to Tools | Personalities, right click in the Personalities window (where your folder listing was on the left side of the screen) , and select New. Right click in the Personalities window and select New…. The New Account Wizard opens. Select Create a brand new e-mail account, click Next, then name the new personality. Click Next. At the appropriate prompts, enter your name, email address, login name, incoming server, and select POP or IMAP, and click Next after each dialogue box is filled in. Enter the name of the outgoing server. Click Finish.
When the personality is finished, you are prompted for the account password. To check the other mail after that, open personalities and right click on the desired personality and select Check Mail.
By default, Eudora saves copies of messages that you send in the Out mailbox
in the Mail folder (usually on your H:\ drive). The
Eudora Out box is found in the mailbox listing above the <Dominant> folders. (Neither
the "In" nor the "Trash" mailboxes above and below "Out"
are used. The Trash folder under the <Dominant> personality is where
discarded mail is sent.) Kept copies take up some of
your home directory quota. If you run out of home directory quota, a good place
to reclaim space is to delete messages in the Out mailbox. To discontinue keeping
copies, go to Tools | Options | Composing Mail and uncheck Keep copies.
You can resend an already sent message: open the Out mailbox, click to select the desired message, and go to Message | Send Again. The message opens and you can change the contents and the recipients, if desired.
If you send the same information in many messages, create a stationery file that contains the static information. Start a new message or go to Tools | Stationery and then right click in the resulting window. Write the static information. Go to File | Save As Stationery. The file is saved with the name you supply and a “.sta” suffix. To use a saved stationery file, go to Message | New Message With and select the stationery file you want to use.
Stationery is saved in H:\Mail\Stationery.
Use filters to organize mail. For example, if you are on the Tourbus mailing list, you can automatically put all messages from that list into a Tourbus folder. Go to Tools | Filters and click New. Select incoming and specify that the From: field includes the text “Tourbus.” The action is Transfer To and select the Tourbus mailbox. If you haven’t already created a Tourbus mailbox, select New… and name the mailbox “Tourbus.” Save the filter and it will run whenever you check mail. You’ll know that you received new mail because the Tourbus mailbox will be bold when it includes an unread message.
Search your mailbox from Edit | Find | Find Messages, or press Ctrl F. The dialogue box allows you to specify the what you are looking for (message of a certain age, priority,…), where it appears (header, body, …), and what mailboxes to search. You can set several criteria for the search.
Go to Tools | Options to set preferences for how Eudora looks and responds. You can set how often or if Eudora regularly checks for new mail, use a message preview window, turn on and off warnings associated with various actions, if HTML formatting is used or not.
In Tools | Options you can set Moodwatch to indicate the level
(0 to 3 chili peppers) of offensive language in messages you send and receive.
There are a number of Junk Mail settings in Tools | Options. The Eudora junk mail filters work with SpamWatch, which does not run on our mail server, though some of the junk filtering does. To handle junk and spam, CSS filters mail and moves mail to a Spam folder, if you have created it.
The Content Concentrator makes messages more readable by trimming excessive headers, quoting, and signatures when messages are displayed. Set it up in Tools | Options.
To monitor how many messages you have in any mailbox and how much space it takes to store that mailbox, look at the bottom left corner of any mailbox screen. You’ll see three numbers: the first is the number of messages in the mailbox, the second is how many kilobytes of space that mailbox is using. The third number is wasted space that will be recaptured when deleted and transferred messages are moved and the mailbox compacted.
Message that you write and send are kept (unless you change the setting) in the Out box (H:\Mail\out.mbx) Sent mail is saved on H:\ in out.mbx, not in the Sent folder used by Mozilla and Webmail. The Eudora Out box is shown in the mailbox listing above the folders stored on the mail server. Neither the In nor the Trash mailboxes above and below Out are used. The Trash folder under the <Dominant> personality is where discarded mail is sent.
General information about email programs and specific information about Eudora can be found on the CSS email web page.
The University of Iowa Information Technology Services web pages contain documentation about Eudora. For example, read their information on Filtering Eudora Messages.
Qualcomm, the company that sells Eudora, has tutorials to learn more about its Eudora Pro email software. Here are Eudora tutorials.
CSS | College of Engineering | © The University of Iowa 2008.
All rights reserved. |