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Table 1: A Visual Guide to Eudora Options
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About this Table:
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Eudora's many options allow you to customize its actions; changing a few defaults
might make it a lot easier for you to use. On the menu bar, select Tools
-> Options, then select the "Options Windows" one at a time from the
list on the left of the window. Scroll down to see them all.
To accept all your changes and return to Eudora, click OK.
While the specific selections given here are the ones that I, a former
Pine and CMS mail user, find most convenient, the notes in this table can
be of benefit to anyone using Eudora.
The items in italics apply specifically to me; you'll have to
change them, using your own name, netid, and so on.
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Getting Started
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| Real name: Judith Grobe Sachs |
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| Return address: judygs@uic.edu |
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| Mail Server (Incoming): tigger.cc.uic.edu |
(or icarus.cc.uic.edu or mailserv.uic.edu) |
| Login Name: judygs |
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| SMTP Server (Outgoing): smtpserv8.cc.uic.edu |
Note #1: See
item (7) in Setting Eudora up to use
IMAP |
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Checking Mail
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| Mail Server: tigger.cc.uic.edu |
(or icarus.cc.uic.edu or mailserv.uic.edu) |
| Login Name: judygs |
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| Check for mail every 1 minute(s) |
Note #2: Note
that Eudora will interrupt you (even if you're reading or composing a message)
to display new mail. (See Getting Attention.) |
![[X]](boxcheck.gif)
Send on check
![[ ]](box.gif) Save password |
Note #3:
For security, don't tell Eudora to remember your password. |
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Incoming Mail (Using IMAP)
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Server configuration: 
IMAP |
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| IMAP Mailbox Location Prefix: ~judygs/mail/ |
Note #4: Don't
miss this one unless you want to wait while Eudora lists all the email
accounts on your email service machine, and don't forget the trailing slash
( /). (No, it won't let you look at anyone else's mailboxes.) |
For new mail, download
Minimal headers only
 Full message except
attachments over 0 K |
Note #5: Be
careful if you choose to download only the headers or not to automatically
download larger attachments. Make sure you open the message and double-click
on the icon of any attachment that you want to keep before you delete the
message from the email service machine. |
Authentication style:
Passwords |
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When I delete a message:
Mark it as deleted |
Add'l Note Added for Eudora 4.2:
You can also use the Move it to Trash option, but the mailbox that
you move it to must be an IMAP mailbox on the server. (The default
Trash mailbox is on your PC and is not compatible with IMAP.) |
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Sending Mail
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| Return address: judygs@uic.edu |
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| Domain to add to unqualified addresses:
uic.edu |
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| SMTP server: smtpserv8.cc.uic.edu |
See Note #1 |
Immediate send
Send on check |
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| Select a default Stationery for new messages:
<No Default> |
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| Default signature: Judygs ACCC |
Note #6: If
you want Eudora to sign all your outgoing messages, you have to have a signature
file. (See "How to use Eudora" on page 4 of the Eudora Quick Start Guide.)
You won't see the signature while you're composing messages; Eudora appends
it when you send it. |
Word wrap
May use quoted-printable |
Note #7:
Don't select quoted-printable; in fact, don't use it at all unless you really
need to have accents and other special characters and you know for sure
that your recipient's email program can handle it. |
Keep copies
Tabs in body of message |
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Replying
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If you select Automatic Fcc to original mailbox, when you reply
to a message you've moved into an archive mailbox, Eudora will automatically
save a copy of the reply in that mailbox. (See also (3)
How to save copies of outgoing messages.)
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Attachments
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See also: Note #5
Encoding Method
MIME
BinHex
Uuencode |
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Put text attachments in body of message |
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| Attachment directory C:\ stuff |
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Delete attachments when emptying Trash |
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Delete automatic attachments:
Never
After sending
message
When message emptied
from Trash |
Note #8: The
"delete automatic attachments" options won't delete attachments that you've
clicked on to download. You won't have any "automatic attachments" unless
you select Full message except attachments over n K in the Incoming
Mail options window. |
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Viewing mail
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Message Window
Use Microsoft's viewer |
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| Message window width: 80 Message window
height: 20 |
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Preview Pane
Show message preview
pane
Mark previewed messages
as read after second(s) |
Note #9: Turning
preview pane off and maximizing the open mailbox index window solved most
of the problems I had adjusting to Eudora as a former pine/CMS mail user.
In the preview pane, Eudora shows "minimal headers" (not From: even!), and
Mark previewed messages as read doesn't work as I expected it to. |
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Automatically open next message |
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Zoom windows when opening |
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Allow executables in HTML content |
Don't want to fall prey to email viruses/worms? Then don't
check this option. |
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Mailboxes
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Close messages with mailboxes can be very useful. I don't use the
Label and Priority columns, so I turned them off.
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Styled Text
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Show formatting toolbar
When sending mail with styled text (HTML)
Send both plain and
styled
Send styled text
only
Send plain text
only
Ask me each time |
Note #10: On
styled text: just one word -- don't. You know how annoying it is to get
messages with HTML tags showing! |
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Miscellaneous
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Switch messages with:
Unmodified arrow keys
Ctrl+arrow keys
Alt+arrow
keys |
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Empty Trash when exiting |
Note #11:
For local mailboxes (the ones that Eudora manages itself), deleted messages
are moved out of the mailbox into the Trash mailbox, and then you actually
delete them with Special -> Empty
Trash. (Or, if this option is checked, they're deleted automatically
when you exit Eudora.) For messages that you delete from mailboxes on the
email service machine (the ones that Eudora uses IMAP to manage), deleted
messages stay in the mailbox but are marked for deletion; to actually delete
them, you select Messages -> Remove
Deleted Messages while that mailbox is open. |
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Say OK to alerts after 120 second(s) |
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Turbo redirect by default |
Note #12: Eudora's
help says this about this option: "If this is on and you select Redirect
To, a redirected message is created ..., the message is queued to be
sent, and the original message is deleted." |
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Intercept Netscape mailto: URLs |
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Include outdated ‘Return-Receipt-to' |
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Automatically expand nicknames |
Note #13:
This one is very important for former Pine and CMS mail users. Without it,
Eudora leaves the address book nicknames in the headers! (Now that's a great
way to end up sending mail to the wrong person, isn't it?) Don't press Enter
after you type a nickname in a header field, either -- that will just type
a newline. |
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Fonts
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These are up to you, except do not check Use proportional font by default.
(Remember all those letters you got with exceedingly long lines? Checking
this box is one cause of them.)
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Spell Checking
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Also up to you. I have it run automatically when I send mail. Hint: If
you see something other than spelling that you want to change, press Esc.
This cancels the spell check and Eudora will give you a chance to cancel
the send as well.
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Date Display
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Up to you, but if you choose Age-sensitive and the default RECENT format, keep
in mind that only the time will be displayed on today's messages.
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Getting Attention
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Here I just checked Open mailbox; that seems to be least intrusive to me.
If you unselect Play a sound, you can get rid of that annoying sound Eudora
makes when you receive new mail. Or you can change it to a sound you like. See
also Note #2. |
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