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Table 2: How-to-be-happy-using-Eudora (In general and with IMAP) Tips
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Most important note: Not all mailboxes are IMAP mailboxes.
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Only the mailboxes that you keep on the email server are IMAP mailboxes,
and IMAP's advantages (listed in IMAP: What's
New in Electronic Mail) apply only to these mailboxes. This includes, in particular,
the "access from anywhere" advantage.
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Tip #1 (IMAP): How to tell which
mailboxes and folders are local (on your PC) and which are IMAP mailboxes
on the email service machine. That is, how to tell which are the mailboxes
that IMAP manages.
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This one is really easy. All the local folders/messages are at the top of the
Mailboxes tab, under the title Eudora Mail. The ones that are on the server are
at the bottom, under <Dominant>. That includes the Inbox, which (1) lives on
the server and (2) is your official tigger or email-only server maildrop. You
will still have a local Eudora In mailbox (at the top, under Eudora Mail; it's
local, on your personal computer). The Mailboxes tab is open by default in the
right half of the Eudora window. See figure 1, Eudora
with IMAP.
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Tip #2 (IMAP): How Eudora uses
the local In mailbox and the server Inbox.
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When you use IMAP, the Inbox under <Dominant> is your maildrop on
the server. If you only use IMAP (and if you don't have any filters
that involve the In mailbox), you probably won't ever use Eudora's local
In mailbox. But you will use the local In mailbox if you have alternate
personalities that use POP; Eudora will put all incoming mail from all
of your POP personalities into your local In mailbox.
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Tip #3: How to tell Eudora to
put a copy of the message that you're looking at into a particular mailbox.
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Right-click anywhere in the body or header of the message, select Fcc
from the menu, then select the mailbox you want.
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Tip #4: How to tell a message
that you sent from one that you received.
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Eudora uses an italic font in its mailbox indexes for the "messages
summaries" of outgoing messages (even if they haven't been sent yet; see
Tip
#5). This is different from both pine on UNIX and mailbook
on CMS, which use their "Who" column (to use Eudora's term) to indicate
whether a stored message is one you sent or received.
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Tip #5: How to tell whether you've
actually sent a particular message.
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Eudora lets you Save outgoing messages without sending them, which
is a good thing. But Eudora also has the philosophy "once an outgoing message,
always an outgoing message," so it displays outgoing messages that you've
already sent in the same window that you use to compose new outgoing messages.
(Well, the Send button is grayed out, but that's easy to miss.)
So how can you tell whether you've actually sent an outgoing message? In addition
to its message summary being italic (see Tip #4), an outgoing
message that has been sent has a checkmark in the status column in the mailbox
index. (Because it's also the column where Eudora puts the blue dot marking
an unread incoming message, the status column is labeled at the top with a blue
dot. See figure 1.)
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Tip #6: How to tell Eudora to
check for incoming mail.
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There are three ways:
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automatically (the Checking
Mail options window; see table 1).
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click on the Check Mail icon (it looks like an envelope being put into
a box), and
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File -> Check Mail.
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Tip #7: How to delete a message,
remove a mailbox, rename a folder, or do just about anything else you'd
want to do.
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When in doubt, right-click. As is generally true in Windows, if you right-click
on a name, in a window, or even on the toolbar or status bar, Eudora will
display a menu of tasks related to that item or window. So, for example,
to delete or rename a mailbox, right-click on its name in the Mailboxes
tab. (See also Tip #8 and Tip #11.)
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Tip #8 (IMAP): How to refresh
a mailbox or folder index.
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With IMAP, you can keep your mailboxes and folders on the email service
machine, allowing you to access and change them behind Eudora's
back. Whenever you do this, you have to refresh the mailbox or folder's
index in Eudora. This is a right-click function (Tip #7):
In the Mailboxes tab, right-click on the folder or mailbox name, then select
Refresh
Mailbox List for folders or Resynchronize Mailbox for mailboxes.
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Tip #9: How to save your work
in Eudora Tools.
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Somewhat atypically for Windows programs these days, a number of the Eudora
Tools windows don't have buttons to click to save your work and exit the
window. Generally, using File -> Save
(if you want to keep the changes you've made) and then File
-> Close will take care of that. However, even if you have made
changes that you want to keep, you could try clicking on the close window
button (in the upper right corner of the tool's window). Eudora will open
a dialog box asking whether you want to save your changes before it actually
closes the window.
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Tip #10: How to get the toolbar
back.
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Accidentally lost your toolbar? (I do it all the time!) To get it back,
right-click the status bar (at the bottom of the Eudora window, to the
left of the spinning yin-yang), and select Toolbar from the menu.
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Tip #11: How to customize the
toolbar. And Tip #11 (IMAP): How to Remove Deleted Messages the easy way
(or undelete them).
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There is a toolbar icon that removes the IMAP deletion mark (the red X
in the server status column) and another that does Message
-> Remove Deleted Messages, each with just one click, and it's
easy to add them to your toolbar. The icons are, respectively, a Trash
can with a green arrow pointing out of it (the opposite of the delete Trash
can) and the word Purge. To add them
to your toolbar, right-click on the toolbar, then select Customize....
On the General tab in the Customize dialog box, select Message.
Then drag and drop the undelete and purge icons to the toolbar. (I dropped
them right beside the delete Trash can; it seems to me that they belong
there.) Like the other Eudora toolbar icons, they'll be grayed out except
when you actually can use them.
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Tip #12 (IMAP): A caution about
using IMAP with attachments.
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Be careful if you choose to download only the headers of IMAP messages
or not to automatically download larger attachments. Don't Purge
(see Tip #11) any messages that you might want to
read or that have attachments you might want to keep from your Inbox until
you've actually read them or downloaded them. (To download an attachment,
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