Eudora for Windows

After you set Eudora up, be sure to look at Safe Email Viewing with Eudora to set the options you need to make your Eudora email safe from viruses and worms.

• What version should I use?
• Downloading and Upgrading Eudora
• -- Eudora Anti-Spam Functions
• Choosing Eudora as Your Email Program
• Installing Eudora
• Opening and Closing Eudora
• Installing over an Old Version of Eudora?
• Importing Data from Other Email Programs into Eudora

• Qualcomm is no longer developing Eudora. The last version of Qualcomm Eudora that the ACCC supported is Eudora 6.2; it is still available for download from Eudora. If you want to continue using a Qualcomm Eudora, we recommend that you use Eudora 6.2. (Though Eudora now has Version 7.1 available; it might be less buggy that Version 7.0 was.)
  
  
• And now you have a new option: How about Eudora 8.0.0b3? Eudora is still being developed, as a "skin" for the Mozilla Thunderbird email program. The official beta of the Mozilla Eudora is now available. I have been using it for a yearon both Windows and Macs and I like it enough to have converted to using it as my primary email program. Because it is based on Thunderbird, so it isn't quite as "beta" as it might seem. Your mileage will of course vary. Penelope Eudora Releases.

1. Download the Eudora Installer:
2. If you are using Eudora 6.2, go to Eudora, and download version 6.2 (or 7.1 if you wish).
3. If you are using Mozilla Penelope Eudora, go to Penelope Releases, and download the Windows binary.
4. Double-click the .exe file's icon to run the installer.

• When you install Version 6 and you use IMAP, it will tell you that you can't use its Spam Watch because our IMAP server doesn't support it. That is true. But by default, you are already set up to use the ACCC's antispam filters instead. (It's not that our IMAP server is under featured; the vast majority of IMAP servers won't support Spam Watch.)
  
  
• Versions 6, 7, and 8 of Eudora all have a Junk function works well as an addition to the ACCC's antispam filters. But you have to keep watch the Junk mail function because messages you want will end up being labeled as Junk. There's a solution to this problem -- an option to tell the Junk filter to skip addresses in your addressbook. Turn on that option and add the addresses that you get email from that might look like spam to your addressbook. That setting is in Special -> Settings -> Junk.
  
  
• The Junk mailbox of an IMAP account should be on the server. And you probably want to designate a mailbox for the Junk filter to put the non-junk addresses in. That setting is in Junk Extras.

• Eudora is not an email account in itself; it is simply a program that connects to your UIC account to download and send email. To use Eudora, you must use it in conjunction with your ACCC account on tigger, icarus, or email-only account on mailserv. Actually, we recommend that everyone open and use an account on mailserv for their email, even if they already have an account on tigger or icarus.
  
  
• Security: With your password, Eudora allows you to only prevent others from "checking" your email (downloading new mail). It does not stop people from reading email that you have already downloaded to your computer. Anyone who has access to your computer also has access to the files on that computer (i.e., your email). To prevent others from seeing your mail, you must be sure to delete it (but deleted files can often be recovered), or use a floppy disk that you can take with you, use an encryption program (but that is not supported by the ACCC). Note: Because IMAP allows you to store all your email on the server -- where it will be protected by your password -- using it can provide additional security. For more information on IMAP, see Where Do You Do Email? below.
  
  
• Eudora supports SSL transport. The ACCC requires SSL Alternate Port for Incoming Email. SSL provides encryption for your password and incoming email. (SSL is mostly important for your password; without SSL, your password is sent to your email server in the clear. That's not a good thing.) Instructions on how to turn on SSL are in Safe Email Viewing.

Installing Eudora

1. After the Eudora install file finishes downloading, double-click on the Eudora .exe install file.
2. Click OK to extract the Eudora 6.2 files.
3. You will be warned that, if you are upgrading a previous version of Eudora, you should install the upgrade in the directory that you have your current version.
4. Click Next> on the first Installer screen.
5. The next screen is the Eudora license screen. Read it and click Yes to accept it.
6. On the next screen, select the Eudora features to install. If you have always used Eudora, you won't need the Imports, so you can uncheck them. Click Next> to continue.
7. The next screen chooses the directory to install Eudora in. Most likely Eudora will get it right: the folder you had your old installation in, or a default folder if it's a new install. If you want to change the installer's selection, click the Browse... button to select a different directory. Click Next> when you're finished.
8. Next select the directory that you want your email, settings, and addressbooks stored in. Again, Eudora most likely will get it right, but if you want to change it, click the Browse... button to select a different directory.
9. The installer will list your selections; click Next> to continue.
10. The installer copies the files into the proper folders. Click Next> when you're finished.
11. The installer will ask you if you want to create an icon for Eudora on your desktop. Click Yes or No.
12. Click Yes on the dialog box saying the installation was successful.
13. You will be asked whether you want to Restart your computer now or later. Select one or the other and click Finish.

Next start Eudora and set up your account.

Start -> Programs -> Eudora -> Eudora (or wherever it is on your computer)

To close Eudora, select File -> Exit or or click the Close button.

Eudora will open the way you closed it, so if you want your Inbox open when you open it, leave it open when you close it.

Note: if you are upgrading from a very old version of Eudora (Version 4 or 5.1) and it won't open after you upgrade, first try the suggestions at this Eudora Support Page: Installing upgrades over older versions (Windows). (The suggestions are various ways to make sure that you are executing the new Eudora application.)

If that doesn't work, there has been local UIC experience that if you receive one of these two error messages when you try to open Eudora after you update:

Error reading from network. Cause: connection timed out (10060)
Could not connect to local host. Cause: (connection refused) (10061)

You can delete your current eudora.ini and then you will be able to connect. The easiest way to do this is to:

1. Start -> Search -> All Files and Folders
2. In the Search Companion dialog box, click All Files and Folders.
3. Type: eudora.ini
4. The eudora.ini file will likely be in your C:\Eudora\ directory; in the Look in box, your best bet is to click the C: drive. (Unless you installed Eudora somewhere else.)
5. Click Search.
6. The file you want to delete is the Text file, not the Shortcuts to it. To delete it, click to highlight the eudora.ini file, and click the red X in the toolbar.

These instructions are for Windows XP; the process is similar for other Windows operating systems.

After you delete your Eudora.ini file, you will have to re-enter your accounts again and select options, but if you use another email program, the chances are that you can import most of the account settings from that email program.

1. Open Eudora, then select File -> Import ...
2. You can input mailboxes from Netscape Messenger, or mail, addressbooks, and personalities from Outlook (including Outlook Express and Corporate Time Outlook Connector). The Import Mail and Addresses window opens.
3. Select the email program you want to import from, and click OK.
   
   
4. And that's it. When the import is finished, you'll get an alert that says you'll have to restart Eudora to use your new address books, and when you Exit, it will ask you if you want to save the changes in your Address books. Click Yes.

That was amazingly easy. I imported from Outlook Connector, where I have judygs@tigger.uic.edu set up for email. Eudora brought judygs@tigger.uic.edu in as an IMAP personality, brought in my Outlook local folders, and brought in my monster Outlook contact addressbook in just a few seconds. I am hugely impressed. (Of course, you cannot connect to judygs@tigger.uic.edu with Eudora any more. But that doesn't change this example of Eudora's capacity to import from other email programs.)

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