Eudora for the Macintosh: Install and Setup

This guide is mostly for configuring Eudora to get your mail from our servers and should be considered supplemental to Eudora's own technical documents. Eudora FAQ pages (Frequently Asked Questions) are enlightening as well as entertaining. Please, read them all.

Some important considerations:

• If you ever plan on using WebMail, the ACCC's Web-based email system that you can use from anywhere, without any setup, you should set Eudora up to use IMAP, not POP.
  
  
• Eudora 6.0 and 6.2.1 can be installed over previous versions of Eudora, except if you are installing Eudora for Mac OS X over Eudora for Eudora in Classic mode. In that case, install Eudora 6 for Mac OS X as a new install, and Eudora 6 will retain your data from your Eudora Classic.
  
  
• 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.

The ACCC now recommends two versions of Eudora for Macs: Version 6.0 and Version 6.2.1.

Which should you use?

• If you're using Mac OS 8 or 9, you must use Eudora for Macs Version 6.0.
  
• If you are using Mac OS X, any version, you should use Eudora for Macs Version 6.2.1.

Eudora 6 has two built-in anti-spam functions.

• 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.)
  
  
• And, Eudora 6's 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, including your email. To prevent others from seeing your mail, you must be sure to delete it (but deleted files can often be recovered), use a floppy disk that you can take with you, or use an encryption program (but that is not supported by the ACCC).
  
  
• Eudora supports SSL transport to protect your password. 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.) Version 6.2.1 of Eudora works has impoved handling of SSL. Instructions on how to turn on SSL are in Safe Email Viewing.

Note: Eudora 6.0 and 6.2.1 can be installed over previous versions of Eudora, except if you are installing Eudora for Mac OS X over Eudora for Eudora in Classic mode. In that case, install Eudora 6 for Mac OS X as a new install, and Eudora 6 will retain your data from your Eudora Classic.

Downloading Eudora

While Qualcomm is not selling Eudora anymore, you can still download it from them; go to the Eudora home page and follow the links.

Installing Eudora 6.0 for Mac Classic

1. After the Eudora install file finishes downloading and it's expanded, double-click on Eudora 6.0C Site (for Classic).
2. Click Continue on the 6.0 splash screen.
3. The next screen is a readme file. It has some important information for you, especially if you are installing Eudora over a previous version. There is a button to print it; you might want to do that. Click Continue to continue.
4. Read and click Agree to accept the license agreement.
5. Pick an install type and click Install.
6. Choose a folder for the install; the logical one is your applications folder or, if you're installing over a previous Eudora, the folder you had your old installation in. Highlight the folder you want it to be installed in and click Choose.
7. The installer copies the files into the proper folders.
8. The installer will ask you if you want it to be your default email application. Click Yes or No.
9. Click Yes on the dialog box saying the installation was successful.

Next start Eudora and set up your account.

Installing Eudora 6.2.1 for Mac OS X

1. After Eudora finishes downloading, and it's expanded for the first time, double-click on Eudora621OSX.sitx.bin to expand that.
2. Double-click on the Eudora 6.2.2 icon to being the install.
3. Click Continue on the 6.2 splash screen.
4. The next screen is a readme file. It has some important information for you, especially if you are installing Eudora over a previous version. There is a button to print it; you might want to do that. Click Continue to continue.
5. Read and click Agree to accept the license agreement.
6. Pick an install type and click Install. It comes with Custom Install highlighted, so:
   • If you're installing over a previous OS X version of Eudora, check Update and existing version to 6.2.1 for OS X and Documentation.
   • If you're installing over a previous Classic version of Eudora or it's a new install, check Install Eudora 6.2.1 for the first time.
7. Choose a folder for the install; the logical one is your applications folder or, if you're installing over a previous Eudora, the Eudora application that you want to update. Highlight the folder you want it to be installed in or application you want updated and click Choose.
8. The installer copies the files into the proper folders.
9. The installer will ask you if you want it to be your default email application. Click Yes or No.
10. Click Yes on the dialog box saying the installation was successful.

Next start Eudora and set up your account.

To open Eudora double-click on the Eudora icon in the Eudora Application folder, three "people" behind an envelope with a pencil in front of it.

In Eudora 6.2, after you have checked email with Eudora, the icon will include the number of new incoming messages you have in your In mailbox in red numbers.

To close Eudora, select Eudora -> Quit Eudora or use Command-Q.

As you open Eudora for the first time, it will ask you whether you want to store your password on your system keychain. Click No.

If you are installing Eudora for the first time -- or any time after it, if you choose the Import Mail command from the File menu -- Eudora will allow you to import settings and mail from another email application.

1. Select File -> Import Mail.
2. Select the email program you want to import email from from the dropdown list and click OK.
3. Select the accounts(s) you want to import; hold down the command key to select individual accounts.
   
   
4. Click Import Account.
5. Eudora will ask which parts of the account you want to import; change the selection if you wish and click OK.
   
   
6. When the import is finished, Eudora will ask you to enter the password(s) for the account(s) you added.

For more information on this option, see "Importing from Other Email Programs" in the Eudora User Manual, a PDF file that you can download from the Qualcomm Eudora Web site: Outstanding Documentation Web page.

You should also find an ImportingMailREADME.pdf file in Applications -> Eudora Applications folder -> Eudora Documentation folder after you install Eudora.

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