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Personalities

Eudora allows you to set up multiple personalities in a separate window pane. Just right-click in it and choose "New". Instead of the account setup wizard that opens, I recommended going directly to advanced setup. Recommended settings for each type of personality below.

Multiple Personalities for multiple mail servers

You may have accounts on both mailserv and tigger (or icarus). Set up dual personalities to check mail on both (I suggest using IMAP - don't forget to include the IMAP mailboxes prefix of "mail/" and check the box for checking mail. Any incoming Eudora filters will act on both accounts, but server-side filters are account-specific.

If you have an ISP mail account that supports POP or IMAP, you can also set up an account for that. At your office machine, you however still need to use smtpserv.cc.uic.edu as the outgoing mail server, whereas on a home computer you'll need to enter your ISP's SMTP server as outgoing mail server for both UIC and ISP personalities (unless you're dialing into UIC).
ACCC does not yet support authentication for sending mail, so leave that box unchecked.

Multiple Personalities for multiple locations (home/office)

Unless you are using the UIC dialup lines, you will have an Internet Service Provider at home, which means you need to use their SMTP server for outgoing mail, as the UIC SMTP servers only accept mail from on-campus machines. If you are using a laptop, it is inconvenient to switch this setting everytime you take it from home to the office or vice versa. Setting up separate personalities simplifies this task:

• Make one personality (perhaps the dominant one) for your office, with your UIC mail settings: smtpserv.cc.uic.edu for outgoing mail, and tigger.uic.edu, icarus.uic.edu, or mailserv.uic.edu for incoming mail, using IMAP or POP as you prefer.
• Then create another personality for home use, which doesn't check mail at all, but uses your ISP's SMTP server (e.g. smtp.comcast.net) for outgoing mail. When sending mail from home, pick the "home" personality, and when sending mail from the office, use the dominant one.
• For both personalities you should use "uic.edu" as the default domain, and your UIC email address (netid@uic.edu) as return address.
• If you want, make yet another personality for home use only, using the ISP-provided mail address as return address, and reserve it for private use. But that's rather a different "role" as outlined below. If you do use your ISP-provided mail account, you will have already set this up above.
• To switch personalities while sending, click on the "From:" field in your message header while writing it. You can pick from your predefined personalities there.

Multiple Personalities for roles (mail sending personalities; "virtual personalities")

Sometimes you need to send mail not as a person, but in a specific role or function, using a special mail address associated with that function, e.g. consult@uic.edu for the Client Services Office, or president@whitehouse.gov for you know who. For this purpose, you can set up personalities that never check mail, but just send out mail using the necessary return address. Note that to avoid being classified as spam, your messages need a valid MessageID header, and for that purpose it is still necessary to specify an incoming mail server (make it POP) and account name (your NetID), despite the fact that you will NOT be checking mail with this personality.

Default signatures

Especially when sending mail in some other role, it helps to have multiple signatures defined that list contact info for the specific role. Create these in the signatures pane (Window > Signatures, or use the tabs at bottom left), then edit the personalities to use these signatures. Select the personality in the personalities pane, right-click and choose "Properties", then pick the default signature to use and click OK.