Eudora 4.1 offers a very unique problem when configuring: IMAP vs. POP. These are two different protocols for how your email is handled. IMAP stands for Internet Message Access Protocol, while POP stands for Post Office Protocol.
Although IMAP is where to go on the UIC campus, Eudora 4.1 can handle both types of protcols, unlike other email programs. However, you must ask yourself the following question: Do you wish to access your email from more than one computer? If not, POP should be suitable for your needs. However, if you wish to have access to your email from home, office, or on the road, consider configuring Eudora for IMAP.
POP (Post Office Protocol) is a system that is widely in use right now and works with most email programs. (This is also the method used with CMS on the UICVM system.) It relies on downloading messages from your mail server and placing them on your local computer. It is most useful when people wish to work in what's called "offline" mode. That is, messages are downloaded and processed on your local computer and erased from the mail server.
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All of these folders reside on your computer's hard drive. Although it is possible to leave messages on the server via POP, this does not give you full access to ALL of your messages if you decide you need to access your email from a second location. (After all, if you're at home, you can't look in the Outbox on your work computer, since it is on a local drive. |
To configure Eudora to function with POP, click the arrow. 
IMAP stands for Internet Message Access Protocol. This is the newest and most dynamic way to access email. Ironically, it builds on old ideas. When dummy terminals were attached to a mainframe computer, email (as well as all other programs) were accessed and stored on a central location. POP came about to allow people greater flexibility than the old email programs had. IMAP combines the best of both worlds. It allows you the flexibility that POP email programs had, such as Microsoft Mail, Lotus cc:Mail, and GroupWise. But it also allows you to create and maintain ALL of your mailboxes on the mail server. This gives you the ability to access your email from home, work, even on the road.
What's even better about using IMAP is that you don't even need to have Eudora to access your email at home or on the road. Configuring any email program will be sufficient, including the new WebMail that is being offered at UIC.
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Although this looks similar to mailboxes in POP, notice the network connector at the bottom of each mailbox, indicating that these mailboxes reside on the mail server. |
To configure Eudora to function with IMAP, click the arrow.
