If
you have previously used Eudora to retrieve your email from the POP-server on
CMS (that is, from popserv#.cc.uic.edu, with #
being a number between 1 and 6), you need to switch to mailserv.uic.edu
after being notified
by ACCC that an account has been created for you and that it is time to
move. The transition will be totally transparent, you can keep doing what you
were always doing, and you can even use the LMOS (leave mail on server) option
with this new server (it did not work on CMS). You only have one small change
to make in Eudora's configuration:
From the Tools menu, select Options. Choose the topmost category on the left, Getting Started. Change your login name from the old CMS userid (of the form u12345) to your UIC NetID (like jblow). Make sure the return address is entered as yourNetID@uic.edu (as in jblow@uic.edu). Enter the name mailserv.uic.edu for the incoming mail server only (you can also use mailserv.cc.uic.edu). You should have smtpserv#.cc.uic.edu with # a number between 1 and 8 as your outgoing server. Click OK. Done, unless you wish to begin using the IMAP protocol (see next section).
When configuring Eudora, you should be following the CSO documentation on this subject. Here I will just point out a few settings you need to make if you wish to use IMAP with Eudora. Thus I will assume that you have already made the basic configuration settings, such as your identity and personal preferences.
From
the Tools menu, choose Options. Set your incoming and outgoing
mail servers to mailserv.uic.edu as described in the
previous section. Now select Incoming mail, the
third category on the left. Check the radio button for the IMAP protocol. The
available options change, reflecting IMAP options. You need to specify the IMAP
Mailbox Location Prefix, which must be mail/ (the slash
is important). You can choose between downloading full messages (recommended
for on-campus connections) or minimal headers only (recommended for dial-up
connections). You can also specify a limit on attachment size, if you are pressed
for hard disk space. If you choose Minimal Headers, the full message
will be downloaded when you open (=read) it, so you don't ever need to download
junk mail that you delete on the server based on their subject line. This is
also useful if you use a dial-up connection to quickly browse your mail for
important new messages, relegating the less important ones to a later session
on campus.
Next,
scroll down to the Mailboxes category. Make sure that the checkbox for
Server Status is checked, as this is your only way of noticing which
messages have been marked for deletion. Deleting messages in remot IMAP-mailboxes
is a two-step process: marking messages for deletion (done via the Delete
key) and actually purging them (see next page
for efficiently doing this). Messages marked for deletion are distinguished
by a red X in the Server Status column.
These are the only options you need to change for IMAP operation. You may find it useful to keep the task status window open, so you can see what Eudora is doing (and why it may currently be slow to respond to mouse-clicks). If you do, check all boxes in the category Background Tasks.
