Configuring Eudora for Email on a Macintosh

The following series of screen snapshots indicates how your Eudora should be configured.
  1. To ensure that your email settings are available on whichever Mac you use, you have to create the settings in a folder called "User Work". A template file called Eudora Settings which is found in the top level folder called "Email Instructions" should be copied to this folder.
  2. Double click this file. Various other files and folders will be created by this action
  3. Select Settings from the Special menu
    Eudora email settings
  4. The getting started box is the only really critical setting. If you registered for email in 2000, your email server will be the central Exchange system. Your Username on this system is actually a composite of three values, separated by back and forward slashes respectively. In this composite, IC is the overall domain for Imperial College, rp04 is your login ID (and takes the form of your initials, with a number if you are not the first person to use this combination) and your email alias, which takes the form firstname.surname. Since there is often a lot of confusion between your login ID and your email alias, its worth emphasizing the obvious, ie your login (and password) is what you use to gain access to computer systems, whilst your email alias is what is used to send YOU email. Thus your return address comprises your email alias@ic.ac.uk.

    If your email is configured on the Departmental POP server, you should instead specify argon.ch.ic.ac.uk as the email server, and JUST your login ID as your Username.
    Basic Eudora setting

  5. Move to the checking email box. Ensure that the IMAP box is checked if you are an exchange user, and POP if you use the departmental argon.ch.ic.ac.uk system. In the download options, you may wish to select Minimal headers if reading email using a modem, and full full message if connected to a high bandwidth network.
    IMAP and POP settings
  6. You will probably want to send attachments. Ensure the encoding method is set to MIME, so that Windows users will be able to read them, and set an attachments folder to receive them.
    Attachments
  7. To send a message, select New Message from the message menu (or button bar on the left).
    Attachments
  8. Attach documents as follows (or dran-n-drop them from the desktop to the area indicated by x-attachments).
    Attachments
  9. To read email, File, check Mail (or the button bar). URLs and attachments can be double clicked in the message window to open them.
  10. If you wish to read email from several "personalities", set it up here
    Personality
    Personality extra