Email Tips: Setting Up Mail In Eudora 6.2.1

Configuring Eudora: Eudora Options (Windows) and Settings (Macs)

The Eudora options are the same in Windows and Macs, but how you get to them is different:

Windows:Tools -> OptionsMacs:Special -> Settings

Click on the icons in the area on the left to open the related options on the screen on the right. We\'re using our fictional staff member, Ada Byron Lovelace, netid adabyron, email account on mailserv as an example. You replace Ada\'s details for your own.

When you\'re finished configuring Eudora, click the OK button on the bottom left.

-- Getting Started

Click on Getting Started

Under Checking Mail: User Name: your netid; Ada types: adabyron Mail Server: the ACCC server your account is on; Ada types: mailserv.uic.edu
Under Sending Mail: Real Name: Ada types: Ada Byron Lovelace SMTP Server: If you only use your computer on campus, use: smtpserv.cc.uic.edu If you use your computer off campus, using a commercial ISP (not the UIC dialin lines):
  • You can use the emailtips, which works regardless of whether you are on or off campus:
    mail.uic.edu
    And check Allow authorization and select an SMTP Relay Personality if the default is not suitable. This is the personality whose userid and password will be used to authenticate to mail.uic.edu.
    Using mail.uic.edu is useful because it works both on and off campus and means that you don\'t have to create an alternate personality if you use the same computer both on and off campus.
    For Eudora for Macs, you also have to set an SSL option
    For Eudora for Windows, also check Required Alternate Port
  • Or use your ISP\'s SMTP server; ask them what its name is.
Email Address : The standard return address that people use at UIC is their uic.edu address; this allows them to change their principle email machine without having to change their actually email address. Thus Ada types: adabyron@uic.edu Make Eudora the default Mailer (Eudora for Mac only) Check if you want to.