Eudora

• Checking and Receiving Mail
• Attaching a Document
• Changing Your Password
• How to Suppress Recipient Lists

  Checking and Receiving Mail 

You can manually check for mail, or set up Eudora to check for mail automatically.

To check for mail manually, do the following:

1. Select File > Check Mail.
2. If Eudora prompts for your password, type your  password in the Password dialog box and click OK (passwords are "case-sensitive").
3. If there is no new mail, a "No New Mail" alert is displayed; click OK.
4. If you have new mail, Eudora transfers the messages one by one and then displays a "New Mail" alert; click OK.
5. New messages are delivered to your In mailbox. This mailbox opens automatically and your new message summaries are added to the end of the existing mailbox summaries. Double-click on a message summary to open it, or select the message summary and press Enter.

To set up automatic mail checking, do the following:

1. Select Tools > Options (Mac: select Special > Settings).
2. Select the Checking Mail category.
3. In the Check for mail every xx minute(s) field, type the number of minutes between automatic mail checks (15 is the minimum interval recommended by Qualcomm).
   (Mac: To turn on automatic mail checking, you must also check the box in front of Check for mail every ? minutes.)
4. Click OK to close the dialog box.
5. Eudora automatically checks for mail at the interval you have requested.
   When automatic mail checking is on, the time of the next mail check is listed next to the Check Mail command under the File menu.

  Attaching a Document 

Any file (e.g., a Microsoft Word, WordPerfect, or Excel document) can be attached to and sent with a Eudora message. Canes configured to prevent attachments with the following extensions  .exe and .vbs. Such attachments almost always contain viruses. Size limit is 2Mb.
By default, Eudora uses MIME (Mac: AppleDouble) encoding to attach files to messages.

To attach a file to a current outgoing message

1. Select Message > Attach File (Mac: Message > Attach Document).
2. The Attach File dialog is displayed.
3. Locate the file, select it and click on the OK button to attach the file to the message. Hold down Ctrl button to attach multiple files.
4. The attached file does not appear within the message text. Instead, the full path name of the file is displayed in the Attached: (Mac: X-Attachments:) field of the message header.

The person receiving a message with an attached file must have MIME-compliant e-mail software in order to decode the file. The recipient must also have software that can read the formatted document.

  Changing Your Password

You can reset your canes email password through SSH  (see instructions), or you need to request password change from sysadm@canes.gsw.edu.

  How to Suppress Recipient Lists  

If you have a list of addresses to which you'll be sending frequently, Make an Address Book entry for this list:

1. Click "New" button in your address book and enter a nickname for this group.
2. When you have named the group, put the addresses of the recipients in the Address(es) field.
3. In the Name box (Click on the info tab in Windows), give the group a name. Keep in mind that this will be what will show on the To: line when you use this nickname.
4. Exit the address box and save at the prompt.

Now, whenever you want to send a message to that list, enter the nickname that you gave the group in the To: field of the outgoing message. The list of address will be suppressed. The people who get your message will only see the name that is entered in the name box not the list of addresses.

There is a second way to accomplish this as well. If you put the addresses you want to conceal in the BCC line instead of in the TO line in an outgoing message, they'll be hidden. Or if you leave the To: field blank, everyone who receives the e-mail will see in the To: field "Recipient List Suppressed".