1. Setup for lab usage
2. Setup for home usage
3. Using Eudora
4. Balloon help
5. Creating an outgoing message and sending it
6. Checking for and receiving mail
7. Reading mail
8. Replying to mail
9. Deleting mail
10. Back up your mail
11. Getting more information and help

This handout shows how to setup and begin using Eudora for electronic mail in CIRCA Labs and on home modem-equipped Macs. Eudora lets you send and receive electronic mail from your Mac diskette (or hard disk). Eudora is a POP3 client for email servers which support this protocol. Although many departments run internal POP servers, the only general purp ose POP servers are on CIRCA's PINE VAX and NERDC's NERVM IBM mainframe, and these are experimental (not production services). The CIRCA VAXes do not support POP at this time. This version of Eudora (1.4) requires System 7 and it is the last freeware ve rsion of Eudora. The commercial version of Eudora has more features and information about it is included in the Eudora 1.4 documentation.

Setup for lab usage

1. Open the Eudora 1.4 folder on the Lab Software volume.

2. Drag the Mail Folder for Your Disk onto your disk. You can rename the folder if you like.

3. Open (double-click) the Eudora Settings file in the mail folder.

4. Select Configuration in the Special pull-down menu, which will cause the configuration dialog to appear.

5. Enter your email address in the POP account field and enter your name in the Real name field.

6. If you want Eudora to check for new mail when it starts and periodically thereafter, enter an integer greater than 0 in the Check for mail every __ minutes field.

7. Click the OK button.

Setup for home usage

Your modem-equipped home Macintosh needs both MacTCP and MacPPP installed and configured in order to use Eudora. See the MacPPP handout for details.

The only other difference between the lab setup and a home setup is that the home Macintosh will also need a copy of the Eudora 1.4 application copied onto its hard drive.

You'll have to decide for yourself whether to keep your mail folder on your hard drive or on a floppy that you carry around with you.

Using Eudora

This handout is very brief. A better introduction to using Eudora is the Tutorial chapter of the Eudora manual, and detailed descriptions of all of Eudora's functions are in the Reference chapter. The complete Eudora manual is accessible through the Eudora Distribution alias.

Always start Eudora by opening the Eudora Settings file on your disk. Do not open the Eudora application itself. If you have several email accounts, you can have several mail folders (one for each account, each with its own settings file).

Balloon Help

Eudora has great balloon help. If you don't know what you're doing or looking at, select Show Balloons under the help balloon pull-down menu and move the mouse pointer to whatever you want to know more about.

Creating an outgoing message and sending it

From the Message menu, select New Message.

Enter the address of the person you wish to send mail to (try yourself if this is the first time you use Eudora). Tab and enter the subject of your mail. Tab down to the text body area and enter your message. Click the Send button.

Checking for and receiving mail

From the File menu, select Check Mail. If you are prompted for your password, enter it. Eudora will attempt to connect to the mail server and receive your mail into the In mailbox on your disk.

Reading mail

To view your In mailbox, select In from the Mailbox menu. The mailbox window will contain a mail summary line for each piece of mail you received. To read a piece of mail, double-click on (open) its summary.

Replying to mail

You can reply to any selected message summary, or to the frontmost open message, by selecting Reply in the Message menu.

Deleting mail

You can delete any selected message(s), or the frontmost open message, by selecting Delete from the Message menu.

Back up your mail

Remember that diskettes are not reliable. To avoid losing your configuration settings and the mail in your mailboxes, copy your mail folder(s) to another disk after each day's use.

Getting more information and help

Everyone should read the Eudora Tutorial. It is short and it covers the basics better than this handout. There are lots of features in Eudora that are not covered in the Tutorial, features that can help you use electronic mail more efficiently and enjoyably. If you open the Eudora Distribution alias in a CIRCA lab, you will be able to copy the complete Eudora manual to a disk for viewing or printing later.

The CIRCA labs and the UF Computing Help Desk have printed Eudora manuals for you to look at on the premises.