Eudora E-mail at LCC

Eudora e-mail (Eudora Pro 3.0.5 Windows version) is available for Lexington Community College students, faculty and staff in open computer labs.
 
 

Note:  LCC students, faculty, and staff can get a copy of Eudora from Miles Howe in MB 111.  You will need four formatted diskettes for a copy of Eudora 3.0.  After you have installed version 3.0, then you can update to Eudora Pro 3.0.5 via the Eudora web site at:  http://eudora.qualcomm.com/pro_email3/updaters.html

 
 
 
 

Password	Check Mail	Send Mail	Mailboxes	Empty Trash	Addresses
Address Book	Attachments	Signature	Filters &  Labels	Settings	Guidelines/  More Info

First-Time Logon From the Computer Lab

1. Insert a formatted diskette
2. Double click on the icon for Create Eudora Floppy. [This is very fast]

After your diskette is initialized, click on Eudora
3. In Eudora, go to Tools, then Options. Enter your POP account and your Real Name. Then click on O.K.

 
 
 
 
 

To Change Your Password

1. Click on Special
2. Select Change Password
1. Enter current password

[Note: your first-time password is u followed by the last 7 digits of your social security number],
e.g.: u4991234]

3. Enter new password

Rules for Passwords  Must have 6 to 8 characters  Must have at least two alphabetic characters and at least one number  Must be different from the logon  A new password must differ from the old one by at least three characters  [Note: passwords are case sensitive.]

Enter new password again to verify

To Check Your Mail

1. Click on Mailbox
2. Click on In
3. Click on the Envelope icon
4. Enter your password
5. At the In Mailbox Window, double click on the message you want to read
6. To close the message and leave it in the In Mailbox, click on File and then click on Close
7. To delete the message, click on the Trash icon

To Send Mail

1. Click on Message
2. Click on New Message
3. Enter the To address
4. Tab to Subject and enter the subject
5. Tab to the text area; type your message
6. Click on Send

Mailboxes

To create a new mailbox to save messages:

1. Click on Mailbox
2. Select New
3. Enter the name of the new mailbox. The new mailbox name will be in the Mailbox menu list

To Transfer Mail

1. With an opened message, click on Transfer and select the mailbox to receive the transferred message

To Empty the Trash

1. Click on Special
2. Click on Empty Trash

To Find a UK E-mail Address

• Click on Tools
• Click on Directory Services
• Type the name and click on the Ph button

To send a message to this address that you have just found, click on To: near the bottom of the screen


 

To Create Your Own Address Book

To create your own e-mail address directory, use the Address Book feature:
1. Click on Tools
2. Click on Address Book
3. Click on New
4. Enter the Nickname and click on OK
5. Enter the e-mail address
6. Close the Address Book window and click on Yes to save

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To cut and paste an address from the UK Directory:

In the UK Ph Directory, highlight the e-mail address

• Click on Edit
• Click on Copy
• Close the Directory Services window
• In the Address Book, enter the new nickname.

Then,  with the cursor in the address window, click on Edit and Paste.

 

For a quick way to add an address to your Address Book, open a message from the person you want to add.  Click on Special/Make Address Book Entry Edit the nickname if necessary and click on OK:  voila!  the address is in your Address Book!

 

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To create a group mailing list:

1. At the Address Book Window, click on New
2. Enter the group Nickname and click on OK
3. Enter the addresses of each group member, separated by commas, or, if each member of the group already has a nickname entry, just enter the nicknames rather than email addresses
4. Close the Address Book window and click on Yes to Save

 

Attachments

To Send an Attachment

You will need to have the file you want to send as an attachment on your diskette or on your hard drive.  You can send any type of file, such as a .doc or .gif.
1. Open a New Message; insert To address and Subject
2. Click on attachment icon (or Click on Message and then click on Attach File)
3. Select the proper drive and then the file.  For example, if your file is on a floppy disk, change to a: drive and select file to attach
4. Send message

To Receive an Attachment

1. Open the message in the In mailbox
2. Double click on the attachment icon in the area
3. The attached file will open in your word processor
 

To Use a Signature Block

To create a signature block to attach automatically on your outgoing messages:
1. Click on Tools; click on Signature; click on New
2. At Default Signature, click to see the pull-down menu and select Signature; click on OK
3. Enter Signature Name and click on OK
4. At the Signature window, type your signature text
5. Save and Close
6. Go to Tools/Options/Sending Mail and select as the Default Signature the Signature you just created
 

To Use Filters to Sort Mail

Use filters to direct mail to a particular mailbox and/or to highlight designated mail with labels.

For example, to direct  incoming mail from a listserv  to a separate mailbox:

1.  Create a mailbox named XYZ  Listserv

• Click on Mailbox; click on New
• Name the new mailbox: XYZ Listserv   OK
2.  Create a label for XYZ Listserv  incoming mail
• Click on Tools; click on Options; click on Labels
• Highlight the phrase Label 1 and type XYZ Listserv
3.  Click on Tools; Filters; New

4.  In the Match window:

• Click on the box for Incoming
• Header:  Select From from pull-down menu
• In the next pull-down menu, select is
• In text box type the address of the listserv:  xyzlistserv@listservaddress

 
5.  Skip down to the Action window
• At the first pull-down menu, select Make a Label
• In the text box, click and select XYZ Listserv

 
 
6.  At the second pull-down menu, select Transfer To
• In the text box, click and select XYZ Listserv
 

7.  Click on File; Save.  Then click on File; Close
 

  

To Personalize Eudora Settings

In general, do not change the defaults in the Eudora Settings.

To view the Settings:

1. Click on Tools
2. Click on Options
3. Click on Settings
• For Personal Information, add your return address
• For Sending Mail, Replying, and Spell Checking select your choices

 

UK POP Server Guidelines

• Mail older than 30 days will be deleted
• Accumulation of mail on the server beyond 20 megabytes, for a single user, will be deleted
• Mail userids not used for 60 days will be suspended
• Checking mail should be at 10 minute or longer intervals. A shorter interval will first cause a warning to be mailed to the user. A second offense will cause the userid to be suspended

See POP Electronic Mail Service and POP Mail Hints

 

More Information

Eudora FAQs

UK Library Microlabs, Eudora for Microsoft Windows: Quick Reference

UK Online (MCI)

UK Online Directory Update form

Whois & Ph: Online Campus Directory Information
 
 

To Forward Mail From Your Old UKCC Address to Your New POP Address
Log into your ukcc account  At the ready prompt type: tell listserv /forward poplogon@pop.uky.edu  Note:  there is no space between the / and forward  poplogon is your new POP account logon

 

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Posted September 12, 1996; revised August 12, 1998
http://www.bluegrass.kctcs.edu/LCC/LIB/eudora.html