Welcome

Welcome to Eudora Email 5.0! Eudora is a comprehensive electronic mail (email) software program for Windows and Macintosh that accesses your Internet Service Provider (ISP) or network to receive and send your email messages.

In Eudora, you can:

• write messages and send them with custom stationary and signatures
• send files, both text and graphic, created in other programs and "attach" them to your email messages
• forward messages, redirect them, or reply to all recipients of a message
• set up mailboxes and folders for your mail
• build "filters" to sort messages, alert you, and even send an automatic reply
• store your favorite addresses in your personal address book, or let Eudora search for addresses for you
• if you use more than one ISP, Eudora allows you to create "multiple personalities" to send and receive mail to multiple accounts

There are many more Eudora features and functions described later in this manual.

Configuring Eudora

For instructions on how to configure Eudora, click on the operating system you use below.

• Windows XP/2000
• Mac

Changing your Password

UVA's Central Mail Service (CMS) does not support the use of Eudora's Change Password feature, so in order to change your password you'll need to either navigate to the CMS Mail Configuration webpage or secure telnet to config.mail.virginia.edu, login, and select the change password option from the menu.

Using a Vacation Message

Eudora has a vacation message feature, but it only works if your computer is up and you are logged into Eudora. Alternatively, Central Mail Service offers a vacation message service regardless of your computer or Eudora status. To set up a vacation message navigate to the CMS Mail Configuration webpage or telnet to config.mail.virginia.edu, login, and select the vacation message option from the menu.

Working Offline

You can use Eudora without actually connecting to the network and it will hold any messages generated while working offline in queue in the Out mailbox, and will send them as soon as it is online and checks for mail. Other than the fact that the messages aren't actually sent and you can't check for new mail, there's no difference between working online and offline.

Start using Eudora

At this point you are ready to start using Eudora. If the instructions for the Mac differ from those for the PC, they are listed separately.

Continue reading the on-line tutorial, beginning with Working with Messages, to learn how to:

• Receive messages
• Read a message
• Reply to a message
• Forward a message
• Redirect a message
• Compose a message
• Print a message
• Save a message
• Delete a message

In subsequent lessons you'll learn how to:

• Use the Address Book and Recipient List
• Send Attachments
• Create and use Folders and Filters

There is also a page containing keyboard shortcuts, located here.