Eudora E-Mail

Eudora is a feature rich, yet simple to learn Internet E-Mail Program.
A commercial version of Eudora is available for about $80.00 which has hard copy documentation, full technical support, a spell checker, and other enhancements.

Go to Qualcom for further information.

A brief Eudora Tutorial for a quick start.

The full Eudora On-line Guide for a complete reference to the operation of Eudora.

If you have the UltraNet Software Kit, you can ignore the sections on configuration, the kit's configuration utility will have done it for you.

File Transfer by E-Mail

Attachment and transfer of files by Eudora produces many tech-support questions:
Eudora can successfully encode, transfer and decode files in many formats to other Internet compliant mail packages.
You should practice these techniques before entrusting a "mission critical" file to an E-Mail transfer.
Eudora should be configured to point downloaded attachments into an sub-directory which should be set aside for this purpose.
Go to the Windows "File Manager" and create a new directory on your disk for this purpose.
Next, go to "Special + Configuration on the Eudora menu bar and set Eudora to point at the newly created sub-directory. You will then know where to look for de-coded attachments received by Eudora and will not be confused by being presented with the prompts for a directory location when Eudora detects an incoming attached file.
Attached files can appear within the mail message if protocol differences are encountered between the sending and receiving mail programs. Attached files passing through internet gateways from non SMTP compliant mail programs used on LANs can exhibit this problem. Suggest that the other party try to run an SMPT compliant program, such as Eudora, on their gateway (server) to facilitate the transfer of attachments.
If this is not possible, you should use FTP (File Transfer Protocol) for these purposes.
Many mail servers on the internet have a file size limitation which must be observed. It is not good practice to try to transfer files of over 200kb to 300kb by attaching them to mail messages.
Ultranet does not have a file size limitation, but does limit the time that you are allowed to download from the mail server. This limitation of fifteen (15) minutes should allow a download of over 1mb of mail and attached files with a 14.4 kbps modem or 2mb of mail and attached files with a 28.8 kbps modem.
Still, large files can become "wedged" and the practice of mailing files larger than 200kb to 300kb should be stongly discouraged.
Use FTP for these purposes.

Setting up Multiple Mailboxes

Create subdirectories on your hard drive for each individual instance of Eudora. (To reduce confusion they each should probably be named with the username of the mail account).
Copy "weudora.exe" (from the original installation) into each of the newly created subdirectories.
Create a new icon in the Windows Program Manager (under "File + New") for each of the new individual instances of weudora.exe.
(Or simply drag the file weudora.exe from each individual sub-directory in the file manager into the desired program group in the program manager, which will create the icon for you automatically).
Highlight each icon and name it for the new mail customer (under "File + Properties") in the Program Manager.
Start and configure each of the individual mail programs for the specific users.
The main account configuration will not be changed, but:
the POP address: newusername@pop.(realm).ultranet.com
the Real Name: Real New Name
the Return Address: newusername@(realm).ultranet.com)
and the SMTP address: smtp.(realm).ultranet.com
must be set under "Configuration" on the Eudora menu bar in each of the individual mail accounts.
(realm = nh, ma, or ri, depending on which State you are dialing into.)
E-Mail and Server Address Info Page.
Set the personal preferences for each of the new mail accounts.
Refer to the Eudora On Line Guide for explanations of these "switches" and their settings.

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