Creating and using personalities in Eudora

Like most of today's fully featured client email software, Eudora can be used to check and send email for your various email accounts such as for both work and home accounts. The configuration of these multiple accounts, in Eudora speak called personalities but not thereby implying any mental disorder on the part of the user, is described in the following.

Macintosh

Select Settings from the Special menu. Click on the New button to create a new personality and use the Personality pull-down menu to navigate among personalities. Here we shall focus on the needed fields for a given personality.

Under Personalities, the following fields must be filled out: User Name, Mail Server, Real Name, Email Address. SMTP Server is only necessary if it is different from Mail Server.

For POP, under Personality Extras, fill in Mail Protocol, Authentication; Leave on server for _ days, if the account is used on more than one computer.

For IMAP, check IMAP in the Mail Protocol section under Personality Extras.

Go to the SSL section in the window on the left, then change the pull-down menu on the right to "Required TLS" for SMTP and POP/IMAP.

Windows

Select Personalities from the Tools menu, right-click on the desired personality and choose Properties.

Under Generic Properties, the following fields must be filled out: Real Name, Email Address, User Name, SMTP Server, Secure Sockets when Sending.

Under Incoming Mail, fill in the Server name and select IMAP or POP under Configuration (IMAP or POP). Under Authentication style, Secure Sockets when Receiving, set SSL for SMTP and SSL for POP/IMAP to "Required, STARTTLS".