Eudora is a program to read mail on a Macintosh from a mailbox stored on an Academic Computing Services VMS or Unix computer. The Macintosh can either be on AppleTalk and use Mac/TCP, or can dial into the campus Annex Ethernet Terminal server network. -Eudora is fast. -Eudora is simple to use. -Eudora is efficient. This document is designed to get an Academic Computing Services Eudora user up and running using a Macintosh on campus or at home with a modem. Understanding Eudora Eudora uses the POP3 ³Post Office Protocol² this means that Eudora will contact a remote computer and check your mailbox, like you might check a U.S. Mail post office box. You can take your mail with you, or leave it in the mailbox for disposal later. A typical configuration might be that you have Eudora, the Eudora settings file and your active mailboxes on a floppy disk. When you have a chance, you stick the disk in a Mac running Mac/TCP and double click on the Eudora settings file that represents your electronic mail (email) address. If you have mail, it will be added to the ³In² box on your floppy disk. With Eudora, you will be able to compose a reply or do other things you may want to do with email. Using Eudora in an ICC Mac Lab Eudora can be easily used in a shared computing environment. The steps to running Eudora are: 1) Copy the blank prototype ³Eudora Settings² file onto your network permanent hard disk space. To do this follow the directions for accessing the server from the chooser using Appleshare. There are signs in the lab which explain the procedure for accessing an Appleshare server. 2) double click to open the Eudora Settings file. 3) Follow the guidelines below about configuring Eudora. Eudora Files When Eudora is started from a settings file there will be several files created. These include an inbox, an outbox, a trash file and matching files whose names end in ³.toc² that are indexes used by Eudora to keep track of what is in the different mailboxes. Don¹t throw the ³toc² files away, as they will just be created again the next time you double click on the settings file. Configuring Eudora Eudora can be configured for many very different environments. Under the special menu there are two important settings that will need to be finished before you can successfully use Eudora at all. These are the switches and configuration menu items. The configuration menu window is where you let Eudora know your unique mail addresses. First is the address of the computer that holds your post office mail account. This should be something like jsmith@sdcc12.ucsd.edu. This should also be where your campuswide mail alias is directed, so you can receive mail at one location. The next configuration item requires choosing between Mac/TCP and the communications Toolbox. Users on campus generally will be choosing Mac/TCP, whereas most users off campus will be using modems and the Communications Toolbox. Click on the appropriate choice. The SMTP server is where your mail will go to from the Macintosh, before getting routed to the person you are mailing. This would usually be ucsd.edu, but a may also be somewhere else if you have no campuswide mail alias. For dial-up users this is the only name to put in here. The Return Address line is just that. Typically you would enter your UCSD campuswide mail alias. The Check for mail line allows for periodic polling for mail. The time interval is in minutes and a time of 0 means Eudora will check for mail only when you specifically tell it to. The line for PH server can be left blank, or if you want to use the PH server on the machine ucsd.edu, you would put the address ³ucsd.edu² on the PH line. The next area of the configuration screen is all personal preferences. Configure them to your taste; they can be left blank. By selecting ³Switches...² from the Special menu you can see some switches which can be used to configure the way Eudora operates to your taste. In most cases, the default settings are fine. THE MOST IMPORTANT switch is the ³leave mail on server² switch. Except in special circumstances, this should NOT be on (checked). If you leave the mail on the server, Eudora will become slower and slower and your disk space on the server will fill up, eventually preventing you from receiving mail. The only circumstance for which this option should be turned on is if you USUALLY read mail somewhere else, via a different setttings file, or via a method other than Eudora. Where do I Get Eudora? Eudora can be acquired many ways. 1) From the author via anonymous FTP from the machine ftp.qualcomm.com. 2) With a modem on the ICC UserServices BBS at 534-4487. 3) Using Appleshare on the campuswide AppleTalk network login to the machine in zone ACC called UserServe using the guest button. The latest Eudora is kept in the folder ³Public². 4) From the ICC UserServices by borrowing a set of floppy disks. If you get Eudora via anonymous FTP, then you will have images of the disks made by the author. If you borrow disks from the ICC UserServices you end up with disks. If you downloaded the files from the UserServices BBS/File Server then you have the necessary files for installing Eudora under system 7.x. Installing Eudora with System 6.04-6.08 Since Eudora was designed to use portions of the System 7 features, it is necessary to install these features under System 6 in order to use Eudora. If you are using System 6 then you will need to get copies of the Communications Toolbox installer disk and possibly the Network Products Installer disk. The Communications Toolbox installer can be found via the Chooser in an ACS Macintosh lab, login under Appleshare, zone ACC, to the machine UserServe, as guest. In the folder Public, open the folder CommToolboxTools and get the file named Communication1v1.0.2.sea. This file is a ³self-extracting archive², and will create a disk called ³Communications 1². Eudora can be installed on a Macintosh that uses System 6.04 through 6.08, and it will work well over Mac/TCP or through a modem. If you are using Mac/TCP skip to the section below titled ³Running with Mac/TCP². To install Eudora for use directly over a modem there are a few more steps for the System 6.04-6.08 user. This involves installing the Communications Toolbox, using the ³Communications 1² disk, as discussed above. Like upgrading the Macintosh operating system, you use the program ³installer² to actually do this work. Start your Macintosh and once you are at the desktop, insert the ³Communications 1² disk and start the installer. For some of the later Macintosh models you will need to use the ³Network Products Installer² disk. Once you are done with this particular installer action you will need to restart so plan to do this as a separate step. Once you have the toolbox installed you will see a new icon on the bottom of your screen during startup (it looks like a telephone). You also have a new folder inside your system folder with the name ³Communications Folder². This is the home of what are called communications tools under System 6 running the Communications Toolbox. You now need to move the tools located in a folder of the same name on the Eudora distribution disk into this special folder in your system folder. To complete your installation of Eudora under System 6, copy the application to your working disk. To use Eudora skip the System 7 installation and go to the section entitled ³Running Serial Eudora². Installing Eudora System 7.0-7.1 To install Eudora under system 7.0 or later, drag the application to your working disk. If you wish to use the serial modem version of Eudora, then from the distribution disk folder labeled Communications folder, drag the three tools on top of your system folder and let the system put them away. If you are already using Mac/TCP go to the next section. If you are going to be dialing in with a modem, jump to the section titled ³Running Serial Eudora². Running with Mac/TCP To install Mac/TCP on the campus, first consult your network manager to ascertain your proper method of attaining a campus network address. This may be through a gateway FastPath or GatorBox. You may also be connected to Ethernet. Once this network address has been acquired and registered in the campus hosts table you are ready to go. If you don¹t have a network adminstrator, or if you are the network adminstrator, contact Network Operations for this critical information. Running Serial Eudora Once you have the Communications Tools and Eudora installed you have a couple of more steps to complete before you are able to use Eudora over a modem connection. One is to configure the Communications toolbox to ³talk² to the right network at UCSD. Eudora uses protocols that only work over an ³ethernet² type of network. That really means that Eudora uses the TCP/IP protocols that are common on ethernets. The POP3 protocol for mail reading and the SMTP protocols for sending mail are the specific protocols being used. In the UCSD Environment this means calling the ³annex² or ³Ethernet² Local Area Network (LAN). The serial version of Eudora has been modified to properly navigate a connection from the network at 558-7080 or 558-7047. Accessing your mail via Eudora, using the Communications Toolbox, (through the UCSD terminal server), you must install the special file "Eudora UCSD CTB". This goes in the "Preferences" folder within the "System Folder" under System 7 or directly in the "System Folder" under System 6. It provides connection instructions for Eudora to use in the UCSD environment. You do not need it for Mac/TCP use (even when using SLIP or ARA connections) although it's presence won't cause problems. Help! Help for Eudora is available in the documentation provided on disk. Step 1 to Using Eudora with Academic Computing Services Systems Systems .