Setting Up Eudora

There are three things you'll need to know in order to set up Eudora.

1. POP account: [email protected]

Your POP account is the address that tells Eudora where to go to download your new mail. POP accounts look a lot like e-mail addresses, but they often have an extra word after the @, or are otherwise slightly different. Your ISP/company/university may have given you a "POP3 server" or "incoming mail server" address. In that case, your POP account is the first part of your e-mail address, then an @, then the "POP3" or "incoming mail" server.

Your incoming (POP3) mail server is mail.instanet.com, and your e-mail address is [email protected], your POP account would be [email protected].

You put your POP account in the Getting Started section of the Tools:Options menu or Special:Settings in Eudora.

2. E-mail address: [email protected]

Your e-mail address is what other people use to write to you. Some examples:

You put your e-mail address in the "Return Address" field of Eudora (that's in the Tools:Options or Special:Settings menu, under Personal Information).

3. SMTP server: mail.instanet.com

Your SMTP server is what Eudora contacts to send your outgoing mail. Note that there's no @ in the SMTP setting.

The SMTP server goes in the Hosts section of the Tools:Options or Special:Settings menu in Eudora.

One last note...

Connection Method:

Many people are unsure which option they should select in the Connection Method area of the Getting Started screen. (That's in the Tools:Options or Special:Settings menu, depending on which version of Eudora you're using).

The answer is that you should almost certainly choose the "Winsock" (Windows) or "TCP/IP" or "MacTCP" (Macintosh) setting. That's the default, because it's the kind of connection most people have.