Accessing Your Email - Eudora

We recommend using Eudora as your email client. This is a mail program that runs under MS Windows and Macintosh OS. Eudora connects to the mail server over the Winsock or Macintosh TCP/IP. Mail may be composed and read offline, but make sure that Winsock or TCP/IP is running before attempting to send or receive email. Although your account exists on our server, you won't be able to receive email at yourname@yourdomain.com until InterNIC has activated you in the domain name servers.

After Eudora has been installed, it must be configured to point to your server. To do this, start Eudora and select "Settings" from the menu bar. Most of the options are self explanatory. Here are the steps you need to perform to set up Eudora:

1. Install and start up the Eudora program
   
2. Select "Settings" from the "Special" menu
3. Select the "Getting Started" tab, then under Real Name, enter your Real Name
4. Under "POP Account" put yourdomain@yourdomain.com
5. Leave Return Address blank unless you want people to send return email to you at a different email account
6. If you use the Macintosh version, the radio button for TCP/IP connection should be highlighted
7. Click the "Personal Information" tab (also only for the Macintosh version)
8. Under POP account put yourdomain@yourdomain.com again
9. Fill out the "Real Name" and "Return Address" as you did before
10. Under "Dialup User Name" enter yourdomain (do not enter .com or .net here)
11.  Click the "Hosts" tab then enter yourdomain@yourdomain.com again under POP Account, and put mail.yourdomain.com under SMTP Server.
12. Go to the "Checking Mail" tab and make sure "Save Password" is checked.

That's pretty much all the configuration Eudora needs. Many of the configuration areas will be filled in when you go to them, for instance it will usually fill in the POP account info where ever it needs it after you enter it the first time. Now, when you select "Check Mail" under the File menu, a window will pop up asking for your password. Enter in your password then click on the proceed button and Eudora will check to see if you have email. You can now send a test email message to yourself and then check to see if it gets returned to you. If you checked "Save Password" as in step 12, Eudora will not prompt you again for your password after the first time. If multiple users have access to your computer, and you don't want them to have access to your email account, make sure "Save Password" is unchecked.

Your default email address is yourdomain@yourdomain.com, and that's where all your email will be sent to, unless other configurations take priority (such as autoresponders and redirects mentioned later).

Mail program samples – Outlook Express

Many hosts have the auto config enabled for outlook express and so it is just a matter of clicking yes next to the  email address you want to set up and agreeing to the prompts by pressing Yes.

The following samples sample assumes a domain name of fred.com and shows you the info required for any given domain name

Microsoft internet mail

Full name = fred

Email = fred@fred.com

POP3r = mail.fred.com

Account = fred

Pass = xxxxxx  - whatever you set in cPanel

Smtp = mail.fred.com *Please note: some access providers require that you use their SMTP setting.

From = anything@fred.com

Netscape

Your Name= Your Name

User Name = fred

Email Address = fred@fred.com

Reply to = anything@fred.com

Incoming Mail Server: mail.fred.com

Outgoing Mail Server user name =mail.fred.com *Please note: some access providers require that you use their Outgoing Mail Server.

outgoing Smtp = mail.fred.com *Please note: some access providers require that you use their SMTP setting.

Incoming = mail.fred.com