Personalities in Eudora
What Are Personalities?
If you have more than one e-mail account, consider using the Personalities feature of Eudora. You can add a personality for each of your e-mail accounts (Note: the e-mail account must be a POP3 or IMAP account). Once the personalities have been added, Eudora can download mail from all e-mail accounts whenever you check mail.
Why Use Personalities?
Use personalities if you:
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have more than one e-mail account and want all messages to be delivered to one mailbox.
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want to check mail once for all of your e-mail accounts.
Do not use personalities if:
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multiple people are sharing the same computer.
See Additional Information—Setting up Eudora for multiple users on the same computer under Installation Instructions. -
you want to keep your mail in separate folders for each of your e-mail accounts.
Adding a New Personality
Eudora uses a "dominant" and "alternate" personalities. The dominant personality is the one defined when you initially configure Eudora. You can verify what your dominant personality is by selecting:
Windows: Tools | Personalities, right-click on <Dominant> and select Properties
Macintosh: Special | Settings | Personalities and select <Dominant>
For specific instructions to add a new (alternate) personality, select the appropriate platform:
Windows Eudora Client
Macintosh Eudora Client
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Select Tools | Personalities (or click on the Personalities tab to bring the Personalities window to the foreground).
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Right-click in the Personalities window and select New from the menu.
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Select "Skip directly to advanced account setup" and click the Finish button.
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Click in the "Personality Name" field and enter a name, e.g., ISP E-mail.
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Press Tab to move to the "Real Name" field and enter your name.
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Press Tab to move to the "Return Address" field and enter your e-mail address, e.g., chrisjones@mchsi.com.
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Press Tab to move to the "Login Name" field and enter your e-mail account name, e.g., chrisjones.
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Press Tab to move to the "SMTP Server" field and enter your outgoing server name: email.uiowa.edu
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Click the Incoming Mail tab and enter your incoming server name, e.g., mail.mchsi.com.
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Click OK to save the Personality settings.
Go to How to Switch Personalities
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Select Window | Personalities or click the Personalities tab to bring the Personalities window to the foreground.
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Click the New button at the bottom of the Personalities window.
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Type a name for the new personality, e.g., ISP E-mail.
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Highlight the new personality and click the Edit button at the bottom of the Personalities window.
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Click in the "Username" field and enter your e-mail account name (e.g., chrisjones).
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Press Tab to move to the "Mail Server" field and enter your incoming server name (e.g., mail.mchsi.com).
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Click in the "Real name" field and enter your name.
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Press Tab to move to the "SMTP Server" field and enter your outgoing server name: email.uiowa.edu
- Make sure 'Use submission port (587)' and 'Allow authorization' are checked.
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Make sure that "Check for mail every __ minutes" and "Check mail on manual checks" are NOT checked. The dominant personality will do the mail check.
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Click OK to save the Personality settings.
Go to How to Switch Personalities
When you send a message, select the personality you want to use.
Windows Eudora Client
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Click on the New Message icon or select Message | New Message.
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Click the arrow to the left of the From: field and select a personality from the list. The default personality is <Dominant>.
Macintosh Eudora Client
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Click on the New Message icon or select Message | New Message.
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Pull down the pop-up menu located after the text in the "From:" field to change personalities. The default personality is <Dominant>.
Checking Mail (Windows)
There are two ways to check mail for the personalities you have added:
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If the Personalities option Check mail is selected, Eudora will check for new mail for a personality when you select File | Check Mail or will automatically check if you have Check for mail every __ minutes set in Tools | Options | Checking Mail.
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Hold down the Shift key, select File | Check Mail and then select one or more personalities.
Checking Mail (Macintosh)
There are three ways to check mail for your personalities:
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If the Personalities option Check for mail every __ minutes is selected, Eudora will automatically check for new mail for this personality.
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If the Personalities option Check mail on manual checks is selected, Eudora will check for new mail when you select File | Check Mail.
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Hold down the Option key, select File | Check Mail Specially... and then select one or more personalities.
Sending Mail (Windows)
If Immediate send is selected in Tools | Options | Sending Mail, then mail created with any personality is sent immediately.
If you queue messages instead, then how messages created by an alternate personality are sent, depends on which Personalities options are selected.
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Messages from all personalities are sent when you select File | Send Queued Messages.
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If the Check mail option is set for a personality and Send on check (under Tools | Options | Sending Mail) is set, then mail from that personality is sent when you either check mail (File | Check Mail) or mail is checked automatically (every __ minutes).
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To send mail from a specific personality, hold down the Shift key when you select File | Send Queued Messages and select the personality for which you want to send the queued message(s).
Sending Mail (Macintosh)
If Immediate send is selected in Tools | Options | Sending Mail, then messages created with any personality are sent immediately.
If you queue messages and you want mail from all personalities to be sent whenever mail is sent or checked, select Send mail whenever sends are done in Special | Settings | Personality Extras for each personality.
Otherwise, press the Option key when you send mail to select the personality or personalities whose mail should be sent.
