Eudora allows you to send and receive e-mail.

Eudora Light Configuration

Double Click on your Eudora Light icon to start the program. You should get a window which looks like the following:
Click on the pull down menu titled Special, and then click on the Settings option. ( For Eudora Light 1.5.4 users, the settings menu will be under Tools/Options. )
You should now see a window with a number of categories in a scrolling column on the left, and configuration information for each category on the right. The first category is the Getting Started category. Click on the Getting Started icon so that it is highlighted.
For our user James_bond we will set the POP account to james_bond@southwest.net in the POP account text string box. We will set his Real name to James Bond in the Real name text string box. The POP account name is a combination of the username and the name of the POP server which for the Southwest Domain is ca.southwest.net.
The Connection Method check box should be left unchecked.
We'll next setup the Personal Information configuration. Click on the Personal Information icon in the scrolling column on the left to display the Personal Information configuration.
The POP account and Real name information should have been carried along from the previous step and should already be set correctly to james_bond@southwest.net and James Bond respectively.
The only configuration field that we should need to fill out here is the Return address text string box. For our user id of james_bond , the Return address should be set to james_bond@southwest.net. E-mail is configured at The Southwest Domain such that any of our systems that receives e-mail for subscribers automatically forwards it to our mail and POP server ca.southwest.net.
james_bond@southwest.net is the simplest and shortest e-mail address that you can give out to identify yourself to others on the Internet.
We'll next configure the Hosts information. Click on the Hosts icon in the scrolling column on the left and the Hosts configuration information will be displayed on the right.
The POP account data in the text string box should have been carried along from the previous steps.
The data that we'll need to set here is for the SMTP and the Finger hosts. Both of these text string boxes should be set to ca.southwest.net. The Ph host text string box should be left blank.
( SMTP is an acronym for Simple Mail Transport Protocol.)
We now need to configure the Checking Mail configuration. Click on the Checking Mail icon in the scrolling column on the left and the configuration information will be displayed on the right.
The POP account data in the text string box should have been carried along from the previous steps.
You can set the Check for mail parameter to almost any value you like. Typically its either set to 0 which means that Eudora will not automatically check for new mail and you'll need to do it manually by clicking on Check for New Mail under Eudora's File pull down menu, or to a value of 5 or 10 which will cause Eudora to automatically check to see if you have new e-mail on the server every 5 or 10 minutes depending on what you have it set to.
Skip big messages is typically checked. This will cause any large pieces of e-mail ( typically file attachments or binary data that someone is sending you ) to be left on the mail server. Checking Skip big messages will allow you to quickly download all of your e-mail and then go back and pick up the larger pieces ( which will require more download time ) later.
Its a good idea if you're going to send someone a large attachment to first send them e-mail letting them know that you're sending them a large file. That way they'll know whether or not its important to download it right away or later when they may have more time.
Send on check is an optimization which causes Eudora to send out any out going e-mail when it periodically checks to see if you have new mail on the server. Since your system is going to the effort to contact the mail server, it may as well send along any outgoing mail that you may have at the same time. It is not necessary to check this box, but checking it may save you the time that you would spend later sending out e-mail that you've queued up.
Save password should be checked. Otherwise you'll have to re-enter your password each time Eudora contacts the mail server. If you're in an insecure environment or several people use the system you may want to not check this box.
Leave mail on server should typically not be checked. If you don't download your e-mail from the server, it will still be there the next time that you connect and you will be downloading it multiple times. A situation where you would want to check this box would be if you connected to The Southwest Domain both from work and home. From work you may just want to read your mail and not remove it from the server so you would check the box on your system at work. This would allow you to go home at night to your system where you did not have the box checked and download all of your e-mail to your home system.
Authentication Style should be set to Passwords. The APOP button should not be checked.
The final category that we need to configure is the Sending Mail category. Click on the icon for Sending Mail in the scrolling column on the left and the configuration information will be displayed on the right.
The Return address and SMTP server should already be filled out from from previous steps.
All of the check boxes on this configuration panel should be checked. If you want to compose out going e-mail off-line and then connect and send it all at once you would remove the check mark from Immediate send and do a manual send on you connected to your SLIP or PPP account.
The configuration information in the remaining categories should be fine when set to there default values. If you have a question about more the settings in the remaining categories drop a note to Support@southwest.net and we'll give you a hand.

Attachments

Attachments are added to composed mail messages by going up to the Message pull down menu and selecting Attach File. This will bring up a browser which will allow you to select and attach a file to the message that you have composed.

It is generally a good idea to add a few words of explanation so that the person receiving the message knows what you've sent to them.

Replying to a Mail Message

Replying to a Mail Message is accomplished by first selecting the message that you wish to Reply to and then clicking on Reply in the Message pull down menu. ( Alternatively, you could use the Ctrl-R short cut key sequence. )