| Main | Labs | Hardware | Software | Help | Setting up Eudora v7.x for Windows for a mail.bio.fsu.edu email account Eudora can be downloaded from http://www.bio.fsu.edu/complabs/files but only from a .fsu.edu ip address. Please send an email to astuy@bio.fsu.edu if you need a copy and can't download it. If you are upgrading a previous Eudora installation do not uninstall eudora first, just run the installer and let it upgrade your current version of eudora. Then configure as indicated below. Make sure you have Eudora version 7.x, else these directions may not work. Note on smtp-auth: If you are using a mail.bio.fsu.edu email account then via smtp-auth you can relay mail from off campus locations. Please pay close attention to the "Allow Authentication", and "Secure Sockets when Receiving" details. Changes from default settings. If you don’t see it here, don’t change
it! If you do see it here, do change it!
Checking Mail Check for mail every [<no less than 20 minutes>] minute(s) []Save password Secure Sockets when Receiving [Required, Alternate Port] Incoming Mail If person checks mail from more than one place then []Leave mail on server []Delete from server after [<no more than 7>] days Sending Mail Secure Sockets when Sending [Required, Alternate Port] *Only if using mail.bio.fsu.edu for smtp Composing Mail [ ]Show signature while composing Attachments Attach directory: Your attachment directory (Suggestion: D:\Attachments) Display [ ]Automatically download HTML graphics (only uncheck this if you are really worried about security. Checking it opens a slight security hole) Viewing Mail [ ]Use Microsoft’s viewer(only uncheck this if you are really worried about security. Checking it opens a slight security hole) [ ]Show message preview pane [ ]Automatically open next message Mailboxes [ ]Label [ ]Size [ ]Server status [ ]Mood Watch []Show mailbox lines Background Tasks Wait for [1] seconds of user inactivity . . . Advanced Network Network buffer size of [8192] bytes MoodWatch [ ]Enable MoodWatch Miscellaneous []Say OK to alerts after [1] second(s) Note on SSL/TLS: After installing or upgrading to Eudora 6.2 or better upon your first mail check to mail.bio.fsu.edu you will probably get a "Server SSL Certificate Rejected" dialog box. Answer "Yes" to use the certificate. If you are using Eudora 6.1 or less (not recommended) you can trust the certificate with:
If you find that the trust of certificate does not stay and you have to continually retrust the certificate, try changing: Checking Mail Secure Sockets when Receiving [Required, Alternate Port] Setting up Directory Services
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