E-mail: Eudora (part 2)

Transfer

This is the Transfer menu. Here you can transfer messages from one mailbox to another.

Special

This is the Special menu:

• Filter messages - you can run filters manually or automatically. You have to click here to run filters only if you have specified 'manual' on the Tools/Filters option.
• Make Address Book Entry - to create a nickname in the Address Book
• Add as Recipient - if you select an email address and you click here, you will be able to add a new recipient in your Recipient List (notice that you have not added in the Address Book)
• Remove Recipient - to remove a recipient from the Recipient List
• Empty Trash - deletes all messages from the Trash mailbox
• Compact Mailboxes - compact all mailboxes. In other word delete all unused space
• Forget Password - asks for your password at the next mail check
• Change Password - here you can change your password (if you have specified one)
• Message Plugins Settings - here you can edit plugins settings

Tools

This is the Tools menu:

• Filters - here you can specify how Eudora has to filter incoming or outgoing messages
• Address Book - open the Address Book to handle email addresses
• Directory Services - open the window to use the Ph and Finger protocol (you have to specify a server running these services)
• Signatures - here you can build/delete/edit your own signature file
• Options - if you click here you will get several submenus to configure Eudora.

We will see the Options feature later. Now let's go on with other menus.

Address Book

Here you can handle email addresses. You can add/remove/edit an email address. Besides if you check the 'Recipient List' field, you will put a specified email into the Recipient List.

Filters

Here you can specify filters for incoming or outgoing mail. Your mail will be transferred automatically to the specified mailboxes according to the rules that you have defined here. For example you create a new filter for incoming messages: click on the New button, then click on the 'Incoming' field. Now click on 'Headers' then select 'From:', then select 'contains' then type an email address. Now you have to specify an action, so select 'Transfer To'. So you will get a button. If you click on that button you can specify where Eudora has to put the incoming messages which have the specified email address into the 'From:' field.

Directory Services

Here you can use Ph and Finger

Signatures

This window will come out when you click on 'Signatures'. Type a signature name and then click on the OK button. So you will get this second window:

Here you can edit your signature file as you prefer. Netiquette says that a signature shouldn't exceed 4 rows

Window

This is the Window menu: here you can arrange windows.

Help

This is the Help menu.