Setting Up Eudora 7.1 (Windows)
Eudora is an easy-to-use, graphics-based email application that allows you to send and receive email through your USC computer account.
What You Will Need
- A connection to the Internet.
- A USC computer account on a host whose accounts are managed by ITS and have been moved to email.usc.edu.
- A copy of Eudora can be obtained via Novell-Delivered applications if you have a SANDS account.
Configuring Eudora
Before you can use Eudora, you must configure it to access your USC computer account.
- Open Eudora by double-clicking the Eudora icon.
- From the Tools menu, select Options.
- A dialog box will appear with the Getting Started icon selected.
- In the Real Name: field, type your real name. This will appear in the From: field of your outgoing messages.
- In the Email Address: field, type your USC email address, i.e. ttrojan@usc.edu.
- In the Mail Server (Incoming): field, enter email.usc.edu.
- In the User Name: field, type your USC username (i.e., ttrojan@usc.edu has the user name of ttrojan. Note that the user name is always all lowercase).
- In the SMTP Server (Outgoing): field, enter email.usc.edu.
Note: If you are connecting to the Internet with an Internet service provider other than USC and you do not wish to use USC's SMTP server, please contact your Internet service provider in order to determine what SMTP host you should be using. - Check Allow authentication.
- Click the Incoming Mail icon to display the incoming mail server properties on the right hand side.
- In the Server Configuration: field, select the IMAP setting.
- Click the Sending Mail icon to display the outgoing mail server properties on the right-hand side of the screen.
- In the SMTP server: field, type email.usc.edu.
- Check Allow authentication.
- Check Use submission port (587).
- From the Secure Sockets when Sending dropdown menu, choose Required, STARTTLS.
- Click OK to save the changes.
Last updated:
February 03, 2011