Eudora 5.1 Question

[Floppyman]

Hey all,

Just installed Eudora 5.1, and was wondering how you set it up, that when the program is started it will check for mail automatically? Thanks in Advance!

[Statica]

Tools > Options > Checking Mail > Check for mail every XX min .. try putting any nonzero #.

[Floppyman]

That did the trick, thanks statica.

[reboot]

Also, a couple of things to check:
In Tools, Options, Viewing mail, make sure you TURN OFF (uncheck), "Use MS Viewer", to prevent getting any trojans.
To speed up mail send/recieve, ping your mail servers, and write down the POP and SMTP numbers, then put them in place of the names in the "Getting Started" screen.

[Parangles]

Hi, can you give a quick reminder of how to Ping my Server. Can't find anything in Search here, or in my books. There was some simple icon that you you hit in Win 3.1 with Winsock but it was so long ago and the old brain is rotting.
I'm using Eudora Pro (?4.1) with W98, and have Dial up and Broadband on same computer.Outgoing on Eudora is set to cable Co. SMTP.
Thanks.
Ps. Floppyman -have you tried the Qualcom ViaVoice feature- Worked ok?

[Statica]

open DOS prompt and type:

ping name_of_server

you could use ping mail.your.connexion.com

ping /? will give you more options like -t to monitor etc etc etc....

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the problem with using mailserver IPs instead of names is that mailservers are frequently swapped for backups or for maintenance, and usually you might be trying to log into a server that is down through the IP. Far easier for your ISP to work with virtual names (xxx.isp.com) than to assign IPs to its backup servers etc.

[Parangles]

Hi Statica,

DOS : " Program cannot be run in DOS mode"
Doesnt work at Start>Run either.

Also getting 404'd with the site address. If 'conneXion' is actual , is the spelling correct? ConnecTion? English versus USA spelling? Tried many variations with that URL.
Maybe better you give it to me in lamer style?
eg > ping(space)mail.Parangles.Yahoo.com >

Thanks lots !

[reboot]

Look in your mail program, and find out the mail servers name, there may be two, one for incoming, and one for outgoing.
The @home service simply uses "mail", but yours may be "smtp.yourisp.com" or "pop.yourisp.com", or maybe "mail.yourisp.com".

[Statica]

Eeps sorry abt that .. I'll go over it in steps.
Get the server name as Reboot posted from before .. lets assume that the server name (POP3) that u are using is: pop-server.tampabay.rr.com

Go to START > RUN > command and press enter

type: ping(space)pop-server.tampabay.rr.com
You should see something like:


Pinging pop-server.tampabay.rr.com [65.32.2.45] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 65.32.2.45: bytes=32 time=60ms TTL=239
Reply from 65.32.2.45: bytes=32 time=60ms TTL=239
Reply from 65.32.2.45: bytes=32 time=60ms TTL=239
Reply from 65.32.2.45: bytes=32 time=60ms TTL=239

Ping statistics for 65.32.2.45:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 60ms, Maximum = 60ms, Average = 60ms


PS: connexion .. was just my way of saving one character by typing instead of connection its just an arbitrary URL to illustrate my example, and I have had to type a whole lot more characters

Originally posted by Parangles Hi Statica, DOS : " Program cannot be run in DOS mode" Doesnt work at Start>Run either. Also getting 404'd with the site address. If 'conneXion' is actual , is the spelling correct? ConnecTion? English versus USA spelling? Tried many variations with that URL. Maybe better you give it to me in lamer style? eg > ping(space)mail.Parangles.Yahoo.com > Thanks lots !

[Parangles]

Thanks Guys,

I will work on the pinging tonight. A related question in the meantime. I want to try using Eudoras Pure Voice as a recorded audio attachment to an email.
Am concerned about my even lamer friends being able to open these files, a proprietory *.qcp file. Sent it to my trusty Pentium classic on the other side of the room. Its formatted and with only Win Media Player, Win recorder, and basic Real Player on it.
No go ! I got dead ended at the Eudora site where I was sent for their Player /plug in, and have decided to send likely recipients the one that is on my hard drive, as an attachment or via floppy in the mail as some still have 28.8 modems.
Which of the following files that I found in Find Files/folders, named >purevoice< do you think are essential to send ? Probably other files not found using this method Eh?
I intend sending it with brief set up instructions/usage rather than having them wade through the Read me's, and Help. Here they are:

P.Voice, Plug in Application-165K
"" 32.dll " 22K- Application
"" .cnt 4K- CNT
"" .GID 26K GID
"" .FTS 87K FTS

The first file has an icon but no extention, so I assume this is the meat of it by the size.

Respect as always.

Chris.

PS.
Been working on this- tried putting all of them on a floppy and loading them on the Classic computer. But the question is where?
I assume none of my friends will have Eudora , Even Eudora Light is
4.5 mb- too large to hold on floppy or for them to download with dial up.Some will be using Hotmail-Yahoo-Outlook Expres , who knows what!
I cannot get above files to install independently- they seem to want to be associated with some other program.
I guess this plan is dead.

[Floppyman]

Originally posted by reboot Also, a couple of things to check: In Tools, Options, Viewing mail, make sure you TURN OFF (uncheck), "Use MS Viewer", to prevent getting any trojans. To speed up mail send/recieve, ping your mail servers, and write down the POP and SMTP numbers, then put them in place of the names in the "Getting Started" screen.

Thanks for the tips reboot, putting the numbers in does speed things up a bit.