You should already have installed the Eudora application from MacStanford.

Open Eudora by double-clicking on the "Eudora Pro" icon.

Select "Settings..." from the "Special" menu:

For "Real name:" enter your name as you would like it to appear in your emails.

For "Username:" enter your CMGM username. If your email account is jdoe@cmgm.stanford.edu your username is jdoe.

For "Mail Host:" enter "cmgm.stanford.edu" (no quotes).

You can specify what address the recipients of your emails will reply to. If you want your recipients to reply to your emails to "jdoe@hotmail.com", enter this for the "Return address" field. When email recipients reply to your email, they will send the mail to the address specified in this field.

Select the "Hosts" icon from the left windowpane:

The "SMTP:" field should be "smtp.stanford.edu".

For "Directory Services" enter "directory.stanford.edu".

You can leave the other settings in their default positions.

Select the "Checking Mail" icon.

Select the "Check for mail every xx minutes" checkbox (there should be an 'x' or checkmark in the box to enable this feature). Enter the number of minutes that should pass between automatic mail checking. Setting this value to less than 5 is a bad idea: it increases network traffic and consequently slows email transfers.

You can enable the "Skip messages over xx K" feature if you do not wish to download messages over a certain size. This is only useful for computers connecting to the network via slower modem connections. Campus computers with ethernet should definitely leave this option disabled.

The "Leave on Server" option is useful if you are reading your email from more than one computer. Eudora is a POP client, meaning that once it retrieves an email message from CMGM it deletes the message from the CMGM computer and stores it locally. Consequently, if you move to another computer and try to locate an old email Eudora will fail to find it since the email is already stored away from CMGM. You can force Eudora to leave email on the CMGM server for up to 30 days. Your email will still be stored on your local computer.

You can enable the "Save password" feature if you do not want to enter your password every time you start Eudora. This is not recommended for shared computers.

You should select the "Passwords" radio button (as in the screenshot above) for the "Authentication:" type unless you are using Kerberos.

Select the "Sending Mail" icon from the left side of the "Settings" window:

For the "Domain to add to unqualified names:" field you should probably enter "cmgm.stanford.edu". Essentially, the is the string appended to an email recipient you specify only with a username. For example, when you specify sending an email to jdoe, Eudora will add the entry to this field, in this case "cmgm.stanford.edu" to send the message to jdoe@cmgm.stanford.edu.

Type "smtp.stanford.edu" for the "SMTP Server:" field.

Enable the other options in the "Sending Mail" settings window as shown in the screenshot above.

Scroll downwards to select the "Composing Mail" icon:

Enter "cmgm.stanford.edu" in the field for "Domain to add to unqualified names:". This field should also match the one you specified in the "Sending Mail" settings window (Figure B).

You should enable the option "Keep copies of outgoing mail" if you want to keep a copy of email you send to others.

Select the "Attachments" icon:

Press the button directly below the words "Attachment Folder" to specify where you want to keep files (Word, Excel) your peers send to you.

Click on the "OK" button and select "Check Mail" from the "File" menu to check any new mail.