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- README for PC Eudora for MS Windows
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-
- Version 1.4
-
-
- This is the free version of PC Eudora. There is a commercial version of
- PC Eudora. If want any information about the commercial version (such as
- what advantages it has over the free version, or what the pricing is for
- the commercial version), please send some email to eudora-sales@qualcomm.com,
- or call (800) 2-EUDORA (that's 1-800-238-3672). The commercial version is
- offered for a very reasonable price, and has many features that make it a
- more valuable tool than the free version.
-
-
- PC Eudora is an electronic mail tool based on Eudora for the Macintosh.
- This version has been completely rewritten by QUALCOMM Incorportated,
- San Diego, CA in C++, using the Zinc Interface Library for the Graphical
- User Interface. Those familiar with Eudora should have no problems using
- PC Eudora, and even new users will find PC Eudora to be easy to learn and use.
-
-
-
- License and Legal Information
- -----------------------------
-
- This PC Eudora Software is owned by QUALCOMM Incorporated.
- QUALCOMM grants to the user a nonexclusive license to use this PC Eudora
- Software solely for its internal business purposes. The user shall not
- commercially distribute, sublicense, resell, or otherwise transfer for any
- consideration, or reproduce for any such purposes, the PC Eudora software
- or any modification or derivation thereof, either alone or in conjunction
- with any other product or program. Further, the user shall not modify the
- PC Eudora Software, other than for its own internal business use.
-
- THE PC EUDORA SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED TO THE USER ''AS IS.'' QUALCOMM
- MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, WITH RESPECT TO
- THE PC EUDORA SOFTWARE AND/OR ASSOCIATED MATERIALS PROVIDED TO
- THE USER, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY,
- FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND AGAINST INFRINGEMENT.
-
- LIMITATION OF LIABILITY -- QUALCOMM SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIMS OR
- DAMAGES WHATSOEVER, INCLUDING PROPERTY DAMAGE, PERSONAL INJURY,
- INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY INFRINGEMENT, LOSS OF PROFITS, OR INTERRUPTION OF
- BUSINESS, OR FOR ANY SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES,
- HOWEVER CAUSED, WHETHER ARISING OUT OF BREACH OF WARRANTY, CONTRACT,
- TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), STRICT LIABILITY, OR OTHERWISE.
-
-
-
- Minimum Requirements
- --------------------
-
- PC Eudora for MS Windows requires the following:
-
- - IBM PC compatible machine
- - MS Windows Version 3.1
- - WinSock v1.1 compliant TCP/IP stack
- - Microsoft (or compatible) mouse (highly recommended)
- - At least 750KB of free disk space (more depending on mailbox sizes)
-
-
-
- How to Install
- --------------
-
- 1. Create a new directory for the eudora files (C:\EUDORA is a good choice).
-
-
- 2. Copy the executable file into the directory you created in step #1:
-
- WEUDORA.EXE
-
-
- 3. Add the following environment variable to your AUTOEXEC.BAT file:
-
- SET TMP=C:\TMP (or some temp directory)
-
- Make sure that this directory exists.
-
-
- 4. PC Eudora makes use several different TCP/IP services, and has default
- port numbers for these services. Most sites put these services on the
- default ports, but some may not. Contact your site network adminstrator
- to make sure that the following services listed in this step indeed
- have the default port numbers. If they don't, you'll have to make
- some changes (usually to a SERVICES file) to some file(s) on your PC.
-
- Below are a list of the services which PC Eudora uses, and what they
- might look like in a typical services file. The names of these services
- must be exactly as named here (e.g. the entry for the POP3 service must
- be "pop3" and not "pop-3"). Make sure that you make any changes necessary
- for your TCP/IP package to specifiy the location of the SERVICES file.
-
- To receive mail:
- pop3 110/tcp
-
- To send mail:
- smtp 25/tcp
-
- To use Ph (if your site has a Ph server):
- ns 105/tcp
-
- To use Finger (if your site supports finger):
- finger 79/tcp
-
- To use the Change Password... function in PC Eudora (if your site has a
- password changing server, see the directory mac/eudora/1.4/contrib on
- ftp.qualcomm.com for examples of password changing servers):
- epass 106/tcp
-
-
- 5. Run MS Windows and add PC Eudora as a Program Item to a new or existing
- Program Group.
-
- If you wish your mail files to reside somewhere other than where the
- executable resides, then you can set the mail directory by specifying
- the directory as the first parameter on the command line of the
- Program Item that you create for PC Eudora.
-
- This is useful if you want to keep the executable on a server, but each
- user has their own mail heirarchy. It also works for when you want to
- have multiple users on one PC. Always keep the help file in the same
- directory as the executable.
-
- PC Eudora will use the directory on the command line first. If
- that isn't present the directory where the executable resides will be
- used.
-
-
- The first time you run PC Eudora for Windows you will have to edit
- some of the configuration information in order to be able to send and
- receive mail.
-
-
- Select Configurations from the Special Menu. The fields you need to
- review are:
-
- POP Account: This should be set to the address where you receive
- your mail. The entry must be entered in the following
- form:
- "username@machine_name"
- This is a required field on this screen.
-
- SMTP Server: This should be set to the address of a machine that
- supports SMTP. If the machine that your POP account is
- on supports SMTP, you need not fill this in (Eudora will
- use the machine your POP account is on to deliver mail
- also).
-
- Return Address: This should be set to the address of how you wish your
- return address to appear in mail that you send. If your
- POP account (as shown above) is also your return address
- then you can leave this field blank also.
-
- Real Name: This is field you can use to fill in your actual name
- (i.e. John Smith) and it will be appended to the
- return address in messages you send, enclosed in
- parentheses.
-
-
-
- Additional Configuration Notes
- ------------------------------
- There is a file named CHANGES that should come along with the PC Eudora
- distribution. This file has important information about how to use some of
- the features in PC Eudora.
-
- If you have the New Mail Notification "Sound" switch on, then when new mail
- arrives, you will hear a notification sound. In order for this to work,
- your system must have a properly configured sound board, or you must have
- installed the Sound Driver for PC-Speaker (anonymous ftp from
- ftp.cica.indiana.edu, the file /pub/pc/win3/sounds/speak.exe). Eudora has a
- built in sound, but if you wish to supply your own, it must be in .WAV format.
- To change the default new mail sound, edit the EUDORA.INI file and add an
- entry entry in the [Miscellaneous] section called NewMailSound. Set the entry
- to the name to the filename of the wave file. If the entry is just a
- filename, with no path, then PC Eudora will look for it in the mail directory.
- Here's an example of what it may look like in the INI file:
-
- [Miscellaneous]
- NewMailSound=NEWMAIL.WAV
-
-
- If the mail you are sending is bouncing back to you saying that the message
- does not have a Date: header, add the following entry to your EUDORA.INI file:
-
- [Miscellaneous]
- TimeZone=xxxnnnyyy
-
- where xxx, yyy are timezone abbreviations like PST, PDT, CDT, and nnn is
- the offset in hours WEST of GMT (i.e those that are east of GMT should
- enter a negative number here). xxx is the timezone during Standard Time
- and yyy is the timezone during Daylight Savings Time. If you do not
- change your clocks during Daylight Savings Time, leave yyy blank.
- Here's some samples:
- TimeZone=PST8PDT
- TimeZone=MET-1
-
- If you don't specify a TimeZone entry, then a Date: header will not be
- put in outgoing messages, which is fine for most because their mail server
- will insert the correct Date: header. The moral is: if you don't get
- messages bounced because of a missing Date: header, then leave the
- TimeZone entry alone.
-
-
-
- Getting More Information
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-
- Reporting Bugs
- --------------
-
- Send any and all bugs to pc-eudora-bugs@qualcomm.com, and we'll try
- to respond to you as quickly as possible. The bug address is to be used for
- reporting bugs only. There is no support for the free version of PC Eudora.
- If you would like technical support, please consider purchasing the commercial
- version of PC Eudora (email to eudora-sales@qualcomm.com, or 1-800-2-EUDORA).
-
- If the bug involves a GPF, then be sure to include a Dr. Watson log file.
- There's an application called Dr. Watson (it's in your Windows directory,
- DRWATSON.EXE) that will write some important debugging information to a log
- file (DRWATSON.LOG, also in the Windows directory), and will also prompt
- you to jot down a few words about what you were doing when the crash
- occurred. This information is extremely helpful for tracking down
- problems. In his spare time, Dr. Watson enjoys sitting as an icon at the
- bottom of the screen.
-
- The entries are appended to the end of the log file, so it can grow very
- large. Periodically delete the file to keep its size to a minimum. When
- you include a log file as part of a bug report, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE,
- edit the log file so that only the pertinent part(s) are included. It's
- really not fun to wade through months of someone's log file.
-
- You can make a Program Item for Dr. Watson in your StartUp Program Group so
- that you don't have to manually start it every time your start Windows.
-
-
-
- The PC Eudora Development Team
- Jeff Beckley beckley@qualcomm.com
- Jeff Gehlhaar jbg@qualcomm.com
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