Click on the Incoming Mail icon. You know must now choose whether you want to use POP or IMAP. In short, POP downloads and stores your mail on your computer, and IMAP keeps it on the remote computer. POP is the older of the two, so if you've been using another mail client that didn't give you a choice between these two, you were probably using POP.

Configuring Eudora Pro 4 for POP

The above window shows the options when set to POP. There are a number of options you can choose here:

Leave Mail on Server:

Checking this option would prevent Eudora from deleting mail from the PRIMUS computer where the mail is stored after downloading it to your computer. This may cause a problem as enough mail (especially mail with sizable attachments) can eventually fill up the disk space you have allocated to your account. Unless you need to have the mail saved on the server, we suggest leaving this box unchecked.

There are further options, specifying that Eudora will delete mail from the server after a specified amount of time and/or when you delete mail from the trash mailbox. Again, check these only if you think you need to.

Skip Messages...

If this setting is checked and a number is entered in the field, then any message larger than the specified size will not be downloaded. If you enter a 0 (zero) in the field, then all attachments regardless of size are retrieved. We strongly recommend that you do not check this box, as that means you will not see the messages Eudora skips over, and the skipped messages can slowly build up until they fill up your disk space quota and cause new mail to you to be bounced back to the sender.

 

Offline:

Check this if you don't want Eudora to try to make any connections.

Authentication Style:

Set this to Passwords.

Configuring Eudora Pro 4 for IMAP

The above window shows the options when set to IMAP. There are a number of options you can choose here:

IMAP Mailbox Location Prefix:

This should already be filled in with your appropriate mail server information.

For new mail, download:

Minimal Headers: If this radio button is selected, a limited set of message headers will be downloaded for each message. If it isn't selected, the full set of headers will be downloaded.

Full message except attachments over...: If this radio button is selected and a number entered into the field, then any attachment larger than the specified size will not be downloaded with the message. If the radio button isn't selected, then all attachments will be downloaded. We strongly recommend that you do not select this option, as that means you will not see the messages Eudora skips over, and the skipped messages can slowly build up until they fill up your disk space quota and cause new mail to you to be bounced back to the sender.

 

When I delete a message:

These option allow you to decide what to do with deleted messages.

Authentication style:

Set this to Passwords.

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