Personalities

In Eudora

Besides sending e-mail from their own address, many people need to send messages in other roles, for example, from a special mailbox, or an office professional sending messages for a faculty member. The personality feature lets you send e-mail that will show the desired information in the From and Reply-To fields.

These instructions explain how to set up a personality for a Cornell e-mail account using Eudora 5.2. Non-Cornell accounts will require different settings; ask the account provider for those settings.

These instructions assume you will be using a Personality to send messages. If you are receiving messages for a Personality, we assume you are having someone else's mail forwarded to your e-mail address.

Eudora treats personalities differently depending on whether you are using POP or IMAP to handle your messages. For more information on IMAP and POP, please see our comparison page.

Setting up a Personality in Windows

1. On Eudora's Tools menu choose Personalities. Right-click on the Personalities window (on the left) and choose New from the menu that pops up. A Wizard window will appear.
2. Select Create a brand new e-mail account then click Next.
3. Fill in the boxes as follows:

• Personality Name: short name for special mailbox or person (example: BRRC or Prof. End)
• Your Name: name that will appear in the From field when mail is sent (example: Big Red Research Center or Professor End)
• E-Mail Address: the special mailbox's or person's return address (example: BRRC@cornell.edu or ewe2@cornell.edu)
• Login Name: special mailbox's ID including -mailbox (example: BRRC-mailbox) or person's NetID (example: ewe2)
• Incoming Server: mail server used by the special mailbox or person (example: postoffice8.mail.cornell.edu)
• POP or IMAP: select IMAP or POP
          If you chose IMAP, you'll be asked for IMAP Location Prefix; enter user
• Outgoing Server: defaults to be the same as the incoming server

4. Click Finish to close the Wizard window.
5. Click on the personality name in the Personalities window, then right-click it. Choose Properties from the menu that pops up.
6. Click in the box next to Check Mail to remove the check mark.
7. Click OK.

Setting up a Personality on Macintosh

1. On Eudora's Window menu choose Personalities.
2. Click the New button.
3. Click the Edit Personalities button.
4. Fill in the boxes as follows:

• Personality Name: short descriptive name for special mailbox or person
• Username: the special mailbox's ID plus -mailbox (example: BRRC-mailbox) or the person's NetID (example: ewe2)
• Mail Server: special mailbox's postoffice server (example: postoffice8.mail.cornell.edu)
• Real name: name used to write and reply (example: Big Red Research Center or Professor End)
• Return Address: special mailbox's ID plus @cornell.edu (example: BRRC@cornell.edu) or person's NetID plus @cornell.edu (example: ewe2@cornell.edu)

5. Make sure both Check mail boxes are NOT checked.
6. In the scroll area at the left, click on Personality Extras.
7. Next to Mail Protocol, select either POP or IMAP.
        If you choose IMAP, enter user in the Location prefix box.
8. Click OK.

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