Setting up mail retreval and filters in Eudora

Eudora is a powerful email client for windows operating systems. This document will describe how you can configure mail retreval and spam filtering. Click on any of the images for a larger version.

Setting Eudora to get your mail from our server is fairly easy.
First, click on the 'tools' menu and select 'options'.		Click on the 'Getting Started' button when the options dialog appears.
Fill in your name, return address, and login name with the appropriate values.
Enter 'mailhost.astro.ufl.edu' for both incoming and outgoing mail servers.
Click OK and Eudora should try to connect and retrieve your mail. It will ask for your password. This is your UNIX password. If you have forgotten it, ask Ken or David to change it for you.
To filter spam, the first step is to create a place for all of the mail that is tagged 'spam' to go. We'll create a new mailbox called 'spam'.
  • First, right click on the 'dominant' mailbox. This will bring up the menu in the top image.
  • Select 'new...' and the window in the bottom image will appear.
  • Enter 'spam' in the field as shown.
Then click on the 'tools' menu and select 'filters'.
  1. Select 'new' at the bottom of the window.
  2. Set 'match' to 'incoming'
  3. Select 'subject' for the first header match
  4. Contains '*****SPAM*****' (that's 5 stars, SPAM in all caps, and 5 more stars)
  5. Move to 'action' and set the first one to 'transfer to'...
  6. Click on the button that appeared and move to 'dominant', and then to your new spam folder.
  7. Close the filter window. It will ask you if you want to save changes. Click yes.

Updated 12.12.02 David Edmeades