Mail Setup Instructions: Eudora IMAP-SSL

Eudora 5.1 with SSL-IMAP

IMAP is a mail download protocol which allows you to keep folders on the server and access these folders from multiple computers. This is great for users who don't use just one computer to check their email. With IMAP, users download a local copy of their mailbox and folders from the server. If you create folders on your computer, you must sync up with the server. However, you're not required to create folders. You can work with just one mailbox (your INBOX) if you like.

Make sure you're running Eudora 5.1.  To find out what version of
Eudora you're running, choose About Eudora from the Help menu

From the Tools menu, choose Personalities.  You'll see
a list of "personalities" in the left window pane.

Right click on <Dominant> personality. Select Properties
Each personality represents one email account from which you check mail
from.  If you've configured your account under another
personality name, choose that instead.

Under Generic Properties tab, make sure the following is set:

    Real Name:      your-real-name (e.g., Arthur Dent)
    Return Address: your-username@primate.net 
                    (e.g., adent@primate.net)
    Login Name:     your-username (e.g., adent)
    SMTP Server:    Using AOL, Earthlink, Pacbell, AtHome, or other ISP's:
                    your-isp-mail-server (e.g., mail.pacbell.com)
    Secure Socket When Sending:  Never

Click on Incoming Mail tab, fill in the following:

    Server:                        disorder.primate.net
    Configuration:                 IMAP 
    IMAP Mailbox Location Prefix:  mail/
    For New Mail, download:        Minimal Headers Only
    When I delete a message:       Mark it as deleted
    Authentication Style:          Passwords
    Secure Socket When Receiving:  Required, alternate Port

Click OK

Check mail, enter your password when prompted.  

This will fail because you need to add disorder's server certificate to Eudora.

To add the server certificate, right click on <Dominant> again.  
Select Properties. 

Click on the Incoming Mail tab.

Click on Last SSL Info

Click on Certificate Information manager button at the bottom
of the page.

Click on Add to Trusted button.

Click Done

Click OK

Click OK again.

Now you can check mail again.

To view your list of mailboxes, from the Tools menu, choose
Mailboxes.  You will see your mailboxes on the left of the
screen, under <Dominant>

Please note.  With IMAP, you must expunge your deleted messages
manually. (Under Message menu, click Purge Messages)

In Eudora, the Mailbox windows contains two sections.  The section
labeled "Eudora" can be thought of as your local hard drive.  It
contains all the mail you downloaded via POP.  The section labeled
'disorder.primate.net' is your IMAP server drive.  Therefore, it is
important that you know where you are going to create any new mail
folder.  If the new mail folder is under "Eudora", then it's a local
folder.  This means that if you access your mail from another computer
via IMAP, you will not see this folder.

If you're migrating from POP to IMAP AND you DID NOT leave your mail
on the server, you may want to transfer existing Local Mailboxes to
the IMAP server.  This will allow you to see the contents of these
mailboxes when accessing mail from other machines.  If you will always
check mail from one machine, you do not have to do this.


Transfering Local Inbox

Open the local Inbox mailbox (the one under Eudora)
and mark all of the messages by using the Select All
feature from the Edit menu.
 

From the Transfer menu select the item Dominant (or whatever
personality your 'primate.net' account is under)
and then select Inbox.  All messages are moved to
Inbox on the IMAP server.
  


Transfering Other Local Mailboxes

Create a new mailbox on the IMAP server.  Right clicking on
<Dominant> and choose New....

Enter the name of the new mailbox, for example OldMail. Note that
the name of the mailbox you are creating may be the same name
of the mailbox on the local hard drive.

Open the local mailbox and mark all of the messages by choosing the
Select All from the Edit menu.

From the Message menu select Move Message 
and then select the mailbox you just created.  All messages are moved to the
mailbox on the IMAP server.

The transfer may take some time depending on the number and size of messages being
  transferred.

Verify that the procedure has completed successfully by opening the newly created
  mailbox under <Dominant>

Continue for all mailboxes you wish to transfer.