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Eudora is an email program that does more than just send and receive messages, it`s a powerful management tool with features to increase your productivity and enhance your communications.

About Eudora

The protocol used most often to transfer mail from a server to the email program on your computer is POP, the Post Office Protocol. Steve Dorner, the main author of Eudora in 1990, thought of the short story "Why I Live at the P.O." (compare prices), which he had read in college, when he was working on the Eudora project. The story is by the great Southern American writer Eudora Welty. The great email program Eudora is named after her.

Eudora is an exceptionally mature e-mail package, where unique features have been accumulating with each release for more than a decade.

Tips and Tricks

Many of these tips and tricks will work with previous versions of Eudora with some minor differences in wording or menu location.

Add a Sender to Your Eudora Address Book Quickly from Message

To add a sender to your Eudora address book quickly:

• Highlight a message form the person you want to add to your address book in the message list or open it in its own window.
• Press Ctrl-K (think kontact?).
• Verify that Eudora has deduced the first and last name correctly.

Make Sure Eudora is Deleting Attachments Along With Messages You Delete

By default, Eudora thinks attachments are terribly important. Even if you delete a message, all the attachments it contains will still be on your hard disk.

• Select Tools, Options from the Eudora menu.
• Go to the Attachments category.
• Make sure Delete attachments when emptying Trash is selected.
• Click OK.

Technical Support

Force Eudora to display mail as text only

For any version of after Eudora 6.2 through 7.x you cannot completely disable HTML rendering of incoming messages in Eudora. Some code will still execute; for example, links will still appear as underlined text just like in a web page, rather than URLs in brackets. However, you can use settings that minimize the level of this execution, as follows:

1. From the Tools menu, select Options.
2. Under "Category:", select Display.
3. Uncheck Automatically download HTML graphics and Show attachment images inline.
4. Under "Category:", select Viewing Mail.
5. On the right under "Message Window", uncheck Use Microsoft's viewer. Then, near the bottom of the Window, uncheck Allow executables in HTML content.
6. If you also want to disable the sending of HTML formatted messages, then under "Category:" select Styled Text. On the right under "When sending mail with styled text (HTML):", select Send plain text only.
7. Click OK.

Security Advisory GM#002-IE

Any application that hosts the WebBrowser control is affected since this exploit does not require Active Scripting or ActiveX. Some of these applications are:

• Qualcomm Eudora
• Microsoft Outlook
• Microsoft Outlook Express

An example is when an attacker knows the path to attached files.

Eudora is a popular email client; by default it uses the WebBrowser control for viewing email messages. However, it attempts to secure itself by filtering out elements such as <iframe>, <object>, <embed>, etc.

Eudora stores its attachments (by default) in "C:/Program Files/Qualcomm/Eudora/Attach", an attacker is likely to guess other paths to Eudora, such as different drive letters or similar minor changes.

To protect yourself:

Go to Tools -> Options -> Viewing Mail, uncheck "Use Microsoft's viewer"

Eudora Options for Safer Email Viewing in Microsoft Windows

Safe email viewing in Eudora is mostly a matter of setting a few options. Do this by selecting Tools, then Options, then the following Categories.

• Display and Fonts:
  • Windows: Uncheck: Automatically download HTML graphics
• Viewing Mail
  • Message Window box:
    • Uncheck Use Microsoft's viewer (This is important.)
  • Preview Pane box:
    • Uncheck: Show message preview pane
    • Uncheck: Automatically open next message (Note: You don't have to uncheck this if (1) you use antispam filtering and (2) you're careful about checking each mailbox's index list and delete all suspicious email messages before you begin reading them.)
    • Uncheck: Allow executables in HTML content
• Extra Warnings:
  • Warn me when I:
    • Check: Launch a program from a message
    • Check: Launch a program externally
• Miscellaneous:
  • Uncheck: Say OK to alerts after xx Second(s)

Error: "Invalid menu handle" When "Send to Browser" Used

When you right click in a message and choose the option to "Send to Browser" and receieve an error message "Invalid menu handle" it is likely a problem with fire association.

One example: A system where the user wants to have Firefox open the message but the user also has Open Office installed, the Sun Microsystems Open Office program will screw up the file extension .HTM and cause this problem. (OpenOffice.Org 2.0)

In CONTROL PANEL, FOLDER OPTIONS, under the "File Types" tab locate the .HTM extension type.

If selecting Firefox causes it to revert to OpenOffice.Org 2.0 - FIX IN WINDOWS REGISTRY

KEY:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.htm

1. Create a new text file and call it htmfix.reg
2. Enter the following:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.htm]
"Progid"="FirefoxHTML"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.htm\OpenWithList]
"a"="notepad.exe"
"MRUList"="dhcagefb"
"b"="iexplore.exe"
"c"="firefox.exe"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.htm\OpenWithProgids]
"htmlfile"=hex(0):
"FirefoxHTML"=hex(0):

3. Save the text file and then double click to add it to the registry

New PC: How to move and back up files

With Eudora 7.1 user install the user purchases a new computer and wishes to transfer the Eudora install to the new computer.

Tip #1: DURING THE INSTALL YOU WILL BE ASKED TO USE THE WINDOWS DEFAULT DATA FOLDER (ie: Documents and Settings/..) OR A CUSTOM DATA FOLDER which the default is the Eudora install folder. MAKE SURE YOU CHOOSE THE OPTION THAT MATCHES THE WAY EUDORA WAS INSTALLED ON THE OLD PC. This will greatly reduce complication of migration.

Tip #2: Make sure you have hidden files enabled viewable in Windows Explorer. Eudora has hidden attribute files. If you can't see them then they may not get copied.

Tip #3: BACK UP EVERYTHING before you begin. Recommend you create a copy, for example, PKZip the entire old Eudora folder and new Eudora folder. Also, if you used the default Windows data folder, make sure you back up \Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\Qualcomm\Eudora also on both systems. You will have either 2 or 4 total PKZip backup files. If anything goes wrong you can restore.

Process tested in lab using Eudora 7.1.0.9 with Data and Application folders both in the Eudora install path. You can tell where your data and install folders are by looking at the Eudora HELP, ABOUT EUDORA. It shows the info below the Eudora logo.

Step 1: Install Eudora on the new computer. If possible, use the same directory install path as the Eudora install on the old computer. This is not necessary, however, does simplify the process to some degree.

Step 2: Open and Register the new installation.

Step 3: Close Eudora on both systems. Copy the ENTIRE Eudora folder from the old system over top the Eudora folder on the new system. Replace all files.

note: Using FreeCommander one can do a compare, and copy only the difference files from the old to the new, this is also an option.

Step 4: Edit deudora.ini

This is necessary only of the new PC Eudora install path is different

Step 5: Open and test Eudora on new PC. Discontinue use of Eudora on old PC to prevent mail synchronization issues.

Additional Notes: The above process worked in lab testing. Eudora also documents a process, see http://www.eudora.com/techsupport/kb/1602hq.html for details.

Some key files that will need to be copied from the old computer: deudora.ini eudora.ini LinkHistory.dat Eudora.GID descmap.pce

comment: On a lab system Eudora was successfully copied over to new PC even when the Eudora executable was accidentally left open running on the old system.