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Contents:
Attachments
Sending Attachments:
Eudora will encode attachments to be sent, but you may wish to compress them first to take less sending and download time, esp. since you or your recipient may be paying for connect time. See Encoding information
Compression tools:
Receiving Attachments:
- Decoder/Uncompression tools
- Sometimes incoming attachments come as looking like garbage text within a message rather than as a separate file. This is not Eudora's fault. To decode these, you need to save the message(s) as one text file and run this text file through a decoder.
- StuffIt Expander is free.
- StuffIt Deluxe
- Munpack for MIME decoding
- The Mac Orchard's Helper Apps page has a few more.
- Helper Applications
- If the attachment was itself an application, you should be all set. Just double click on the attachment and it should open. (Eudora may ask you if you are sure you wish to do so the first time you attempt to open it.)
- If the attachment was an application in a self-extracting archive, you may need to double click it and follow the instructions.
- If the attachment was compressed before being sent, you may need to expand it with one of the above Decoder/Uncompression tools
- If the attachment is a document, you need to have an application that can display files of that type. I.e. if someone sends you a WordPerfect to have WordPerfect to open it. If someone sends you a .au sound file, you need a program that can play .au sound files. If you are unsure what type of document the attachment is, ask the person who sent it to you.
- For various helper applications, check out the WWW Viewer Test Page as well as The Mac Orchard's Helper Apps page
- Virus Checking
- Any applications that come through as attachments (or downloads via your browser) should be virus checked.
- Disinfectant
- Virex
Servers
Telnet/TN3270
Every so often you may need to Telnet or TN3270 into your ISP to change forwarding, turn on a vacation message, etc.
DataComet allows for both regular Telnet and TN3270 in the same package.
NCSA Telnet 2.7b4 is the last release from NCSA. They are no longer developing or supporting their Telnet client. There is also a French version.
- InterScript Telnet ClientTM is the improved replacement for NCSA Telnet. It has many enhancements to the last release of NCSA Telnet. InterScriptTM DEMO
1.0 is the equivalent to NCSA Telnet 2.8 Release (if it existed) with modifications and bug fixes, and the addition of automatic scripting capabilities. This DEMO package has one script Plug-In included (News Poster), however, it is a full working version of the InterScript Telnet ClientTM and you can keep using the demo for as long as you want without obligation to purchase anything.
Brown TN3270 is a TN3270 client.
Usenet newsreaders will let you read and post to comp.mail.eudora.mac
Before posting, see the information you should include in a comp.mail.eudora.mac post
- What Is Usenet?
- What Is Usenet (a different one than above!)
- Newsguyis a commercial Usenet server that delivers fast Usenet news.
- Airnews is another commercial Usenet server that delivers fast Usenet news.
- Usenet servers if your ISP does not offer Usenet or does not have a good newsfeed.
- InterNews
- MacSoup [French version]
MT-Newswatcher by Simon Fraser is the newsreader I use and has support for multi-threading, filtering, spell checking, and speech recognition.
- NewsWatcher. [French version]
- WS Newswatcher is a version of NewsWatcher that is Apple Events aware, and thus you can use Spellswell to spellcheck your messages before posting to Usenet.
- Yet Another News-Watcher will import your Eudora nicknames file. [French version] YA-Newswatcher FAQ
- If you do not have direct access to Usenet:
- To post to usenet: Use DejaNews or a public e-mail to usenet gateway. See List of Mail To News Gateways for the addresses of several such gateways. Be sure to put a note at the end of your post that says something like, "Since I don't have access to Usenet, please send responses both to the newsgroup and directly to me."
- To read Usenet, see Alta Vista (selected for comp.mail.eudora.mac) or DejaNews
- Note: if you wish to properly followup to a previous post via e-mail, you need to:
- Make the subject line be exactly: "Re: same subject as before" without the quotes. (substitute the actual subject; don't literally write "same subject as before.")
- Have an actual header in your outgoing message of "In-Reply-To: <message ID of message to which you are replying>" (If you have an incoming message from a newsgroup (either cc'd to you or you redirected it properly from your newsreader, Eudora will automatically put the proper header in the reply).
- To make test posts on usenet, do not post to regular newsgroups. Post to alt.test, comp.test, etc. Use a subject line of "ignore" if you don't wish to receive 30 or so automatic responses from around the world over the next couple of days. But the best way to make sure your posts are making it around the world and not just your site's news server is to not use "ignore."
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Apple Internet Mail
Server is nice if you have a static IP address and you leave your Mac on most of the time. AIMS documentation is available online.
AutoShare works with AIMS to allow auto-reply accounts, "vacation" messages, and listservs.
Macjordomo works
with AIMS to do listservs.
AddMail by Alan Staniforth is available in this subdirectory. List of files in directory. AddMail allows Eudora to pick up mail using SMTP. Handy for accounts on machines such as demon.co.uk that only provide an SMTP server.
