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Configuring Eudora for IMAP

We recommend using IMAP instead of POP for accessing your incoming email. Pop configurations will often delete mail from the server, making it unavailable to other devices or computers you would use to access your email. With IMAP, you can access your mail using your computer and smartphone, and keep mail syncronized between devices.

Important note: In the description below, we use you@yourdomain.com and yourdomain.com as your email address and domain name. You need to substitute of course your real email address and domain name.

About Secure Sockets Layer (SSL): In the instructions below, we are not enabling SSL. If you wish to connect to the incoming IMAP and outgoing SMTP server using encryption, then leave these enabled. There will not be an SSL certificate on the server to match mail.yourdomain.com or imap.yourdomain.com, so your mail program will warn you that you are connecting without a certificate. Confirm the exception when this happens.

Click on the "Personalities" tab (the tab with two faces on it).
Right click on your current personality and select "New".
Select "Create a brand new email account", then click "Next".
Enter a name for this account in the "Personality Name:" field then click "Next". This is the name that will appear in the Personality list.
Enter your name in the "Your Name:" field. This is the name that you would like to appear in the From: field of any email messages that you send, then click "Next"
Enter your full email address in the "Email Address" field. Click "Next".
Enter "mail.yourdomain.com" or your server name (ahsX.R4L.com) where X is a number in the "Incoming Server" field, then select "IMAP". Then click "Next".
The next screen will ask you for an IMAP Location Prefix. Ignore this screen and click "Next".
Enter "smtp.yourdomain.com" or your server name (ahsX.R4L.com) where X is a number in the "Outgoing Server" field. Make sure "Allow authentication" is left checked. Click "Next"
You will now see the "set-up success" screen. Click "Finish" to create your account.
An "Enter Password" screen will appear. Enter your password in the required field and click "OK".
Next right click on your new personality and click "Properties".
Under "SMTP Server", "Authentication allowed" must be checked. Click the drop-down menu under "Secure Sockets when Sending" and select "Never" from the menu. You can enable this later if you wish.
Click the "Incoming Mail" tab and make sure that "Never" is selected from the drop-down menu under "Secure Sockets when Sending". Click "OK". Again, you can enable this later if you wish.