Versions of PC Eudora prior to 4.0 do not support IMAP. The current version is available to NIH personnel through ISDP.

Pull down the Tools menu and select Options

Select 'Getting Started'

• Enter your real name
• Enter your email address: username@helix.nih.gov (e.g. johnq@helix.nih.gov)
• Enter the hostname of your incoming mail server: helix.nih.gov
• Enter your login (username) on the mail server, e.g. johnq
• Enter the hostname of your outgoing SMTP (mail) server: mailfwd.nih.gov

Select 'Incoming Mail'

• Choose the IMAP server configuration
• IMAP mailbox location prefix: mail/
  This is the location in your Helix account where your IMAP mail folders will be stored. The suggested value of 'mail/', means that your mail folders will be in the directory /home/username/mail on Helix.

Select 'Sending Mail'

• Domain to add to unqualified addresses: nih.gov
  (recommended)
• Enter the hostname of your SMTP server: mailfwd.nih.gov

Select 'Attachments'

• Choose the MIME encoding method. (This is the most common method, therefore most likely to work between different mailers)
• Select the option to put text attachments in the body of messages

Click the OK button

To use the NIH Directory Service in Eudora

Pull down the Tools menu and select Directory Services

Select LDAP in the Protocols windowpane

1. Click on New Database
   • Enter NIH LDAP directory svc as the name by which to refer to this server
   • Enter directory.nih.gov as the Host Name
   • Do not check the "requires me to log on" box
   • Click the Search Options tab
     • Enter o=nih,c=us as the Search Base
   • Click on the OK button
   • Check the NIH LDAP directory svc box in the Databases windowpane

Close the Directory Services window

To read the mail

1. Pull down the Mailbox menu and select <Dominant>
2. Select Inbox icon