Configuring Your POP Email Account

In general, your POP client needs to be configured to get its mail from our server and to use our server as a SMTP relay host. This section shows how to configure two popular POP client software packages (Eudora and Pegasus Mail) for the PC. Please note that both Eudora and Pegasus Mail are also available for the Macintosh and are similarly configured.

Configuring Eudora

Eudora for both the Macintosh and PC is available from ftp://ftp.qualcomm.com/Eudora. Eudora comes in two forms: freeware and a commercial version. The commercial version has many enhancements but costs a little money (for more information send mail to eudora-sales@qualcomm.com). To configure Eudora to access your POP mail account on our server yourdomainname.com for the email user tim I would do the following:

1. Start up Eudora by double clicking on the Eudora icon.
   
2. Selecting the Configuration option in Special pull-down menu
   
3. In the Configuration dialog set the fields to the following values:
   POP Account: tim@yourdomainname.com
   Real Name: Tim Frazier
   SMTP Server: yourdomainname.com
   Return Address: tim@yourdomainname.com
   
4. Configure the other parameters to the user's preference and click on the OK button.
5. Once this is done Eudora is ready for the email user. When Eudora is invoked it will prompt the user for his or her EMail password.

Configuring Pegasus Mail

Pegasus Mail is a freeware program written by David Harrison and is available from ftp://ftp.iastate.edu/pub/pc/email/pegasus/. It runs under a number of operating systems including DOS, Windows, and MacOS.
Pegasus mail is a little harder to setup than Eudora but is worth the effort. Using the same example (email user tim, we can setup pegasus mail with the following steps:

1. Since Pegasus Mail supports many mail transports you must first setup the Preferences before you can setup the POP network parameters. From the File pull down menu select Preferences => General settings.... dialog

2. Configure the fields in the General settings dialog to the following values:

• Personal name (show in your address): Tim Frazier
  
• Default reply address: tim@yourdomainname.com

3. Click and configure the other options in the General settings dialog to the users preference.

4. From the File pull-down menu select the Preferences => Advanced setting... dialog.
5. Configure the fields in the Advanced settings dialog to the following values:

• Organization: Son Family Organization
  
• If WINSOCK.DLL available, load it: Always
  

6. Exit Pegasus Mail and restart it.

7. Now under the File pull-down menu there should be now a Network configuration option. Select the Network configuration dialog.

8. In the TCP/IP Network Configuration dialog configure the following fields to the corresponding values:

• TCP/IP socket timeout value: 15
  
• Relay host: yourdomainname.com
  
• From field: tim@yourdomainname.com
  
• Host: yourdomainname.com
  
• Username: <Your assigned username>
  
• Password: <Tim's POP Account Password>

9. Set the other buttons and fields in the TCP/IP Network Configuration dialog to the user's preference.

10. Send yourself some Email to test it out. Please note that since the password is configured in the Pegasus Mail client the user does not need to type it in every time it is invoked as with Eudora.