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MANAGING MAIL ON A FLOPPY
If you use one Eudora floppy disk (a “Mail Disk”) to access your mail from various locations, all your e-mail will be downloaded and stored in one place, your Mail Disk. The Eudora client application program installed on public computers automatically uses the settings, addresses, and mailbox files located on Mail Disk. You can set up any personal computer, including your own at home, to read and write to a floppy disk.
Using Mail Disk on a Public Computer
PC users
Insert your Mail Disk into the floppy drive. (To prepare a floppy for email, click the Start>Programs>Eudora Pro>Create MailDisk icon.)
Double-click the Eudora Pro program icon on the desktop.
The program will read the settings files on Mail Disk and your e-mail window will appear.
Mac Users
Insert your Mail Disk into the floppy drive.
Locate the Eudora Settings file on Mail disk.
Double-click Eudora Settings to launch the program.
All Users
Incoming Mail:
Before downloading mail from a public computer, make sure that your disk's "Leave Mail on Server" setting is what you want it to be. If it is not checked, and a number of days specified, no copies of your mail will be left on the server for downloading later to your primary computer. If you leave this setting unchecked, you may want to forward important messages to yourself to download later at home.
Also note that any messages, and even whole mailboxes, can be saved as text files.
Outgoing Mail:
If you send mail from a public computer, copies of your outgoing mail will be saved on your floppy disk. You may also want to CC: yourself any important messages you write, so that you can later download them at home. (You may also save these messages as text files.)
Using Mail Disk on a Personal Desktop:
Mac users:
Install the Eudora Pro program onto the hard drive.
Insert Mail Disk into the floppy drive and open it.
Double-click the Eudora settings icon on Mail Disk to launch the program.
PC users:
Install the Eudora Pro program onto the hard drive.
To direct the program to start up from the settings on your floppy:
Select the Eudora Pro program icon by clicking once with your mouse.
Press the ALT and ENTER keys simultaneously.
The Program Properties window will open.
Modify the command line by adding a space and “A:\” at the end, without modifying anything else. (Leave out the quotations marks)
Example of a modified command line: C:\EUDORA\EUDORA.EXE A:\
Eudora is now ready to read and write to a floppy.
Insert Mail Disk into the floppy drive.
Double-click the Eudora Pro program icon on the desktop to launch.
Storing Your Mail
When using a floppy as your primary mailbox, you should regularly delete old mail. Alternatively, you can archive old mail by saving as text files and storing elsewhere.
Be aware of the amount of disk space remaining. If, despite careful housekeeping, your floppy’s free disk space is less than 200K, make a new Mail Disk.
Transferring your Address Book
PC Users
Open Mail Disk 1
Copy the file named nndbase.txt to Mail Disk 2.
Mac Users
Open Mail Disk 1
Copy Eudora Nicknames file to Mail Disk 2.
Transferring Mailboxes
Look in your Eudora directory (folder). The standard mailbox files are in.mbx, out.mbx, trash.mbx. These are the files you may want to copy for transfer or storage. Additional mailbox files you create will bear the names you gave them. The "toc", or "table of Contents" files will regenerate themselves, and are not essential for saving your mail.
Created 9/13/97. Revised 10/21/98
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