Eudora 6.2.4

[YOYO]

Help!
I'm one who just doesn't want to give up Eudora!
I use Eudora 6.2.4 (for Mac)
I had what I think was an e-mail hacker, so I decided to change my
"dominent" password.

I clicked "forget password" in the special menu.
I restarted and was asked to enter password and I entered a new one. I
checked "save this password".

Then, I checked mail and it won't log in. most often it freeses
(colorwheel) and I have to force quit.

I jes bet y'all are tired og getting such help requests! I have read
most all reklated posts, which are from yesteryear!

I don't dare try to change any of my" Eudora Settins" for fear I''l get
into deeper trouple. when AT&T changed things a few years ago, I had
problems and y'all helped me out of it, especially Kathy!

I'm hoping this group can help me again.
Many thanks for being there!!!

YOYO
Greenville, SC

[YOYO]

PS: I'm running Tiger still on a Powerbook G4
Thanks.

[Patty Winter]

In article <timstreater-8350...@news.individual.net>,
Tim Streater <timst...@greenbee.net> wrote:
>
>Well obviously it won't login. The password you enter has to be the one
>that the mail server knows about, that the ISP assigned you. You should
>re-enter that one.
>
>If you want to change your p/w you'll have to contact your ISP and ask
>them to set a new one on their side. Then you set that one in Eudora.

To add to what Tim said, "Forget password" only tells Eudora not to
auto-enter your password when you check for mail. To make that decision
permanent, you need to uncheck "Save password for this personality" the
next time you enter the password. Then Eudora will prompt you for the
password every time you try to send or receive mail. Those settings have
nothing to do with *changing* your email password, just *remembering* it.


Patty

[Daniel Cohen]

Tim Streater <timst...@greenbee.net> wrote:

> Well obviously it won't login. The password you enter has to be the one
> that the mail server knows about, that the ISP assigned you. You should
> re-enter that one.
>
> If you want to change your p/w you'll have to contact your ISP and ask
> them to set a new one on their side. Then you set that one in Eudora.

Well, sort of. Because the mail server may not be provided by the ISP
(my email accounts are at college and Gmail). But certainly the password
needs to be changed on the mail server, whatever the process happens to
be for that.

But also the OP reported getting the pizza of death, which suggests
something else is wrong. Usually one just gets told that there is a
problem with the password IIRC.

It would be worth checking the Eudora log to try to see what's
happening.
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[Kathy Morgan]

YOYO <yo...@bellesouth.net> wrote:

> Help!
> I'm one who just doesn't want to give up Eudora!
> I use Eudora 6.2.4 (for Mac)
> I had what I think was an e-mail hacker, so I decided to change my
> "dominent" password.
>
> I clicked "forget password" in the special menu.
> I restarted and was asked to enter password and I entered a new one. I
> checked "save this password".

As Tim, Patty, and Daniel have already said, that only affects Eudora
remembering the password but it doesn't change the password on the
server.

> Then, I checked mail and it won't log in. most often it freeses
> (colorwheel) and I have to force quit.

Usually if the problem is just with an incorrect password you'll get a
message to that effect and not the pizza of death, so I think you have
an additional problem. If you have logging turned on, you may be able
to figure out from the log what is causing the freeze and fix it.

Otherwise, the next easiest fix is to find a good backup of the Eudora
Settings file and use it to start up Eudora and/or replace the corrupted
settings file with the old good backup. I'm never that lucky to have a
good backup. Kind of a last resort is to reset the settings; doing that
will save your account and server information but you lose all your
customizations.

If you have to reset the settings, first open a new message in Eudora
and choose "Insert system configuration" from the Help menu. This will
give you a listing of the x-Eudora settings that you can just
double-click each one to restore your customizations. To reset the
settings, hold down all the modifier keys (command-option-control-shift)
while you select Settings from the Special menu. You'll get a warning
to click through.
--
Kthy

[Patty Winter]

In article <1kchb3s.1e8z4u61d7oz28N%kmo...@spamcop.net>,

Kathy Morgan <kmo...@spamcop.net> wrote:
>
>Otherwise, the next easiest fix is to find a good backup of the Eudora
>Settings file and use it to start up Eudora and/or replace the corrupted
>settings file with the old good backup. I'm never that lucky to have a
>good backup.

Kathy, I notice in my Eudora Folder that there's "Eudora Settings"
and "Eudora Settings.bkup." One would think that the automatically
generated backup file might help in case of trouble, but I suppose
there's a chance that it went bad at the same time as the main
file did?

(Oddly, I also have "Eudora Settings.bad" and "Eudora.Settings.bad.bkup."
Apparently Eudora decided to create a back up a bad settings file. :-))


Patty

[Kathy Morgan]

Patty Winter <pat...@wintertime.com> wrote:

> Kathy, I notice in my Eudora Folder that there's "Eudora Settings"
> and "Eudora Settings.bkup." One would think that the automatically
> generated backup file might help in case of trouble,

I'm sure it's supposed to, but if my Settings file is bad, it seems like
the backup always matches it and is also bad.

> but I suppose
> there's a chance that it went bad at the same time as the main
> file did?
>
> (Oddly, I also have "Eudora Settings.bad" and "Eudora.Settings.bad.bkup."
> Apparently Eudora decided to create a back up a bad settings file. :-))

Oh! I've got that. I assumed I had labeled those after discovering they
were bad (but while still hoping to salvage something), but maybe Eudora
did it.

The smart thing to do is to manually make a copy/backup while things are
working well and save it in a safe place for future use. I know that's
the smart thing, but do I ever do it? Of course not.

--
Kathy

[Patty Winter]

In article <1kcjf42.1898ajs1kj6t9gN%kmo...@spamcop.net>,
Kathy Morgan <kmo...@spamcop.net> wrote:

>Patty Winter <pat...@wintertime.com> wrote:
>
>> (Oddly, I also have "Eudora Settings.bad" and "Eudora.Settings.bad.bkup."
>> Apparently Eudora decided to create a back up a bad settings file. :-))
>
>Oh! I've got that. I assumed I had labeled those after discovering they
>were bad (but while still hoping to salvage something), but maybe Eudora
>did it.

It must have been Eudora. I always name my backup files ".bu".

>The smart thing to do is to manually make a copy/backup while things are
>working well and save it in a safe place for future use. I know that's
>the smart thing, but do I ever do it? Of course not.

:-)


Patty