Upgrade to Win7 64 and problems will not allow me to use Eudora 7.1.0.9

[jpark]

I have attempted to send email on Eudora v7.1.0.9 after I upgraded my OS to Windows 7 x64.

Eudora will not send mail and the two common error screens say:

"POP Server says, ERR Authentication Failed." (quotes are mine...)

often followed by:

" Can't send to'' 553 Sorry, Authentication required, but not found." (my quotes)

I have been plagued by these messages in the past while using WinXP, but not on a regular basis. Now it's "all the time, every time"...? I'm DEAD.

What does one have to do? I have uninstalled Eudora twice, including a total "search and destroy" using REGEDIT to clear all entries ref: Eudora AND Qualcomm.

Eudora simply will not run properly...and it's only 22 years old...! :-(

Jan P.

[Ajo Wissink]

Select Tools > Personalities.

In the window that opens: right-click on the Persona name (not on the
Account name)

Click on "Properties"

A window will open with 2 tabs at the top.

Tell us what information you have entered under those 2 tabs and
someone here will tell you if you have something wrong.

[John H Meyers]

On 5/19/2013 4:05 PM, Jan P. wrote:

> I have attempted to send email on Eudora v7.1.0.9
> after I upgraded my OS to Windows 7 x64.
> Eudora will not send mail and the two common error screens say:
>
> "POP Server says, ERR Authentication Failed."

> often followed by:
> " Can't send to'' 553 Sorry, Authentication required, but not found."

As Dennis said, the problem here is the obvious one
of your username and password combination
being rejected by your POP (and sometimes SMTP) servers.

When the username & password are rejected by an SMTP server,
even though you've "allowed authentication," for some reason
Eudora doesn't stop and tell you about it, but tries to
start sending a message anyway, at which point the SMTP server
reminds you that you still didn't supply correct login info,
via the "553" message, and finally Eudora stops and tells you
about the second error (still didn't get logged in)
instead of about the first error (name/password not accepted),
but the cause is still the name/password problem,
just as it was for POP.

> I have been plagued by these messages in the past while using WinXP,
> but not on a regular basis. Now it's "all the time, every time"...? I'm DEAD.

Were you once on "Tales from the Crypt,"
still posting on newsgroups from the grave? Spooky!

Obviously, there was a slip
'twixt the cup and the lip,
when migrating from XP to 7.

> What does one have to do? I have uninstalled Eudora twice,
> including a total "search and destroy" using REGEDIT
> to clear all entries ref: Eudora AND Qualcomm.

This pretty much explains why a majority of the population
sees a need for some sane level of gun control; otherwise,
inexperienced and untrained folks will, all too frequently,
start shooting at anything that casts a shadow,
take no care to avoid mis-identification of culprit,
give no thought to the likelihood of harming
completely innocent parties,
and possibly only worsen the entire situation.

> Eudora simply will not run properly...and it's only 22 years old...! :-(

Of course, the last thing to even consider when a car runs off the road
is how it's being driven. We don't want people to automatically blame themselves
for every problem, but those who arrive saying "what did I do wrong?"
are probably closer to helping themselves than those who lead off
automatically assuming the opposite extreme -- "what's wrong with this vehicle?"

<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ae5XwkSguNI>
What does the above have in common with "The Simpsons"?
Answer: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Elfman>
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cOdYyx1oKI>

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[John H Meyers]

On 5/20/2013 9:15 PM:

> I have been plagued by these messages in the past while using WinXP,
> but not on a regular basis. Now it's "all the time, every time"...

What happens if you repeat your attempts without re-launching Eudora?

Have you replaced Eudora (version 7.1.0.9) program file QCSSL.dll
with a version that can be found in the following zip file:
<http://eudorabb.qualcomm.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=594>

The replaced file should differ in only one byte
from the original, and reduces a one-time delay
(per Eudora launch) in SSL initialization.

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