eudora/outlook question

[KingKoopa]

i've been using eudora for my mail.utexas account for about three years now. until recently, i never had any problems, but for the past month or two i've been unable to send email-- it gives me a connection timeout error. i have both my outgoing and incoming mail servers set as mail.utexas.edu, and mail comes in just fine--it just won't send. any ideas?


on that note, i have been contemplating switching to outlook for sometime and was wondering if anyone had any advice on that. my biggest beef with eudora is that i can't minimize it to the system tray and have it alert me when i get new email-- i have to open the program periodically, which I often forget to do. Will outlook run from my system tray so that I get my emails immediately?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Mal]

If you are off-campus, change your outgoing server to your ISP's SMTP. Supposedly, they started blocking off-campus outgoing traffic on mail.utexas.edu server two years ago, but some people can still use it.

 

[VacantlyOccupied]

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[MilkmanDan]

Although you can't minimize Eudora to the tray, you can minimize it to the taskbar and it will display an icon in the tray whenever a new message comes in.

You do have it running to check mail every x minutes, right?

UT's guide to configuring Eudora

 

[KingKoopa]

thanks for the help, i think the outgoing mail thing will fix it. just got to find what it is for grande...

i have it set to check every 10 minutes, i am just OC about my taskbar sometimes and hate having it cluttered.

 

[highbury]

you idiot.

 

[Sasquatch69]

We're using Mozilla Thunderbird at home now, with great success - it's much like Outlook, but it's open-source and less susceptible to virus/spyware issues that plague IE and Outlook.

 

[Sii]

I would use thunderbird or Eudora way before outlook

both are better IMO

 

[TenaciousTgarden]

check your outgoing setting with whatever ISP you use. i have a mail.utexas.edu email account, but since i use it off campus using my TW road runner, my outgoing mail setting is different from incoming because it has to be routed through time warner to get anywhere. i think it is "smtp-server.austin.rr.com" or something like that.