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Readers Write
Edited
by Brian Grainger: 
brian@grainger1.freeserve.co.uk
E-Mail from Bill Wood:
Following Francis Townsend's article in Ezine No. 2, on Tesco and his use of the free ISPs, I decided to try out Free-Online and Virgin.
I use Netscape as my browser with Eudora as my e-mail client. I eventually managed to successfully set up Eudora for use with Virgin and can send and receive mail through their mail server.
(Ed: We have since noticed a peculiarity where, if I view one of Bill's e-mails in Outlook Express and do a 'Reply to Author', the wrong reply address comes up. Instead of saying ws.wood@virgin.net it comes up with ws.wood@mail.virgin.net, or ws.wood@pop.virgin.net.)Free-Online has a peculiarity in that I can send mail but cannot access the mail server to check for any mail.
I would be grateful if any reader has information that may help me to setup Eudora to handle Free-Online mail.
I have a Freeware program called ENDORA which allows multiple e-mail accounts with Eudora this program can be downloaded from:
http://web.cyberport.net/cphome/endora1.html
Ed: During the time that Bill wrote this request and our publication date I got Ken Ross, who also has Eudora as e-mail client and Virgin as ISP, to contact Bill. The result is that Bill now has the answers to his setup problems and he can now use Virgin and Free-Online. That is what a user group is for and it shows up an advantage of the Internet over the old ways - A quicker response to problem solving. Here are Bill's comments on how the problems were solved.
Regarding the setting up of Eudora - the one that was my constant standby was my connection to Zetnet. The eudora.ini file for Zetnet was saved to a floppy so that it could be used when necessary.
The next stage was to work on the settings for Virgin. The note from Ken (Ross) confirmed that Eudora worked with the Virgin mail server so somewhere along the line the problem was at my end. The Virgin setup disk had installed Netscape 3 on my disk and by using Netscape I had the necessary connection to the server to collect and send mail. The settings in preferences were noted and copied into the Eudora setup options. At each stage any change made was duly tested with test messages being sent to the server either with Virgin or Zetnet basically to check access. Eventually I hit on the right settings.
It is a good job that there is a terrific web site (Ed: No, I don't know which one!) that gives the answers to the various Eudora error messages and suggestions for the remedy. The final .ini file that works with Virgin was also saved to floppy.
The next stage was to work on the Free-Online connection. I had visited their homepage and downloaded notes on the use of Eudora with Force Nine. So, armed with this information, I set to work checking all settings as with Virgin. Once again I eventually struck gold, and saved the .ini file to a floppy disk.
With Eudora on the screen it is only a case of hitting the 'Check for Mail' button and the program automatically connects, checks for mail and disconnects again - great stuff. So, into the .ini files to check all information, telephone numbers, passwords etc. Do trials again and every thing was in order with each connection was fully automatic.
I previously mentioned a freeware program called Endora - no nothing to do with Samantha of 'Bewitched'. This is a Eudora Profile Picker. Given the details for each provider created for Eudora then Endora allows you to select a provider and bring up the appropriate profile. This allows you to check all providers for mail in a flash.
