Plain-Text Configuratin for Eudora for Windows

Eudora is a little different than any of the other the clients because it is just a little bit quirky. To get this to work it will require a little editing of the Eudora.ini file. Just be warned it is not as trivial as just a few settings.

First open up eudora and you will get this screen.  Find the Tools menu then find the Options... and select it.
main

Once you open your options, fill in your SMTP Server (Outgoing) to read, smtp.cs.umd.edu and select the Allow authentication.  Also fill in your logon name as your username if you have not already done so.
options

Next scroll down to the Sending Mail option and select it.  Make sure that you have the Allow authentication and that for the Secure Sockets when Sending option you have selected Required, STARTTLS.
sending

Now close the options and compose a new message to yourself.  We need to do this to get to the ssl preferences.  Send the message and you should get a error like this one at the bottom of the main window.
ssl error

Now that the SSL Negotiation has failed you need to go back to to the Tools->Options... menu. And back to the Sending Mail options.  Find the button Last SSL Info and press it.


You should now get a window like this, You should see that the Negotiation Status field has said that it Failed.  Continue on and press the Certificate Information Manager button.
ssl info

Expand the US, Maryland, College Park Server Certificate and highlight each certificate and press the button Add To Trusted. So each of the certificates should show up under the User Trusted Certificates.
ssl before

They should show up just like this. Then you can press done and close the other ssl window then the options window.
ssl after

Next close eudora down (all of it).  We need to find notepad, this exists in Start -> Program Files -> Accessories -> Notepad.
notepad

Open up Notepad and next we are going to have to find your eudora.ini file.  This can be located in a number of places depending on your OS and setup.  For more information on where to find your eudora.ini file, please consult the Eudora.ini help site.  However in the case of Windows 2000/XP it will be in your
 
    %userprofile%\Application Data\Qualcomm\Eudora

directory.  If you have any problems use the Search option and search for your eudora.ini file and then open it in notepad.  Then put in the line that is highlighted,
   
    SMTPAuthBanished="CRAM-MD5"

notepad

Then save the file and close notepad.  You should now be able to send mail through Eudora.  Please note, that it will ask you for a password and that password which for sending you mail will be your CS Kerberos5 password. But since  Eudora is a little dumb your password for your IMAP/POP account will have to be the same as your CS Kerberos5 password.  So they have to be kept in sync, but since we are currently not using the CS Kerberos5 password as your normal UNIX login password (we will in the future) that you will have to make sure both of them are the same.