Business School

External email access with Eudora


If you use a laptop on campus and at home, you can set up what's called a personality in Eudora to gain access to email.

Step one

Click on the Personalities icon in Eudora. This is typically found near the bottom left hand corner, or just above the ad window.

Eudora personalities icon

Step two 

Right click in the window above and select New.

Eudora personalities - new window. 

Step three

Click Next to continue.

Eudora personalities - next button.

Step four

Choose a name for your at-home personality, then click Next. This name can be whatever makes sense to you.

Eudora personalities name.

Step five 

Enter your name, then click Next.

Eudora personalities - your name. 

Step six

Enter your email address, then click Next.

Eudora personalities - email address. 

Step seven

Enter your username (the one you use to log on to your PC on campus - this is also the first part of your email address).

Eudora personalities - username. 

 Click Next to continue.

Step eight

Enter mailhost.biz.uwa.edu.au (the Business School email server) and click Next.

Eudora personalities - email server.

Step nine

Enter your ISP's SMTP server here. Some popular servers are:

Bigpond: mail.bigpond.com
iiNet: mail.m.iinet.net.au
WestNet: mail.westnet.net.au
Arachnet: mail.arach.net.au
 

Eudora personalities - outgoing server.

This information is available from your ISP.  You can also ask the helpdesk to find out for you.

Step ten

When sending a new email or replying to one, simply click on the From dropdown menu and select the personality you just configured.

Eudora personalities - from dropdown.