Wow! THANKS JEDs. You may have the answer to a maiden’s prayer!
I can answer your last question though. There are Eudora boards around, but nothing like this and you will be answering a lot more questions than you get answered (IMHO).
But I am a Eudora freak as I have tried to get other programs to do what it does and they mostly will do, but nothing like as easily. (Try checking just one “Account” by a simple right click and hit the “M” key for instance).
However, I CANNOT do an avast! scan on POP3 incoming if I want to use a “Persona” which uses an authenticating SMTP. Why on earth my ISP’s SMTP server needs to check my “Reply-To” address, I have no idea. However, it does. Which means that if I want to send mail from a “remote” domain name (for instance, my own domain name - well having unlimited email addresses chosen at my own whim, I would wouldn’t I?
), then I have to use my own domain name’s host’s SMTP server. But to use that, I have to authenicate. IF I set avast! UseDefaultSMTP=0, that should not be a problem. But because of the restriction that Eudora imposes on login-names, if I set avast! to check POP mail, even if I set it NOT to check SMTP, my domain name host’s SMTP server allows me in and then sends me an error message saying that the destination domain of the email is not allowed. If I create an identical Persona which has no reference to avast! (direct POP and SMTP), I can send out through that SMTP without problem.
Now I am using Eudora 5.2 (Sponsored Mode) simply because the version 6 What’s New? did not show any reference to changes in the way we could configure individual Personae logins etc. I also have no “Relay” settings on the Personae and nothing in the full manual refers to them.
Are you saying that I will be able to do this by upgrading to Eudora 6 and then tweaking a bit? If so, I am home and dry (I don’t have your problem of the passwords as I only tend to check one Persona at a time by the right-click method, but when I do get that problem, it is usually because a configuration setting has changed which inspires Eudora to ask for the password on the next check or send - not a bad idea when you think about it - and perhaps it is because you have set avast! to automatically configure your email settings, which I found is not so good with multiple Personae using multiple SMTP servers (which differ from their equibvalent POP servers)).
Anyway, while I wait and wonder and do further research, I will download and install Eudora 6 and do some tweaking. Any ideas on this would be GREATL APPRECIATED as I am having to restrict my use of my own domain email addresses until I can get avast! to scan them AND avoid having to switch Persona when I reply.