EUDORA 6


END AUTO-COMPLETION ERRORS

The Annoyance:

Eudora 6 has a useful, but sometimes annoying, auto-completion feature. It captures the email address of just about everyone you send and who sends you email including the errors. I've sent email repeatedly to a nonexistent address because the $#@#$ feature captured a typo I entered three weeks ago.

The Fix:

Tell Eudora to stop using its History file to fill in addresses. In Eudora, select Tools Options, click the Auto-completion icon, uncheck the "History File box and the "Don't auto-complete, just list matches" box, and click OK (see Figure 1-19). To do away with individual auto-completion entries that are incorrect, open a new message form and type the first letter of a recipient's address. A list of potential matches will pop up. Scroll to the incorrect item, select it, hit the Delete key, and it's gone for good.


Tip: Outlook has a similar auto-completion feature. To turn it off, you'll have to dig deep through the menus. Choose Tools Options, click the Preferences tab, then click the E-mail Options button. Click the Advanced E-mail Options button, and uncheck the "Suggest names while completing To, cc, and bcc fields box. Click OK, and keep clicking OK until the dialog boxes disappear. You can delete individual auto-complete entries using the same procedure as in Eudora.

Figure 1-19. If Eudora's auto-completion feature is sending you around the bend, turn it off from this screen.


SPEED UP EUDORA WITH KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS

The Annoyance:

I read your advice on how to use keyboard shortcuts to speed up Outlook. But I'm a Eudora user. What keyboard shortcuts will let me give the rodent a rest?

The Fix:

Ask and you shall receive. Table 1-4 lists some helpful keyboard shortcuts for Eudora. (You can also look for "shortcuts" in Eudora's help system.)

Table 1-4. Helpful Eudora keyboard shortcuts

Keyboard shortcut

What it does

Ctrl-0 (zero)

Opens the Out box

Ctrl-1

Opens the In box

Ctrl-6

Checks your spelling

Ctrl-'

Pastes the contents of the clipboard at the insertion point, with > characters at the beginning of each line to indicate quoted text

Ctrl-A

Selects all

Ctrl-B

Makes text bold

Ctrl-C

Copies selection to clipboard

Ctrl-D

Deletes a message

Ctrl-E

Sends immediately

Ctrl-F

Opens the Find Messages window

Ctrl-Shift-F

Opens the Find Text dialog box

Ctrl-H

Attaches a file

Ctrl-I

Makes text italic

Ctrl-J

Filters messages

Ctrl-K

Makes a nickname Address Book entry

Ctrl-L

Opens the Address Book

Ctrl-M

Checks your mail

Ctrl-N

Opens a new message

Ctrl-O (letter O)

Opens a file

Ctrl-P

Prints a message

Ctrl-Q

Quits Eudora

Ctrl-R

Replies to the message

Ctrl-Shift-R

Replies to all (sender and other recipients)

Ctrl-S

Saves the current window

Ctrl-T

Sends queued messages

Ctrl-U

Underlines text

Ctrl-V

Pastes from the Clipboard

Ctrl-X

Cuts and places the selection onto the Clipboard

Ctrl-Y

Opens Directory Services

Ctrl-Z

Undoes the last operation

Ctrl-Shift-Z

Redoes the last undone operation

F3

Finds again

Home

Scrolls to the beginning of the mailbox window or to the beginning of the line in a message

End

Scrolls to the end of the mailbox window or to the end of the line in a message


HELP EUDORA TAKE OUT THE TRASH

The Annoyance:

I get a ton of spam in Eudora. I delete it from my In box; then, later, to truly get rid of it, I have to delete it from my Trash box. Is there any way to delete something completely from the In box, so I can avoid this extra step?

The Fix:

When you delete mail, it always first goes to your Trash. But you can have Eudora automatically delete all messages in your Trash folder when you exit. Choose Tools Options, click the Miscellaneous icon, check the "Empty Trash when exiting box (Figure 1-20), and click OK.

Figure 1-20. Don't take out the trash yourselfhave Eudora automatically delete it whenever you exit the program.


SPEED UP SLUGGISH EUDORA

The Annoyance:

When I first started using Eudora, it was speedy and stable. Now, three months later, it's like trying to get a teenager out of bed before noon on a weekend. What's the problem?

The Fix:

You've probably created and opened too many mailboxes. Each open mailbox eats up RAM, and if you have a bunch open, Eudora slows to a crawl.

The answer? Consolidate your mailboxes, and only keep important mailboxes open. You open a mailbox by double-clicking it, or choosing it from the Mailbox menu. You often don't even realize that you've opened mailboxes, because they each recede into the background when you open another one. To see all the mailboxes you have open, choose Window Cascade. That will arrange all of your open Eudora windows, including mailboxes, in a stack. Close any you dont need.


Tip: Confused about what's a folder and what's a mailbox in Eudora? Join the club. Mail lives in a mailbox (such as In); mailboxes live in folders that you name. Thus, a folder might contain an In, Out, Family, Sent, and other mailboxes, and each of those mailboxes could have mail in them.

WHAT DO THOSE WEIRD EUDORA ICONS MEAN?

The Annoyance:

I know that the weird icons in the status column to the left of the mailbox are supposed to tell me something, but I can't figure out what the heck they mean. Do you have the secret decoder ring?

The Fix:

The Eudora status icons certainly have caused more than a few people to scratch their heads. But once you know what they mean, they're very useful. Table 1-5 reveals all.

Table 1-5. Eudora status icons

Icon

What it means

Blue ball

Message hasn't been read

Blank

Message has been read

Left green arrow

Message has been replied to

Right green arrow

Message has been forwarded

Diagonal green arrow

Message has been redirected

Green check mark

Message has been sent

Blue button

Message is queued to be sent

Green ball with circle

Message has been saved but not sent

Blue alarm clock

Message is queued to be sent at a specific time

Black dash

Message was transferred to the Out box before it was sent

Dotted grey line

Message is being sent

Red button with X

Message can't be sent because of an error




    Internet Annoyances
    Internet Annoyances: How to Fix the Most Annoying Things about Going Online
    ISBN: 0596007353
    EAN: 2147483647
    Year: 2003
    Pages: 89

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