Eudora Help - Sending a Message

If the Immediate Send option in the Switches... dialog is turned on, select Send Immediately from the Message menu to immediately send a current message. Alternatively, click the rightmost button appearing in the icon bar at the top of the current message window that is labeled Send. Click this button to send the current message.

If the Show Progress option in the Switches... dialog is turned on, a progress window is displayed momentarily at the top of the screen indicating the progress of the transmission.

Two-Step Send

Some peop le may prefer to compose many messages and transmit them all at once (this is particularly handy if you are not always connected to your network when using Eudora). However this is only possible if the Immediate Send option in the Switches... dial og is turned off.

To accomplish the first step for any outgoing current message, select Queue For Delivery from the Message menu. Alternatively the rightmost button appearing in the icon bar at the top of the current message window is la beled Queue. Click this button to queue the current message for later delivery.

Either of these selections closes the message window (if it was open), saves the message in the Out mailbox and marks it as queued, meanin g ready to be delivered. Queued messages are marked by a Q in the far left-hand column of the Out mailbox.

For the second step, select Send Queued Messages from the File menu. This sends the queued messa ge (or messages). If the Show Progress option in the Switches... dialog is turned on, a progress window is displayed momentarily at the top of the screen indicating the progress of the transmission.

Timed Messages

It is possible to tell Eudora to send a message at some specific time in the future. To do this for the current outgoing message, select Change Queueing... from the Message menu. The Change Queueing dialog is then displayed.

If you choose Right Now, the message is sent immediately upon clicking the OK button. If you choose Next time queued messages are sent, the message is sent the next time queued messages are sent. If you choose On or After, you can use the time and date fields to fill in the time when the message should be sent. The message is saved in the Out mailbox with a Q in the status column, just as if it were a normal queued message. However, the message is not actually sent until the specified time arrives.

Note: For the message to be sent at the correct time, Eudora must be running when the message is due to be sent. If Eudora is not running, the message is sent the first time Eudora is run after th e selected time has passed.

Sending Queued Messages on Check

If the Send on Check option in the Switches... dialog is turned on, every time a manual or automatic mail check occurs, all queued messages are sent, th us saving you the step of selecting Send Queued Messages.

Quitting with Queued Messages

If you quit Eudora after you have queued messages, but without sending them using Send Queued Messages, Eudora gives you the opportunity to send the messages before you quit.

If you quit with timed messages, and the messages are due to be sent within the next 12 hours, Eudora warns you and gives you the opportunity to send them.

Editing a queued messageTo edit a queued message, open the Out mailbox and double-click on the desired message summary to open its composition window. Make the necessary edits and re-queue the new version of the message with t he Queue For Delivery or Change Queuing... commands from the Message menu or the Save command from the File menu. You can also re-queue the message using the Queue button on the icon bar. The message is returned to the Out mailbox with a queued status. If you close the changed message without choosing one of these, an alert is displayed asking you to verify the changes.

Changing the Status of a Queued Message

A message that is que ued but as yet unsent may be unqueued using the Change Queuing... command. Open the Out mailbox and select the desired message summary. Then, select Change Queueing... from the Message menu and click on Don't Send. This chan ges the message status from Queued (Q) to Saved (o). The message is held in the Out mailbox until it is either deleted or re-queued and sent.

Note: You can also send a message immediately or change it to timed send using the Change Queuing... comma nd.

Keeping Copies of Outgoing Messages

Once a message is sent, it is put into the Trash mailbox unless the Keep Copies option in the Switches... dialog is turned on or the Keep Copy icon in the icon bar is on. I n these cases, the message is left in the Out mailbox and is annotated with an S in the far left column of the Out mailbox indicating that the message has been sent.

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