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POP account: userID@avenue.org
Return address: userID@avenue.org
SMTP server: monticello.avenue.org

1. Start Eudora. Select “Options” from the “Tools” menu. The Getting Started option will open if this is the first time you are setting Eudora up. Otherwise click “Getting Started” under Category in the left column.

2. Enter your real name in the “Real name” text box.

3. Enter your email address (userID@avenue.org) in the “Return address” text box.

4. Enter the incoming mail server name (monticello.avenue.org) in the “Mail Server (Incoming)” text box.

5. Enter your userID in the “Login Name” text box.

6. Enter the outgoing mail server name (monticello.avenue.org) in the SMTP Server (Outgoing)” text box.

7. The Checking Mail, Incoming Mail and Sending Mail options will be automatically filled in according to the information you entered in the Getting Started option.

8. Click on the “Checking Mail” option under Category in the left column .

9. Look under the section “Secure Sockets when Receiving”.

10. Select the option “Required, Alternate Port”

11. Click on the “Sending Mail” option under Category in the left column.

12. Look under the section “Secure Sockets when Sending”.

13. Select the option “If available, STARTTLS”

Note: When attempting to check for mail and you receive an error message similar to this:

<Dominant>, Logging into POP Server, SSL Negotiation Failed: Certificate Error. Cert Chain not trusted. Try adding this certificate to your certificate database for SSL to succeed Certificate Error.

Try the following:

1. Select “Options” from the “Tools” menu.

2. Select “Sending Mail” under Category in the left column.

3. Look under the section “Secure Sockets when Receiving”.

4. Click the button that says “Last SSL Info”.

5.Then go to the Certificate Manager and select the SSL Certificate that says
US, Virginia, Charlottesville, Monticello Avenue, IT, monticello.avenue.org, webmaster@avenue.org

6. Click “Add to Trusted”

7. Repeat the above for “Checking Mail” under Category in the left column.