Eudora 4.2 for Windows & Macintosh, Second Edition (Visual QuickStart Guide) [Paperback]

Adam Engst (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 21, 1999 | ISBN-10: 020135389X | ISBN-13: 978-0201353891 | Edition: 2

In just a few short years, email has gone from the domain of the technological avant-garde to a mainstay of business and personal communication. The leader in this competitive market is Qualcomm's Eudora. Whether you use the free, downloadable Light version, or the more feature-complete Eudora Pro, Eudora 4.2 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide is the easiest, most accessible way to learn this flexible cross-platform app.

Though fully updated and revised, this edition sticks to the popular Visual QuickStart format: concise, step-by-step instructions, plenty of screenshots, and clearly tabbed, easy-to-browse sections. Beginners can start with basic but essential tasks, like writing and sending email messages. If you're familiar with the program, you can use the book to quickly refer to the new features and more advanced topics, such as customizing Eudora and working with attachments, filters, and address books. If you have Eudora 4.3, you'll find this guide very useful. Though it doesn't cover 4.3 specifically, there are very few entirely new additions in this upgrade.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

Eudora Welty has plenty to say about why she lives at the P.O., but she might not have so much to say about her namesake electronic mail client. That's why Eudora 4.2 for Windows and Macintosh exists. In the grand tradition of the Visual QuickStart Guide books, this one documents Eudora Pro with heavy use of illustrations and explanatory callouts. The idea is that you can turn to the page that deals with whatever is vexing you at the moment (say, editing text or configuring a filter to dispose of spam) and read the instructions (some numbered, some straight prose) there. The instructions make frequent reference to the labeled screen shots on the same page, so there's rarely any doubt about what you're supposed to manipulate and when.

The author and publisher have earned kudos for clearly indicating which instructions apply to the Mac OS version of Eudora and which apply to the Windows version--the differences are significant--and yet still packaging the combined documentation as one volume. Eudora 4.2 for Windows and Macintosh also exhibits extraordinarily good page design values for a computer book--the spreads are pleasant to look at. A CD-ROM with the freely distributable Eudora Light would have been nice (it seems like every other computer book comes with a copy), but you can't have it all. --David Wall

Topics covered: Installing Eudora, sending and receiving messages, configuring mailboxes, filtering, using multiple personalities, and integration of Eudora with IMAP4 (as well as POP3) mail servers.

From the Back Cover

In just a few short years, email has gone from the domain of the technological avant-garde to a mainstay of business and personal communication. The leader in this competitive market is Qualcomm's Eudora. Whether you use the free, downloadable Light version, or the more feature-complete Eudora Pro, Eudora 4.2 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide is the easiest, most accessible way to learn this flexible cross-platform app. Though fully updated and revised, this edition sticks to the popular Visual QuickStart format: concise, step-by-step instructions, plenty of screenshots, and clearly tabbed, easy-to-browse sections. Beginners can start with basic but essential tasks, like writing and sending email messages. If you're familiar with the program, you can use the book to quickly refer to the new features and more advanced topics, such as customizing Eudora and working with attachments, filters, and address books. If you have Eudora 4.3, you'll find this guide very useful. Though it doesn't cover 4.3 specifically, there are very few entirely new additions in this upgrade.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 254 pages
• Publisher: Peachpit Press; 2 edition (September 21, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 020135389X
• ISBN-13: 978-0201353891
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,748,688 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Adam C. Engst is the editor and publisher of TidBITS, one of the oldest and largest Internet-based newsletters. Adam has written and co-authored numerous computing books and magazine articles, including the best-selling Internet Starter Kit series , all editions of the iPhoto: Visual QuickStart Guide, and Take Control books on Tiger, Apple Mail, and more (Peachpit Press). In addition, he has collaborated on several Internet educational videos and has appeared on a variety of nationally broadcast television and radio programs.

Customer Reviews

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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Easy to Read Guide to the Foremost E-mail Program, May 19, 2000

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"jon7711" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Eudora 4.2 for Windows & Macintosh, Second Edition (Visual QuickStart Guide) (Paperback)

This is the perfect guide to what very well may be one of the most powerful e-mail programs around. Whether you are a Windows or Macintosh user, this book will teach you everything you need to know to become very proficient, very quickly. Don't be intimidated by the nearly 300 pages; with plenty of screen shots from both platforms, and highly organized content, this is a quick read as well as a quick learn. Adam Engst starts off with a basic explanation of Eudora's features, to get you up and running quickly, then follows with an in-depth description of every feature. Also included are a wealth of links to Eudora help sites, newsgroups and mailing lists, both official and unofficial. Also, don't worry if you have the newer Eudora 4.3, it is virtually identical to the 4.2 version.

21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Exceptional Companion to a Fastastic Program, February 17, 2000

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Stephen Marglin (Seattle, Washington) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Eudora 4.2 for Windows & Macintosh, Second Edition (Visual QuickStart Guide) (Paperback)

One of the major attractions of Eudora is it's incredible power and flexibility. Not suprisingly, a new (or even an experienced) user will likely fail to avail himself or herself of a number of the important features. The easiest and most enjoyable solution to this hurdle would be to read Adam Engst's Eudora 4.2: Visual QuickStart Guide. It is well organized and more readable than almost any other computer related book that I have ever encountered. Simply putÉbuy it, you'll like it!