A few good tips on how to battle spam with Eudora

1. Install Spamnix, this anti-spam tool comes as a free trial and doesn’t cost much to buy
2. Make sure that images in spam e-mails are never shown, most of them are linked with information about who you are – if you open them, they will give you away and verify your e-mail address. You can fix this in a couple of ways:
   1. Disable preview of e-mails by going to

      Tools -> Options ->Viewing Mail -> Preview Pane

      and un checking “Show messages in preview pane”

      While you are in that window, I would also recommend un checking the “Use Microsoft’s viewer” in the Message Window part of the screen. That will make you safer against viruses.

   2. Go to

      Tools -> Options -> Display

      and un check the “Automatically download HTML graphics”

      This is a move I highly recommend! – It will stop Eudora from downloading images included in formatted e-mail, thereby making it impossible for spammers to use images to verify e-mail addresses.

BTW: If you don’t have it already, Eudora is available for download at Eudora.com, and comes as a light version (no ads, fewer functions), sponsored version (free with all functionality available, but with ads), and as a for-pay version with all the features and none of the ads. They even have an Internet Suite including e-mail and a lightweight browser for the Palm OS.

PS: No money changed hands for me to praise Eudora like this, I just feel that Qualcomm has made a great job with their tools and deserve some praise now and then. :-)