Configure Eudora Light For Multiple Users

1. In your Eudora directory, there's a file called EUDORA.INI.
   NOTE: if your Windows display options are such that you don't see a file called EUDORA.INI, only a file called EUDORA with no extension but with a notepad icon: go to the View:Options:View menu in the title bar, and un-check the "Hide MS-DOS file extensions for file types that are registered" option.
2. The EUDORA.INI file contains the account settings, including the POP account and so forth. Make a new directory on the hard disk (do not include any spaces or special characters in the directory name).
3. Then copy the EUDORA.INI file and put it into the new directory. For the sake of explanation, we'll say the new directory is called HYDE and its path is C:\HYDE.
4. Now create a shortcut of the EUDORA.EXE file and put it on the desktop (or wherever you want it). Call it, say, HydeMail.
5. Do a right-click on HydeMail, open the Properties section, and go to the Shortcut page.
6. In the Target field, type the path of the EUDORA.EXE file (it will probably already be there), then a space, and then the path of the new EUDORA.INI file in the HYDE directory. It might look something like this: C:\EUDORA\EUDORA.EXE C:\HYDE\EUDORA.INI
   Also, in the Start In field, type the path of the new Hyde directory:
   C:\HYDE
7. Double-click on the HydeMail shortcut. Eudora will come up, with the original settings (in the Tools:Options or Special:Settings menu, depending on which version of Eudora you have). Change the settings to the correct information for the Hyde email account. Quit Eudora.
8. Repeat the entire above process for each extra account. Now, whenever Mr. Hyde wants to access his mail, he opens Eudora by double-clicking on the HydeMail shortcut. Users must quit and restart Eudora to switch accounts.

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