Pardon me if I get as I have left this alone for a while and I forget easy.
But I think that because Eudora (6 anyways, and 4 as I remember) needs a dominant persona, and the POP/SMTP info put into the dominant persona properties page will also change that info in the tools > options section. I believe Eudora will use the dominant info for all persona unless you go in and change the dominant info when checking a different account.
briton replies: Nope. As you set up each other persona it is the same as another "account" in Outlook and Outlook Express (they are the only three I work any more so don't ask about others lol). Once you have them setup, although the Dominant will come up from the Tools Options (where settings apply to a persona), you can get the dominant ones the same way as the non-dominant ones as Pavel says, highlight the persona (including Dominant if you like) and hit Alt-Enter or right-click>Properties. For all persona, that will give you details of that personas config. I make it a point always to change the Dominant persona settings that way and not through Tools Options. You will see why if you use the Eudora.ini editing method below.
I may be in a state of further confusion due to my machine being a client on a Wingate network (which is where the 192.168.0.1 came from?)
briton replies: 192.168.0.1 is the default LAN (or any other non-internet net you are on) IP address on windows machines for your own computer. 127.0.0.1 is the default IP for localhost. For most of us for most usages, these are the same machine. BUT if you make a point of ALWAYS using 127.0.0.1 for localhost and a 192.168.0.x (with mask 255.255.255.0) for any LAN IP you need, it will ensure that proxy programs such as avast! can't get lost as well. As it happens, as well as now having two internal software proxies (avast and accelerator), I am on an ICS client machine so I don't have 192.168.0.1 as that is on the ICS host which connects to the internet, has the firewall etc. Another good reason to ensure that you use 127.0.0.1 when you are talking about your own machine within your own machine as that one doesn't change for the LAN.
(If you have more than one proxy on your own machine, just make sure you daisy-chain them in the right order - avast! help is excellent on this and helped me ensure that my ISP's accelerator (bellsouth.net), which as well as web browsing, accelerates incoming POP if required, was in the right place in the chain.)
If I reach waaaay back it seems Outlook Express did not have this problem, but I switched to Eudora for easy archiving.
briton replies: Outlook and Outlook Express now can do much of what Eudora can do in terms of Accounts. However, one thing that is NOT possible with them (in addition to allowing some amazing macros which I use to extract things from emails which I never read but want data from and a whole bunch of other things), is the ability to simply change the info for a whole string of persona by running through the eudora.ini file. Lots of help in the Eudora manuals about that (always backup the ini file and close Eudora before doing it!) Basically, if you get ONE persona doing what you want it to, you can then simply copy the relevant settings to all the others in the ini file. HOWEVER, watch out because it is worth checking that your avast! configuration isn't going to go wrong.
And Oy, drat drat drat, since I posted here yesterday the pwds are a prob Again!
briton replies: I checked my previous post on that and tested it. Yes, EVERY time a setting in the eudora.ini file relating to any persona (including the old dominatrix lol) gets changed, Eudora now requests a password for that persona next time you use it to send/receive.
I am now upgraded to Eudora 6 sponsored. YAY! Thanks JEDs. You DID have at least ONE of the answers and I am now sending and receiving mail on ALL personae through avast without problem (and I don't lose the passwords yet either). I will run out the way I set it up (it was VERY easy) in a separate post.
So much for blissful ignorance.
Briton, if you figure this out I will be back to copy it.
BTW, I once thought I had the pwd prob licked by changing UseDefaultSmtp=1 to 0 in avast4.ini file, but it would change itself back to 1.
briton replies: Back but I need to work on getting the "instructions" short and sweet before I post them. As for ignorance, if there is anything I posted incorrectly about the IP addresses, networks etc, someone please correct my ignorance
Regarding the UseDefaultSmtp=1 - mine did that too. Leave it like that. If you are using Eudora relay, it is fine (tested every which way to and from all persona and avast checked out and in on all of them and the headers showed that the routing was correct too).