Shared address book (Windows)

A step-by-step tutorial how to do this is available at http://www.eudora.com/techsupport/tutorials/win_addressbookshare.html.

You can set up central nickname files on a server, and configure the users' Eudora to let them refer to the non-local lists. The shared nickname files must be plain ASCII, with .txt extensions. They should be stored in a special server directory that all the users have read-only access to.

The nicknames in the shared file(s) should be in a plain-text format, which looks something like this:

alias George george_smith@mit.edu

alias MissouriPeople fredjones@missouristate.edu, marthak@missourienterprises.com, twilliger@link.missouri.net

You'll have to get your file into this format. To see the exact format, create some nicknames in Eudora. Then quit Eudora and open a simple text editor program like NotePad. Open the nndbase.txt file in your Eudora directory from within NotePad, and look at it. The format you see there is the format described above, and it's the format you need your shared nicknames to be in.

When you need to make changes to this file, do so through your copy of Eudora (since only you have write-access). Or, if you wish, you can just replace the nickname(s) files in that directory; if you do it this way, however, be sure to delete the associated .toc file; then make sure you are the first person to access the Nicknames through Eudora. This is necessary because when the file is first accessed, Eudora will need to create a .toc file, and that's only possible for you (since you have write-access).

As for the client side, here's how to allow Eudora to access the shared nickname files:

In the Settings section of the eudora.ini file, add the line: ExtraNicknameDirs=path to nickname directory on server

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