Example …. just some minutes ago:
“I do have one question – why in the e-mail area do you change naming formats from “new mail” to “mail read”?  Given that in English present and past of the verb “to read” are the same, this is a little confusing, and my mother always stumbles at this point.  Could it be changed in future to (for example) “new, un-read mail” and “old, read mail”?  This way there can be no confusion.”

I think the “mail read” has to be thought twice by our English speakers; while they feedback us on it, we explain how to change a label to your preference.
This is for windows but linux/mac is just the same:

- go to c/program files/eldy /lang directory
there you find a list of directory, one for every language:
“ae” is for american English, while “en”  is for English, etc.

- inside the ae or en there’s “lang.eldy” file
make a copy of it and put it in a safe place

-then edit the file “lang.eldy” with notepad or any easy editor (don’t use word!).

- look for “mail read” label and change it to your preference.

- do same with any other labels you might want to change

- restart Eldy: you should see now your label where before was “mail read”.

hope this helps you all to customize labels to your preferences!

that might be because ELDY by default uses SMTP 25 tcp port.

Some providers prefer to allow only authenticated SMTP, to avoid spam.
Just set your ELDY with the following settings (obviously use your password and settings!)

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email settings for authenticated smtp and pop

it might be you experience a strange situation, in which email and chat works, while other component (e.g. “surf the web”, “eldytv” etc) don’t work.

that is very probably because you have an antivirus Norton active.

Go in the Norton menu, select firewall  and set the following rules in the application rules:

in all of these 4 cases click the “allow” option on the right.

when this is done, restart Eldy and .. .enjoy!

An important, first thing: YAHOO! email does not allow pop3  access in standard service.
To access email via pop3 (as ELDY or any other email client) you need YAHOO! email plus service (http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/original/mailplus/overview/overview-03.html)

pop server = plus.pop.mail.yahoo.com
pop port = 995

smtp server = plus.smtp.mail.yahoo.com
smtp port =587

auth. SSL =yes
auth. TLS= yes
auth SMTP = yes

this is the link from Yahoo!

http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/yahoomail/mailplus/pop/pop-06.html

that happens for some missing symbolic links in some configurations:
A) create a symbolic link for applet engine in  xulrunner
1-   cd /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.0.16/plugins
2-   ln -fs /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so

B) if problem persistes, and sun-java6-plugin is installed:
1- apt-get remove sun-java6-plugin
2- cd /usr/lib/firefox-3.0.16/plugins
3- ln -fs /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so
4-   cd /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.0.16/plugins
5-   ln -fs /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so

Good luck!

1) enable pop3 at gmail account
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=13273

2) configure right settings of your Eldy account, while registering or from help-settings:

pop server = pop.gmail.com
pop port = 995

smtp server = smtp.gmail.com
smtp port = 587

auth. SSL =yes
auth. TLS= yes
auth SMTP = yes

3) restart Eldy, go to new messages, you should see them coming (if any)

1) install JAVA JRE 6

if Debian/Ubuntu, or other Debian derivated distro:

- install java6 jre ( ” apt-get install sun-java6-jre ” )
(careful: java is nonfree, you might need to change your source.list to look for nonfree)

are you sure you have java?

to test:
# java -v
and see if you get java version or error.

2) install ELDY downloading tar gz (my personal suggestion)

get latest eldy from http://download.eldy.com
# cd /usr/local
# tar xzvfp eldy*.tgz

2bis) install ELDY as Debian package: (might not be the lates)

- add deb.vegans.it to your source list editing “/etc/apt/sources.list” and adding at the bottom: the following line:
deb http://deb.vegans.it binary/
#  apt-get update

# apt-get install eldy

3) Launch Eldy and enjoy
- enjoy eldy running:
” java -jar /usr/local/eldy/eldy.jar”

of course if you called directory in a different way, or placed into other , go where eldy.jar is and launch:
# java -jar eldy.jar


deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ etch main contrib non-free


Now, update apt:

sudo apt-get update


Then install the Java debian packages.

sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre

let’s use this blog to record problems , questions , and answers on technical issues on general Eldy version.

E.g.: how to install with Skype, how to change account username, how to configure on ubuntu etc.

don’ t post here version specific problems (e.g. in the Dutch version we have a problem on the symbol with accent etc) that need to be discussed and solved in the language group.

In the next few days we will start putting the standards how-to  and some question you already arose!

thank you for your support!
Enrico