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README for Microsoft Internet Mail and News
July l996
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(c) Copyright Microsoft Corporation, 1996
This document provides complementary or late-breaking information to
supplement the documentation.
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HOW TO USE THIS DOCUMENT
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To view Mailnews.txt on screen in Notepad, maximize the Notepad window.
To print Mailnews.txt, open it in Notepad or another word processor,
then use the Print command on the File menu.
CONTENTS
========
MICROSOFT INTERNET MAIL
MICROSOFT INTERNET NEWS
KNOWN ISSUES IN THIS RELEASE
TROUBLESHOOTING
TIPS AND TRICKS
SUPPORT FOR MICROSOFT INTERNET MAIL AND NEWS
MICROSOFT INTERNET MAIL
=======================
Internet Mail is a new e-mail program designed specifically for
the Internet. At this time, you cannot use Microsoft Internet Mail
to access your e-mail account with any of the following services:
MS Mail, cc:Mail, The Microsoft Network (MSN), CompuServe, America
OnLine (AOL), and Microsoft Exchange Server. If you don't know
whether your system uses these services, contact your administrator
or your Internet service provider and ask if they support SMTP/POP3
mail clients.
MICROSOFT INTERNET NEWS
=======================
Microsoft Internet News enables you to read bulletin-board discussion
groups, such as the Usenet, using NNTP-based news servers.
Contact your Internet service provider for the name of the news server
that you should use.
This product can also be used for support on a variety of Microsoft
products on the news server msnews.microsoft.com.
KNOWN ISSUES IN THIS RELEASE
============================
For the latest information about known issues, see our Web page
at http://www.microsoft.com/ie/support/issue/imnissue.htm.
- In order to send e-mail to someone who is not in your Address
Book, you must enter a recognizable Internet e-mail address (that
is, user@server).
- The Address Book recognizes a name only if the full name matches.
If you type only the first name, Address Book displays a dialog box
with a best guess.
- If you select a thread and then choose Expand from the View menu,
only the first level of the thread is expanded. To expand the
whole thread, click the News menu, and then click Options.
Click the Read tab, and then select the Auto Expand Conversation
Threads check box.
- Some mail programs incorrectly send messages with tags indicating
that they use Western European languages when the messages actually
use non-Western European characters. As a result, these messages
might appear garbled in Internet Mail and News. To work around this
problem, click the View menu, point to Language, and then choose the
appropriate language. If you want to reply to or forward such a
message, first open the message by clicking File and then clicking
Open. Change the language of the message by clicking the View menu,
pointing to Language, and then selecting the correct language. Then
reply to or forward the message.
- Internet News requires that your news server support the XOVER
command. If your news server does not support the XOVER command,
you will get an error message indicating that XOVER is required in
order to retrieve messages in a newsgroup. Support for news servers
that don't use the XOVER command will be added in a future release
of Internet News.
- If you have multiple contacts with identical names (such as "Joe
User") in your Address Book, you might have a problem sending
a message to the correct recipient. If you type the entire name
"Joe User" in the TO: or CC: line, the program searches for and
sends the message to the first matching contact. To work around
this problem, you can type in a partial name, such as "Joe," and
the program will display a list of all matching contacts. Or you
can assign each contact a unique name, such as "Joe B. User" or
"Joe User (Acme Tools)."
- If a group contains the same contact multiple times, sending mail
to the group will fail.
TROUBLESHOOTING
===============
- If you run into a problem, try the troubleshooters in online Help.
To start the troubleshooters, carry out the following steps:
1. In Internet Mail or News, click the Help menu.
2. Look up "Troubleshooting" in the Help Index.
- Check your connection to your Internet service provider.
- If you are unable to send or receive mail, check the following:
- The TCP/IP protocol is installed on your computer.
- All cables are properly connected to your computer, modem,
or LAN.
- You have a PPP or SLIP account with your Internet Provider.
- Your Internet Provider or LAN server supports POP3 and SMTP.
- Your modem communication parameters (baud rate and type of
protocol) are set correctly.
- Make sure that you use an account name and password for a news
server only if it requires them. If you use an account name and
password and they are not required, you will not be able to connect
to the news server.
- To access the Microsoft peer product support newsgroups, carry
out the following steps:
1. Click the News menu, and then click Options.
2. Click the Server tab, and then click Add.
3. Type msnews.microsoft.com as the name of the server.
If that name isn't found by your Internet Service Provider, you
can enter 131.107.3.27 instead.
You do not need to enter an account name or password.
- If your mail server times out while you are sending mail, you might
get an error message indicating that a recipient is unknown. If this
happens, you should increase the timeout for your server. To do this,
carry out the following steps:
1. Click the Mail menu, and then click Options.
2. Click the Server tab, and then click Advanced Settings.
3. Drag the slider to increase the timeout for your server.
TIPS AND TRICKS
===============
- To rename a folder, create a new folder with the name you want,
move the messages you want into the new folder, and then delete
the old folder.
- You can change the sound that notifies you that you have received
new mail. To do this, open Control Panel, and then double-click
the Sounds icon.
- You can move the toolbar by right-clicking on it and then choosing
Align/Left or Align/Top. To customize the toolbar, right-click on
it, and then click Customize Toolbar.
- You can resize the preview pane or the message list by dragging the
divider between the preview pane and the message list.
- You can change how the preview pane splits, or turn it off entirely
by changing the options under Preview Pane on the View menu.
- You can specify that you want to see only unread News messages. To
do this, click the View menu, and then click Unread Messages Only.
- You can set messages to automatically download to the preview pane
by clicking the News menu, clicking options, clicking the Read tab,
then selecting the Automatically Show Messages in the Preview Pane
check box.
- To view the e-mail address of someone who has sent you a message,
double-click the message to open it, then double-click the author's
name in the From field. You can also add this person to your
Address Book by right-clicking the name, and then clicking Add To
Address Book.
- To view responses to a particular message in a newsgroup, click the
plus sign (+) next to the message. The responses appear indented
below it.
- You should use HTML formatting to send messages only to recipients
who have e-mail software that can display HTML. Otherwise, send
messages as plain text, which is the default.
- In Internet Mail, you can leave a copy of your messages on the
server. To set this option, click the Mail menu, and then click
Options. Click the Server tab, click Advanced Settings and select
the Leave a copy of messages on server check box.
- In Internet News, you can search for newsgroups that contain
several keywords. To do this, click the News menu, and then click
Newgroups. In the Search box, enter the keywords separated by a
space. You can also search newsgroup descriptions. If you cannot
see the descriptions, click the News menu, click Options, and then
click the Server tab. Click a news server, click Properties, click
the Advanced tab, and then select the Use Newsgroup Descriptions
check box.
- You can have your signature added to all messages, including those
that you reply to or forward. To do this, click the Mail menu, and
then click Options. On the Signature tab, select the following check
box: Add Signature To The End Of All Outgoing Messages.
- To switch to your Inbox, you can press CTRL+I.
- To reorder columns, you can drag and drop column headings.
- To save an attachment with a message from the preview pane, click
the paper clip icon, and then hold down the CTRL key while you
click the file you want to save. The Save As dialog box appears.
- You can view all the headers for a news message. To do this,
double-click the message to open it in a separate window, click
the View menu, and then click Full Headers.
- If you are running Internet Mail and News on Windows NT and you
need to add support for a different language, double-click the
Keyboard icon in Control Panel, and then click Add. Follow the
instructions on your screen. This installs the appropriate NLS
(National Language Support) files. You do not have to use the
associated keyboard layout.
- To send or receive messages in PanEuropean languages, choose
between one of these character sets: CE/Baltic/Greek/Turkish (ISO)
or CE/Baltic/Greek/Turkish (Windows).
- To send or receive messages in Russian, use Cyrillic (Windows).
To send messages in other Cyrillic languages (Ukrainian,
Belorussian, Bulgarian), you can use either Cyrillic (KOI8-R)
or Cyrillic (Windows; however, to reply, you should use the
character set that was used in the original message.
- If Internet Mail and News is unable to determine the language
of an incoming message, the language defaults to the one
selected in the Language list. To open the Language list,
click the View menu, and then point to Language.
SUPPORT FOR MICROSOFT INTERNET MAIL AND NEWS
============================================
Support for Microsoft Internet Mail and News is provided
directly by Microsoft support engineers through standard
phone lines.
Phone support from within the United States is available via
a toll call by dialing the following number between 6:00 a.m.
and 6:00 p.m. PST, Monday through Friday, excluding holidays.
- In the U.S., call (206) 635-7123 for Internet Mail and News
support
Phone support is also available for Canadian residents via a
toll call by dialing the following number between 8:00 A.M.
and 8:00 P.M. Eastern time, Monday through Friday, excluding
holidays.
- In Canada, call (905) 568-4494 for Internet Mail and News
support.
NOTE:
Excluding connectivity issues, free phone support is available
for 90 days after your first call to a Microsoft support engineer.
However, you however are still required to pay for any toll
charges incurred. Connectivity issues are defined as connecting
to the Internet via a service provider, and using e-mail and fax
from within Windows 95. For more information, see the Support.txt
file in your Windows directory.
Internet newsgroup support is also being provided indirectly
through Microsoft's news server. The following two newsgroups
are dedicated to the discussion of Microsoft Internet Mail and
News and provide a great deal of support:
- news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.internet.mail
- news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.internet.news
These newsgroups are one of the best places to go if you are
experiencing a problem with Internet Mail and News, as the
solution might already be posted by someone else who experienced
the same problem. Additionally, Microsoft support engineers
monitor these groups.
In addition to the news groups mentioned above, there are other
useful newsgroups dealing with Microsoft products. These groups
can be found on the following Microsoft News server:
- msnews.microsoft.com
For additional instructions about connecting to the above
newsgroups, please see the Troubleshooting section earlier
in this document.