New features

Registering Internet Mail and News

Using Help

New features

Microsoft® Internet Mail and News enables you to communicate with others on the Internet through electronic mail and newsgroups. With electronic mail, or e-mail, you can exchange messages and files with other people on the Internet. Internet newsgroups consist of messages by individuals, organized by topic. You can take part by posting a message of your own, responding to a message, or sending an e-mail message directly to the author of a message.

General features
Feature	Help Topic
Internet Mail and News now works in conjunction with your Apple Language Kit to allow you to send and view mail and news messages in other languages.	Changing the default character set
Internet Mail and News is now threaded. You can send and receive mail and news messages in the background while you continue to do other tasks.	Downloading your messages
Sending to and receiving mail from the Internet are now separate commands.	Downloading your messages
Improved toolbar takes up less space and has tool tips.	Showing or hiding tool tips
You can choose to hide or show the toolbars and the text on the buttons.	Showing or hiding the toolbars
New sound options let you choose the sound you want to hear for mail sent, mail received, no mail, and mail error.	Changing alert sounds
Folders show the number of unread messages within each folder to the right of the folder name.	Reading a mail message
You can set up protocol helpers so that when you click on a link in a mail messages, such as http://, the assigned application will start and display the file.	Setting up helpers for protocols in messages
Mail features
Feature	Help Topic
You can apply automated tasks to mail messages.	Automating tasks for mail messages using filters
You can format the text in mail messages.	Formatting a message
You can compact mail folders without having to quit Internet Mail and News.	Compacting a folder
You can print multiple mail messages from the message list.	Printing a mail message
You can search on the To and From columns in the message list in addition to the Subject column.	Searching for a mail message
You can find text in messages across folders.	Searching for a mail message
You can now set up file helpers from within Internet Mail and News.	Setting up file helpers to view enclosures in messages
You can address and open a new mail message and address it from the address book window.	Sending a message from the address book
You can now set up and use multiple e-mail accounts.	Adding, removing, or changing multiple e-mail accounts
News features
Feature	Help Topic
You can apply automated tasks to news messages.	Automating tasks for news messages using filters
You can print multiple news messages from the message list.	Printing a news message
You can search on the From column in the message list in addition to the Subject column.	Searching for a news message

Registering Internet Mail and News

Register Microsoft Internet Mail and News free of charge at our online registration site. If you still have a beta version of Internet Mail and News, discontinue using it at this time. To find out if you have a beta version, start Internet Mail and News, and then choose About Internet Mail and News on the Apple menu. If you see the letter "b" and a number after the version number, you have a beta version. For more information, see the License Agreement.

Using Help

These Help pages and text within the Internet Mail and News interface will give you the information you need to use the powerful features of Internet Mail and News.

• Click Index to see the Index. Use the Index just as you would an index in a book.
• Below the Index is a list of topic areas. Click a topic area on the left to see a list of related procedures. To open the procedures in a separate window, press and hold on the topic area link, and then choose Open Link In New Window from the context sensitive menu.
• Click Tips & Tricks for tips, tricks, shortcuts, and command definitions.
• Click Troubleshooting if you are having problems using Internet Mail and News.
• Click Glossary for definitions of the terms used throughout the Help system.
• Internet Mail and News Help is best viewed in Internet Explorer. For Help on using Internet Explorer, choose Internet Explorer Help from the Help menu.
• Click the Internet Explorer logo at the bottom of the topics list to go to the Macintosh Internet Products home page on www.microsoft.com.
• For best viewing, choose Preferences from the Edit menu. Under Web Browser, click Web Content, and make sure the Allow Page To Specify Colors check box is selected.
• To print, click in the frame that contains the information you want, and then choose Print from the File menu.

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