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Setting Up Messenger for Email |
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Before you can use Netscape Messenger to send and receive email for the first time, you need to set up your email preferences. You may have entered some or all of this information into the User Profile wizard the first time you launched Communicator, but we'll proceed as if you hadn't entered any information.
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You Try It: Set Up Your Email Preferences |
- Make sure you have all the information you need to set up your account. If you don't, contact your Internet service provider or your company's systems adminstrator. Here's what you need:
- Your real name. (Bet you know this answer!)
- Your user name.
- Your password.
- Your full email address.
- The address of your mail server (mail.domain.com, or something similar). You may need two addresses, one for incoming and one for outgoing mail.
- Whether your account is POP or IMAP.
From the Communicator menu bar select Communicator, and then Messenger Mailbox.
- Now you need to enter the information.
- If this is the first time you are starting Messenger, a Mail and Discussion Wizard will appear. In each panel of the discussion Wizard enter the specified information in the text boxes, then click Next. The wizard will automatically save your choices in Communicator's preferences, and you can skip the rest of these steps.
- If this is not the first time you've opened Messenger, select Edit, and then Preferences from the Communicator menu bar. The Preferences dialog box will appear.
- In the category list at the left of the Preferences dialog box, click Mail & Newsgroups. If the Mail & News list is not expanded, you can do so by clicking the expander arrow (the plus sign) to the left of Mail & Newsgroups.
- In the Category list, click Identity. That panel of the dialog box will move to the front.
- In the appropriate text boxes, type your Name, Email address, and Organization (optional).
- In the Category list, click Mail Servers. That panel of the dialog box will move to the front.
- In the Outgoing mail (SMTP) server text box, type the address of your outgoing mail server.
- In the Incoming Mail Servers area of the dialog box, click Add if there is no server listed
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click Edit if there is a server listed that you need to rename or change.
Either way, the Mail Server Info dialog box will appear.
- In the Server Name text box, type the address of the incoming mail server.
- From the Server Type drop-down menu, select POP or IMAP.
- In the User Name text box, type your user name for this email account.
- Click OK to close the Mail Server Info dialog box and return to the Preferences dialog box.
- Click OK to close the Preferences dialog box and return to the Messenger window.
You're all set!
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FYI |
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Any time you need to change your mail preferences, choose Edit Preferences from Messenger's menu bar and follow those steps to change the settings in the Preferences dialog box.
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