Setting Up Outlook
Express 5 on a PC
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What is Outlook Express?
Outlook Express is a graphical
e-mail program for Macintosh and PC computers. It has a point and click interface
for reading e-mail on the RIT VAX/VMS system or OSF UNIX (grace) system. By
setting the program up with IMAP settings, explained in the following tutorial,
e-mail can be read and tracked properly from multiple locations. (i.e. work,
home).
Where
to Get Outlook Express?
Many computers with Windows
95, Windows 98, Windows NT and newer Macintosh operating systems come with Outlook
Express already installed. Outlook Express is part of the Internet Explorer
installer program, even though it can be run as a separate program. If you wish
to use the only the Outlook Express piece of Internet Explorer, you can install
Internet Explorer and delete all but the Outlook Express piece. If it is not
already installed on your system, Outlook Express is freely available for download
at the Microsoft web site at http://www.microsoft.com.
Alternative locations to get it from are Download.com web site at http://www.download.com.
Exercise
1: Initial Set-up of Outlook Express with RIT IMAP settings
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1. Start
Outlook Express from the Start menu or icon on the desktop or hard drive.
2. Click
on Tools Pull-down Menu.
3. Select
Accounts. |
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4. Click
on the Add button and select Mail from the Pop-up Menu.
5. An
Internet Connection Wizard will open.
6. Fill
in your Full Name and click Next.
7. Click
the radio button labelled: "I already have an e-mail address that
I'd like to use." Fill in your Full RIT e-mail address and
click Next.
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For vmsmail storage on the VMS/VAX use abc1234@rit.edu where abc1234
is replace by your username for RIT full email address.
If you
use osfmail on grace to store your email use: abc1234@osfmail.rit.edu
where abc1234 would be replaced by your RIT username.
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8. Choose
the IMAP setting from the Pop-up menu instead of POP3.
9. Fill
in the Incoming mail server and the Outgoing mail server
with VMS or OSF settings. (See chart below.)
Click
Next.
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If
you read
e-mail on:
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VMS/VAX
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GRACE/OSF
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Incoming
mail server
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vmsimap.rit.edu
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osfimap.rit.edu
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Outgoing
mail (SMTP) server
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vmsmail.rit.edu
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osfmail.rit.edu
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Fill in your DCE
account username and password (which you use to login to the RITVAX
or grace).
Click Next.
Do NOT check off
SPA.
Do NOT check off
"Remember password" if you are in a public lab.
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10. Click Finish.
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11. After getting
this screen click Close
and In response
to: "Would you like to download the folder list for the IMAP account
you just created?" Choose Yes, if you would like to test
your account.
If a list downloads
then your account is properly configured.
Troubles?:
If your account does not work, select: Tools > Accounts > Mail
Tab . Highlight your mailbox setting. Click Properties
button and check each setting under each tab for typos or mistakes.
Also check your internet
connection to see that it is working.
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Exercise
2: Setting up Preferences for E-mail
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1. In the Tools
> Accounts menu
select the Mail Tab if you are not
still on this screen from Exercise 1.
Highlight the
account settings
you have just created.
Click the Properties Button
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2. Click the Server
Tab. Check off the "My Server requires authentication." especially
if you are using a different Internet Service Provider besides RIT.
3. Click the IMAP
Tab.
Leave all check boxes
CHECKED.
If you are using
VMSIMAP settings: Click OK.
Click the Close button.
OR
If you are using
the OSFIMAP settings:
Fill in the Root
Folder path as mail since this is where the
Pine e-mail reader places e-mail, then click OK.Click
the Close button.
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VMS IMAP Settings |
OSF IMAP Settings
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3. Choose Tools
> Options
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4. Click the Send
Tab
5. Click the Radio
button for Plain Text
6. Click OK
to close the window.
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Why choose
Plain Text? What is HTML Mail anyway?
HTML mail allows
you to use various fonts, colors, and other special effects in your
mail messages. However, only people who use Netscape Messenger,
Microsoft Outlook Express or other IMAP programs will be able to
read your messages if you send them with HTML checked.
People using PMDF/VAX Mail, or other text-only mail programs will
receive what they will probably perceive to be a mess of text and
computer code called HTML. There are ways around this, but they
generally end up being confusing for both the sender and the receiver
of the mail. Therefore, it is best to uncheck HTML messages unless
you are sure everyone who will be receiving your mail is using Netscape
Messenger or Microsoft Outlook Express.
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Exercise
3: Setting up RIT Directory Services (LDAP)
| 1. Select "Accounts" on the "Tools"
menu, then select the "Directory Service" tab:.
The "Internet Accounts" window appears. |
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| 2. Select the RIT LDAP Directory (it may
be called "ldap.rit.edu"), and then click "Properties".
Select the "General" tab - if not already selected.
The "Properties" window appears. |
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| 3. Change the account name to RIT LDAP directory,
if necessary. The server name should still be "ldap.rit.edu".
Fill in the "Account name" field with the following, replacing
"abc1234" with your DCE username: |
| uid=abc1234,ou=people,dc=rit,dc=edu |
| Note: there are no spaces in the above entry |
| 4. You can place a checkmark in the "Check
names against this server when sending mail" box if you want
Outlook Express to check for names and e-mail addresses in the RIT
LDAP directory before sending messages. |
| 5. Select the "Advanced" tab. |
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| 6. The "This server requires a secure connection
(SSL)" box should be checked. Checking this box will change
the "Directory service (LDAP)" value from 389 to 636. |
| 7. Additionally, the "Search base"
should contain: |
| ou=people,dc=rit,dc=edu |
| Note: there are no spaces |
| 8. When completed, click "OK" to
save these settings. This will return you to the previous window,
where "Close" may now be checked. |
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