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MS Windows Everyone
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Asked on the REACH List:
I tried to configure the mail and news that comes with Netscape for Windows
version 1.22 several times now and I still can never get those to work.
Does anyone out there have these configured correctly? If so, please tell
me what setup parameters to use.
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Reply: First off, why not download Netscape 3.0? Both mail and
news are enhanced in the later versions. Also, Microsoft's Internet Explorer
3.0 (for Windows 95 or NT) has been officially released. It includes both news
and mail programs similar to Netscape's latest. I haven't had much experience
with them yet, but considering how well the browser functions, my guess is that
the mail and news packages are at least on a par with Netscape's.
In Netscape, select Options --> Mail and News Preferences.
Click the Servers tab to set the "Incoming mail (POP) server" to
your UIC email address; for example, janedoe@tigger.cc.uic.edu or
jdoe12@icarus.cc.uic.edu. The "SMTP server" should be smtpserv7.cc.uic.edu,
and "NNTP server" should be news.cc.uic.edu. You might also want
to specify your name and your your_netid@uic.edu email address
(janedoe@uic.edu or jdoe12@uic.edu, using the examples above)
on the Identity tab. Everything else in the setup should be self-evident.
Netscape's mail and news programs aren't known to be state-of-the-art,
so you'll find that it's not as slick as sending mail from Eudora (it sometimes
takes longer to find the SMTP server). By the way, there are much better
newsreaders available as well -- I've heard good things about Forte's Free
Agent. Netscape is convenient for those people who don't want too many
icons cluttering up their systems, but ultimately the price is paid in
performance.
Scott Schenke, ScottS@uic.edu
Office of Continuing Education and Public Service
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