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README for Microsoft Outlook(TM) Express
March l997
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(c) Copyright Microsoft Corporation, 1997
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 Msimn.txt on screen in Notepad, maximize the Notepad window.
To print Msimn.txt, open it in Notepad or another word processor, then
use the Print command on the File menu.
CONTENTS
========
MICROSOFT OUTLOOK EXPRESS
KNOWN ISSUES IN THIS RELEASE
TROUBLESHOOTING
TIPS AND TRICKS
SUPPORT FOR MICROSOFT OUTLOOK EXPRESS
MICROSOFT OUTLOOK EXPRESS
=========================
Outlook Express Mail is an Internet standards based e-mail and news
reader.
To read e-mail with Outlook Express, you must be using a mail system
that uses SMTP and POP3 or IMAP protocols. At this time, you cannot
use Microsoft Outlook Express to access your e-mail account with any
of the following services: MS Mail, cc:Mail, The Microsoft Network
(MSN), CompuServe, America Online (AOL), or Microsoft Exchange Server
prior to version 5. 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 or IMAP mail clients.
You can also use Microsoft Outlook Express News to read bulletin-board
discussion groups, such as the Usenet, using NNTP-based news servers.
Contact your Internet service provider or network administrator for
the name of the news server that you should use. Outlook Express News
can also be used to receive support for a variety of Microsoft
products on the news server msnews.microsoft.com.
KNOWN ISSUES IN THIS RELEASE
============================
- Spell checking is not yet implemented.
- You will not be able to see embedded objects or images sent from
people using Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Exchange, or Windows
Messaging. File attachments work fine, however.
- If you use HTML in your signature, and you send the message before
any included images have finished drawing, the text you add to the
message may be lost.
- Some mail clients send Cyrillic messages with tags indicating that
they are in a western European character set. As a result, Outlook
Express uses a western-European font to display the message, which
then appears garbled. To work around this problem, click the View
menu, click Language, and then choose a Russian character set, such
as K0I8. The message should display properly using the Russian font.
- Outlook Express 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 Outlook Express News.
- The Pause / Play buttons in the Offline status bar can miss some
messages that are marked for retrieval. If you pause and then
resume a download, the download starts in the next newsgroup
in the list instead of retrieving any remaining messages from
the current newsgroup. The skipped messages can still be
retrieved the next time you synchronize the newsgroup.
- If you use Netscape Messenger IMAP (beta 1) and want your folder
list to look exactly like it did in Messenger, set the root
folder for the IMAP server to IMAPMailboxes. To do this, carry
out the following steps:
1. Click the Tools menu, and then click Mail Accounts.
2. Select the IMAP server, and then click Properties.
3. Click the Advanced tab, and then type "IMAPMailboxes"
in the Root Folder Path.
4. To view the revised folder list, click the File menu, click
Folders, and then click Refresh Folder List.
- Inbox rules are currently not available for IMAP accounts.
- If you are using Outlook Express with a SUN Solstice IMAP server,
certain activities will not be reflected immediately in the message
list. These activities include marking messages as read or unread,
marking messages as deleted or undeleted, and downloading message
bodies.
- Outlook Express S/MIME does not verify the status of certificates
before sending encrypted messages or receiving signed messages.
This means that a certificate that is revoked, expired, not trusted
or that has an incorrect e-mail address will be used without
providing any warning.
- In order to send signed messages and receive encrypted messages,
you must have a certificate. Currently, the only way to get a
certificate for use with Outlook Express is to use Internet Explorer
4.0 and go to the Verisign Web site, http://digitalid.verisign.com.
- While sending and retrieving messages, closing Outlook Express and
restarting it will cause Outlook Express to crash.
- In Outlook Express News, if the option "Get 300 headers at a time" is
turned on, the following commands: Get New Headers, Get New Messages,
Get All Messages, and Get Marked Messages will retrieve only 300 (or
the number that you specify) headers at a time. To prevent this, you
should turn off this option.
- To cancel a news message, you must be using the same message encoding
options as was used for the original message.
- If no folders are displayed for your IMAP server or if you want
to refresh the list of IMAP folders you need to download the folder
list from the server. To do this, select the IMAP server. If you
connect to the server by using a modem, click the Tools menu, and
then select Offline > Dial. If you connect to the IMAP server by
using a LAN, you can skip this step. After you have connected to
the server, click the File menu, click Folders, and then click
Refresh Folder List.
- If you need to change any of the following settings for your IMAP
account:
. IMAP server name or port number
. Account type (POP3 or IMAP)
. Any logon information
it is recommended that you delete the IMAP account and create a new
account with the updated settings.
TROUBLESHOOTING
===============
- If you run into a problem, try the troubleshooters in online Help
or on the Microsoft Web site at
http://www.microsoft.com/support/tshooters.htm. To start the online
Help troubleshooters, carry out the following steps:
1. In Outlook Express, click the Help menu, and then click Help
Topics.
2. Double-click the "Troubleshooting" topic on the Contents tab.
- 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 service
provider.
- Your Internet service provider or LAN server supports POP3 or
IMAP 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 Tools menu, and then click Accounts.
2. Click Add, and then click News on the drop-down menu.
3. Follow the directions on your screen.
4. When you are prompted for a server name, type
msnews.microsoft.com
If that name isn't found by your Internet service provider, you
can type 131.107.3.27 instead.
You do not need to log on to this news server.
TIPS AND TRICKS
===============
- You can change the sound that notifies you that you have received
new mail. To do this, double-click the Sounds icon in Control
Panel, and select New Mail Notification from the events list.
- Use the Check Names command, available on the Tools menu or on
the New Message toolbar, to look up a person's e-mail address
when sending mail. The name will be underlined when the
associated address is found.
- You can move the toolbar to a different edge of your screen by
right-clicking it and then choosing Left, Right, Bottom, or Top
from the Align menu.
- To send a mail message in Plain Text only (no HTML formatting),
click the Format menu, and then click on Plain Text. To make Plain
Text the default setting for new messages, replies, and forwarded
messages, click the Tools menu, click Mail Options, click the Send
tab, and then select Plain Text. (News messages are sent in Plain
Text by default, but similarly, this setting can be changed under
News Options.)
- To customize the toolbar, right-click it, and use the menu commands
to perform the desired actions.
- 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 clicking the View menu, clicking Preview Pane, and changing the
options in the dialog box.
- You can specify that you want to see only unread news messages. To
do this, click a newsgroup, click the View menu, click Current
View, and then click Unread Messages.
- You can set messages to automatically download to the preview pane
by clicking the Tools menu, clicking News 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.
- In mail, you can leave a copy of your messages on the server. To set
this option, click the Tools menu, and then click Accounts. Select
the mail account you want to modify, and then click Properties. Click
the Advanced tab, and then select the Leave A Copy Of Messages On
Server check box.
- You can search for newsgroups that contain specific words in their
names. To do this:
1. Click the Tools menu, and then click Newsgroups.
2. In the Search box, enter the words separated by a space.
You can also search newsgroup descriptions. If you cannot see the
descriptions, click the Tools menu, and then click News Accounts.
Select the news account you want to modify, click Properties, and
then click the Advanced tab. Next, select the Use Newsgroup
Descriptions check box. Click the Tools menu, and then click
Newsgroups. In the Newsgroups window, click "Reset List."
- You can have your signature added to all messages, including those
that you reply to or forward. To do this, click the Tools menu, and
then click Mail Options or News Options. On the Signature tab,
select the following check box: Add Signature To The End Of All
Outgoing messages.
- It is possible to use HTML files as signatures as well as plain
text files.
- If you are using Web view and single-click mode in Windows
Explorer, this will also activate it in Outlook Express.
Single-clicking works only when the preview pane is turned off.
- To reorder columns, you can drag and drop column headings. Columns
can be resized by dragging the right edge of the column header.
- 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 Outlook Express 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.
SUPPORT FOR MICROSOFT OUTLOOK EXPRESS
=====================================
For the latest information about known issues, see our Web page at
http://www.microsoft.com/ie/ie40/collab/imn. You may find that your
questions can be answered here.
A newsgroup is dedicated to the discussion of Microsoft Outlook
Express and provides peer support:
- news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.ie4beta.OutlookExpress
To read it, follow the procedure outlined in the Troubleshooting section
above.
This site is the best place to go if you are experiencing a problem,
as someone else who experienced the same problem might already have
posted the solution.