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README for Microsoft Outlook(TM) Express
November 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
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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, 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
============================
- When receiving a message using a GeoCities mail account, you might
be unable to view any of the original message, or you may see only
the following information: Postage Paid by... [graphic].
- 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.
- Inbox rules are not available for IMAP accounts.
- If you are using Outlook Express with a SUN Solstice, Netscape, or
Innosoft IMAP server, it may cause your server to stop responding.
Please contact the 3rd party provider for an update to the IMAP
server software to correct this problem.
- Outlook Express S/MIME does not verify the status of digital IDs
before sending encrypted or signed messages. This means that a
digital ID that is revoked, expired, not trusted or that has an
incorrect e-mail address will be used without providing any warning.
- To send signed messages and receive encrypted messages, you must
have a digital ID. Currently, the only way to get a digital ID
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.
- Outlook Express is designed to work only with IMAP4 compliant
servers. IMAP2bis servers are not supported in this release.
- If you rename a news server account name and then attempt to
perform some action on it, for example copying messages from the
server, you may receive an error message. To work around this
problem, close OE and restart after the renaming of a server.
- If encrypting a message when there is not a certificate for one of
the recipients, an error will display stating that there is not
a certificate for that recipient as well as the sender.
- Certificates are now handled on a per account basis. You must
reselect which certificate to use for each account from the
Accounts menu. Select the account you want to configure for
security features and check the box to use a certificate when
sending secure messages. You must also click the Certificate button
to select which to use.
- If you used Internet News for reading newsgroups, any messages
in your "Posted Items" folder will be moved into the "Sent Items
folder when you upgrade to Outlook Express.
- Outlook Express only shows subscribed IMAP folders in the
folder list. It no longer shows all your folders (subscribed and
unsubscribed). If you want to see all your folders in the folder
list, you should subscribe to all your folders. Click on the "File"
menu, then click "Folder >" and select "Subscribe All Folders" menu.
If there are folders that you don't want to displayed in the folder
list, you can unsubscribe the folder. Click on the File menu, click
on Folder >, and select "Unsubscribe Folder".
- If you send a Rich Text (HTML) message which contains embedded
pictures and the option to "Send pictures with message" is turned
off, any pictures from a local computer or LAN will not be viewed
when receiving and reading the message using Netscape's Messenger.
Note to French users
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In order to comply with the French laws on the use of encryption
material, S/MIME support in Outlook Express has been disabled when
used in France. However, SSL 2.0 and SSL 3.0 support is authorized,
and hence left enabled.
TROUBLESHOOTING
===============
- If you run into a problem, try the troubleshooter 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