Netscape Messenger 4.7x for Mac OS 9
Contents:
1) Open Netscape and click "Edit" on the menubar, then select "Preferences"
2) In the Preferences window, click once on the arrow next to "Mail & Newsgroups", then click on "Identity". Fill in the appropriate information in the blanks on the right half of the window.
3) Next, in the lefthand window click once on "Mail Servers". In the space next to "Outgoing Mail (SMTP) server: " enter "smtp.umn.edu:587", and in the space next to "Outgoing mail server user name: " enter your Internet ID. Make sure that the circle next to "Always" is filled under the line "Use Secure Socket Layer (SSL) or TLS for outgoing messages: ", and then at the top of the window click "Add..."
4) In the "Mail Server Info" screen that appears, for "Server Name: " enter "<your_internet_id>.email.umn.edu", for the "Server Type: " select "IMAP Server" in the dropdown box, and then for "User Name: " you should enter your Internet ID. The two checkboxes are optional: The first will remember your Internet Password when you enter it for the first time later, and the second will make Netscape Messenger automatically check for new email at the interval that you type in the space next to "minutes"
5) Next, click on the tab labeled "IMAP". Check the box next to "Use secure connection (SSL)", also make sure the circle next to "Remove it immediately (it can be restored by selecting 'Undo')" is filled. Also check the boxes next to Clean up ("Expunge") Inbox on Quit and Empty Trash on Quit.
6) In the Advanced tab, make the
following settings:
IMAP directory path: ~/mail/
Show only subscribed folders: checked
Server supports folders that contain subfolders and messages:checked
Allow server to override these namespaces
Then click "OK" on the "Mail Server Properties"
window and the "OK" button on the "Preferences"
window.
1) Now, go to "Communicator" on the menu bar and select "Address Book"
2) When the "Address Book" window appears, click on "File" in the menu bar, then select "New Directory..."
3) In the "Directory Server Property" window, in the space next to "Description: " enter "U of MN LDAP", next to "LDAP Server: " enter "ldap.umn.edu", and next to "Search Root" enter "o=University of Minnesota, c=US". Then click "OK" to close this window, then select "Edit" and "Preferences" in the "Address Book" window.
4) Now you are at the Preferences window again, if there are no subcategories, but there is an arrow next to "Mail & Newsgroups", click it once, then select "Addressing"
5) Click the empty checkbox next to "Directory Server" and make sure to select "U of MN LDAP" from the dropdown box below it. Then click "OK" to close the Preferences window.
1) If the Address Book window is not already open, go to "Communicator" on the menu bar and select "Address Book"
2) To add a new person to your address book, first click on the "New Card" icon
3) Enter the information you have available for your new recipient, then click "OK"
4) You can also make a mailing list by clicking on the "New List" icon in the Address Book to get this window, simply fill in the addresses you wish to add, give the list a name and an easy-to-remember "List Nickname" then hit "OK".
5) To send a new email, simply click on the "New Message", you can type the "nickname" of someone into the "To" field to get their addressbook entry to appear, or click the "Address" icon and select from there.
6) Netscape will expand the nickname out to its entry if possible, and then you simply need to enter text for the subject and body of the message, hitting "Send" when you are finished.
