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In this guide:
1) Open Netscape and click "Edit" on the menubar, then select "Preferences"
2) In the Preferences window, click once on the "+" 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. Click the circle next to Always under the line Use Secure Socket Layer (SSL) or TLS for outgoing messages:.
At the top of the window click Add...
4) Adjust the settings on in the "Mail Server Properties" screen that appears.
Server Name: <your_internet_id>.email.umn.edu
Server Type: IMAP Server
User Name: <your_internet_id>
Remember Password: checked
Check for mail every _ minutes: Checked, set the value to 15
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 "Move it to the Trash folder (it will be removed when I select 'Empty Trash')" is filled. 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 is a "+" 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) To add a new person to your address book, first click on the "New Card" icon
2) Enter the information you have available for your new recipient, then click "OK"
3) 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".
4) To send a new e-mail, 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.
5) 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.
