Setting Up Netscape 7.x in Windows to Read E-mail at UAF

E-mail clients provide an easy graphical interface for you to access your e-mail over the internet. This documentation provides the basics of how to set up the Netscape 7.x e-mail client to work with the mail server.

E-mail clients communicate with the mail server through protocols. There are two different protocols that you can choose when setting up an e-mail client.

Post Office Protocol (POP)

POP copies all of your messages to your local computer. By default POP clients will delete your messages off of the mail server. If you only use a single computer to read e-mail, or you reside in a rural area with a slow internet connection, you will want to use POP.

Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP)

IMAP leaves your mail messages on the email server. Since the mail messages are stored on the server, you can read your e-mail from multiple computers or e-mail clients which use IMAP. If you use the Pine mail system or Web Mail you will want to use IMAP.

If you are unsure about which choice of e-mail protocol to choose, you may contact the OIT Help Desk for assistance. (Call 450-8300 or write helpdesk@alaska.edu. Rural areas may dial 1-800-478-8226.)

Setting up your Netscape 7.x account

Setting up your Netscape mail account will vary slightly depending upon whether or not you have downloaded the program from the UAF Download site or not. (You may download the UAF site version from the OIT Download Site) The steps below will cover both the UAF site version set-up, and a non-UAF version set-up.

1. Open Netscape. Go to the Window menu and select Mail and Newsgroups.

A wizard will pop up if you have downloaded the UAF site version. If this is the case, go to Step 9 under the UAF site version heading on page 2. If this is not the case, go to Step 2 below.

2. Next, in the Mail & Newsgroups Account Setup window, go to the Edit menu and select Mail and Newsgroups Account Settings. If a wizard has not already prompted you to do so, click on the Add Account button.

3. Select Email account, then click on the Next button.

4. In the Identity window that appears, type your name in the Your Name field. In the Email Address field, put in your full email address, i.e., fsxxx@uaf.edu. If you have an alias account, i.e., john.smith@uaf.edu, you may type that in here. Click Next.

5. In the Server Information window, select IMAP if you are on the main UAF campus. Rural areas with slow internet connections may select POP. The incoming server information to enter is: fxxxx.email.uaf.edu, as in picture A. ("fxxxx" will be your user name.) If you don't see any more fields to fill in, click Next and go on to step 6.

You may see a Server Information window that also asks for you to specify an outgoing mail server (picture B). The outgoing mail server is: smtp.uaf.edu Fill this in and click Next.

A:

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B:

6. In the User Name window, fill in the User Name field with your university email user name ( fxxxx , without "@uaf.edu"). Do not use your alias account name here. Then, click Next.

7. In the Account Name window, enter your full email address, i.e., fxxxx@uaf.edu. ( It's OK to enter your alias account name, if you wish. ) Then, click Next.

8. You will now see the Congratulations! window. Look over your entries, and then click Finish. You are now ready to configure Netscape -- go to the section titled Configuring Netscape.

UAF's download site version of Netscape

9. If you have downloaded the UAF site version of Netscape, then you will see "University of Alaska Fairbanks" listed in the New Account Setup window. Select it, and then click Next.

10. The Identity window will appear. Type in your name at the Your Name field; and type in your user name, i.e., "fxxxx" without the "@uaf.edu" at the User Name field. Then, click Next.

11. At the Congratulations! window, review your entries and click Finish.

Configuring Netscape Mail

1. In the Netscape browser window under the Mail tab, go to the Edit menu. Select the Mail & Newsgroups Account Settings. The menu will look similar to the one pictured below.

2. In the Mail & Newsgroups Account Settings window, fill in the fields with your individual account information, as shown below. (If you are using POP server settings, you may skip Step 3 and go on to Step 4.)

3. IMAP (not POP) Server Users : In the left section of the window, click on Server Settings. Make sure this page looks like the one below (with your info, of course). Be sure. Then, click on the Advanced... button in the lower right corner of the window.

The Advanced IMAP Server Settings window opens. Make sure it looks the same as the picture below. Uncheck "Allow server to override these namespaces" if it appears checked. Then, click OK. (If you have specified the POP server, you will not need to do this step, and you won't see an Advanced button if you looked under Server Settings.)

4. In the Mail & Newsgroups Account Settings window, under the Copies & Folders heading, select "Local Folders" in the drop-down lists, as shown below.

5. Next, in the Mail & Newsgroups Account Settings window, under the Outgoing Server (SMTP) heading, check that the Server Name is "smtp.uaf.edu" as shown below. You may see a Port number specified, which you should leave as is. Under "Use secure connection (SSL)", select Never. You have now completed configuring Netscape for UAF.

Configuring Netscape Mail to use Enterprise Directory (EDIR) Addressing

Note: By configuring your e-mail client to use the EDIR/LDAP addressing capability, you may type a search name in the addressbook and a list of possible accounts with that name, or a portion of it, is generated. Using this feature assumes that you are within UAF network space -- or that you have established a VPN connection from off campus.

1. In the Netscape browser window under the Mail tab, go to the Edit menu. Select the Mail & Newsgroups Account Settings. The menu will look similar to the one pictured below.

2. Select Addressing from the left-side categories in the Account Settings window. The Addressing window opens. Select "Use a different LDAP server:" Then, click on the Edit Directories... button.

3. The LDAP Directory Servers window opens. Click the Add button.

4. The Directory Server Properties window opens. Select the General tab, and fill it in as pictured below:
Name: Edir
Hostname: edir.alaska.edu
Base DN: ou=people,dc=alaska,dc=edu
Port number will be automatically filled in.
Then, click OK.

"Edir" will now appear in the LDAP Directory Servers window. Click OK, and you're done.

When composing messages in Netscape, click on the Address button and specify Edir as the addressbook. Type in a search name, and a list of names will now be automatically populated from the UA Enterprise Directory.