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Microsoft® Outlook Express enables you to communicate with others on the Internet through electronic mail and newsgroups. With electronic mail, or e-mail, you can exchange messages and files with other people on the Internet. Internet newsgroups consist of messages by individuals, organized by topic. You can take part by posting a message of your own, responding to a message, or sending an e-mail message directly to the author of a message. Outlook Express gives you the option of sending and receiving mail, reading news and posting to newsgroups. Outlook Express is not one of ITC's recommended mail clients, so the directions below show how to configure Netscape for sending mail from Web page "mailto" links, and for reading news and posting to newsgroups only. ITC's recommended mail client is Mulberry.
Some features of Outlook Express 6.X for Windows
Outlook Express may already be installed on your computer. From the Start button, choose Programs, then look for Outlook Express. To check the version number, open Outlook and from the Help menu, choose About Microsoft Outlook Express. You can download Outlook Express 6.x at http://www.microsoft.com/ You can also get Outlook Express from the Microsoft Office CD-ROM. You do not have to use Internet Explorer to use Outlook Express.
Installing and Configuring Outlook Express
1. From the Start button, choose Programs, then choose Outlook Express. To check the version number, open Outlook and from the Help menu, choose About Microsoft Outlook Express.
2. You will see the Outlook Express Setup Assistant if this is your first time using Outlook Express. Click the link to Set up a Mail account...
5. Enter your name in the Display name box, then click Next.
6. Enter your email address in the Email address box. This is the address other people use to send email messages to you, for example mst3k@virginia.edu. Click Next.
7. Use the following configuration if you have an account on the Central Mail Server. The first letter of your UVa computing ID will proceed .mail.virginia.edu. If you are a CMS user, visit the CMS configuration web page at http://config.mail.virginia.edu. Login and click on "Configuration information for other POP/IMAP programs."
Click Next.
ITC recommends IMAP.
IMAP allows the user to read mail from the server. Not all mail servers allow IMAP. Check with your mail server administrator if you are not sure.
POP will put a copy of your mail on the local hard drive. It may or may not leave a copy of the mail on the server, depending on the options you choose.
8. Enter your UVa computing ID (for example mst3k) in the Account ID field. Uncheck the box for Remember password, and do not enter your password at this time. You will be prompted for your password each time you log into your mail, a more secure option. Click Next, then Finish.
9. You may be prompted to "download folders from the mail server you added." Click Yes to get folder information from the server. You will then see the mail Outlook Express window.
Configuring Outlook Express for News
1. Go to the Tools menu and select Accounts. The Accounts window will open.
2. Click on the News tab.
3. Click Add, then select News.
4. Enter your name and email address as you would like them to appear in your news postings, clicking Next after each entry. enter Account name: UVa News.
5. In the News Server Name field, enter news.virginia.edu, click Next and then click Finish.
6. Close the Accounts window when finished. If prompted to "download newsgroups from the account you added," click yes to download a list of newsgroup on that server, or no to wait until later to download the list of groups to which you may subscribe.
7. To subscribe to a newsgroup from the list, highlight the desired list by clicking on it once, then click the Subscribe button. Repeat for each of the groups to which you wish to subscribe, or hold down the Control key while clicking to select multiple groups at once, then click Subscribe. then OK.
8. To view the postings on your subscribed newsgroup(s), select it from the listing under news.virginia.edu in the Accounts window by clicking once. Then click on the subject of each message you wish to view.
If you are connecting to the UVa network and the Internet via an ISP (Internet Service Provider) other than UVa such as nTelos or EarthLink, you will need to set up a remote news account. See Create an Authenticated News Service Account at http://www.itc.Virginia.EDU/accounts/home.html
Configuring Outlook Express for Remote News
1. Follow the instructions above for Configuring Outlook Express for News, except in step 5, enter remotenews.virginia.edu as the news server name.
Internet Explorer,
the Web browser associated with Outlook Express, is not recommended for use
with U.Va.'s Proxy Server. For details on known issues with Internet Explorer
and the U.Va. Proxy Server, please read a summary
of problems with Internet Explorer and the Proxy Server.
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Outlook Express can search the "whois" database and display names and e-mail addresses of UVa students, faculty and staff. Outlook Express does this via our LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) server.
Configuring Outlook Express for Directory Services (LDAP)
1. From the Tools menu, select Accounts. The Accounts window will open.
2. Click on the Directory Service tab, click New, then select Directory Service.
4. In the Internet directory (LDAP) server field, enter ldap.virginia.edu, then click Next.
5. Make sure No is selected when prompted to check email addresses against the LDAP server, click Next, then click Finish.
6. In the Accounts window, select the ldap.virginia.edu account by clicking it once, then click Properties.
7. Click the Advanced tab, then in the Search base field, enter o=university of virginia, c=us. Click OK when done, then close the Accounts window.
Getting Help with Outlook Express
For further help with Outlook Express see the Help menu at the top of your screen or contact the ITC Help Desk at 924-3731 or consult@virginia.edu.