Setting Up Netscape 4 for Exchange as an IMAP Account
Before You Start
- These instructions are for Netscape Communicator 4.78, 4.79 and 4.8 for Windows.
- The only features available with an IMAP account is
the inbox.
Check Current IMAP Settings
- If Netscape is your main client you should already have an account created for their VAX or OSF account. Verify the following in edit\preferences:
- Under ‘Mail & Newsgroups’ -- Identity
- Includes your full-name
- Your e-mail address is ‘xxx@rit.edu’, not ‘xxx@osf.rit.edu’, ‘xxx@vms.rit.edu’, etc. Your address should only be ‘rit.edu’
- No reply to address is filled in
- The organization reads ‘RIT’ or ‘Rochester
Institute of Technology’
- Under ‘Mail & Newsgroups’ -- Mail Servers
- Change the outgoing mail server to: smtp-server.rit.edu
- Outgoing mail server username should be their RIT Account name
- Use SSL should be set to ‘If Possible’
- Highlight the current incoming server and click ‘Edit’ button
- Check for mail every 30 minutes
- On the ‘IMAP’ tab
- ‘Mark it as deleted’ is selected under ‘When I delete a message’
- Check ‘Clean up (Expunge) inbox on exit’
- That is all that should be selected; all other
boxes should have the check marks cleared. Click ‘OK’ to close the window.
- Under ‘Mail & Newsgroups’ -- Formatting
- ‘Use the plain text editor to compose messages’ should be selected
- ‘Ask me what to do if the message has HTML
formatting’ should be selected in the second section
- Click ‘OK’ and close preferences
Make sure that LDAP is setup, if not set it up
- Open the Address Book by choosing ‘Communicator’ and then ‘Address Book’ from the toolbar
- If you do not the RIT Directory Server listed do the following:
Click ‘File’ and then ‘New Directory’
- Description = RIT LDAP
- LDAP Server = ldap.rit.edu
- Search Root=ou=People,dc=rit,dc=edu
- Port = 636
- Secure is checked, click ‘OK’ to close the window
- Close out of the Address Book
- Setup their client to check addresses against LDAP:
- Go to edit\preferences
- Select ‘Mail & Newsgroups’ -- Addressing
- Under the ‘Look for addresses in the following’ section make sure that both ‘Address Books’ and ‘Directory Server’ w/RIT LDAP from the pull-down menu are selected.
- Under the ‘Where there are multiple addresses
found’ section select ‘Show me a list of choices’
Setup the Exchange Account
- Click the following in edit\preferences
- Under ‘Mail & Newsgroups’ -- Mail Servers
- Under ‘Incoming Mail Servers’
- Click the ‘Add’ button
- Server Name = mymail.rit.edu
- Server Type = IMAP server
- User Name = your RIT Computer Account user name
- Check remember password
- Check for mail every 30 minutes
- Click on the ‘IMAP’ tab
- Check the box in front of ‘Use secure connection (SSL)’
- ‘Mark it as deleted’ should be selected
- Check ‘Clean up -- Expunge inbox on exit’
- That is all that should be selected, all other
boxes should have the check marks cleared
- Click ‘OK’ to go back to the Preferences window
- Highlight their Exchange account and click the ‘Set as Default’ button and click ‘OK’ to close the properties window
- Click on their ‘inbox’ under ‘mymail.rit.edu’ in the folder list and enter their password if prompted
- If you receive the ‘New Site Certificate’ pop-up click ‘Next’ and then ‘Next’ again
- When you reach the 3rd screen select ‘Accept this certificate forever (until it expires)’ and click ‘Next’
- Make sure the ‘warn me’ check box is unchecked and click ‘Next’
- Click ‘Finish’
- Click on the ‘Get Message’ button if you were not
prompted for their password in the previous step