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Readme for Microsoft Outlook(TM) Express Version 5
January 1999
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(c) Copyright Microsoft Corporation, 1999
This document provides complementary or late-breaking information
to supplement online Help in Outlook Express. Outlook Express 5
ships with Internet Explorer 5 and Internet Tools.
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How to View This Document
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To view the Readme file on the screen in Windows Notepad, maximize
the Notepad window. To print the Readme file, open it in Notepad or
another word processor, and then click Print on the File menu.
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CONTENTS
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1. MICROSOFT OUTLOOK EXPRESS
2. NEW FEATURES IN THIS RELEASE
3. KNOWN ISSUES IN THIS RELEASE
4. TROUBLESHOOTING
5. TIPS AND TRICKS
6. SUPPORT FOR MICROSOFT OUTLOOK EXPRESS
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Part 1: MICROSOFT OUTLOOK EXPRESS
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Outlook Express is an Internet standards based e-mail and news
reader.
To read e-mail with Outlook Express, you must be using a mail system
that uses SMTP and POP3 or IMAP protocols. If you don't know whether
your e-mail system supports Outlook Express, contact your administrator
or your Internet service provider and ask if they support POP3 or IMAP
mail clients.
You can use Outlook Express to read newsgroups, or discussion groups,
such as the Usenet, by using NNTP-based news servers. Contact your
Internet service provider (ISP) or network administrator for the
name of the news server that you should use. Outlook Express can also
be used to receive support for a variety of Microsoft products on the
news server msnews.microsoft.com.
Outlook Express also includes Windows Address Book version 5, which
provides rich contact management capabilities, including the ability to
create groups of contacts and folders to help you organize your e-mail
and personal addresses. The Windows Address Book also provides access to
Internet directories that use LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol).
Internet directories are an easy way to find e-mail or street addresses.
A number of popular Internet directories are pre-configured for easy
access.
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Part 2: NEW FEATURES IN THIS RELEASE
====================================
- Identities for multiple users.
With the Identity Manager, you can create profiles for different Outlook
Express users. These profiles are shared by applications such as Outlook
Express and Windows Address Book.
- Support for Hotmail accounts.
Outlook Express can now read and manage your Hotmail Inbox and folders, as
well as synchronize your Hotmail contacts with the contacts in your Windows
Address Book.
- Offline support and message synchronization.
You can download News and IMAP folders for viewing offline. Actions
performed offline (such as sending messages and moving messages
within an IMAP account) will be performed when you go back online.
- Contacts pane.
The contacts in your Windows Address Book are now visible in the main
Outlook Express window.
- Enhanced message rules.
Enhanced rules support for more criteria and actions, including blocking
message senders with a single click, and offering rules for newsgroups.
- Multiple signatures.
You can create an unlimited number of signatures, and each signature
can be associated with one or more mail or news accounts.
- Easier to use secure mail (S/MIME).
Outlook Express automatically finds and associates digital certificates
installed on your machine with your mail accounts and automatically
adds digital certificates that others send you to the Windows Address Book.
- Phone dialer integration.
It's easy to place a telephone call to a contact in the Windows Address
Book using the phone dialer installed on your system.
- IMAP drafts and sent items.
Outlook Express can store in-progress messages in a server-based Drafts
folder and store copies of sent messages in a Sent Items folder on the
IMAP server.
- IMAP folder manager.
You can customize which IMAP folders are visible or hidden (subscribed or
unsubscribed) in the folder list.
- Advanced Internet directory search.
Searches against Internet directory (LDAP) servers can be performed with
additional criteria and logical operators.
- Watch conversation and ignore conversation.
You can designate a news or mail conversation as "watched" so that you
can see when new messages arrive on that topic. You can also designate a
conversation as "ignored" so that you will not see future messages on
that topic.
- HTML source editing.
You can easily edit the source of an HTML message to include advanced
HTML tags.
- Customizable message filters.
You can customize what messages are hidden or shown based on more than a
dozen criteria.
- Stationery wizard.
It's now even easier to customize HTML stationery, including setting up
margins, fonts, background images, and colors.
- Improved connection management
Outlook Express 5 can share connection settings with Internet Explorer 5,
and detects when you have disconnected your phone or have disconnected
from a LAN. When a connection is needed, Outlook Express will now connect
automatically or prompt you.
====================================
Part 3: KNOWN ISSUES IN THIS RELEASE
====================================
- Junk mail filtering is not available in this version of Outlook Express.
- The Identity Manager provides an easy way to group user settings and
change users across applications, but it does not provide security for
messages, application settings, and digital certificates. If you need
stronger security, you should use Windows logon profiles to manage
user settings.
- When uninstalling Outlook Express 5, the messages you have received in
Outlook Express 5 will remain in the Outlook Express 5 message files.
If you were previously running Outlook Express 4 or Internet Mail and
News, only the messages you received in those programs will be there
after uninstall.
- After uninstalling Outlook Express 5, you can import messages received
in Outlook Express 5 into Outlook Express 4: In Outlook Express 4, click
on File, then click Import, click Messages, and then follow the on-screen
instructions.
- If you install Outlook 98 after installing Outlook Express 5, the shortcut
to the Microsoft Outlook Newsreader may not work. To fix, open your start
menu and click Programs, right-click the Microsoft Outlook Newsreader in
the list of Programs on the start menu and then click Properties. In the
Target box, type (exactly as below):
"C:\Program Files\Outlook Express\msimn.exe" /outnews
- When importing contacts into Microsoft Phone, the contacts show up in Phone
but not in the Windows Address Book. The workaround is to click on the File
menu in Outlook Express, then click Import, and run through the import
again. Then the contacts will show up in the Address Book.
- In order for Outlook Express to work on a dual-boot machine, you must install
the same version of Outlook Express on both operating systems.
- If you were using the PGP plug-in to Outlook Express 4, you must uninstall it
before installing Outlook 5. If you installed Outlook Express 5 before
uninstalling the PGP plug-in, Outlook Express 5 will not start. To
fix, uninstall Outlook Express 5, uninstall the PGP plug-in from the Add/Remove
Programs Control Panel, and then install Outlook Express 5.
- You cannot use Outlook Express to access your e-mail account with
any of the following services: MS Mail, cc:Mail, CompuServe, America
Online (AOL), or Microsoft Exchange Server prior to version 5.
- You will not be able to see embedded objects or images sent from
people using Microsoft Outlook, Micro