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- DOCUMENT:Q111070 09-FEB-1994 [W_NT]
- TITLE :How to Change the Post Office Name After Setting Up
- PRODUCT :Windows NT
- PROD/VER:3.10
- OPER/SYS:WINDOWS
- KEYWORDS:
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- The information in this article applies to:
-
- - Microsoft Windows NT operating system version 3.1
- - Microsoft Windows NT Advanced Server version 3.1
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-
- SUMMARY
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-
- When the Mail post office is initially created under Windows NT, the
- network and post office names are read from the WORKGROUP= and
- COMPUTERNAME= lines in the [Network] section of the Windows for Workgroups
- SYSTEM.INI file. If no SYSTEM.INI is present, the network name defaults to
- WINDOWS and the post office name defaults to the mailbox name of the
- postoffice administrator.
-
- Since these default settings are set when the post office is created,
- changing the postoffice administrator mailbox after installation will not
- change the post office name. The only way to get a different post office
- name is to create a SYSTEM.INI file with at least a [Network] section and
- the following lines:
-
- [Network]
- computername=<desired post office name>
- workgroup=<desired network name>
-
- After creating this file, recreate the post office. For information on how
- to delete and recreate the post office, query on the following words in the
- Microsoft Knowledge Base:
-
- postoffice, remove or recreate
-
- To check what the Network and post office names are, choose the About Mail
- option from the Help menu or choose Details in the Postoffice Manager
- dialog box.
-
- Additional reference words: 3.10 post office
- KBCategory:
- KBSubCategory: 32ap
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