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As you are probably well aware, Netscape doesn't easily configure to
work with Starband's Email servers. Actually it will, but it's
not overly obvious, like it is in Outlook Express.
To start with, let's bring up the Preferences window in
Netscape. Do this by selecting "Edit / Preferences"
from either the Navigator or Messenger. You should see a screen
similar to the one below.
Once there, select the "Mail Server" branch to see the
information about your mail servers. The two areas we're going
to focus on are the "Incoming Mail Servers" and the
"Outgoing Mail Servers".
Let's start by putting in the Outgoing mail server information.
The address for their smtp server is;
smtp.starband.net
and for the user name, you want to key in
your_username%starband.net
Please note the % Percent sign.
Now, if you haven't already
attempted to setup the "Incoming Mail Server" click the Add
button. If you HAVE, then click select the starband server out
of the listbox to the left and click the "Edit" button.
This will bring up a screen
similar to the following;
Here you're going to key in their
POP3 server address. Which is;
pop.starband.net
and for the user name again use;
your_username%starband.net
Make sure you've got that percent
sign in there. You'll also want to make sure the server type is
set to "POP3 Server".
Place a check mark in Remember
password to have it ask once for your password and then never
again. Or if you're security conscience then leave it
unchecked, but remember every time you send or receive mail it's
going to ask for it.
That's it for setting up
Mail. Now click on the OK button to take you back to the
Preferences window.
Select the "Proxies"
branch, from the "Preferences window.
Here we want to set it to
"Manual proxy configuration" and then click on the
"View" button. This will bring up the following
dialog window;
If your Starband is connected
directly to the machine you're working on, simply put
"localhost" without the quotes or "127.0.0.1"
which means the same thing as localhost. If however, the
Starband 180 is hooked to another machine on a small network, key in
that machines IP address. In my case it's 192.168.0.1 and port
9877. This is what I consider my Gateway machine.
Well this concludes another
broadcast of the "Starband Learning Channel" (just
kidding). Hope you found it useful and as always, if you find
something wrong here, please let me know by email: techsupp@helpconsulting.net
And last but certainly not least,
let's give credit where credit is due. Wanderer@starband.net is
the one that brought this to my attention. But don't go
flooding his email with "thank you's", just let him know
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