According to
Imepread.txt, IMEP includes the following features that
were announced in the original plans for IMEP:
Support for multiple POP3 accounts in one profile.
Improved support for storing messages on POP3
servers
Standard reply-ticking with "|" or
">" characters.
Improved interoperability with other MIME e-mail
products. Specifically, improving MIME support so that
other products do not show an "=" at the end
of every line, or do not show the entire message as a
single line.
Correct icons in the message view list for messages
that you have read (new messages received after you
install IMEP)
Remove erroneous sending of Winmail.dat attachment.
Improved presentation of message header (look on the
Options tab of an open message)
Other new features include:
Optional Organization and Reply To fields in the
outgoing message header
Support for Secure Password Authentication, used by
some mail servers (including the s) instead of a POP3
account name and password
In addition, the following problems from the original
Internet Mail distributed with Outlook are apparently
fixed:
If you receive a busy signal when you try to connect
to your ISP to upload mail, unsent messages remain in
the Outbox, rather than being sent back to the Inbox
as undeliverable.
Incorrect Received times for some time zones and
some ISPs
Leakage of rich-text formatting in replies to
messages with Reply To addresses in the headers
(related to the Winmail.dat problem noted above). RTF
should now be checked by default if you receive a
message containing RTF.
Inability to retrieve messages that with a blank
name in the "To" field.
Sending of Bcc (blind carbon copy) information in
the headers of messages delivered through some ISPs.
Installation
Before
installing IMEP or SR-1, make a backup of your Mapisvc.inf
file.
Check these other potential installation problems
first:
You must have Microsoft Outlook installed. IMEP will
not install on machines running only Windows Messaging
or Microsoft Exchange.
On Windows NT 4.0, you must have Administrative
privileges to install IMEP.
IMEP cannot be installed on machines that have an
Office/Outlook "run from network" or
"run from CD" installation, since you must
have write permission in the folder where
Office/Outlook is installed.
After running the installation program, use Control
Panel | Mail and Fax to configure the Internet
E-mail service (note the name change) in your profile.
Here are the main settings:
General tab
Mail Account
Enter a friendly name for this
account. This controls how the account is displayed
in various Microsoft Outloook menus. Use a different
name for each copy of the Internet E-mail service
that you add to your profile.
Name
Enter your full name, as you want it
to appear on the messages you send.
E-mail Address
Enter your e-mail address, as you
want your return address to appear on your messages.
Reply Address
Enter an alternative reply address.
This will put a Reply To field in the header of your
message.
Servers tab
Outgoing Mail (SMTP)
Enter the name of your SMTP server.
Incoming Mail (POP3)
Enter the name of your POP3 server,
even if it's the same as the SMTP server.
Account Name
Enter the account name used for
logging onto your POP3 server.
Password
Enter the password used for logging
onto your POP3 server.
Connections tab
I use a LAN connection.
Select this if you connect to your
POP3 server over a dedicated link and want Outlook
to check for new mail automatically. You will not
be able to use Remote Mail.
I connect msanually.
Select this if you connect to your
POP3 server over a dedicated link or you establish
your dialup networking connection yourself and don't
want Outlook to check for new mail automatically.
I use a modem to access my
e-mail.
Select this if you connect to your
POP3 server using the modem and want Outlook to make
the call to your ISP for you.
Advanced tab
Leave a copy of messages on
server
Check this if you want to leave
messages on the server. If you want to automatically
delete messages that have been on the server for a
couple of days, check the Remove on Server
after checkbox and set the number of days.
You can add multiple copies of the Internet E-mail
service to your profile, one for each POP3 account you
need to access.
Note that there is no setup wizard to help you add
Internet E-mail to a new profile. You need to work through
all the tabs, as described above. The October 1997
issue of Office Computing magazine included a step-by-step
guide to setting up accounts with IMEP, leaving
messages on the server and using Remote Mail.
Usage
Message Formatting
The Internet mail formatting features are found on a
new Internet E-mail tab in Tools | Options.
You can choose between MIME and UUENCODE encoding
for attachments and set the line length, if you want
to force lines to wrap at a particular point. Here you
also choose your quoting character for replies. A few
pointers on quoting and line wrapping:
If you want to use quoting, you must also go to
the Reading tab and clear the Mark
my comments with check box. You can't use
both features.
If you use WordMail, rather than the default
editor, the Internet E-mail setting for quoting does
not apply. There is a
template
with a macro to handle this for you. You can also
use ExLife.
The line length setting apparently does work, even
for messages composed in WordMail.
Quoting works only with e-mail messages, not
meeting or task requests.
If you use quoting, you cannot ignore the original
message text when spell checking the reply.
When you set the When replying to
messages, indent original text with option
on the Reading tab, long lines in
the original message are not automatically wrapped
in the reply unless you have set the When
sending messages, automatically wrap text at
checkbox.
If you have IMEP installed in your profile and
quoting turned on, it should apply to all services,
not just messages sent with the Internet E-mail
service.
On non-English versions of Outlook, choose Tools
| Options and on the Reading
tab, make sure the box for Use US English
for included message headers is not
checked. Messages will be sent with the normal sort
of reply header (so it's in your local language),
but with quoting. If you want to modify the reply
header, see How
do I control the way replies look?.
Check for new messages automatically
If you want Outlook to check for new messages
regularly, set the time interval on Tools |
Options | Internet E-mail. (Note that this is
a change from the original Internet Mail service,
where the interval was set on the Connection tab.
Also, this setting affects Microsoft Intenet Mail --
the program that comes with Microsoft Internet
Explorer 3.0.) After you change this setting, press F5
or use Tools | Check for New Mail
once to manually check for new mail. Subsequent checks
will then take place at the interval you indicated.
This feature works only if you have Outlook set for a
LAN connection -- it doesn't even interrupt with a
modal window -- but doesn't work at all if Outlook is
set to use a particular DUN connection.There is a
workaround.
If you set up Internet E-mail to use a LAN connection
for an account, Microsoft Outlook will attempt to send
any messages in your Outbox when you quit Outlook.
Multiple ISP accounts
To get mail from more than one account, just add
another copy of the Internet E-mail service to your
profile.
IMEP does not allow you to designate which mail
account is used for a particular message. This is
controlled by the delivery order list in Tools
| Services | Delivery. The account at the top
of the list is the one used to send any new messages
that you create.
If you need to send from a different account,
use Tools | Services | Delivery to
change the delivery order before you create a
new message. You do not need to restart Outlook after
changing the delivery order. Another approach is to
use multiple profiles with the same Personal Folders
file. You can also use the Have replies sent
to option on the Options tab
of a new message to specify a different reply address.
Leaving messages on the server
This setting is found on the Advanced
tab for each copy of the Internet E-mail service.
Logging
Both POP3 and SMTP sessions can be logged. Logging
requires a change to the Windows registry, as
described in the Imepread.txt file.
To save the POP and SMTP sessions to log files, you
need to edit the registry. (Make a backup first!!!).
Find the HKCU/Software/Microsoft/Internet Mail and
News/Mail key. Change the value Log Outlook (0/1) to
00 00 00 01. Alternatively, delete this value and
recreate it with the same name ("Log Outlook
(0/1)") as a D_WORD type with a value of 1.
The log files are placed in the Windows folder by
default. To change the location of the log file,
change the value Log File (Outlook) to the directory
into which the log file should be placed.
After you turn on logging, you should see a subfolder
for each of your Internet E-mail services under the
Windows folder (or other folder if you changed the
location). Look for the files InetXP.txt, Pop3log.txt
and Smtplog.txt. You can also use Start | Find
to locate these. See the MSKB articles
How
to Enable and Interpret the Pop3.log File and How
to Enable and Interpret the Smtp.log File for
details on using these logs to diagnose mail problems.
Known Problems
Scheduled
connections do not work if you set up IMEP for a modem
connection.
The workaround, if you want scheduled mail
connections, is to set up IMEP for a LAN connection,
then set up Windows for automatic dialing of the
Internet as follows:.
For Windows 95 with Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0,
run the Internet applet in the Windows 95 Control
Panel. On the Connection tab, check Connect
to the Internet as needed and specify the
particular DUN connection you want to use. Also check Disconnect
if idle for xx minutes. To totally automate the
connection, Windows 95 users need either the DUN 1.2 update,
RAS+95 or DUNCE; each of these programs either pushes or bypasses
the Connect button.
For Windows 95 with Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 or
5.0, run the Internet applet in the Windows 95 Control
Panel. On the Connection tab, select Connect
to the Internet using a modem, then click Settings.
On the Dial-Up Settings dialog box, you can set the
redial attempts, idle timeout and other settings.
For Windows NT, you will need to
adjust the DUN User Preferences settings. On the Dialing
tab, enable autodial for one or more locations and set
the Idle seconds before hanging up
time. On the Appearance tab, uncheck Preview
phone numbers before dialing, Show
location setting before dialing and Always
prompt before auto-dialing.
Outlook automatically
saves your e-mail password, whether you like it or not.
Under the original Internet Mail service, there was
an option not to save the password for your e-mail
account. IMEP no longer includes this option. If you
remove the password from the properties for the
Internet E-mail service, Outlook will prompt you for
it and save it again the next time you check your
mail. The only workaround is for each user to have
their own Windows logon, so that the e-mail account
password can be safeguarded. See the MSKB article
Internet
Mail Enhancement Patch Always Stores Password.
You may get the
error message, "Some messages couldn't be retrieved
from the server. This usually happens when the connection
to the server is lost due to server or network problems.
If the problem persists, contact your administrator."
This appears to be related to the combination of (a)
leaving messages on the server and (b) receiving
multiple copies of junk mail using the same value in
the X-UIDL field. You can try to use Tools |
Remote Mail to delete the duplicate items
from the server. You can also just ignore it; the
message should be downloaded in your next session.
Delivery receipts are
not supported with the IMEP.
Read receipts are supported, but only for messages
sent to a recipient enabled for rich-text format. (Imepread.txt)
Logging on to dialup server with incorrect user
name or password causes unknown error.
If you have specified an incorrect user name on the
Servers tab of the Account Properties dialog, an
"Unknown Error" will result. If you receive
this error, make sure you have entered the correct
user name and password. (Imepread.txt)
Deleting Internet Mail
from a copied profile corrupts original profile, and other
profile problems.
If you create a second profile for your Internet
E-mail Accounts by copying another profile and then
later delete the Internet Mail accounts from either
profile, the Internet Mail account in the remaining
profile will be corrupted. To fix this, you will need
to delete the profile and recreate the Internet Mail
account. See
OL97:
Problems Copying Profiles When Using IMEP.
The new driver requires the user to specify both the
SMTP and POP server name, even if they are the same.
Also, a small number of users hacked their registries
to support multiple ISP accounts. Those users should
use Control Panel | Mail and Fax,
record any ISP account names, passwords, and settings,
then delete all listed Internet Mail services prior to
installing the patch.
IMEP Help disappears after installing another
add-on from the "Free Stuff" website.
If you install an add-in from the Outlook Free Stuff
web site after installing the IMEP, you will not be
able to see the IMEP Help in the Help Table of
Contents. You will need to reinstall the IMEP, to see
it in the Table of contents. However, installing the
IMEP will not affect how other add-ins' Help appears
in the Table of Contents. See
OL97:
Help for IMEP Disapears After Installing Other Add-ins.
If you change the setting for checking for new
messages automatically, the same change applies to the
separate Internet Mail program that comes with Microsoft
Internet Explorer 3.0.
This looks like evidence of Microsoft's plan to
converge Outlook 97 with Internet Mail (now Outlook
Express). In this case, they are sharing a registry
entry, so changing the setting in one program affects
the other.
Remote Mail is not available if you choose
"I use a LAN connection" on the Connection tab
IMEP assumes that, if you use a LAN connection, you
want all your mail to be delivered automatically.
A new Minet.ecf file is installed in Windows\Addins,
but the old Minet.ecf file is not removed from \Program
Files\Microsoft Office\Office\Addins.
If you accidentally remove Internet Mail with the
Add-In Manager, be sure to add it back in using the
Minet.ecf file from Windows\Addins.
Misleading message for dial-up sessions with
different ISPs.
If you are dialed into the Internet with one ISP
(<DUN #1>)and try to check mail on an Internet
E-mail account set up for a modem connection using a
different DUN connection (<DUN #2>), you may get
a misleading message:
To connect to your '<name of account>'
Internet E-mail Account on the '<DUN #2>''
connection, your current '<DUN #1>' connection
will be closed. Do you want to continue? (Yes/No)
If the user chooses Yes, the current connection is
terminated and the other DUN connection is dialed. If
the user chooses No, the user probably expects that
the entire attempt to connect to the Internet E-mail
account will be discontinued. However, that's not what
happens. Instead, Outlook tries to find the mail
server on the existing connection (a nice feature,
IMHO). (Imepread.txt)
Message Conversion Fails
Under certain conditions, messages are not converted
after being retrieved from the POP3 server. When this
happens, a message is created that contains the
original Internet message as a text file attachment
along with instructions for the user to forward the
message to imepbugs@microsoft.com. However, this
address is no longer being monitored, so don't bother.
The known circumstances in which this occurs are:
The message contains an invalid Internet e-mail
address. This usually manifests itself in a message
sent by a list server that has a Reply-To field
containing an empty set of angle brackets (e.g.
Reply-To: <>).
The message was composed in a character set that
is not supported by the IMEP. (Imepread.txt)
Outlook does not detect missing/incorrect
Domain Name Service information.
Outlook does not detect incorrect DNS information in
your dial-up networking settings. If you cannot
connect to your mail server, you should check the
advanced TCP/IP settings for the dial-up networking
connection. See
OL97:
No Warning for Missing DNS Information.
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