SUMMARY
This article contains the version 3.0 Microsoft Mail Dial-In Utility ReadMe
file included with the Microsoft Mail Extras disk.
Welcome to the Microsoft Mail Dial-In Utility
The following information supplements information in the "Microsoft Mail
Dial-In User's Guide."
Turning the Dial-In Utility On and Off
After turning the dial-in utility on or off from the Control Panel, you
must restart your Macintosh to have the change take effect. When the dial-
in utility is first installed on your Macintosh, it is off.
Recommended Modems
The dial-in utility has been designed to work with Hayes- compatible modems
with a baud rate of 1200-9600. The following modems are fully supported:
Hayes Smartmodem series, Hayes V-series modems, Hayes Personal Modem
2400plus, Apple Personal Modem, TouchBase Systems Worldport 2496, and
Volksmodem 12.
Terminals and Settings
The dial-in utility works with any terminal emulator which supports full
VT100 emulation. Microsoft Windows Terminal, Microphone II (Software
Ventures Corporation), DynaComm (Future Soft Engineering, Inc.), White
Knight (The Freesoft Company), ProComm (Datastorm Technologies, Inc.), and
most other communication programs support VT100 emulation.
Your terminal should be set for 8 data bits, 1 stop bit, and no parity.
Make sure Local Echo is off and there is no Xon/Xoff flow control.
Dial-In User List Limitations
Clicking Add/Remove Users from the Control Panel brings up the list of all
Microsoft Mail users in the current Mail site. This process may take up to
a minute in a very large site. If the Mail site contains 800 users or more,
the dial-in utility may not be able to display all of them. If you have a
very large Mail system, you should configure it into sites to most
effectively use the dial-in utility. (See Appendix B in the Network
Manager's Guide.)
Because of memory limitations, you cannot give more than 800 users access
to a single dial-in machine.
Timing Considerations
If a dial-in user is connected for six minutes without typing anything, the
dial-in utility will log the user out to prevent unwanted phone charges and
to give other users a chance to call in.
If the modem connected to the Macintosh running the dial-in utility
software is turned on after the Macintosh is started, it may take up to
five minutes before the utility has registered with the modem and can begin
answering calls.
MS Mail Cache
The dial-in user list is stored in the MS Mail Cache file in the System
Folder of the Macintosh running the dial-in utility. If this file is
deleted or moved out of the system folder, all dial- in users will be
removed and you will need to build up a new dial-in user list.
Performance
The speed of the modem connection has the most significant impact on the
performance of the dial-in utility. Additionally, the dial-in utility
should be installed on a Macintosh which is running Finder (rather than
MultiFinder) and which is not used heavily for other purposes.
Compatibility Issues
The dial-in utility is incompatible with the screen saver After Dark.
You should not attempt to run a Microsoft Mail gateway, terminal emulator,
or other program which interacts with the modem port when the dial-in
utility is loaded. The dial-in utility exclusively controls the modem port
while it is running.
Reply All
If you reply to all recipients of a message, the dial-in utility displays a
Send window addressed to "<All Original Recipients>". If you wish to
address the message to other recipients, you can add their names after
"<All Original Recipients>" or in the Cc or Bcc fields.
Forwarding Enclosures
Enclosures cannot be attached to messages which are sent from the dial-in
utility, but enclosures remain attached to messages which are forwarded
from the dial-in utility.
Redrawing the Screen
If line noise or other problems cause your terminal output to become
cluttered, press CTRL+R. This will redraw the screen.
Insert and Overstrike Compose Mode
The dial-in utility supports both insert and overstrike from the Send
window. When insert mode is in effect, typed characters are inserted at the
cursor position without typing over previously entered text. When
overstrike mode is in effect, typed characters replace characters after the
cursor with the characters you type. By default, the dial-in utility is in
insert mode. Pressing CTRL+V toggles between the two modes.
Custom Messages
Image and other nontext messages can be read from the dial-in utility,
but only the text portions of these messages will be displayed.