Setting up Netscape 4.5-4.7 to Access Your Bama E-mail

There are two parts to setting up Netscape Communicator 4.5-4.7 to use with your Bama e-mail. First, you should set up Netscape to search the UA directory for local addresses. Then you should set Netscape to access your e-mail account.

Set up LDAP

  1. Bring up Netscape (selecting the profile you want to configure, if you have more than one user profile)
  2. Under the Communicator menu, choose Address Book
  3. Go to the File Menu and select New Directory.
  4. On the General tab, fill in the blanks as follows:
    • Description: UA Local (or another name you prefer)
    • LDAP Server: ldap.ua.edu
    • Search Root: ou=person,dc=ua,dc=edu
  5. Click OK
  6. Close the Address Book

Set up Netscape Mail

  1. Go to the Edit menu and select preferences.
  2. Click on the category Mail & Newsgroups. You may need to click on the plus sign or arrow next to Mail & Newsgroups to bring up the list of mail preference choices.
  3. On the first Mail & Newsgroups page, you can leave all the choices set to the default for now. Click the heading Identity under Mail & Newsgroups.
  4. On the "Identity" page, fill in the blanks:
    • Your name: Your name as you want it to appear in your e-mail
    • Email address: Your e-mail address
    • Reply-to address: If you want your reply-to e-mail address to be different from your e-mail address above, you can fill it in.
    • Organization: Optional
    • Signature File: If you later create a file containing your signature, you can come back to this page and specify the file's location.
    • You probably do not want to click the box saying to attach your personal card to messages. Many of your recipients will not be able to read it.
  5. Click the heading Mail Servers under Mail and Newsgroups.
  6. Click the Add... button next to the "Incoming Mail Servers" box.
  7. On the "General" tab:
    • Server name: bama.ua.edu
    • User name: the account name you use on the myBama Web site
    • Remember password: only check this if you are the only one who uses this computer
    • You can also specify how often Netscape will check for mail
  8. Click the "Advanced" tab and set the IMAP server directory to mail (in lower case)
  9. Click the OK button
  10. On the "Mail Servers" page, put smtp.ua.edu as the Outgoing mail (SMTP) server if you are on the campus network. If you are using another Internet Service Provider, put in their SMTP server.
  11. Click the heading Addressing under Mail & Newsgroups
  12. On the "Addressing" page:
    • Check the boxes next to Address Books and Directory Server
    • In the dropdown box below Directory Server, choose UA Local (or the other name you used)
  13. Click the heading Formatting under Mail & Newsgroups.
  14. On the "Formatting" page, choose Use the plain text editor to compose messages.
  15. You can leave the defaults on the other pages, although you may want to look at them to customize your mailbox. When you are done, press OK.
  16. You will need to quit Netscape and restart it for your mail preferences to take affect.