PCFA.ORG offers several methods of reading and sending e-mail. Those methods and
conversion techniques are described on this page.
PCFA.ORG offers Web-Based e-Mail for
easy in retrieving and sending e-mail from any web browser connected to
the Internet from anywhere in the world.
You may also use POP3 or IMAP protocols to obtain your e-mail from the PCFA.ORG server from
anywhere on the Internet. You may always send SMTP e-mail via the PCFA.ORG server if you
are on the IOCC.COM network.
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Authentication May Be Required
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If you want to use your PCFA.ORG account to SEND e-mail messages and you are not part of the
IOCC.COM network, you must "authenticate" your account at PCFA before the server will handle
your message. This is to prevent SPAM from being relayed through the PCFA.ORG server.
If you must, but do NOT authenticate, you will see messages similar to:
550 Relaying Not Allowed
This message is produced because PCFA.ORG does not allow mail from a domain other than
PCFA.ORG or IOCC.COM with a destination other then PCFA.ORG to pass (this is an anti-SPAM
measure; PCFA.ORG is not an "open relay").
Current e-mail clients provide at least one way to handle this authentication.
Microsoft Outlook 2000
- From the menu bar, select "Tools" then "Accounts".
- Select your PCFA account.
- Click the "Properties" button, then the "Servers" tab.
- At the bottom of the Servers dialog box, check "My server requires authentication".
Click the "Settings" button on the right.
Select (if not already) "Use same settings and my incoming mail server".
- Click the "OK" or "Close" buttons as required to close the windows.
- Exit Outlook, then reload.
Microsoft Outlook XP Series
- From the menu bar, select "Tools" then "E-Mail Accounts".
- Choose the radio button for "View or Change an Existing Account". Click the "Next" button.
- Click on your PCFA account. Click the "Change" button.
- Click the "Servers Information" tab.
- In the lower right, click the "More Settings" button.
- Choose "Outgoing Server".
- Check "My server requires authentication" and the radio button under that heading
for "Use same settings and my incoming mail server".
- Click the "OK" or "Close" buttons as required to close the windows.
- Exit Outlook, then reload.
Netscape
- From the menu bar, select "View" then "Preferences".
- On the "Preferences" dialog box, under the column labeled "Category",
open the "Mail & Newsgroups" section (if it is not already opened),
then click "Mail Servers".
- In the "Outgoing Mail Server" section, specify "PCFA.ORG" as the
"Outgoing Mail (SMTP) Server"
Specify your account name as the "Outgoing mail server user name".
For SSL and TLS, choose "Never".
- Click the "OK" or "Close" buttons as required to close the windows.
- Exit Netscape, then reload.
[Information about other clients will be posted when it becomes available.]
PCFA.ORG discourages the use of TELNET and the 'lynx' program to retrieve e-mail.
PCFA.ORG restricts the use of inbound TELNET essentially to the IOCC.COM domain.
Use an FTP program to download your Pine mail folders, noting the location at which you save
them on your computer. Pine mail folders are actually files with names such as "sent-mail"
and "saved-messages"; you may have created others. They are located on the PCFA.ORG server at:
/home/youraccountname/mail
If you have created a folder (directory) under which you have stored other folders (files),
be sure to download those files.
Usually, it is best to have all folders downloaded before you begin the conversion process.
Converting Pine/Unix Mailboxes to Netscape
- Once files are on your computer, rename each file to include an .mbx extension
(example: "saved-messages" becomes "saved-messages.mbx").
- Load Netscape Messenger, and click the main folder (such as "Local Mail", the one
above "Unsent Messages", "Drafts", "Templates", "Sent", "Trash", and "Inbox").
- From the Netscape Messenger menu bar, choose "Mail", then "Import..."
- At the "Netscape Messenger Import Utility", in the list entitled "Please select an
import format from the list below:", chose "Eudora" and click the "Next" button.
- Click the "Browse" button and locate the files you saved. From the "Open" dialog
box, choose any one file with the .mbx extension, then click the "OK" button.
- The "Select mailboxes to import" section of the dialog box has a list of
all folders corresponding to the .mbx files. Be sure all are checked
(assuming you want to import them all). Then, click the "Next" button.
- "Importing mailboxes" shows the progress.
- "Eudora Import - Address Books" appears. Unless you downloaded your address book,
click "Cancel".
- Look for the "Eudora Mail" folder in the list of folders. The messages appear
under "Eudora Mail" in folders by their original names.
- If you error, you may have to delete the "Eudora Mail.sdb" folder under your
Netscape "mail" folder.
Converting Pine/Unix mailboxes to Outlook
- Microsoft Express can import mailboxes from Netscape.
- Microsoft Outlook can import mailboxes from Microsoft Express.
- If you have information on how to convert directly from Pine/Unix mailboxes
that does not require work on the PCFA administrator's side,
please let us know.
Eudora should read the folders directly, once they are renamed to an '.mbx' extension.
[Information about other clients will be posted when it becomes available.]
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