Upgrading to Microsoft Mail Server

You can upgrade your Windows 95 postoffice to a full Microsoft Mail Server postoffice by using the Microsoft Mail Post Office Upgrade product, which includes software, documentation, and licensing to extend the connectivity of your workgroup. The Microsoft Mail Server postoffice provides the following additional features:

• Executable and Help files that are not available in the Windows 95 Microsoft Mail workgroup postoffice
• Postoffice support for connections to external postoffices or gateways
• An ADMIN account not created in Windows 95 mail
• Default ADMIN.TPL and ADMIN.INF files created in Microsoft Mail Server for adding the predefined extended user information in the workgroup postoffice structure
• An administration utility (ADMIN.EXE) used to manage and configure the postoffice from any workstation on the network
• Support files for external postoffice mail transfer through a network or modem
• A routing program, EXTERNAL.EXE, that routes mail between multiple postoffices and gateways
• Client software for Windows 3.1, MS-DOS, and Apple® Macintosh® operating systems

The Microsoft Mail Post Office Upgrade product includes the following components:

• Software to upgrade a workgroup postoffice to a full Microsoft Mail Server postoffice
• Advanced administration tools, including tools for routing, directory synchronization, network group names, user access privileges, and mail log files, and for deleting old mail and old Mail accounts
• The EXTERNAL.EXE component, which provides the process for connecting postoffices (by means of a physical or asynchronous link) with the platform for remote access
• Client software for Windows 3.1, MS-DOS, Macintosh, and IBM® OS/2® Mail.

If you want to set up a Windows 95 Microsoft Mail workgroup postoffice to route mail between two or more postoffices, you need to do the following:

• Purchase the Microsoft Mail Post Office Upgrade for each workgroup postoffice being connected, and then follow the directions provided in the product.
• Set up a dedicated MS-DOS – based computer to act as the router. It will be running the EXTERNAL.EXE program included in the Post Office Upgrade. Note that this MS-DOS – based computer needs networking software to connect to your postoffice servers. If the postoffices are stored on computers running Windows 95, then this computer needs a copy of Microsoft Windows for Workgroups Add-On for MS-DOS. If your postoffices are on Novell NetWare servers, then the computer running MS-DOS needs Novell client software for MS-DOS.
• If the postoffices are not on the same LAN, you need a dedicated MS-DOS – based computer to run EXTERNAL.EXE at each site, plus a modem for communicating with the other sites. Note that Microsoft also offers versions of EXTERNAL.EXE that run on IBM OS/2 or Windows NT servers.