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Chapter 8. Conﬁguring the Computers on Your Network

dedicated to the incoming e-mail server.

Disable POP3 protocol: To disable the POP3 protocol for outgoing mail, click the POP3 checkbox "off".

The images below show you the sequence in Netscape. First you choose Preferences from the Edit menu and click on Mail Servers

as shown in:

If you have not conﬁgured a mail server yet, you will need to press the Add... button and enter information about your server.

Otherwise, you will select the default mail server listed and click on the the Edit... button. This will bring up a screen where you

enter the user name and choose whether you are using IMAP or POP3:

Netscape should now be ready to send and receive e-mail.

8.5. Conﬁguring Your Web Browser

Most browsers are conﬁgured using a dialog box called "preferences", "network preferences" or "options". Some browsers need to be

conﬁgured to access the Internet either directly or via a proxy server. When required, most desktop applications, your web browser

included, should be conﬁgured as though they were directly accessing the Internet. Although the server uses a security feature known

as IP masquerading, thereby creating an indirect connection to the Internet, this is a transparent operation to most of your desktop

applications. Hence, you should ensure that the "Direct connection to the Internet" check box is clicked "on" in your web browser.

Under certain circumstances, using a proxy server can improve the perceived performance of your network. The server includes

HTTP, FTP and Gopher proxy servers. Normally, we recommend these be disabled in your browser (Appendix C on Proxy Servers