3.3 Sending Electronic Mail

Reading and responding via Network News is much more convenient when you can forward posted articles to individuals via Electronic Mail. WinVN provides a simple built-in Electronic Mail interface that follows the Simple Mail Transport Protocol (SMTP) and hooks to other external mail interfaces via the Microsoft Mail Applications Programmers Interface (MAPI) Dynamic Link Library (DLL).

You can use WinVN to send an electronic mail message either as a personal reply to the author of an article, or as an independent message. A message contains headers followed by the text of the message. A message is directed to one or more recipients by filling in the "To:" header field. Multiple recipient addresses are separated with commas. To use the mail address manager, click on the Browse button next to the “To:” field (See Mail Address Manager.)

If using SMTP mail and you are running Windows 3.x, WinVN needs to know your time zone so it can generate valid dates. See Setting the TZ Environment Variable.

WinVN Documentation created by Jim Dumoulin / NASA - Kennedy Space Center.

HyperTexted by Michael Downs / NASA - Kennedy Space Center.