Old Microsoft Mail application?

[flarn2006]

Does anyone have a copy of the old Microsoft Mail application which came with Windows 95? It's a very lightweight (hey, it has to be to run on 95!) email client, and as a bonus, it uses the Windows Classic graphic style. If anyone finds it, please link to it! Thanks!

[98Guy]

> Does anyone have a copy of the old Microsoft Mail application

> which came with Windows 95? It's a very lightweight (hey, it

> has to be to run on 95!) email client, and as a bonus, it uses

> the Windows Classic graphic style. If anyone finds it, please

> link to it! Thanks!

I have it on my win-98 computer at work.

I'm scratching my head because I don't see it on my home PC. It doesn't appear to be on the win-98se cd. I'm wondering if I got it from a win-95 CD. It's definately not part of office 2K.

I don't think you'd find it too useful, because unless you have an NT-4 server acting as the central post office, you're not going to be able to use the old ms-mail program for internet (pop) mail.

If you want to download it, this looks like the place:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/111557

[marxo]

Can anyone provide a full package?

[98Guy]

> Can anyone provide a full package?

First, read this:

http://www.slipstick.com/archive/ol/msmail.htm

Then read this:

Installing Windows Messaging and Microsoft Fax under Windows 98

http://www.slipstick.com/archive/ol/win98_wminstall.htm

MS Mail is located on the win-98 CD in the \Tools\Oldwin95\Message folder, in the \Intl or \Us subfolder.

And as I said before, MS Mail will not function as an internet e-mail (pop) client. The only thing you can do with ms-mail is to use it as a private mail system on a local LAN (such as a small office or home network) configured as a workgroup. To do this, one machine on the lan will have to act as the workgroup postoffice. This is typically a win-NT machine, but I think that a win-98 machine can also act as the postoffice server.

Note that you can add the ms-mail transport facility to Outlook 2K (to allow outlook to pull e-mail from an MS-mail account hosted on the local lan). This option is useful in a SOHO situation where you want to communicate with local users via MS-Mail transport, while still having the ability to communicate with the outside world using SMTP (internet e-mail).