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*                             E-Mail IMPACT                            *
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*  © Copyright 1994                                                    *
*  Appian Software, Inc.                                               *
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Contents
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1.  Installation
2.  Sending Impact Messages to Users on Another Postoffice
3.  Printed Documentation Omissions
      3.1  Setting Up a Postoffice - NETSETUP.EXE
      3.2  Setting Up Recipients
      3.3  Un-Installing E-Mail IMPACT
      3.4  Technical Reference
4.  Minimizing Message Size
5.  Video Display Drivers
6.  Microsoft's MAPI DLL & Microsoft Mail
7.  Support for Microsoft Windows NT Mail Client
8.  Support for InfoCenter in Windows 95 Beta





1. Installation
============================================================
Recipients computers need to be prepared to receive your Impact 
messages. Their copy of Microsoft Mail must be made aware of your 
messages, and must have access to several files that allow your messages 
to be viewed. The installation program provides two options for 
preparing a recipients computer, Setup All Users (AutoSetup), and Setup 
Selected Users (Recipient Setup).

AutoSetup allows recipients to automatically be prepared to receive your 
Impact messages.  With this method, E-Mail IMPACT will attach with every 
Impact message you send, an AutoSetup program. This method requires that 
Setup copy several files to your postoffice (mail server). With this 
option, auto-versioning of E-Mail IMPACT files can be completed each 
time a recipient receives an Impact message.  This ensures that your 
recipients are using the most current version of E-Mail IMPACT to view 
your messages. AutoSetup is not recommended for MS Mail environments 
that have multiple postoffices because the files needed to complete 
AutoSetup may not be available to all your recipients.

Recipient Setup allows you to select those users whom you would like to 
prepare to receive Impact messages.  With this method, E-Mail IMPACT 
will send a one-time Workstation Setup Program (WSP) to each of the 
selected users.  The WSP contains all of the files necessary to view 
Impact messages.  The WSP when run by the user, will prepare their 
computer to receive your messages.  This is the recommended method for 
preparing users in a multiple postoffice environment.

Recipient setup can be completed at a later time by selecting the Setup 
Recipients menu item in the E-Mail IMPACT menu of Microsoft Mail.




2. Sending Impact Messages to Users on Another Postoffice
============================================================
As mentioned above in Section 1, recipients of your messages need to be 
prepared to receive Impact messages.  It is recommended that Recipient 
Setup be used to setup recipients that reside on a postoffice other than 
your own. AutoSetup will fail in preparing recipients that reside on a 
postoffice other than your own. If AutoSetup is to be used, a setup 
using NETSETUP.EXE must be completed on each of the other postoffices.  
Please refer to Section 3.1 for further information on NETSETUP.



3. Printed Documentation Omissions
============================================================
The following discusses features and functionality that were not 
included in the printed documentation.

3.1  Setting Up Postoffices - NETSETUP.EXE
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NETSETUP is setup program that should be used to prepare postoffices to 
receive Impact messages.  NETSETUP copies several files that are used by 
AutoSetup(see section 1 above), to the selected mail server.  It can be 
run from any workstation that has write access to the directory where 
the target postoffice resides.

3.2  Setting Up Recipients
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Recipients can be prepared to receive Impact messages by using the 
Recipient Setup facility.  To access this facility select the Recipient 
Setup menu item of the E-Mail IMPACT menu in Microsoft Mail.  Recipient 
Setup can also be accessed from the File menu of the E-Mail IMPACT 
Browser.

3.3  Un-Installing E-Mail IMPACT
------------------------------------------------------------
E-Mail IMPACT can be removed from your computer by running the UnInstall 
program located in the E-Mail IMPACT program group.  An alternate method 
for un-installing E-Mail IMPACT is to run SETUP.EXE with the /D command 
line option.  SETUP.EXE is located on the installation disk and in your 
E-Mail IMPACT directory.  UnInstall will remove files and configurations 
that were added to your local workstation during installation.  To 
UnInstall files that were copied to your mail server and your local 
workstation, run SETUP.EXE with the /DA command line option.  This 
option should be used with caution as it will affect other users on your 
postoffice who have installed E-Mail IMPACT.

3.4 Technical Reference
------------------------------------------------------------
The on-line help file contains detailed information about MSMAIL.INI 
settings used by E-Mail IMPACT.



4. Minimizing Message Size
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Impact messages contain graphics, color and animation.  They typically 
are larger in size than conventional electronic mail messages.  We have 
included with E-Mail IMPACT cards that do not noticeably increase the 
size of a conventional mail messages in an effort to accommodate network 
environments that sustain heavy network traffic.  The size of each 
Impact message is displayed in its thumbnail description.  Users 
communicating remotely via modem can select from the collection of 
smaller Impact messages.



5. Video Display Drivers
============================================================
A number of Impact messages included with this pack contain graphics 
that are best viewed on SuperVGA monitors.  If you are running E-Mail 
IMPACT on a computer that does not currently support the SuperVGA video 
mode a message box will be presented when attempting to view cards 
intended for SuperVGA.



6. Microsoft's MAPI DLL & Microsoft Mail
============================================================
E-Mail IMPACT utilizes the services of Microsoft Mail to send and 
receive Impact messages.  In order for these services to be available, 
MAPI.DLL must be present in a directory which is included in your DOS 
path statement. With the default installation of Microsoft Windows for 
Workgroups and Microsoft Mail, MAPI.DLL is installed in your Windows 
SYSTEM directory.  E-Mail IMPACT will install and run on workstations 
that do not have MAPI.DLL or Microsoft Mail installed, but addressing, 
sending, and receiving will be disabled.



7. Support for Microsoft Windows NT Mail Client
============================================================
E-Mail IMPACT does not support the Microsoft Mail client supplied with 
Microsoft Windows NT and NTAS.  This mail client is a 32 bit application 
that utilizes the 32 bit version of MAPI.DLL (MAPI32.DLL).



8. Support for InfoCenter in Windows 95 Beta (Sept. '94) 
============================================================
As of the Sept. '94 beta of Windows 95, the MS Mail client included in 
InfoCenter does not support custom message types.  E-Mail IMPACT uses 
custom message types when sending and receiving Impact messages.