Setup Information

Click on Start --> Programs --> [Then look for Internet Mail or Outlook Express (In that order). Click on the one you find and follow the instructions. If fullname and email address isn't configurated correctly, click on: Start --> Run --> [Type in "aposetup"] --> ENTER --> [Fill out your correct Name and User ID] --> Click on OK.

From there, everything should be set.

Changing the Default Dialup Access Number
Clickon: My Computer --> Dial-Up Networking --> Right Click: Apollo III Communications --> Properties (Change the number to) 517-1234 (Then click on all the options to save, confirm, and close).

Using Windows 95 Email
You can use the Email

Configuring Windows 95 Email
[Windows 95 Without MSIE40] Clickon Start --> Programs --> Internet Mail --> Clickon Mail --> Options --> Servers

The following items are important... most of the others can remain default

        POP3 Server        mail.apollo3.com
        SMTP Server        mail.apollo3.com
  

Of course the full name field is obviously your full name. The Account name or username filed is obviously your account name. (You shouldn't set a password until the actual mail run. Leave that field blank when configuring your setup.)

Setting up Email for Windows 3x.
When you go to run the mail program, answer the questions for your Fullname, your Username, and password. The mail servers are the same as above for Windows 98 (mail.apollo3.com).

Setting up Multiple Email Accounts on One Machine
You can setup multiple email accounts on one computer under Microsoft Outlook Express. To do this, you simply follow the instructions in the previous item for each account.

You can check individual accounts by clicking on: Tools --> Send and Receive using --> Then select the individual account you wish to use.

Mail that you send will use the default return email address. If you wish to send mail with a different return address, after creating the new message, instead of clicking on "Send" (as you normally would when sending mail), click on: File --> Send Using --> [Pick out the account you wish to use].

Logging Into our Server Using Windows 3.x
Logging in to our server using Windows is a simple process. However, many people make the mistake of clicking on [Continue] when they should press [ENTER]. The [Continue] button shouldn't be clicked until our server says "Ready to start". You'll have this prompt right after you've typed in "ppp" then pressed [ENTER].

To log in from Win3.x: Clickon: Apollo III Communications --> Clickon [Connect] (The system will dial and the modems will answer. Apollo should say: "Login") --> [type in your username][ENTER] --> (Apollo III Ask for "password:") [type in your password][ENTER] --> (Apollo III says: "apollo>") [type in: "ppp"] [ENTER] --> (Apollo III Says: "Ready to start") Clickon [Continue]

Using Email with Windows 3.x
There are two login prompts for using Email with Microsoft Internet Explorer for Windows 3.x. The first login prompt is something that you can setup individually. Put any username that you choose, then put any password that you choose. This is where your local computer will receive the mail from the server. For that first login prompt, you can even put "test" for the login ID and "test" for the password. Be sure to put something that you will remember.

You'll get another Login Prompt. This login Prompt is for your mail POP server. This password is the same one you use for logging into Apollo III. For this one put your Apollo III usename and your Apollo III password, and if this is correct your email will be transfered to your local computer.

Create/Edit your Web Page
Log into Apollo III using any text base application. You can do this from the web by typing "telnet apollo3.com". Then type "createhomepage". This will give you a default web page prompt. This will create a default space in your home directory, called "public_html". The default page is "index.html".

You can edit or make changes to your web page by typing: "cd public_html". Then edit the index.html file. The system's default editor is called "emacs". Therefore the command to make changes to the page is "emacs index.html".

Other scripts and tips.

Transferring files from your PC to your WebSpace

You can transfer files by FTP'ing into the system. There are a number of ways you can ftp into the computer, including ftp programs.

One of the most basic ways is to jut type "ftp apollo3.com" from the Start --> Run area of Windows 95. Then answer the first two prompt with your login named and your password.

Then once in, type "cd public_html", to go to your web space. Then type "binary" to insure that your files are transfered in binary mode. Then type: put [filename] (without the brackets and "filename" being the name of the file you want to transfer.

You can send a file called "test.html", then actually pull it up by specifying your web address with a "/" and "test.html", or any other filename you might upload.

You can send pictures from your hard drive the same way. The pictures you send should be less than 100K in size, otherwise your page visitors are going to be aggravated with the time it takes to load your page.

You should convert your pictures to either a .jpg or .gif type because these file modes are common and fairly condensed in size.

Getting files from your personal space to your PC:
You can use the "get" command to transfer a file from your personal webspace to your PC.

You can dial in:
You can also transfer files to your web page area by logging into Apollo III using any text based terminal program. Most all programs have the zmodem transfer protocol. You can transfer files from your personal computer to your web page area by typing sz or rz from the shell prompt to send or receive files.

When transferring files for your webpage area, be sure to insure you're there after you've logged into the system. The command for going there is "cd public_html". The first place you'd start from would be your root area. Files in that area are not accessible by the web browsers.

If you transfered files to your root area, you may use the "mv" command to move them elsewhere, such as:

"mv filename.html public_html/".

The above will move a file you transfered to your root area to an area accessible by the world, the "public_html" area.