HP NetMail/3000 manual MultiMedia Installation and Setup, Set Netmailmm=C\Netmail

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MultiMedia Installation and Setup

To process multimedia messages on your PC, special software is required. This software is provided with NetMail/3000, and will install automatically for you once you tell it to.

To tell NetMail/3000 that you want the multimedia software installed on your PC, you need to add a special “variable” to your AUTOEXEC.BAT file, somewhere before the line that invokes MS Windows (if you run Windows from your AUTOEXEC.BAT -- if not, then anywhere in the file will do). To install NetMail/3000’s multimedia software on your PC, add the following line to your AUTOEXEC.BAT :

SET NETMAILMM=C:\NETMAIL

You may substitute another drive or directory if required (C:\NETMAIL is just the recom- mended value). You must have WRITE access to this directory, as NetMail/3000 will download both executable files and some special data files to this directory, and will also create a subdirec- tory within this directory (\TEMP) to save temporary download files while processing mail. Net- Mail/3000 will automatically CREATE the directories for you if they don’t exist.

The full compliment of NetMail/3000 software downloaded to the PC takes less than 250K bytes of space; so you’ll need to ensure that you have at least this much free space available on the drive you designated for the NETMAILMM directory (above). Note though, that if you plan to do any serious multimedia processing, you’re likely to encounter some rather large files. These files get stored (at least temporarily) on the \TEMP directory within the NETMAILMM directory you defined, so be prepared for potentially large intermediate files (depending on what kind of multimedia you plan to deal with).

Now that you have the variable added to the AUTOEXEC.BAT file and have re-booted your PC so the new configuration file takes effect, you need to run Reflection, log onto the HP3000, and run NetMail/3000. You will see a notice printed on your screen that NetMail/3000 is downloading files to your PC. Following that, you will see several file download boxes painted on your screen as various files are transmitted from the HP3000 down to your PC. The amount of time this takes depends on how fast your link to the HP3000 is; over a low-speed modem, this download process may take quite a while (several minutes), while users connected over a local area network using VTMGR then the whole process can only take a few seconds.

The downloads may take a little while, but they ONLY occur once. After that, NetMail/ 3000 detects that the software is already installed and simply invokes it.

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