UltiMedia Mail/2 Lite - Removal and Reinstallation
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Mail that you want to keep should be copied to another directory then recopied to the appropriate directory once UltiMail/2 is reinstalled.
X = The drive where Ultimedia Mail/2 Lite is installed.
- Edit the CONFIG.SYS file and remove all references to UMAIL from the following commands:
- LIBPATH
- SET PATH
- SET HELP
- Save the CONFIG.SYS file and exit.
- Select the IBM Internet Connection for OS/2 folder and drag the Ultimedia Mail/2 Lite folder to the Shredder. When prompted by OS/2 to reverify the delete option, click on "Yes to All."
- Perform shutdown, then restart the system.
- During restart a white box with OS/2 next to it will appear in the upper left corner. When this box appears press, Alt+F1 to display the Recovery Choices Screen.
- On the Recovery Choices Screen select C for Command Prompt.
- At the Command Prompt type:
- CD TCPIP\UMAIL, then press Enter
- At the X:\TCPIP\UMAIL prompt type:
- DEL UMAILWPS.DLL to delete the UMAILWPS.DLL file.
- Type:
- EXIT, then press Enter to restart the system.
- After the system restarts, double-click on the OS/2 System icon.
- In the OS/2 System Icon View, double-click on the Drives icon.
- In the Drives Icon View, double-click on the drive that contains the TCPIP directory.
- Find the folder labeled TCPIP and click on the plus (+) sign to see all the sub-directories.
- Find the UMAIL folder and drag it to the Shredder to delete it. When prompted by OS/2 to reverify the delete option, click on "Yes to All." Ultimedia Mail/2 Lite is now deleted from the system.
- To reinstall Ultimedia Mail/2 Lite connect to the Internet and perform a Retrieve Software Updates to get the most recent version. This copy installs automatically for you.
- [RECCOMENDED]
- Or you can perform FTP with IBM Web Explorer with the following URL: ftp://ftp01.ny.us.ibm.net/pub/ultimail
- and download UMF21001.ZIP and README.UML. After the files download, unzip UMF21001.ZIP into a temp directory and type:
- INSTALL
- to re-install Ultimedia Mail/2 Lite. When the installation completes, perform shutdown then restart the system.
- When restart completes, open an OS/2 Window, type:
- CD TCPIP\UMAIL, and press Enter.
- At the X:\TCPIP\UMAIL prompt, type:
- E UMAIL.PRO
- Go to the end of the file and add the following lines:
:USER name = 'bbbbbb bbbbbb' reply_domain = 'mail.server.provider' reply_id = 'bbbbbb' other_id = 'Internet' id = 'bbbbbb' . <------NOTE: Please include the period.
bbbbbb = Your Internet Information [Example] :USER name = 'Firstname Lastname' reply_domain = 'mail.server.provider' reply_id = 'userid' other_id = 'Internet' id = 'userid' . <------NOTE: Please include the period.
17. After you add the lines, save the file as a Plain Text File. When you start UltiMail for the first time, a prompt asks you to enter additional information that you received from your provider and request you to set up a password.