The installer replaces them by our current standard NU recommended settings. You do not, however, lose any of your old bookmarks. In each of these two update situations, the installer presents a special new information window that describes the problem. You can read and post news articles without having to do any additional configuration. On a clean install, Communicator is configured with the proper information for the full user name, the mail server address and username, and the return address.
Users can read and send mail without having to do any additional configuration.
With Netscape Navigator in the previous installer, Eudora Pro and NewsWatcher were set as URL helper programs. Now that we have switched to Netscape Communicator, which has its own mail and news components, we have removed this feature. Unfortunately, it turns out that we had to do this to make the mail and news components work at all. In addition, the presence of this file in the Preferences folder is another signal to the installer that Netscape Navigator or Communicator is already installed. On a clean install we configure Communicator with the new NU LDAP directory server at ldap.nwu.edu.