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1. Advantages and Disadvantages to Using Your Default Mailer (MAPI)Pros: Cons: [ Top of Page ] 2. AOL and CompuServe 2000 UsersQ: I am connected to the Internet through AOL and cannot get the email feature on MasterCook to work. I just found out that AOL uses propriety message exchange protocols that don't work with most other programs so there is no POP3 or SMTP address to enter. Is it even possible for me to use the email feature through AOL or am I going to have to try to find a free 3rd party service to go through? A: From Sierra Tech Support: Unfortunately you will not be able to use the email feature in MasterCook with AOL. MasterCook requires a PPP connection to e-mail recipes. AOL does not have a PPP connection. Internet support on AOL is somewhat proprietary and getting support for direct-connect Internet applications like MasterCook has been difficult. MasterCook requires a direct connection to the Internet in order to pass the information from the MasterCook application to a mail server or gateway. AOL does not currently support such a direct connection. You will need to go about sending recipes a bit differently. Try sending the recipes like this: 1. Open the recipe you wish to mail. That should allow you to successfully send your recipe files to other MasterCook users. Non-MasterCook users can open the *.mxp recipe in a word processing program like MS Word or Notepad. A: AOL users can copy recipes and paste them into a new e-mail. This would be the best option for sending recipes to e-mail lists. Sending a file attachment to most lists is a no-no. Some servers don't accept attachments and in that case, an attachment gums up the works. The new AOL6 and CompuServe 2000 don't send plain text only e-mail. This causes a problem for the mc-recipe e-mail list. You need to use the Web Mail option instead. Open AOL and sign on, then minimize AOL. Open Internet Explorer, go to www.aol.com and sign on. Choose the Mail tab for Mail. On the AOL Mail page, press the Write icon at the top right. A: Although I haven't tried it, I believe others on AOL have also used the Export function to send recipes in both MasterCook 5.0/6.0 and 4.0 format. Basically, they export recipes to a file from MasterCook 5.0. Then open it in AOL. AOL issues a message indicating that it does not understand the format but will try to open it in text format (which is okay since the file is a text file). Then simply select all text and paste it into the body of your message. A: AOL users have never been able to use the e-mail feature of MasterCook. The MasterCook 4 manual states on page 73: "The Recipe Mailer requires the appropriate TCP/IP software on your computer. On Windows, make sure that you have the WINSOCK.DLL file which is installed with any network package. On the Macintosh, make sure both MacTCP and OpenTransport are supported. Unfortunately, the Recipe Mailer cannot take advantage of online services such as America Online and Prodigy unless the service provides some sort of TCP/IP connection, such as SLIP or PPP." [ Top of Page ] 3. Embedded Recipe Exports More Than OnceQ: How do I keep my embedded recipe from exporting more than once? I have several "master" recipes in a cookbook that have the same embedded recipe. It exports this embedded recipe for each "master" recipe plus once for itself. A: Copy all the recipes to another cookbook (cookbook #2). Create a third cookbook (cookbook #3). Copy the recipes from cookbook #2 into cookbook #3. Delete cookbook #2. Export from cookbook #3. NOTES: When you copy recipes to another cookbook, it keeps them linked to the previous cookbook unless you delete that cookbook. If MasterCook can't find the deleted cookbook, the recipes can't export. Renaming cookbook #2 doesn't work either; you have to delete it. Also notice these embedded recipes will still open because MasterCook searches the current cookbook first before looking elsewhere (in the assigned cookbook) for the embedded recipe. [ Top of Page ] 4. Exporting Cookbook to Print at KinkosQ: Is there any way to save the cookbook to Microsoft Word and edit from there? Also, is there any way to save it to disk and take it to Kinkos, etc. to be printed? A: You could export your entire cookbook in Text Only and edit that in Word and save to disk to take to Kinkos. Someone else got a printer driver file that they installed in Windows. They printed their cookbook to a file using Kinkos' printer driver. A visit to Kinkos <http://www.kinkos.com/print.jsp> shows that they have software now to preview what other programs print. One of their pages says they accept these file types: Adobe, postscript, and text files are options with MasterCook. You might investigate the Kinkos File Prep driver as well. [ Top of Page ] 5. Exporting Recipes From Several CookbooksIf you want to export/email recipes as a group from three different cookbooks, you can use the MasterList. The message on the email form says that we can "drag and drop to add recipes to the list below." The MasterList makes this possible. There is even a button in the mail form that opens the MasterList.[ Top of Page ] 6. Extra Code When Exporting RecipesQ: Whenever I email a recipe to a friend, they respond that it has all kinds of extra symbols and letters which makes it very hard to read. Is there any way to just send the text only without all the extra stuff? A: MasterCook 5.x and 6.x reads/sends XML code, which is similar to HTML code. This helps it to be accurate of where the different parts of the recipe go (source, copyright, cell #2 of directions, etc.). When you e-mail a recipe to some one you have several choices on the format of the recipe. If they, too, are using MasterCook 5.x or MasterCook 6.x, then I would recommend you send it to them in the 5.0/6.0 Format Only (see this option in the Export and Mail window). If the person doesn't have MasterCook versions 5.x or 6.x, then you could send it in Text Only. If you want to send a recipe to an e-mail list, you would want to send it in the Text Only format. INFO FROM THE README.TXT INCLUDED WITH MASTERCOOK 5.x: IMPORT/EXPORT: SENDING RECIPES BY E-MAIL When importing MasterCook 4.0 cookbooks (MCF files), it is recommended you have only one window of MasterCook open. When selecting the Text Options that you use when sending recipes by e-mail, you need to consider the version of MasterCook the recipient will be using: If you select "5.0 only", MasterCook will export your recipe(s) in MX2 format. If you look at this format in a text editor, it will look odd to you because it is in XML, a format that is becoming popular on the Internet. This is the best format to use if you want to make sure that you don't lose any information in the export process. When you use this format you will not need to use the Import Assistant to bring recipes back into MasterCook. If you select "Text only", MasterCook will export your recipe(s) as text. Use this when you want to use the recipe text in another program and want to make sure that you have every bit of text that you entered. If you want to import this recipe back into MasterCook, you might want to consider using the Import Assistant if you think that you might lose some information. If you select "4.0 only", MasterCook will export your recipe in a format that can be imported into MasterCook 4.0. This is useful if the person receiving the recipe does not have MasterCook 5.0. Note that exporting as 4.0 format may cause some information, such as long category names, to be lost. This occurs because the fields in 5.0 are much longer than the fields in 4.0 and text, such as a long recipe title, may be cut off in some instances. Recipes with several thousand characters in the directions field may also be reported as corrupt when opened in MasterCook 4.0. If you select "4.0 and 5.0", MasterCook will export your recipe(s) in both formats in the same document. This is useful for those who have signed up to exchange recipes on the MasterCook Recipe Exchange mailing list and want to make sure that those who still have MasterCook 4.0 can import the recipes as well. INFO FROM THE README.TXT INCLUDED WITH SIERRAHOME'S MASTERCOOK 6.0: IMPORT/EXPORT: SENDING RECIPES BY E-MAIL When importing MasterCook 4.0 cookbooks (MCF files), it is recommended you have only one window of MasterCook open. When selecting the Text Options that you use when sending recipes by e-mail, you need to consider the version of MasterCook the recipient will be using: If you select "5.0/6.0 format", MasterCook will export your recipe(s) in MX2 format. If you look at this format in a text editor, it will look odd to you because it is in XML, a format that is becoming popular on the Internet. This is the best format to use if you want to make sure that you don't lose any information in the export process. When you use this format you will not need to use the Import Assistant to bring recipes back into MasterCook. If you select "Text only", MasterCook will export your recipe(s) as text. Use this when you want to use the recipe text in another program and want to make sure that you have every bit of text that you entered. If you want to import this recipe back into MasterCook, you might want to consider using the Import Assistant if you think that you might lose some information. If you select "4.0 only", MasterCook will export your recipe in a format that can be imported into MasterCook 4.0. This is useful if the person receiving the recipe does not have MasterCook 6.0. Note that exporting as 4.0 format may cause some information, such as long category names, to be lost. This occurs because the fields in 6.0 are much longer than the fields in 4.0 and text, such as a long recipe title, may be cut off in some instances. Recipes with several thousand characters in the directions field may also be reported as corrupt when opened in MasterCook 4.0. If you select "5.0/6.0 and 4.0", MasterCook will export your recipe(s) in both formats in the same document. This is useful for those who have signed up to exchange recipes on the MasterCook Recipe Exchange mailing list and want to make sure that those who still have MasterCook 4.0 can import the recipes as well. [ Top of Page ] 7. Getting MAPI to WorkSome ISP don't let us use MAPI. In Canada, we can't use MAPI in MasterCook if we're on @home cable hookup. I have Outlook Express open when I send through MasterCook -- MAPI is checked in MasterCook. What happened was it sent the email to my outbox in OE and then I could send it on it's way from there. Did you have OE open at the time? I did not try it without having OE open, but that might be your problem. Same thing with Eudora. MasterCook sends the mail to my outbox and it's up to me to send it. It depends upon how you have your outgoing mail set. To send immediately or wait. I have mine set to wait, so I send a bunch all at once. If I don't use MAPI (but use Internet Mail Server instead) and DON'T have an Internet connection going, MasterCook WILL start up my dial-up connection. It is the same dial-up connection dialog box that Internet Explorer uses when it connects to the Internet. I couldn't get MAPI to work in the beginning either. When I first selected to e-mail with MAPI in MasterCook, the program locked up and quit responding after I pressed the Send button. I had to close down MasterCook and start over. I then went to my e-mail program (Eudora) and found that I had to go into the Tools/Options and turn ON MAPI there as well. Only then was I finally able to export from MasterCook using MAPI to this list. When I use MAPI, I fill out the mail form in MasterCook, it opens Eudora. All MasterCook needs to make it work is an address, and it likes to have something in the Subject field. With my programs and my setup, I can use MAPI only when Eudora is running. For some reason, other programs have trouble launching Eudora; it must be up and running or minimized. I've tried turning MAPI off (using Internet Mail Server instead). When MAPI is turned off, MasterCook wants you to be on-line and it will send messages directly. It won't dial for me. ISP's may act different, too. **WINDOWS XP WITH SP2** I am using Outlook 2003 as my default email program. I am using MasterCook 8. I have WinXP with SP2 applied. When I add a checkmark for that setting and disable MAPI, then it works fine for me. I get a prompt from Outlook 2003 though that says: "A program is trying to automatically send e-mail on your behalf. Do you want to allow this? If this is unexpected, it may be a virus and you should choose "No."" (TIP: If you want to get rid of that prompt from Outlook about a program trying to send e-mail, look for a little utility program called ExpressClickYes. One of the Outlook 2000 security patches broke my cell phone synch program and the email function in MasterCook 5, and ExpressClickYes took care of that problem.) If I select NO, then the recipe does not make it to Outlook at all. It's blocked during the MAPI procedure. If I select YES, it places a new message in my Outlook Outbox -- i.e. I never get a chance to press the SEND button or the x in the upper right corner of that outgoing message. It skips that entire step. If I remove that checkmark and enable MAPI, then a new email is created with the recipe in the body of that new message. It is the focus of my computer, and I can't even return back to MasterCook (i.e. I can't bring that program back to focus.) until I do something with that email (send it to the Outlook Outbox or close it). If I press the SEND button, it puts that email into my Outbox, ready to be sent by Outlook the next time my mail goes out. (I see no error messages at all.) On the other hand, if I close that window (don't press SEND), thus not allowing the mail to go to my Outbox, I get this error message: "An error occurred while sending e-mail. Please make sure your settings are correct." This error message is produced by MasterCook, which I think is odd since the recipe does make it out of MasterCook and into a newly created email. Whatever. :/ MAPI has always been an interesting beast to me. So, I found that it all works best for me if I disable MAPI by having a checkmark in that email setting for Disable MAPI Client Interface. Personally, I don't like the hassle of trying to setup everything to send a recipe from the program, so I just prefer to copy/paste the recipe into an email message that I create myself. This is the way I always send recipes. The only time I try to send a recipe from the program is if I'm trying to troubleshoot with a fellow user. So, I'll continue with my normal protocol (copy/paste). Another user reports: "I have finally fixed a problem I have been working on for a week. After upgrading to XP Service Pack 2, I could no longer email a recipe, I would get an "All or part of this message cannot be displayed" error and then would be kicked out of MC6. I have another computer on my network that could send without any problems but it was running Windows 98. I solved the problem by going to the email screen (like I was getting ready to email a recipe) and choosing "SETUP". From there I would choose "Use Simple MAPI Client" then directly underneath that box, I would choose "Disable MAPI Client Interface. After doing that, I was again able to email recipes in the different formats." [ Top of Page ] 8. Mail, Setup: Myname (address)Q. I've just been playing with the mailer in MasterCook. In the setup it asks for both name and email address, but it doesn't use both. I would like my name to appear with the address. A. Where it say's "Your E-Mail Address" type your name and then address like this example: Name <me@myisp.com> replacing your name and e-mail address in the example above, then your name will appear in the From e-mail header instead of your e-mail address when you receive the recipe. Some people have experienced problems with this, however. It seems the problem is related to how your ISP reads this line. I've only been able to enter the info if I don't use ANY spaces at all in that box. Others have only been able to use the e-mail address in this box and nothing else. *shrug* [ Top of Page ] 9. Nutrition Analysis ExportsQ. Is there a way to NOT email the nutritional analysis? I get it when I use copy/paste too. I'd rather use the nutrition from the sources or mention that the nutrition is based on my linking everything. We have no way of knowing if the NA is based on links or not!?!?! A. We can turn it off for printing or delete it by hand from the e-mail (if you use simple MAPI or paste the recipe into an email message), but that's it for now. [ Top of Page ] 10. Nutritional Association Re-links the IngredientsDon't erase that nutr assoc line at the end of mxp recipes. It contains links to ingredients in the table. and if the ingredients were not new ones, then we reestablish the links when we import a recipe with the nutr assoc index. It works when we import from file or -- if you have MC 5/6 -- import using the Import Assistant. To see how it works in MC 5/6 open the text file below. It has an mxp formatted recipe. MXP is the import/export style used by Mastercook prior to MC 5. Highlight the recipe from the "* Exported..." header THROUGH the nutr assoc index line. Paste it into the Import Assistant's window. Then highlight the whole thing again and use autofill. Notice how LINKED ingredients import. * Exported from MasterCook * Green Beans and Leeks with Oregon Hazelnuts Recipe By Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method Trim Off Ends Of Beans And Slice Diagonally In 2" Pieces. Trim Outer Source - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Per serving 192 Calories (kcal); 14g Total Fat; (61% calories from fat); 4g Protein; 15g Carbohydrate; 16mg Cholesterol; 74mg Sodium Food Exchanges 0 Grain(Starch); 0 Lean Meat; 2 1/2 Vegetable; 0 Fruit; 2 1/2 Fat; 0 Other Carbohydrates Nutr. Assoc. 0 3568 3891 0 3677 0 [ Top of Page ] 11. PDA > Exporting Recipes (Version 7 and Above)One of the exciting new features of MasterCook 7 is the ability to export recipes and shopping lists to your PDA. MasterCook 7 supports Pocket PC and Palm OS devices. To export a recipe to your PDA, perform the following: 1. Navigate to the recipe you would like to export. 2. Choose File / Export and Mail…. 3. Select the Export to PDA tab. 4. When you are satisfied with the recipe list to export, click Export. 5. If you have a Pocket PC, your recipe(s) will be copied directly to your device. If you have a Palm OS device, the recipe files are added to your hotsync queue, to be added to your device the next time you synchronize. 6. When the recipe(s) has been successfully transferred to your device, open the MasterCook viewer software on your handheld and click on Tools / Refresh Recipe List. 7. Your recipe should now be viewable on your PDA. NOTE: If you have a Pocket PC device, your device needs to be connected to your PC before you select this option. [ Top of Page ] 12. PDA > Exporting Shopping Lists (Version 7 and Above)One of the exciting new features of MasterCook 7 is the ability to export recipes and shopping lists to your PDA. MasterCook 7 supports Pocket PC and Palm OS devices. To export a shopping list to your PDA, perform the following: 1. Navigate to the Shopping List screen. 2. Select the shopping list you would like to export to your PDA. 3. Click on File / Export Shopping List to PDA. 4. If you have a Pocket PC, your shopping list will be copied directly to your device. If you have a Palm OS device, the shopping list files are added to your hotsync queue, to be added to your device the next time you synchronize. 5. When the list has been successfully transferred to your device, open the MasterCook viewer software on your handheld and click on Tools / Refresh Shopping List. 6. Your shopping list should now be viewable on your PDA. NOTE: If you have a Pocket PC device, your device needs to be connected to your PC before you select this option. [ Top of Page ] 13. PDA > Recipes Don't Import ProperlyPROBLEM: When importing recipes, they don't always import properly or sometimes not at all. SOLUTION: Sometimes the DAT files become corrupted and prevent the entire process from working properly. So, it is best to let the program rebuild them from scratch by deleting them completely from both the PDA and the PDA's folder on your computer before trying to export again. First, disconnect the PDA from the computer. Find and delete the two *.dat files (ShopListDat.dat and RecipeDat.dat) and synch computer and PDA. The goal is to get rid of both DAT files from both the PDA and the PDA's folder on the computer. Now, start up MasterCook on the computer. Select your recipes to export to the PDA. Synch your PDA and computer. On the PDA go to the TOOLS tab of the MC program on the PDA and choose REFRESH RECIPE LIST. At this point the recipes should transfer to the PDA correctly. Otherwise, perhaps there's a problem with the recipe(s) you are importing. Follow the steps I gave previously to remove the DAT files. Try exporting just one recipe. Make sure that one recipe doesn't have any characters in its recipe name other than alphabet letters (a, b, c, etc.) The program is known to choke on some characters, i.e. slash mark, quotation marks, etc. We've seen it happen with shopping list names, too. [ Top of Page ] 14. PDA > Software Overview and Install (Version 7 and Above)MasterCook 7 now supports downloading recipes and shopping lists to a PDA. In order to view the MasterCook recipes and shopping lists on your device, you need the MasterCook viewer software installed on your handheld. This software is supplied for Pocket PC and Palm OS devices on the MasterCook 7 installation disk. The PDA software allows you to do the following on your handheld: Download & View MasterCook 7 Shopping Lists. Download & View MasterCook 7 Recipes. Add New Recipes and Shopping Lists. Edit Recipes and Shopping Lists. Check off items in your shopping lists as you buy them. Sort by shopping list items by store location (aisle, department, etc.). Choose to show all shopping list items, only those you have, or only those you need. Note: At this time you cannot upload the recipes and shopping lists on your PDA back to the MasterCook program. ** If the installation menu does not come up automatically, go to Start / Run, type in D:\Setup.exe (where D is the letter of your CD-Rom drive), and click OK. [ Top of Page ] 15. PDA > Using the MasterCook Viewer Software (Version 7 and Above)Once the viewer software is installed on your device, it is ready to use. To launch the software on your device, click on MasterCook in the apps list. The interface has 3 tabs, Recipe List, Shopping List, and Tools. Recipe List Tab: The main screen under the Recipe List tab is a list of all the recipes you currently have installed on your device. To view an existing recipe, simply click once on the recipe name you wish to view. The recipe viewer has 4 tabs: Ingr (Ingredients), Dir (Directions), Nutr (Nutrition), and Notes,. Simply navigate through the tabs as necessary to view all your recipe information. You can also edit a recipe from this view by clicking on the Edit Recipe button at any time. Please note that the nutrition information on the nutrition tab is not editable. These values are pulled directly from MasterCook. From the recipe list main screen, you can also click the Add Recipe button to manually enter a recipe onto your device. Shopping List Tab: The main screen under the Shopping List tab lists all of the shopping lists you have installed on your device. To view an existing shopping list, simply click once on the shopping list name you wish to view. Each item in your shopping list has a name, status (have or need), quantity, unit, and store location. You can sort the list by any of the columns by clicking on the column header. This is especially useful to sort by store location help you as you are shopping. Another time saver is the list box next to the Edit button which allows you to filter your list to show all items, only the items you need, or only the items you have. You can Add, Edit, or Delete any of the items in the list by clicking on the appropriate button. From the shopping list main screen, you can also click the Add Shopping List button to manually enter a shopping list onto your device. The system will prompt you for a list name. After you enter a name and click Add New List, an empty list with the specified name is added to your shopping lists. Simply click on it to add and edit your items. Tools Tab: The tools tab is used to refresh your recipe list and/or shopping list after you have exported a shopping list or recipe from your PC to your PDA. There is a button to Refresh Shopping List and one to Refresh Recipe List. Note: New recipes or shopping lists exported to your device will NOT show up in your lists until you refresh the list using these buttons. [ Top of Page ] 16. Pocket PC > Using the MasterCook Viewer Software (Version 7 and Above)Once the viewer software is installed on your device, it is ready to use. To launch the software on your device, click on Start / Programs / MasterCook. The interface has 3 tabs, Recipe List, Shopping List, and Tools. Recipe List Tab: The main screen under the Recipe List tab is a list of all the recipes you currently have installed on your device. To view an existing recipe, simply click once on the recipe name you wish to view. The recipe viewer has 4 tabs: Ingredients, Directions, Notes, and Nutrition. Simply navigate through the tabs as necessary to view all your recipe information. You can also edit a recipe from this view by clicking on the Edit Recipe button at any time. Please note that the nutrition information on the nutrition tab is not editable. These values are pulled directly from MasterCook. From the recipe list main screen, you can also click the Add New Recipe button to manually enter a recipe onto your device. Shopping List Tab: The main screen under the Shopping List tab lists all of the shopping lists you have installed on your device. To view an existing shopping list, simply click once on the shopping list name you wish to view. Each item in your shopping list has a name, status (have or need), quantity, unit, and store location. You can sort the list by any of the columns by clicking on the column header. This is especially useful to sort by store location or have/need status to help you as you are shopping. Another time saver is the Show list box which allows you to filter your list to show all items, only the items you need, or only the items you have. You can Add, Edit, or Delete any of the items in the list by clicking on the appropriate button. From the shopping list main screen, you can also click the Add New List button to manually enter a shopping list onto your device. The system will prompt you for a list name. After you enter a name and click OK, an empty list with the specified name is added to your shopping lists. Simply click on it to add and edit your items. [ Top of Page ] 17. Publishing to the WebQ: I've created a favorite recipes collection and would like to convert it to publish it to my web site. I haven't found a way to do this. Does anyone have any suggestions? A: MC doesn't convert recipes to an html file. Most of us use an html editor of some sort. Either a WYSIWYG editor like FrontPage or PageMill or the one that comes with Netscape or Microsoft's Internet Explorer, etc. Or we learn to tag. Example with PageMill: 1. Open PageMill and start a new document. We can control how it will paste by setting preferences in the HTML editor. The HTML editor will convert the paste job with standard codes. Then we edit the result. You could export a number of recipes to a file using the "text format" and insert that file in the HTML editor. On the other hand, you could offer a text file that is viewable by a browser. Export recipes using the Text Only format. Check that box to break up lines (that's word wrap). Make sure the file has a *.txt extension. Then upload to your website. Make a link to it and people will be able to download a copy or view it online. This answer is complicated because there are many ways to go. It depends on how you want to offer the recipes. For examples of how others do it, Pat has a page of links to people who offer mc-formatted recipes. Go here: http://home.earthlink.net/~kitpath/MC/MCRecipes.htm [ Top of Page ] 18. Setting Word Wrap in E-Mail ProgramsIf the goal is to make a mailer stop editing paragraphs into short lines, then we can either (1) turn word wrap off, or (2) reset the critical value. Some programs, like Eudora, let us turn word wrap off. Other programs, like Netscape or Microsoft's Internet Mail, don't let us turn word wrap off but do let us change the value to something big like 400, 640, 800, or 2560). NETSCAPE COMMUNICATOR (menu choices vary slightly by version) MS INTERNET MAIL OUTLOOK EXPRESS EUDORA (menu choices vary slightly by version) PEGASUS [ Top of Page ] 19. Sharing Pictures with RecipesWondering how to share a recipe and include a picture too? We've been sharing the compiled files, the ones with both the mc2 (recipes) and mcx (pictures) extensions. That way, the other person just opens them in mc5/6. You could make a new cookbook and copy your recipes with pictures to it and send just the new cookbook to share. To share with people who don't have MC 5/6, you can point at the picture, click the right mouse and copy. The next steps depends on your mailing program. You could paste the picture directly in the mail and send it that way (embedded). Or open a graphics program, create a new picture and paste the copy there. Save it and send it to the other person. You could also paste the recipe and the picture in a word processor's document. It's always going to be a two files because they are two different files types. I should add that the file with the pictures can get very, very large, larger than saving the files as jpgs (a compressed format) and sending those. [ Top of Page ] 20. Time Stamp When Exporting RecipesQ: When I e-mail recipes directly from the program the time appears to be wrong. It doesn't match my computer time. Why? A: The time is sent in GMT (Greenwich Mean Time). [ Top of Page ] 21. Using MAPI Mail Clients (Outlook, Eudora, etc.)Q. How do I configure MasterCook to work with other mail programs such as Eudora or Microsoft Outlook? A. All you need to do in MasterCook is set up "simple MAPI." You may also need to set it up in your communications software. Eudora 4.x PEGASUS 3 Q. I was attempting to send a test mail using Pegasus and MAPI but couldn't do it. Is Pegasus MAPI compliant? And if it is, how do I set it up? A. I installed MAPI to use with Pegasus and it worked great. This it what I did. Using Windows Explorer I went to my Pegasus (Version 3.1 for Win32) program folder and found this file "wpmmapi.exe", double clicked on it and followed the instructions for installing. Before installing MAPI there are some cautions to be aware of. If you have Windows Messaging or Outlook you may want to investigate further before doing this. You will have to make a choice between installing Simple MAPI and the other newer MAPI 1.0. Look in your Pegasus help folder for their information. When you have that finished, Go back to MasterCook, open a cookbook, click on a recipe that you want to export, Press Ctrl+M (or File/Export and Mail). From the "Sent To" pop up window there are 3 tabs, choose the tab labeled "Mail" and click on the button (at the top right) labeled "setup" and then click on "Use Simple MAPI Client", then click on "OK". Now try exporting the recipe to Pegasus. It doesn't seem to matter if Pegasus is open or closed when you export. OUTLOOK EXPRESS Make sure OE is set as your default e-mail program. Select Options from the OE Tools Menu. Use the General tab and look near the bottom. Select the Make Default button. (To change this back to another e-mail program use the Control Panel and select Internet Options and use the Programs tab.) NETSCAPE MESSENGER I gave this a try myself with Messenger: 1. First I closed down Eudora (my current default e-mail program). I usually use Eudora. I have never used Messenger before now and didn't mess with any other Messenger settings, so all other settings are default. I am using Netscape version 4.7. I wonder if the version of Messenger makes a difference? Also, I have both Messenger and MasterCook running when tried this. I then tried this with Messenger closed down and it still worked (MasterCook sent it to Messenger). [ Top of Page ] 22. Using MasterCook's Mail AppletQ. I can't send mail. I try but nothing happens. How do I send recipes from MasterCook? A. Click the Setup button from the mail window and see which method of sending is checked. MasterCook gives us two choices. The (2) Internet Mail Server is the preferred method to send recipes because the recipes will be sent as the program intends, without an email program manipulating the text (wordwrap, adding text formatting, etc.) They are sent directly from MasterCook w/o going through an e-mail program. You may need to establish your Internet connection going before trying to send your recipe. Select MAPI if you want MasterCook to pass the message on to your usual (default) mailer. (WARNING: Your email program may manipulate the text in ways you won't desire.) Next, make sure that MAPI is "enabled" as an option in your e-mail program. Some mailers don't support this but most of the biggies do: Eudora, Outlook, Outlook Express, Netscape Communicator, etc. The message will be passed to the outbox in your mail program. Your e-mail program will send it out from there. You may need to have your e-mail program running before trying this. IMPORTANT: Sometimes e-mail programs remove or add blank lines in your messages. This does create problems when you try to import this recipe back into MasterCook. NOTE: Since AOL doesn't support MAPI or SMTP, AOL users will need to paste recipe(s) into an e-mail message or export the recipe(s) and send the recipe(s) as an attachment. Keep in mind that most e-mail lists don't allow attachments though. You may need to do the same thing if you have web-based e-mail, like Hotmail, Yahoo, etc. [ Top of Page ] 23. What is MAPI?Think of MAPI as e-mail. It lets other programs use your communications software. MAPI is the acronym for Messaging Application Program Interface: a protocol or standard that other programs can count on working a certain way. When MAPI is on or enabled, MasterCook opens your e-mail program, addresses the mail, copies any message you've written and attaches recipe(s). The attachment can be sent as a separate file or included in the body of the text -- you set this up in the email program. [ Top of Page ] 24. Word-wrap has Several MeaningsQ. I thought word wrap was a good thing. Some of my friends cannot read my mail because the lines are too long so I use word wrap. Isn't word wrap what words do when they hit the edge of the window? Doesn't that mean word-wrap is on? A. Word wrap is something that happens to text. You don't see it happen while you are typing or editing mail. Word wrap happens out of sight, during the process of sending the message. The mailer will re-format the lines so none is longer than 76 or 80 characters. Most email programs let you the maximum line length. Some programs let you turn word wrap off. Technically "wrap" refers to the automatic truncation of a long line of text in an e-mail message. Some e-mail programs automatically insert a hard carriage return when a line of text in a new or received message exceeds a specified number of characters in length (76 characters is typical). When a message has been forwarded -- and thus re-wrapped by several e-mail programs -- it's not uncommon for it to contain unnecessary carriage returns. Some e-mail programs provide a means of cleaning up such text to restore it to a tidier appearance. [ Top of Page ] |
