
Contacts Verifier: README
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Please read this file carefully (especially "Installation"
chapter) before installing the program to your computer.


Contents
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  Program information
  Company information
  Description
  Installation
  Copyright and license
  Technical support


Program information
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Program Archive Name:
  contacts_verifier.zip
Program Name:
  Contacts Verifier
Program Version:
  2.5
Program Release Date:
  January 10, 2005
Program Description:
  This add-in is designed to monitor validity of e-mail addresses in the contacts.
Target OS:
  Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000 / XP / 2003.
Software type:
  shareware


Company information
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Company Name:
  MAPILab Ltd.
Contact WWW URL:
  http://www.mapilab.com/
Contact Postal Address:
  Pacific Business Centre
  P.O. Box 34069 #381
  Seattle, WA 98124-1069
  USA


Description
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Contacts Verifier (CV) is the first add-in for Microsoft
Outlook 2000/XP/2003 designed to monitor validity of e-mail
addresses in the contacts. It is able to check your
address-book throughout in a few minutes to notify you
of the contacts that contain e-mail addresses which are
no longer valid.

When checking an address, CV imitates sending a message
to the address being checked, and after it receives the
answer from a server (the address belongs to) as to
whether the address exists or not, it terminates message
sending and ends the session correctly. So, checking of an
address is technically correct and cannot be noticed by
the address owner.

This version also support mail merge mode in Microsoft
Word 2002/2003 and Microsoft Outlook 2002/2003.


Installation
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Important! If you've got CV not from our web page, but from
the other source (magazine CD or some software library), please
visit our home page - you'll probably find the later version;
usually, we release the updates about once a month.

To install CV, just run the "setup.exe" and follow the
instructions. You'll need to select the target directory
and the components to install.

Notes for Microsoft Windows 95/98 users. If you have installed
Windows Installer version 1.x, the following error message will
appear during installation:

    error 1155: file \\INSTMSIA.EXE not found

To avoid it, you should download and install Windows Installer
version 2.0 or later. It can be downloaded from Microsoft
web-site:

   - version for Windows NT 4 and Windows 2000
     http://download.microsoft.com/download/WindowsInstaller/Install/2.0/NT45/EN-US/InstMsiW.exe

   - for Windows 95, 98, and Me
     http://download.microsoft.com/download/WindowsInstaller/Install/2.0/W9XMe/EN-US/InstMsiA.exe


Copyright and license
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See "license.rtf" file.


Technical support
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Our technical support service is always glad to help you and
to answer any your questions. Please, keep to the following
rules when contacting the technical support service:

  - If your query is related to erratic software operation,
    please provide the following information: 

    - Version number of the software product you are using.
      We also recommend you to visit our web-site: probably,
      the problem you encountered has been already solved in
      a new program release available from our site. 

    - Configuration you are using Microsoft Outlook in: as
      "Internet Mail" or together with Microsoft Exchange,
      Lotus Domino, etc. 

    - Version number of Microsoft Outlook and of Microsoft
      Office and Outlook update packages installed (to find
      out this information, click Info/About item in the
      Outlook menu) 

    - Version number of Windows and update packages installed
      (you can find out this information through properties of
      the "My Computer" item on the desktop or the "System"
      item in the Control Panel). 

    - Please try to provide as much information as possible
      so that our experts could repeat your error in the lab. 

  - Don't forget to provide the product registration number: this
    will allow faster processing of your request. 

You can contact the technical support service online at
http://www.mapilab.com/support/. We do our best to reply to user
queries in the same day we receive them; anyway, you will get
the answer no later than in three business days. 
