Electronic Mail Overview
CedarNet uses a "post office" based electronic mail system POP
Server (POP = Post Office Protocol) and supported by Eudora.
CedarNet's POP Server stays on all the time to receive and hold
your mail until you ask for it from your Mac. When you ask for
it, the Mac gets all new mail from CedarNet and puts it on your
local disk. One program you could use on the Mac to get the mail
(and to compose and send mail out) is Eudora. As soon as you enter
Eudora, you will see a screen window showing your Inbox. Each
message is listed in a line with information as to who it was
from, the date and time, and the subject. You can then read, reply
to, or delete any message. By using the pull-down menus, you can
also write messages as well as move messages to other mailboxes.
To start up the program, open the appropriate folder (on your
Eudora disk) and double click on the Eudora Settings file.
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Starting a Mail Session
- To start up the Eudora system, double click on the Eudora
settings icon in the Eudora Folder.
The program will load and will open a window for
your Inbox.
Reading Mail
- Before you can read new mail though, you must connect to
CedarNet and download your mail. To do this pull down under
File to Check Mail. The computer will connect
to CedarNet and download all your new messages. You can move
among the messages with the arrow key or by clicking the mouse
button. Double clicking will open a window to view the contents
of the selected message. You can create a reply by pulling
down under the Message menu to Reply. The computer
keeps track for you of which messages you've read. If there
is a dot next to the message, you haven't read it yet. If
you create a reply, the computer will place a letter R next
to it.
Sending Mail
- To begin a new message, pull down under Message to select
New Message. A window will open for you to create your
message. Enter the various fields. Enter the e-mail address
of the recipient(s) on the To line. If there are more one
recipients, separate them by commas or spaces. Hit Tab and
fill in a Subject. Hit Tab and fill out Copy to: (Cc:) and
Tab to Blind Copy to (Bcc:)
Attachments
To send an attachment, pull down under the
Message menu to Attach Document... The computer
will open a standard dialog box where you can go to the folder
your document is in and select it. You can then also put text
in the space used for the body of the message. This text will
be sent out to your recipient along with the attachment.
To read an attachment, note that the Eudora
program will automatically put the file in whatever folder your
computer uses for attachments. If you don't specify otherwise,
they go in a folder called Attachments inside the Eudora folder.
Leave Word Perfect after downloading mail and open the attached
file inside that folder as you normally would on your Mac.
You can change the attachment folder by pulling
down under Special to Settings, scrolling the menu choices on
the left side to Attachments to get to the following screen:
Click in the box under the "Attachment Folder:" entry
to have the computer open a dialog in which you can set the
folder for attachments to go in.
Managing Mail
- Once you become active with e-mail, you may end up with
lots of it. Eudora gives you several tools for managing your
mail. You can create mailboxes along whatever theme
you wish. Mail can then be moved from the In box to an appropriate
mailbox. To create a new mailbox and put a starting message
in it, highlight a message and pull down under Transfer
to New... The computer will open a dialog box asking
you to specify a name. Generally, don't create a new folder.
Once you've named and created the mailbox, you can go to it
by pulling down under Mailbox or move highlighted messages
to it by pulling down under Transfer. Note that you can transfer
messages from any mailbox to any mailbox..
You can also create your own distribution
lists if you want to send messages to a certain group
frequently. Use the Window pull-down menu to open windows to
define Nicknames on the left and list members of the Nickname
group on the right.
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