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 PC. When you ask for it, the PC gets all
new mail from CedarNet and puts it on your local disk. The program
we use on the PC to get the mail (and to compose and send mail out)
is Eudora. Inside Eudora, you can 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 Windows
screen) and double click on the Eudora Lite file. (If you
are using a lab machine that is already running when you begin,
make sure no one else has left Eudora running.)
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Starting a Mail Session
- To start up the Eudora system, double click on the Eudora
Lite icon in your Windows system.
The program will load and will open a window for your
Inbox (unless you closed your Inbox during your last session).
Reading Mail
- Before you can read new mail 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.
When the Inbox opens, 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 File... 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 PC.
You can change the attachment folder by pulling
down under Tools to Options, scrolling the menu choices on the
left side to Attachments to get to the following screen:
Click in the box under the "Attachment Directory:" entry
to have the computer open a dialog in which you can set the directory
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 Tools 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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