Netscape Messenger
What is E-mail?
E-mail, or electronic mail, is an electronic messaging service.
When a message is sent to someone by E-mail, it will travel from their
computer, over the internet to the recipients computer or a machine
that the recipient can access. This machine will usually belong to the
Internet Service Provider. This message is then stored in a special
electronic post office until it is "picked up" and
transferred to the recipients computer.
To ensure that the E-mail is delivered properly, it must have the
proper address. It is essential that the address be correct. If a
single character is wrong, the message will be resumed to you as
undeliverable. E-mail doesn't have a postman that can figure out that
you wanted to deliver the letter to the house down the street.
The standard format for an E-mail address is user@domain.
The address is in two parts separated by the @ sign. The part before
the @ is the usename, while the part after the @ is the domain name or
the name of the machine where the user has an E-mail account. E-mail
addresses must not have spaces in them and are always in lower case
letters.
Your E-mail address will most likely be supplied by your Internet
Service Provider or Network Administrator. Some ISP's may provide
multiple E-mail accounts.
Getting Started
Make sure that you are connected to the Internet and launch
Messenger, either by double clicking on the Messenger icon or by
selecting the Mailbox icon from the Communicator Component bar. When
Messenger starts running, a Password Entry dialog box will appear.
This box will require the user to enter their E-mail password. This
password is provided by your ISP. You may also be given instructions
as to how to change your password. Messenger will remember your
password for as long as any of the Communicator components remains
running. If you quit Communicator, you will have to re-enter your
password when you start Messenger again. However, if your computer is
relatively secure and you want Messenger to always remember your
password, follow these steps.
- Select
"Preferences" from Messengers edit menu.
- When the dialog box appears, select the
"Mail Server"
category from the list on the left side of the dialog box.
- In the
"Mail Server Window" on the right side of the
box, select the "More Options" button.
- Select the
"Remember my mail password" checkbox
- Click OK.
After you have entered your Password and click OK, Messenger will
log into your Mail Server and check for any new messages. Messenger
will start with the Inbox folder and the active folder and window as
in Figure 4-1.
The first time that you ran Communicator, you were asked for all
your relevant information regarding your E-mail account. If you did
not supply this information at that time or if you need to add or
modify any E-mail account information, please refer to the next
paragraph. Otherwise, move ahead to the section called "Messenger
Window" . |