USING NETSCAPE MAIL

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SENDING MAIL WITH NETSCAPE

First, start Netscape. (The instructions from here depend on whether you're using Netscape version 3.0 or 4.0.)

 

Next, choose Window/Netscape Mail (in Netscape 3.0), or Windows/Inbox window. The first time you give the command, Netscape asks you for the password for your mailbox, which is usually the same as the password for your Internet account.

 

If you see an error message about POP3 mailbox, Netscape does not know the name of your computer on which your mail is stored. Click OK to make the error message go away. When you see the Netscape Mail or Inbox window, choose Options/Mail and New Preferences (in Netscape 3.0), or Edit/Mail and News Preferences (in Netscape 4.0), from the menu, click the Servers or Mail Server tab along the top of the Preferences window that appears, and fill in the first three boxes you see. Type the name of the Internet provider's mail server in the first two boxes, and your user name in the third box. Click OK.

 

Netscape may try to retrieve any waiting mail; click Cancel or the red stop sign, if you don't want it to retrieve it, yet. You see the Netscape Mail window, if you use Netscape 3.0; Netscape 4.0 users see the inbox window, which looks similar.

 

Click the To:Mail (Netscape 3.0), or Compose (in Netscape 4.0) button on the icon bar. Another window opens, the Message Composition window, with a blank message template.

 

 

 

Fill in the recipient's address in the Mail To box, type a topic in the Subject box, and type the message, in the message window.

 

Click Send, to send the message. The message wings its way to the Internet provider and onto the addressee.

 

 

 

READING MAIL WITH NETSCAPE

Start Netscape and connect to the Internet.

 

In Netscape 3.0, choose Window/Netscape Mail, or click the little envelope in the lower right corner of the Netscape window. In Netscape 4.0, choose Window/Inbox from the menu, or click the Inbox icon in the lower right corner of the Netscape window, the second of the four icons.

 

This step opens the Netscape Mail or Inbox window. Netscape may try to retrieve any waiting mail immediately; if it doesn't, click the Get Mail button. Incoming mail is filed in your Inbox folder.

 

 

 

Netscape 3.0: The upper left part of the Netscape Mail window lists your mail folder (including Inbox and Sent - more folders appear later). The upper right part lists the messages in the selected folder. The bottom part of the window displays the selected message.

 

Netscape 4.0: The box under the toolbar shows the current folder, and the rest of the window lists the messages in that folder. The current folder is usually Inbox, your incoming mail.

 

In Netscape 3.0, click the Inbox icon in the list of folders. In Netscape 4.0, if the box just under the toolbar doesn't say Inbox, click in the box and choose Inbox from the list that appears.

 

You will see the subject lines for incoming mail. (In Netscape 3.0, the list appears in the upper right part of the window.)

 

Click each message to read it (double-click it in Netscape 4.0), click Next or Previous to read messages in order.

 

In Netscape 3.0, the text of the message appears in the bottom part of the Netscape window. In Netscape 4.0, the message appears in a new window.

 

 

FILING WITH NETSCAPE MAIL

In the Netscape 3.0 Mail window, you can save a message by clicking the message, and choosing Message/Move from the menu. Then select the folder name from the list that appears. An easier way to move a message is to drag it from the list of messages, to another folder on the list of folders. To make a new folder, choose File/New Folder from the menu.

 

Netscape 4.0 has a new window, the Netscape Message Center, in which you can fool around with folders, so its filling commands work a little differently. In the Netscape 4.0 Inbox window, you can save a message by clicking the message, choosing Message/File message from the menu, and choosing the folder from the list that appears. To make a new folder, choose Window/Folders from the menu to display the Netscape Message Center window, and then choose File/New Folder. This window lists your mail folders and the Usenet newsgroups to which your subscribe. To move a message to folder, you can click it in your Inbox window and drag it to the folder in your Message Center window.

 

To save a message or several messages in a text file (in either version of Netscape), select the message or messages and choose File/Save As from the menu. Click in the Save As type box, and choose Plain Text from the list that appears. Type a filename, then click Save.

 

 

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