USING NETSCAPE MAIL
- REPLYING TO MAIL
Replying to mail is easy enough to do: Click the Re:Mail icon on the toolbar choose Message/Reply from the menu or press Ctrl+R.
- Pay attention to two things in particular:
1.) To whom does the reply go to?
Look carefully at the To: line your mail program has filled out for you. Is that who you thought you were addressing? If the reply is to a mailing list, did you really intend to post to that list, or is your message of a more personal nature, and might be better addresses to the individual who sent the message? Did you mean to reply to a group? Are all the addresses you think you're replying to, included in the To: list? If the To: list isn't right, you can move the cursor to it, and edit it as necessary.- 2). Do you want to include the content of the message you're replying to?
Most e-mail programs begin your reply message, with the content of the message you're replying to. Netscape has a Quote button on the toolbar that sticks the quoted text of the original message into your reply. We suggest that you begin by including it, and then edit the text to just the relevant material. If you don't give some context to people who get a great deal of e-mail, your reply will make no sense. If you're answering a question, include the question in the response. When you reply to a message, most mail programs fill in the Subject, filed with the letters Re: (short for regarding), and the Subject field of the message you're replying to. - FORWARDING MAIL
You can forward e-mail along to someone else. What's usually called forwarding a message, involves wrapping the message in a new message of your own, sort of like sticking Post-It notes all over a copy, and mailing the copy and Post-Its to someone else.- Forwarding mail is almost as easy as replying to it. Click the Forward icon on the toolbar, or choose Message/Forward from the menu or press Ctrl+L.
- KEEPING TRACK OF YOUR FRIENDS
After you begin using e-mail, you quickly find that you have enough regular correspondents, that it's a pain to keep track of their e-mail addresses. Fortunately, every popular e-mail program provides an address book, in which you can save your friends' addresses.- All address books let you do the same things: save in your address book the address from a message you have just read, use addresses you have saved, and edit your address book.
- When you're reading a message, you can add the sender's address to your address book, by choosing Message/Add to Address Book. It pops up a window in which you can enter the nickname, to use and then click OK to add it to the address book. To use the address book when you're creating a message, click the Mail To: or Cc: buttons (in Netscape 3.0), or the To: button (in Netscape 4.0) in the message-creation window. This action pops up a window that lists the contents of your address book. Double-click the address or addresses you want, and then click OK to continue composing your message. To edit your address book, choose Window/Address Book. You can create a mailing list by choosing Item/Add List, which creates an empty list, and then drag existing address book into the list.
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