E-mail stands for Electronic Mail. It is a system for sending and receiving messages and files over the internet. E-mail allows the sender and user to be located anywhere in the world, as long as both of their accounts are attached to the internet.When you receive e-mail, it is put into your own private account on the University server, to await your decision on what to do with it. This is what an e-mail address does. It finds the right server, and the right account on the server to send the e-mail to. Sending e-mail is a bit trickier. As with regular mail, you must know the address of the person you are sending to. Once you have that, simply by filling out the "To:" line with the e-mail address will ensure that your message will get to the person eventually.
In this class, we will be using a piece of software called Popmail to manipulate e-mail. Popmail is very user friendly, and has a good graphical interface to allow most actions to be accomplished with a point and click.
NOTE: starting and stopping Popmail is the same as the other pieces of software, and won't be covered.
Once you have started Popmail, a screen will come up asking you to enter your name, account number and password. If you don't know your account number of password, please ask the TA or the lab attendant if they can help you. Most likely you will have to fill out a Password Change Form before your account will work.At this point, Popmail will connect with your account and bring a copy of all of the messages you have in your account to you. Please note: these are copies of your messages. The original messages still exist in your account, and will not be deleted until you trash the copied message, exit Popmail and accept the computer's suggestion to delete the messages.
The top half of the screen consists of an area where all of the messages in your account are listed, the bottom shows the text of the current message selected. If you have more than one message, clicking on the one you want to view will drop the text to the lower area.
Once you have found a message that you want to answer, click on it once to select it, and click on the "respond" button. What will happen is this message will get transferred to a new window, with a carrot, (which looks like a greater than sign) in front of each line. These carrots let you know which lines were from the original message. You are now able to type anything you'd like in between the lines, or to delete any of the original lines. Make sure that the person's address that you are sending to is in the "To:" line, and that you are happy with what is written in the "Subject:" line.Once the message is complete, click on the "send" button to cause your computer to connect to your account, and to "mail" the message.
If there is a piece of mail you would like to print out. Simply select the message and click on the "print" button. If you are in the Lind Hall lab, your message will print out by the lab attendant behind you. Make sure that you have a printer card (which costs $4) before you try to get your printout.
Because these skills are part of your homework, there is no separate test for this. | To return to lab 1 |