7 . E-mail

1. 7. E-mail Thunderbird is for sending and receiving e-mail Your email address is:username@student.canterbury.ac.nz

2. 1. To open e-mail, click on the ‘ThunderBird’ icon in the Dock Task: Send a message to yourself

3. 2. When prompted, enter your password to access your e-mail 3. Click ‘OK’ 4. Click on the ‘Write’ button

4. 4. To send a message to yourself, type in the ‘To’ box your user name e.g., abcl2. (You will find that your user name will expand with ‘@student.canterbury.ac.nz’; just keep typing) 5. Click in the ‘Subject:’ box and type a subject (or title) you want to give to your message

5. 6. Click in the message-body area7. Type in the text you wish to send

6. 8. When you have finished click on the ‘Send’ button to send the message.

7. 9. If prompted, type in your password If you receive a message ‘Login Failed’, you have probably entered your password incorrectly 10. The message is now sending. A copy of your message will be saved to the sent mail folder

8. Task: Reply to a message Open or select the message you would like to reply to. Click once on the ‘Reply’ button. The address and the contents of the original message will automatically be copied across into the new message. Then you can add your reply

9. When you have finished editing your message click once on the ‘Send’ button to send the message

10. Note: If you continue to get the message ‘Login Failed’ tell the Loft Workroom SUPERVISOR or ring the HelpDesk at ext 6060.

11. Task: Read a new message Use the mouse to select the ‘Inbox’ folder on the left-hand side of the ‘Thunderbird Window’. This opens the ‘Inbox’ Mail folder. Note that unread messages appear with bold titles until they are read.

12. To open a mail message, use the mouse to select the message. The contents of the message will appear in the bottom half of the ‘Thunderbird Mail Window’

13. If there are no messages in the ‘Inbox’ folder then use the ‘Get Mail’ button to check if any new messages have arrived

14. Task: Delete messages from a mail folder • Select Message you want to delete • 2. Press the Delete key on your keyboard Note: A red cross next to your message means that it has been marked for deletion. Messages deleted from the Inbox will be removed when you exit Netscape.

15. To remove deleted messages from folders other than the Inbox, use the Compress Folders option. To do this, click once on the folder to be compressed, click once on the ‘File’ menu and choose ‘Compact Folders’.