Checking Incoming Mail

To check your mailbox for any incoming mail, you will need to go to the File menu, and then pull down to the "Check Mail" option.

Your screen should now look like Figure 2

When you check your mail you may get a popup window asking your password (See Figure 3). Just type your normal login password, press RETURN, and the Eudora program will then check your mailbox for any incoming mail. Please remember when you enter your password that it is case sensitive. This means that a lowercase letter is identified as different from the corresponding uppercase letter.

Tip: If you don't want to be asked for your password every time you check your mail then do the following : from the "Tools" (or "Special" if there is no "Tools") menu select the "Options or "Settings" option. Click on the "Checking mail" box , and then click on the "Save Password" checkbox (so an "X" appears in the box), and then click on the "OK" button, as in Figure 4. Also, ensure that the "Leave Mail On Server" option is not checked, as this will result in your mail being downloaded to you over and over again. Please note that your mailbox is physically stored on iiNet's computers. So when you check your mail, it is actually moved from your mailbox at iiNet to your local machine (ie the mail messages are no longer in your mailbox at iiNet, since you have moved them to your local computer).

Once Eudora has finished transferring your mail from iiNet to your local computer, a popup window, like the one below (in Figure 5) will appear displaying all your messages, assuming that you have received mail.

Reading your mail
By looking at Figure 1.4, you can see that Eudora is providing information about your received email.

Each message you have received is displayed as a row of different pieces of information.

Going from left to right the information represents the following : status/priority; sender; time/date received; size of mail; message subject.

The status/priority column can have a variety options :

o	This means that the message has not been read yet
"blank"	You have read this message already
R	You have replied to that particular message
F	You have forwarded this message to someone else
D	You have redirected this messge to someone else

To read your mail, double click any one of the messages (ie the rows). This will create a pop-up window with the message and details of the message inside, as in Figure 6.

To exit from the email, you can close the message window just like any other window by double clicking the top-left-hand corner.

As you can see from the diagram above, you also have options to choose from on the toolbar at the top. These are : delete, reply, forward, redirect.

Click on the "Delete" button if you no longer wish to read or store the mail message.

Click on the "Reply" button if you wish to reply to the original sender of the email.

Click on the "Forward" button to forward mail to someone else. You would to do this if you wanted to send a copy of the mail to someone else.

Click on "Redirect" if you would like to move the mail from your mailbox to someone else's.

Sending a new mail message
To send a new mail message you will need to go to the "Message" menu and pull down the "New Message" window, as in Figure 12.

Now you will have the cursor next to the "To:" field. This is where you should type the email address of the person you wish to send a mail message to. An example of an email address might be support@iinet.net.au. Now press the TAB key.

This will move the cursor to the "Subject:" field, which is where you can type a brief note describing the contents of the mail message. Keep it short as it is only a header. Once you have completed the subject field, press the TAB key.

This will take you to the "Cc:" field. You can use this field to send another person a complementary copy or carbon copy (hence the name "Cc:") of the mail message, by entering their email address next to Cc:.

If you do not wish to send a copy to anyone then simply leave this blank. If you wish to send a copy to more than one person, you can just keep typing the addresses one after the other, making sure that you separate the addresses with a comma. Once this is finished, press TAB again.

The cursor will now be on the "Bcc:" field. This field is very similar to the Cc;. It will send a copy of the mail message to someone else, but, it will send what is called a "blind copy". To understand the difference between a carbon copy and a blind copy, imagine that you wish to send a duplicate to four other people. Now if you were to put these four addresses in the "Cc:" field, then all the recipients would be able to see that you had sent duplicates to each of them. But, if you were to send a blind copy to these four people, then they would all think that they were the only recipients of the mail message.

Type in the appropriate addresses if you want to send blind copies; otherwise just leave the field blank, and hit the TAB key once more.

You will now be in a field called "Attachment:". You do not need to type anything here. So just press TAB once more.

This will take you to the main message window, which is where you type your letter.

Once you have finished typing your letter, click on the "Send" button on the top-right-hand-side of the screen. This will take a few seconds to send your mail message.

This chapter has covered the basics of using Eudora. For further information, refer to the Eudora Home Page or A Guide To The Eudora Mail Package.