Accessing WEBMAIL at Edinboro

Please do these things as we talk about them.

Start internet explorer
Connect to webmail.edinboro.edu
- You should see a welcome screen something like this
Logon
- Please don't log on just yet, look at the other options below
- Put in your username and password.
- This is yourEDINBORO password, not your CSLAB password.
- What are those other options?
  - Check your Disk Quota
    - Provides information on how much disk space you are using.
    - You can also see the files you have created.
    - These files are on yet another system, the vax running another operating system (VMS).
    - I am told that students have an 8MB quota.
    - Please do this
  - Single Sign-On & Password Changes.
    - A FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)
    - Go to this page and read it.
    - You can change your password there.
    - Please look at this but do NOT change this
  - Mail forwarding informaion
    - If you have a mail box elsewhere that you monitor regurlarly.
    - For example mail sent to bennett@cs.kent.edu goes to dbennett@edinboro.edu
    - You can set this up here.
    - Please look at this but do NOT change this
  - Edinboro Home page - takes you to the home page
  - Mail Filters
    - This allows you to select mail that you don't wish to get
    - You can discard mail based on
      - From address (Who sent it)
      - To address (Who it was sent to)
      - Contents
    - Why do you want to do this?
    - Accept rules are applied before discard rules.
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   If you discard mail with the word Lunch in it
   But you accept mail from mom@myhouse.com

   and mom@myhouse.com sends you mail with the word Lunch 
   in it, you get the mail.

   But if I send you mail with the word Lunch in it, it gets tossed.
		
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    - Be careful not to throw away something you want
    - Please look at this but do NOT change this
  - Secure Mode
    - This helps you defend the privacy of your mail.
- Please logon now
Sending a message
- Click on the create button
- Fill in the fields
  - To: The primary reciepients of the mail.
  - Cc: Anyone who will receive a carbon copy
    - Everyone can discover who you sent a carbon copy to.
    - Send a message to your worker, a copy to the boss as well.
    - Congratulations you did a good job
  - Bcc: Anyone to receive a blind carbon copy
    - No one knows who you sent a carbon copy to.
    - Send a "You better do this" message, let the boss see that you are putting a mild reprimand without her having to acknowledge.
  - Subject: The subject of the message
    - Try to make these have some meaning.
    - Try to make it relate to the message.
  - Message: The text of the message
    - Treat this like real mail (USPS).
    - They get saved and circulated.
    - All caps is bad, this indicates YELLING.
    - You must place returns manually. This is a very SIMPLE environment.
- Please ask the person next to you their email address and start to send them a mail message.
- The Options Bar
  - Addresses - maintain a list of mail addresses.
  - Attach - attach a file to this message.
    - We will use the attach feature later in the semester.
  - Spell Check - Use it now, mispell a word and run spell check
  - Draft - type in a message but don't send it.
    - Click on the draft, then on edit to continue composing this message
  - Send - send the message on it's way.
  - Finish composing your message and click the send button
  - Inbox - return to your inbox
- Please send a message to the person on the other side of you
Checking for new mail
- What is happening here?
  - Webmail gives the message to another program, sendmail
  - Sendmail looks at it to see where it needs to go.
  - If it goes to another machine, sendmail connects to that machine and gives it to the sendmail on the other machine
  - The destination sendmail puts the mail in recipient's mail box.
  - Webmail checks the mailbox for new mail.
    - When you log in.
    - Periodicaly (that is why it will flass occasionally)
    - When you check the Check button.
Your Inbox
- If you are not at your inbox, please go there by clicking on the inbox icon
- You are shown information about all messages in your box.
  - Size
    - A bit is one binary digit, or a 1 or 0
    - A byte is 8 bits
    - A K (kilobyte) is 1024 bytes
    - The size is given in K
    - Remember, you have 8 megabytes or 1024x1024 K
  - Status
    - The picture indicates something about the message
    - New
    - Read
    - Has an Attachment
    - Draft
  - From - Who sent you the message
  - Subject - The subject of the message
  - Date - the date the message was sent
  - Time - when the message was sent
- You can sort on any of these fields by clicking on the the column header (Status, From, Subject ...)
- Please sort the messages in various ways
Reading a message
- You should now have a message in your mail box.
- You may need to click on the Check button
- To read a message, click on either the From line or the Subject line.
- Please do this, read one of your messages
- Options while reading the message
  - Delete - delete this message
  - File - Save the message in a folder, more about this later
  - Create - as before
  - Reply - reply to the sender
  - Reply All - reply to all reciepients and sender
  - Forward - send the message to someone else
  - Previous - go to the message before thi
  - Next - Go to the message after this
  - Options - in just a bit
  - Index - go to the index
  - Help - help on webmail
- You can also add the sender to your address book here
Deleting a message
- Please go back to your inbox now.
- You can delete multiple message at this point.
- Check the box next to the subject for the messages you want to delete
- Click on the delete button.
- Please delete a message now
Some Options
- Show Headers - look at information about how the message traveled through the sendmail system
- Add Signature
  - A signature is attached to every message
  - Should be under 5 lines (or so)
  - The signature can be created in the bottom box. (Message Signature)
  - Please add a signature message. Please Include:
    - Your Full Name.
    - Your email address.
Help
- The on line documentation
- Please look at this
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