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
Secure Mode
- This helps you defend the privacy of your mail.
- And is probably a good thing to use.
- So click it now.
Logon
- Put in your username and password.
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 flash 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
  - Remember, you have 150 megabytes
- 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

Adding an attachemnt

At times, you will be required to send me an exercise as an attachment.
Compose the headers and body of the message as usual.
Click on the attach button.
This allows you to add a file to your message.
You will see a menu like this
Click on the browse button and load the file
Click on the open button
Click on the add file button
The file will show up in the attached files area
Click the ok button when done
The file name will show up on the composer screen.
This procedure works with most web based mail applications with slight changes to the procedure.

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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