Email Clients

A series of help pages for Macintosh computer users!

Two Email Clients

"Getting Started"

"Email is courteous and specific! Deal with it at your own time - follow through on intentions!"

An essential "Getting started with Eudora" and POPmail/Lab. Eudora is the multifeatured email standard but POPmail/Lab is very useful for checking your mail from another computer. For a serious email user: carry a copy of POPmail/Lab on a disk to check email from almost any internet connect (both Mac and PC versions available).
Here are the basics of How to Read, How to Reply, and How to Send email.

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Topics

Eudora

POPmail/Lab

Reference:
Tame Your Email (MacWorld)

Eudora

NOTE: Eudora Lite is a "freeware" version of one of the most popular email clients called Eudora Pro. Freeware means that it costs nothing (it is actually free). It works very well even though a few of the "perks" of the full version are missing (or hidden). It is a fully-functional email client. See Eudora by Qualcomm for a full version of Eudora. Eudora Lite is installed on all the Harding computers and you may copy the program and take it home to your home computer. Eudora can be made to work with more than one user (or more than one email address) but it was not designed for that purpose so it takes some special attention. See How to configure Eudora for multiple users.

When to Use: If you are the only person using your computer, I recommend using Eudora for sending and receiving email. I will configure Eudora to work for you (with your name, email name, etc.)

How to Use:

NOTE: Eudora is so intuitive and "Mac-Like" that little need be said about how to use it. If you are interested, Mail is a site that shows how to configure Eudora and has some thoughts about Claris E-mailer as well. There is also some general description of POP mail.

After Eudora is configured, Quit the program from the File menu or use command q.
(Note: I recommended to leave the In and Out windows open - do not close the IN and OUT windows.)

To open Eudora - (Click here for a more graphic version of Eudora)
-Click on Eudora in the Internet Category of the Launcher
-Eudora will open and prompt you for your password
-Type your password and Eudora will check your mail

NOTE: Your new mail will be added to the bottom of the list in your IN window each time. Since generally Eudora is configured to delete the mail on the server when you pick it up, this is the only listing of your email. All of your email messages are transferred to your computer and deleted from the server. (The server is your electronic post office.)
To read email
-Double-click on an item in the IN window (the highlighted message is displayed on your screen)
-You may make the message full screen by clicking on the box at the upper right
To reply to that message
-Under Message in the menu bar at the top, go to Reply
-Click in the message area (the To: address and From: address are already there)
-Type your message

Reminder: It is a good idea to Sign your message by typing in your name at the end.

-Click on the Send button at the upper right of the message
If you don't wish to reply to the message
-Close the message by clicking on the close box at the upper left of the message
To send a new message
-Under Message in the menu bar at the top, go to New Message
-Click in the To: line and type in the email address for the person you wish to contact
-Click in the Subject: line and give your message a short topical name
-Click in the message area at the bottom and type in your message

Reminder: It is a good idea to Sign your message by typing in your name at the end.

-Click on the Send button at the upper right of the message
The addressbook is somewhat concealed in the freeware version, Eudora Light, and takes a little attention to learn how to use it.

Special NOTE: There are specific helps for other Macintosh items at:

Macintosh Ideas

Eudora | POPmail/Lab | Table of Contents

POPmail

NOTE: POPmail/Lab a "bare bones" email program designed by the University of Minnesota to be used in computer lab situations where there are multiple users of the same computer. It is designed to be able to send and receive email without placing the messages on the local computer. In a sense, one goes to the post office, reads mail at the post office, and leaves the mail there to be picked up at another time. This system is very nice in a school situation because you can use any computer to read and send your email (i.e. computers in the Lab, computers in the library, a computer in a colleage's office, a computer in someone's home that is connected to the internet). POPmail does not have all the "perks" of a complete email client (like Eudora) and items, like an addressbook and automatic signatures, are notably missing. There are ways, with a little learning, that one can "make up" for some of these missing "perks". The University of Minnesota has given us permission to configure this client for use at Harding.

When to Use: If a number of people use one computer or if you wish to send / receive email from another computer, please use POPmail as your email client.

Before starting you will need to know
-Your email address
-Your Password

How to Use:

To open POPmail
-Click on POPmail in the Internet category of the Launcher
-Type in your Full Name (as listed on your card)
-Type in your email address (you will see this on your card also)
-Type in your password (listed on your card)
-Press Return
-POPmail will check your mail

All your mail will be listed each time since the mail is left on the server (your electronic post office) unless you Trash it or Delete it.

To read email
-Click on an item in the upper window (the highlighted message is displayed in the lower window)
-You may scroll up and down by using the scroll bar at the right.

To reply to that selected message
-Click on Reply icon at the top of the window
-Type your message

Reminder: It is a good idea to Sign your message by typing in your name at the end.

-Click on Post icon at the top of the window

To send a new message
-Click on New icon at the top of the window
-Type in the email address for the person you wish to contact
-Click in the Subject line and give your message a short topical name
-Click in the message window at the bottom and type in your message

Reminder: It is a good idea to Sign your message by typing in your name at the end.

-Click on the Post icon at the top of the window to send the message.

There is no addressbook in POP mail but a quasi-addressbook is suggested for you.

Special NOTE: There are more helps for other Macintosh items at:

Macintosh Ideas

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