Netscape: email reading

Email config

Step: Goto the Preferences menu

1. Goto the File menu.
2. Select the Preferences menu item.
3. Click the triangle at the Mail & Newsgroups category on the left.

Step: Identity

1. Select the Identity option from the category list of the left.
2. Your name your real name (EG Cameron Blackwood)
3. Your email address again, hopefully obvious. Look at the example, where I used my email address, cameron@mail.earth.monash.edu.au.

Your username should be your username that you use to read email here. You can also use an alias if you know your alias is valid (for example I know I can use cameron.blackwood. If you have an alias question then feel free to ask.

Step: Mail servers

Reading Email internally

1. Select the Mail servers menu item.
2. Set the Outgoing mail (SMTP) server to mail.earth.monash.edu.au
3. Delete all incoming mail servers
4. Click on add

Reading Email externally

1. Select the Mail serves menu item.
2. Leave the Outgoing mail (SMTP) server set to to your local ISP's email server (eg, if you use connect.com.au then your email server will probably be something like smtp.connect.com.au.

   (Your email will be addressed as you because you set up your email address for outgoing email in the indentity menu). If you do try and use our server then your email will be refused because out server thinks you are trying to send SPAM email.

3. Leave your local ISP email server if you want. (You probably should ;)
4. Click on add

1. Select Imap as the server type
2. Set the server name to mail.earth.monash.edu.au
3. Set the user name to your username.

Step: Setting the default

1. Select the mail server you just created mail.earth.monash.edu.au
2. Click on Set as Default (You may skip this if you are connecting from an exteral computer and you dont want earth science to be your default mail service).