Netscape: email reading

IMAP is better than POP (which is the older protocol) because IMAP stores the email on the mail server so you can read your email from any machine and your inbox will be just as you left it. IMAP also provides the ability to have multiple mail boxes on the server and so you can do all that funky stuff with multiple folders and things and you can access it from anywhere (even outside monash! :). Now, doesn't that just rock?

You can submit any problems that you have through the online help system at:

• http://www.earth.monash.edu.au/computer/

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. Set name your real name (EG Cameron Blackwood)
3. Set email address to your email address. Look at the example, where I used my email address, cameron@mail.earth.monash.edu.au.

Step: Mail servers

Email servers

1. Select the Mail servers menu item.
2. Select the Incoming mail server (which should be mail.earth.monash.edu.au).

Step: Mail server properties

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.
4. Click ok to close the Mail server properties window.
5. This will return you to the Preferences window. Click ok again.

Step: Using email...

1. You should now be able to click on the Communicator menu
2. Select the Messenger option from the menu
3. You can now examine your mail boxes and read your email.