Welcome to the COE Netscape Messenger Tutorial

This tutorial is designed to give you a quick overview of Netscape Messenger's most powerful email features, and enable you to quickly become familiar with the program. If you are new to Netscape Messenger, you will love its ease of use and powerful features.

Logging into your account

• User ID
• Password

Reading a message

• The Message Index.
• Selecting a message to view.
• Reading the message.
• Keyboard and Toolbar commands.
• Printing a message.

Sending a message

• Composing a new message.
• Replying to an existing message.
• Forwarding an existing message.
• Composition Fields.
• Features and Commands.

The address book

• About the address book.
• Opening the address book.
• Adding a new address.
• Adding a distribution list.
• Addressing Email with Nicknames.
• Deleting an address book card.

Email Folders

• About folders.
• The Message Center.
• Creating folders.
• Saving a message to a folder.
• Opening a folder.
• Navigating between folders.

Email Attachments

• Attaching a file or web page to an email message.
• Viewing a list of attachments associated with a message.
• Viewing or saving an attachment.
• Saving an email message to a text file.
• Email Virus Tips (screen arrangement tips)

Encoding

• MIME
• Binhex
• Uuencode

The Signature file

• Creating and editing your signature file.

How to set up NS Messenger at home

• Preferences settings needed to access Purdue email at home.

Email Filters

• Email filters can help preserve your sanity from a flood of email!