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Netscape 7.X Mail Client

User Guide

California State University Northridge

Systems and Technology


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Index:1. Email Signatures and Address Book Setup

I. Setting up Email Signature (p. 2-5.)

II. Creating new contact in Address Book (p. 6-7)

III. Creating contact group in Address Book (p. 8-9)

2. Composing and Reading Email I. How to Receive and Read Emails (p. 10-11)

II. How to Compose and Send an Email (p. 12-14)

3. Filters and Junk Mail Control I. Setting up Netscape to detect and delete junk Email (p. 15-16)

II. Setting up Netscape to filter Email (p. 17-18)


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1. Email Signatures and Address Book Setup

I. Setting up Email Signature

1. Open My Documents folder from desktop.

2. Click File\New\Text Document


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3. Rename document to signature.txt. Then click and open document

4. Type the information that you want as your signature in the signature.txt document and

save it.


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5. Open Netscape mail client, select account name, and click on View Settings for this

Account.

6. Check the box next to Attach this Signature, then click choose button. Navigate to My

Documents and select signature.txt. Click open to choose this file as your signature file.


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7. Click OK to save changes. You have now successfully made a signature.


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II. Creating new contact in Address Book

1. From Netscape mail client select Window\Address Book

2. Click on New Card Icon.


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3. Fill in all known fields and click OK.

4. Contact has now been created.


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III. Creating contact group in Address Book

1. From Netscape mail client select Window\Address Book

2. Click New List icon


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3. Fill out form and click OK to save.

4. You have successfully made a new contact list.


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2. Composing and Reading Email

I. How to Receive and Read Emails

1. Click on Get Messages Icon to download Email from server.

2. New Email will show up to the right of folders.


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3. Double click on mail to open it.

4. Click on filename of attachment to open it.


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II. How to Compose and Send an Email

1. Click Compose icon to start writing a new Email.

2. Fill in Subject and body fields as well as recipients email address(s).


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3. Click on Attach icon if you need to attach any documents.

4. Select all files that need to be attached and click open to attach them to the email.


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3. Filters and Junk Mail Control

I. Setting up Netscape to detect and delete junk Email

1. Click on the Tools menu.

2. Select Junk Mail Filters option.


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3. Make sure Enable Junk Mail Control box is checked off. Also make sure the Moveincoming messages determined to be junk mail to: option is also checked off. Junk

Folder on: option should be selected and Local Folders should be selected. Click OK to

save settings. You have know successfully setup junk mail filtering.


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II. Setting up Netscape to filter Email

1. Click on the Tools menu.

2. Select Message Filters option.


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3. Select New.

4. Name the filter. Set your perimeters for the filter you are setting up. Check the box

next to Move to Folder and choose the folder you wish the Emails to be filtered to.

Click OK. You are now done.