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"Getting Your Virtual Feet Wet" - March 16, 1998
For the Macintosh - Once you get to the page scroll down to where it says Eudora Light 3.1.3 for Macintosh. You want to click on E-mail client software. After you do this your machine will be busy for about 20 minutes (with a 28.8 modem) while the software is downloaded to your machine. After the downloading is finished you should have two new files on your computer. On my computer these new files appear on the desktop.
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Click on the file that looks like this, and the Eudora file will install itself on your computer. |
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If you don't have the first file, clicking on this file will create the file shown above.
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For Windows - Once you get to the page scroll down to where it says Eudora Light 3.0.5 for Windows. You want to click on E-mail client software.
If these addresses don't work, try using a search engine like Yahoo or Alta Vista to search for "Eudora Light." You should be able to find another place to download the program.
Go to the Special menu and choose Settings.
Choose Getting Started from the field on the left. You may have to scroll up to find it.
Type your name and email address here.
Next click on Hosts.
Here you need to put the address that your provider or university gives you.
Use the scroll bar, to scroll down a little - until you can see and click on Sending Mail. Here you need to make sure that the Immediate Send box is not checked. Immediate Send means that your messages will be sent as soon as you close them instead of waiting until you select Send Queued Messages in the File menu.
Pull down the Message menu to New Message. You'll see something that looks like this.
The To: line is where you type the e-mail address to which you're sending this message. In this case, it will be a message to the TESL-L Listserv, a machine that will make sure your mailbox is never empty.
On the To: line, type
LISTSERV@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
Whether it's capitalized or not doesn't matter to the TESL-L Listserv.
In the Subject: line, type
Subscription to TESL-L
(This isn't necessary for the Listserv, but it helps you know what's going on.)
You can leave the Cc: (send a copy to this person) Bcc: (blind cc, where the recipient of your message doesn't know you're sending a copy to the person on the bcc: line), and X-Attachments (which we'll talk about later) blank.
Tab or click down to the message area. In this message to the Listserv, type
SUBSCRIBE TESL-L YourFirstName YourLastName
where you put your first name and your last name after the word TESL-L. This will look like
SUBSCRIBE TESL-L Elin Melchior
That's it for this message--now click the Queue button to add this message to your queue of messages waiting to be sent. Because we want a response from the Listserv today, we'll go ahead and send this message. Pull down the File menu and select Send Queued Messages.
Pull down the File menu and select Check Mail. If you have any mail waiting for you, the In mailbox will open, and you'll see something like this:
New files will have a dot in the leftmost column. If you reply to a message, you'll see an R in that column; forwarded messages have an F.
To read a message, double-click on it to open it. You'll see something like this.
The top of the window is a quick look at the sender, the date, and the subject.
Note that there are three names on the To: line--this tells you who else got this message.
After you have read a message, you may wish to reply. Pull down the Message menu to Reply. (Hint: If the message has a cc: or is from more than one person, hold the option key when you select Reply to reply to everyone.)
The next step is very important: Look at the To: box to see to whom you are replying! If the message is just from a friend or family member, there will be no surprises. If the message is from TESL-L or another mailing list, you may be replying to the whole list or just to an individual on the list--be sure this is what you want.
The original text of the message will automatically be included in your reply unless you delete it. It helps the recipient to know to what you are replying. An answer like "Yes" and nothing else in a mail message is generally infuriating. However, it's also polite not to put any unnecessary repetition in your reply.
If you'd like to share the contents of a message you're reading with someone else, you can forward the message by pulling down the Message menu to Forward. You will see a screen that looks a lot like Reply, but you'll need to type in the address of the person you're sending it to in the To: box. You can add information to the message, if you want, before you send it.
When your message is ready to go, just click Queue to add it to your queue of messages waiting to be sent.
While it would be wonderful to receive only mail you wanted to keep forever, the time does come when you find a message that you just don't care to keep. If you're reading the message, just pull down the Message menu to Delete (or press Command-D). If it's a message in a mailbox, single-click to highlight the message, then pull down the Message menu to Delete (or press Command-D).
At the bottom of messages, you often see a few lines of information about the sender, like this.
Elin Melchior ****** Komaki English Teaching Center
JALT CALL N-SIG Coordinator, SIGNIF listowner
See "C@lling Japan" at http://langue.hyper.chubu.ac.jp/c@ll/
elin@gol.com------office phone: 0568-76-0905
This is a "signature" and most mail programs will let you create one that will automatically be attached to your messages. In Eudora, create a signature file by pulling down the Special menu to Signatures and typing in what you want to say to the world. It's polite to keep this as short as possible--people don't want to see a signature as long as a message.
Don't use you signature when sending commands to computers like the TESL-L listserv. You can turn off your signature at the little "JH" box at the top left of your message.
If you work with people who are using the same software that you are, attachments are very, very easy. Go to the Message menu and click on Attach Document . . .. This will give you a menu letting you browse through your hard drive and choose a document to send to somebody. Choose your document and click on Attach. If you are not using the same software or computers, you can still use attachments, but it becomes more complicated.
You can put the addresses of people you write to frequently into short form--nicknames--in an address book. This saves time in typing addresses (as well as saving human memory). It's also very useful if you are sending the same messages to a group of people, such as those you're working with on a committee or recipients of your electronic family newsletter.
Open a message in your In box. Go to the Special menu and choose Make Address Book Entry. You will get a box which will give you a nickname suggestion (a short name that you will later type in the To: line) - the nickname suggested will probably be long and not as easy to type as a new nickname which you assign would be. You can keep the nickname suggested or type a new nickname here. I never use capital letters in my nicknames for typing speed. The people reading your messages will not see you nicknames, so you don't need to worry about titles, etc.
Click on the box next to Put it on the recipient list--this lets you pull down the Message menu to New Message To and see that person's nickname, so you don't have to remember what it is or type it in.
Click OK and you are done.
The Long Way - You can also create a nickname without using a message, pull down the Special menu to Address Book. Click on New, a new box will appear - type in the nickname.
Click OK, then you'll see the big screen again. This is where you type in the email address. You can also add the real name in the Name field and any extra notes in Notes. These last two pieces of information are not used by Eudora and are only for your convenience.
If you want mail to go to several people from one nickname (for the family newsletter, for example), just type more than one address in the Address(es): box. Press Return after each address.
When you're finished, just click to close the box and click on Save when it asks if you want to save the changes.
Once you start getting lots of mail (which you will if you subscribe to TESL-L), you'll probably want to organize it so it's not all in the same In mailbox. Eudora uses "mailboxes" as its organizing metaphor; many other mail programs use "folders" to refer to the same thing.
Think about the categories you'd like to use to organize your mail, then pull down the Mailboxes menu to New. Give your new mailbox a name based on one of the categories, such as "Family," "Writing information," "Jokes," etc. You generally don't want to make it into a folder, so leave that box unchecked.
After you type in a name and click OK, you'll see the new mailbox when you pull down the Mailboxes menu. Now it's cleanup time--go back to your In mailbox, single-click on a message you'd like to move, then pull down the Transfer menu to the new mailbox. If you want to see the messages in the new mailbox, pull down the Mailboxes menu to your new mailbox.
Online help is available by pulling down the question mark icon in the top right of your screen. You'll see topics such as Creating and Sending a Message, Using Attachments, Using Signatures, Receiving Messages, Responding to Messages, Changing your Password, Deleting Messages, Transferring Messages, Using Mailboxes, Filtering Messages
