7.2. Mozilla Mail
This section briefly covers the basic steps for sending and
receiving email with Mozilla. If you need
further information about using Mozilla Mail,
the Mozilla Help
contents are located under Help on the main
menu.
To start Mozilla Mail, select
=>
=> .
To open Mozilla Mail while in
Mozilla, click on the mail icon near the
lower left corner of the Mozilla
screen. 
To send an email, click on the Send button or
go to => or
. If you choose to send later, you can go
back to the main mail screen and go to =>
.
To read email, click on the mail folder you created for yourself to
see a list of messages waiting for you. Then, click on the message you
want to read.
Once you read a message, you can delete it, save it to a separate
folder, and more.
7.2.1. Mozilla and Newsgroups
Newsgroups are Internet discussion groups with specific
topics. The discussions are in threaded format (which means all topics
and responses to the topic are sorted and organized for convenient
reading) and subscribing to a group is very easy. You do not have to
post messages if you do not want to; you can just
lurk, which is a Newsgroup term for reading
without posting messages. There are a great many newsgroups on the Web
with topics ranging from politics to computer games to random strange
thoughts. You can even post and download pictures and files to
Newsgroups (although your ISP may restrict Newsgroups to text-based
postings only).
To join a newsgroup, you first need to set up a newsgroup
account. Click on your mail account name in the sidebar and select
Create a new account from the options that appear
on the right of the screen. The New Account Setup
screen will appear. Select Newsgroup account and
then click Next.
Enter your name and email address on the next screen and click
Next. On the following screen, enter the name
of your news server (if you do not know the name of your news server,
contact your Internet service provider or network administrator for
this information). On the last few screens, you can determine the name
that this account will be referred to and review your settings.
The newsgroup account you created will appear in the sidebar of
the Mozilla mail screen. Right-click on
this account name and select Subscribe. A dialog
box appears, listing all the newsgroups available. Select the groups
you are interested in reading and click
Subscribe. When you are done, click on
OK.
Now, click on the arrow next to the newsgroup account name
and the list of groups you are subscribed to will appear beneath. Select
the newsgroup you want to access and a dialog box appears with information
about downloading and reading existing messages. Posting to
a newsgroup is just like writing an email, except that the newsgroup name
appears in the To field rather than an email address.
To unsubscribe from a newsgroup, right-click on the group name and select
Unsubscribe.
