Setting your preferences

E-Mail Use

Setting your preferences:

1.  Before you can send and receive e-mail, you must set your preferences.  Select the Edit menu from the menu bar.

2.  Select Preferences from the drop down menu. 

Preferences is where you customize all aspects of Netscape Communicator.  If Messenger is your active window, then "Mail and Newsgroup Preferences" will automatically be selected.  If it is not, then select "Mail and Newsgroup Preferences" from the category menu on the left side of the window. 

3.  Select Identity from the Mail and Newsgroups category menu.  The correlating information fields will appear in the window on the right. 

4.  Enter your first and last name, or how you would like your name to appear on your e-mails, in the Your Name field. 

5.  Enter your e-mail address in the E-mail Address field.  Your e-mail address is ________@cuip.uchicago.edu. 

6.  Enter your e-mail address again in the Reply-to address field.  This is necessary only if the reply-to address is different from the e-mail address in the above field. 

7.  You may also enter the organization with which you are affiliated in the Organization field.  For instance, Chicago Public Schools. 

8.  Select Mail Servers from the Mail and Newsgroups category menu. 
 
 

9.  Add your Incoming Mail Server by clicking on the Add button to the right of the window.  

(A box may appear that reads:  "You can have multiple mail servers if they are IMAP servers.  You are currently using a pop server."  If this happens, click on OK.  You must first delete the existing mail server before adding a new one.  To do this, click on the mail server currently lisated in the Incoming Mail Servers dialog box.  Once it is highlighted, click on the Delete button to the right of the window.  Then click again on the Add button.)  

A new window titled Mail Server Properties. 

10.  Enter "cuip.uchicago.edu" in the Server Name field.  (NOTE: This may not be the right setting for labs that are not on the U of C campus, such as the Wadsworth lab. See this note.)

11.  If it is not already selected for you, select "POP3" in the Server Type field. 

12.  Enter the part of your e-mail address before "@cuip.uchicago.edu" in the User Name field.  That is, your CUIP "username."

13.  As a precaution, you should not select (check) Remember password on a computer that is being used by people other than yourself.  If you do this, others may be able to access your e-mail. 

14.  Select the Pop tab in the Mail Servers Properties window. 

15.  Select Leave messages on server by clicking once in the box to the left.  (If you begin to use Netscape Messenger a lot, and send and receive a lot of email, you don't want to fill up your mail space on the server. In this case, we suggest you set Messenger to delete emails after 14 days.)

16.  Click on the OK button in the bottom of the Mail Server Properties window. 

17.  Enter "cuip.uchicago.edu" as the Outgoing Mail Server.  (NOTE: This may not be the right setting for labs that are not on the U of C campus, such as the Wadsworth lab. See this note.)

18.  Enter the part of your e-mail address before "@cuip.uchicago.edu" in the User Name field. 

19.  Select Copies and Folders from the Mail and Newsgroups category menu. 

20.  Uncheck "Place a copy in folder: 'sent' on Local Mail."  This will prevent your messages from remaining on the computer for future users to read. 

21.  Click the OK button.  You are ready to read your e-mail.