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Nets Cape Use Guide

This document provides instructions for using key features of the Netscape 7.X mail client, including setting up email signatures, creating contacts and groups in the address book, composing and sending emails, and configuring filters and junk mail control. The instructions cover how to create a signature file and assign it to your account, add new contacts and groups, send and receive emails, attach files, and set up filters to detect and automatically delete or move junk emails and filter emails based on criteria.

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Nets Cape Use Guide

This document provides instructions for using key features of the Netscape 7.X mail client, including setting up email signatures, creating contacts and groups in the address book, composing and sending emails, and configuring filters and junk mail control. The instructions cover how to create a signature file and assign it to your account, add new contacts and groups, send and receive emails, attach files, and set up filters to detect and automatically delete or move junk emails and filter emails based on criteria.

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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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5. Click the send icon to send 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 ‘Move
incoming 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.

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