This section covers briefly the basic steps for sending and
receiving mail with Mozilla. The
Mozilla Help contents,
located under Help on the main menu, provide much
more information.
To open the Mozilla mail tool while in
Mozilla, click on the mail icon near the
lower left corner of the Mozilla Navigator
screen. 
You can also launch Mozilla Mail Message
from the GNOME main menu by going to =>
=> .
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.
Newsgroups are Internet discussion groups with specific
topics. The discussions take place via email and subscribing to a
group is very easy. You don't even have to post messages if you don't
want to; you can just "lurk." There are a great many newsgroups on the
Web with topics ranging from politics to computer games to random
strange thoughts.
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 appears. Select Newsgroup account and click
on 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 for this information). On the last few
screens, you can determine the name that this account will be referred to
and review your settings.
Now the newsgroup account you just 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 ones you want
and click on 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.
