RCA 980-04038-800 manual Reading Your Mail

E-MAIL

E-MAIL AT A GLANCE

When you send e-mail, you get to write messages, check your spelling, and send them to anyone who has an e-mail address. You can send e-mail anywhere in the world, anytime! And people can send you messages at your WebTV address anytime, from anywhere. (See page 92 for information on adding users, each with his or her own e-mail address.)

To start using Mail, go to Web Home, select Mail from the top-left part of the page, then press OK or RETURN.

Here’s a look at the features of Mail:

E-MAIL – continued

READING YOUR MAIL

You can tell when you have new mail by looking at the Mailbox at the top of the Web Home screen. When a letter appears in the on-screen mailbox, you have mail. Or check the Message light on the front of the receiver. When the red light is on, you have mail.

Follow these steps to read your mail:

1	From Web Home, select Mail from the top of the screen, then press OK or
	RETURN. The Mail list screen appears.
	Select the message you want to read, then press OK or RETURN. Your
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	message opens.

To start a	Open your address book, send a
new message,	message to someone in your address
use Write.	book, or add a new address.

Store messages in folders.

Lets you discard or save messages.

Lets you customize the way your Mail system works and set up folders where you can store messages.

To read long messages, you can use the scroll buttons on your remote control

or keyboard to move up and down in the message.

To add the person who sent you this message to your address book, select the

sender’s name (shown on the From line), then press OK or RETURN.

Once you have finished reading the message, you have a number of options

for what to do next. These options are presented to the left of the message.

Takes you back to the	Who the message is from.	Detailed instructions
Mail list (leaving the		on using Mail.
message you’re reading
in your Mail list).
Go to the next or
the previous message
in your Mail list.
Throw away this
message now.
Save this message in
a folder. (Use Settings
in the Mail List screen
to set this up.)
Write a response
to this message.

Provides links to Web sites that	Your message list.	Provides a basic overview,
let you use e-mail to receive		detailed step-by-step instructions,
faxes, send greeting cards, etc.		and answers to frequently asked
		questions about Mail.

Send this message

on to another person.

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