6.2. 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 Main Menu => Extras Internet => Mozilla Mail.
To open Mozilla Mail while in Mozilla, click on the mail icon near the lower left corner of the Mozilla screen.
Figure 6-5. Mozilla Mail and News
Figure 6-6. Mozilla Mail New Email Message Screen
To send an email, click on the Send button or go to File => Send Now or Send Later. If you choose to send later, you can go back to the main mail screen and go to File => Send unsent messages.
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.
6.2.1. 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.
Figure 6-7. Newsgroup Account Setup
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.
6.3. KMail
If you chose a custom installation of Red Hat Linux, your system may have the KMail email client. KMail is an email tool for KDE, the K Desktop Environment. It has an intuitive graphical interface similar to Evolution that makes sending and receiving email simpler.
To open KMail, click on the Main Menu => Extras => Internet => KMail.
Before you can really use KMail, you must configure it so it can send and receive mail. To run the configuration tool, select Settings from the KMail toobar, and click on Configure KMail.
The Configure Mail Client window consists of seven sections: Identity, Network, Appearance, Composer, Security, and Miscellaneous. To begin sending and receiving messages you will only have to change the settings in the Identity and Network tabs. Have your email information from your service provider or administrator handy so that you can fill in the required information to begin using KMail. For additional information, refer to the KMail user manual (Help => Contents) or visit KMail's homepage at http://kmail.kde.org.
Figure 6-8. KMail Main Screen
Once you have your email settings configured, you can begin sending and receiving email. The folders on the left side of the KMail screen allow you to view emails you have received, emails ready to be sent, emails you have sent, and more.
To compose a mail, click on the new message icon in the tool bar:
Figure 6-9. KMail New Email Message Screen
Once you have composed a message and entered an email address to send the email to, click Send in the toolbar:
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