GNUMail.app User's Guide

by Martin Brecher <martin@mb-itconsulting.com>


Contents

Exploring GNUMail.app

The first message
Composing a first message
Receiving our message


The first message [top of page]

As promised before, we will now compose a first message which we will send to ourself for testing purposes.

Composing a first message [top of page]

There are several ways to compose a new message, you may:

  • click the Compose button at the top of the Inbox window
  • use the menu: open the Compose menu and click New...
  • press ALT + n
This will open a window where we can enter the email address we want the mail to be sent to, the subject the mail is about and in the big box we can type the actual text.

Composing a first message...
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Just to have an example, send a simple message to yourself. If you have a local mail system running and set GNUMail.app to use this to fetch and send mail, then it should be enough to enter your local user name (maybe append a @localhost). Click the Send button after you have completed your input to deliver the mail.

Receiving our message [top of page]

To have GNUMail.app check for new messages click the Get button in the Inbox window or use the Mailbox -> Get New Mail menu function. If everything succeded you should see the message we composed before in the Inbox list. If not, you may have to wait a little for the SMTP and POP3 servers to transfer the mail - or something went wrong...

Hurray! our first mail!
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If the new message appears in the list, you can click on it and its contents will be displayed in the viewing pane at the bottom.