Web-Based Email for Students

Getting Started

• launch your favorite browser (Internet Explorer or Netscape)
• in the location line enter
  • from off campus http://tiger.georgetowncollege.edu/webmail  
  • from on campus tiger/webmail 
• you will see the login screen as shown to the right
• enter your user name and password
• click <Login> button
• you will now see the Web Mail Main Screen

• To read email, simply click on the subject of the email. For example, to read the email from Carl Mahan, click on its subject, Your Computer is Fixed. That email will open

• Click on any underlined word in the picture to learn how to use that feature

• Click on Your Computer is Fixed to see the screen when email is opened

• Click on any of the red words in the sidebar

  • INBOX will open your Inbox folder; the number next to INBOX is the number of unread emails

  • SENT will open up the sent email folder

  • TRASH will open up a folder of deleted emails

You can also click on the gray boxes to the right of From, Date or Subject to sort you list of email by that criterion. Click once and you will see the gray box change to a green arrow head pointing up then click again to reverse the sort (green arrow head pointing down)

• Click on the subject of the email in the Main Screen
• you will see a screen like the one shown to the right
• Click on any underlined word in the picture to learn how to use that feature
• As noted above, you can also click on any of the red word in the sidebar to open that folder

• Message List: click to return to the Inbox window
• Delete: click to delete this email and return to the Inbox window
• Previous: Click to open the previous email in the list (as listed in the Inbox window)
• Next: Click to open the next email in the list (as listed in the Inbox window)
• Forward: Click to forward this email to one or more persons
• Reply: Click to reply to the sender of this email
• Reply All: Click to reply to everyone that was sent this email
• View Full Header: Click to view the email header information
• View Printable Version
  • the email on the screen as shown is not formatted properly for printing
  • click this button to view a printable version
    • now clickto print the email
    • then clickto close the print window

• Enter the name(s) of the intended recipients in the To: box
• Enter the name(s) of those persons to which you wish to send a courtesy copy of this email in the CC: box
• Enter the name(s) of those persons to which you wish to send a blind courtesy copy of this email in the BCC: box
• Enter the subject of the email in the Subject: box
• Set the priority of the email using the drop-down Priority list
• Do you want to know if the email was delivered?
  • check On read to be notified when the email is read
  • check On Delivery to be notified when the email is delivered

   

Click on any underlined word in the picture to learn how to use that feature

• clickto add your signature
  • you must click Options then Personal Information to create a signature and then
    • with Use Signature checked, your signature will be automatically added to any new email you compose
    • if Use Signature is not checked, then click this button to add your signature
• clickto open your address book
  • click in the To radio button and/or CC radio button and/or BCC radio button next to one or more names then clickto address the email with the names selected
• clickto send the email
• clickto save a draft of the email to work on later
• clickto check spelling before sending

• Complete the form to make an entry in your address book then click(see picture of the address immediately below)
• The Nickname can be used in the address lines when you Compose mail to enter a person's email address instead of entering the email address
• The Additional info can be used to add commentary to an address (see next section)
• Click on any underlined word in the picture to learn how to use that feature

• An example of what the address book looks like
• To add additional addresses, click <Add address> 
• Or scroll this screen in Web Mail to see the Add to Personal address book as shown above
• If you check the box to the left of any address, then you can use the Edit selected button to modify that address or the Delete selected button to delete the address
• None of the underlined words are active in this picture

• You can create folders to help organize saved email
• Type a name for a folder in the Create Folder box, then click <Create>
• If you have folders, options will be available under Rename a Folder to rename them
• If you have folders, options will be available under Delete Folder to delete them
• Click on any underlined word in the picture to learn how to use that feature

The main screen for options. You can customize how Web Mail works for you by selecting one or more of these choices.
There are no active links in this screen … for now!

Click on any underlined word in the picture to learn how to use that feature

• The first drop-down box (shows Inbox in the picture) allows you to select where to search. Choices are:
  • Inbox email in your Inbox
  • Drafts drafts of email saved but not sent
  • Sent email that has been sent
  • Trash email that has been deleted but not purged from trash
  • All folders all of your folders
• Type the keyword(s) for your search in the box (shown empty in the picture)
• Select what to search in the next drop-down box (Body shown in the picture). Choices are:
  • Body of the email
  • Everywhere all parts of the email
  • Subject of the email
  • From line of email
  • CC courtesy address line of email
  • To line of email

• The Search link is context-sensitive, meaning that you will get help for whatever screen you are currently viewing (in the Search screen, clicking Help gives you help on searching
• The picture shows a portion of the Help Table of Contents
• Click on any underlined word along the top in the picture to learn how to use that feature

• If an item is checked, click the Read button to mark that item as having been read, even if you have not opened it.
• If an item is checked, click the Unread button to mark that item has having not been read, even if you have opened it.
• If an item is checked, click the Delete button to move that email to the Trash folder
• If an item is checked, click the Forward button to forward the email to someone else
• If an item is checked, select a folder from the drop-down list and then click Move to move that email to the selected folder

Click on any underlined word in the picture to learn how to use that feature

• click on Sign Out to exit webmail
• you will see the Sign Out screen as shown
• exit from your browser
• if you click on Click here to log back in you will be returned to the log in screen (pictured above)