JUNE 13TH Eprompter

Controlling Your Email:
Email is one of the great developments made in the last 20 years. It is also one of the most troublesome. It makes for easy communication and providing a written record to avoid confusion. It is also the source of most computer viruses and spam messages. Many users have several address to allow them to register for services without filling their primary email address with spam and product alerts. This requires you to visit each mail service, logging in and remembering passwords to receive and read your mail. Opening mail on your computer opens your computer to viruses contained in some messages.
There is a Solution:
There are programs that gather mail from several email accounts and allow you to see them all in one place. Several of these are commercial programs and are available in stores for a price. The problem is as services change there method of displaying messages and logging in they require updates to keep working. The Open Source group came to the rescue with a free program "Eprompter"
It allow the gathering of mail from several accounts, logs in seamlessly to all accounts, gathers messages in a text only format(a safe mode), displays messages by account, sender and topic, and can be used to read and responded. It is almost a miracle, two clicks and all mail is available.
The first step is to download and install Eprompter from www.eprompter.com
After it is installed you must have a list of your email accounts, your email addresses and passwords. 1. Tell Eprompter how your computer connects to the Internet.
2. Tell Eprompter about the email accounts you want to retrieve.
Eprompter has a Wizard to make the first step easy. It is used to determine how you connect to the Internet. If you have a DSL or Cable connection The wizard recognizes it. If you use a dial up connection you must identify the server and password.
With the connection set up you can add accounts. First you type in the email address including the server. e.g. me@yahoo.com
Next you type in the password you use to login and confirm it. Eprompter recognizes the type of server (imap or POP3). It recognizes most common email services. If it doesn't recognize the server, you may have to fill is the type manually on a later screen. If your server is imap the next screen show this and your done.
If you have a POP3 server you have to know the mail address. e.g.pop3.mail.wideopenwest.com. This can be found by opening your email program and opening Tools/Accounts/Properties/Servers you will see incoming mail with a line similar to the example. You then repeat this for all of your accounts. (The only account that doesn't work with Eprompter presently is AIM accounts. This is due to a multi step login.)
Once you have completed the addition of account, you can open the program, Each mail address is in a separate box and color identified.. At the top of the screen is an E. There are three buttons next to this icon, Menu, Update and Help. The Menu allows you to add Update all accounts, Add Accounts, Add Addresses and Set Up. The UpDate button check for mail on all accounts.
There is a Options button in the box. Which allow you to Update that account, check the Setup and Compose a new message. If you have mail in the account you will also have an Inbox button This will allow you to see messages in a new screen. The messages are listed, showing the Sender, the Subject and the Date. If you highlight a message you can read it by clicking the Read button. The entire message will be displayed without graphics A Reply button will also appear at the bottom of the screen. Clicking that button will open a typical email screen showing your address as the sender, the To area will show the address of the original sender. The Message area will show the message you received and an area to type your reply. When you finish and click the send button you are returned to the messages screen. The reply will not be sent until you Update. You will have a green Send icon between the Inbox and Options in the account box.

MAY 2006 - YAHOO! Email Boxes

YAHOO EMAIL BOXES

To sign-up for a free Yahoo email box, go to www.yahoo.com and click on the “EMAIL” button on the top of the screen. It’s immediately to the right of the big, red YAHOO! logo.

1. On the right side of the sign-in screen, below the sign-in boxes, click on the “Sign Up” button
2. Begin filling out the required information. Although anything with an asterisk is REQUIRED, it doesn’t mean that you must give your true info. However, WRITE DOWN whatever information you decide to use, so that you will remember it.

3. Choose a Yahoo ID, enter it in the box and click “Check Availability”. If the ID that you pick is already taken, a screen will pop up giving you 3 boxes to enter some ideas and a box to try a new ID. Once you have found an ID, WRITE IT DOWN! It doesn’t matter if you use capital or lower-case letters, your ID is NOT case-sensitive. When you type it in, either style will work.
4. Now continue with a password choice. It must be 6 characters and IT IS CASE SENSITIVE! If you enter it here all in capital letters, you must ALWAYS use capital letters. WRITE DOWN YOUR PASSWORD EXACTLY AS YOU HAVE CHOSEN IT!
5. Yahoo requires some additional information to help if you ever forget your password. Again, this information does not need to be TRUE, but you do need to REMEMBER it. So, write it down.
6. You may fill in the “Customizing Yahoo” section, or leave it alone.
7. Fill in the “Verify Registration” box.
8. It might be a good idea to print out the screen page before you agree to the Yahoo Terms of Service. This is a good way to keep a record of the choices that you made. Hand-write in any information that is not shown on the print-out.
9. Click on “I Agree”. Congratulations! You now have a Yahoo! Email box.

If you do NOT want to receive advertising mail from Yahoo, click on “My Account” on the very top left hand side of the screen, just under the “Welcome…”. A screen will open asking for your password. Fill this in to get to your account information page. Under “Member Information”, click on “Edit your marketing preferences”. UNCHECK all the boxes and click on the “Save Changes” button on the bottom.

For help on using your Yahoo Email box, sign-in to your box and then click on “Mail Tutorials” on the upper right corner of the page. Yahoo provides step-by-step directions for all the features provided with your email box.