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Checking your email

In order to check whether anyone has sent you an email, and to read it, you need to check your inbox. Your 'inbox' is like a postbox where email addressed to you is collected. To use your email, you need to ensure that your computer is connected to the internet. You then need to open a browser like Firefox, and then enter in the URL (the web address) of you email programme into the address box:

mail.camanetwork.org

Because everyone has their own unique email account, you then need to log in using your username and password, (see the chapter on Logging In).

For most email services, including your CAMA email, the Inbox will be displayed in the window that comes up after you log in to your email. Your emails will be displayed in a list, giving information about their subject, who sent them and when. To open an email, you will need to click once on the email's subject line.

This series of steps is essentially the same for most email services you might encounter, though the layout of the page and the way the buttons look might be a bit different.

[edit] Instructions

Make sure you are logged in - see the chapter on Logging In.

1. Once you have logged in, you will be taken to a page with your Inbox displayed in the window.

You can always get to your Inbox by clicking once on the Inbox link, which looks like this:

2. Your email is displayed as a list, whereby each email is a row. This gives the name and/or email address of the sender, the time and date the email was sent, and the subject of the email, like this:

Emails that have not yet been read are in bold text, like the first two in the list.

6. You will notice that the subject line of each email is written in blue and underlined- this text acts as a link. In the example below, this link is the text reading 'Hi Liz'.

The email was sent by 'Jim Jepps' at 4.07pm on Friday. You can see this even before you open the email.

7. To open and read the email simply click once with the left mouse button on the blue, underlined subject line.

8. Congratulations! Your email will now be displayed on the screen and you can read it. To read other emails, click on the Inbox image link on the left side of the screen and repeat the process of clicking on the subject line of the next email you want to read.