Page 2 - What You Need to Know About Sending Electronic Mail
NetMail/3000 Menu Interface Users Guide 2-2 What You Need to Know About Sending Electronic Mail For mail users, NetMail/3000 tries to provide a user interface for the computer novice, as well as shortcuts for the computer pro. Most commands are available via the terminal functionkeys on HP terminals...
Page 6 - What Are Mail Addresses?
NetMail/3000 Menu Interface Users Guide 2-6 What Are Mail Addresses? Mail addresses come in many different types and forms. NetMail/3000 uses mail addresses that look like this: Your mail address will look something like this. You will find your mail address displayed in the upper right corner of yo...
Page 7 - Running the NetMail Program
NetMail/3000 Menu Interface Users Guide 2-7 Running the NetMail Program The first thing you need to know is how to start up NetMail. For MPE users you merely enter: :RUN NETMAIL.SYS.THREEK If you see a “[NetMail/INBOX]” when you start up NetMail/3000, then you are in “command mode.” To change your d...
Page 8 - Basic Operations
NetMail/3000 Menu Interface Users Guide 2-8 Basic Operations Whenever you run NetMail/3000 in menu mode, you will see the menu bar painted across the top of the screen, and a message display area below where messages in the current folder are listed. For those of you used to standard applications on...
Page 9 - The ALT Key
NetMail/3000 Menu Interface Users Guide 2-9 The ALT Key Something PC users may find more intuitive is the separation of the menu bar and the win- dow below. On PCs you typically use the “ALT” key to toggle between the menu bar and the application window; since we don’t have “ALT” keys on HP terminal...
Page 10 - Cursor Keys
NetMail/3000 Menu Interface Users Guide 2-10 Cursor Keys In the message display area, you use the arrow keys (up/down) to point to the message you want to “operate” on (read, delete, whatever). You can also jump a page at a time with the “page down” or “page up” keys, or even jump all the way to the...
Page 11 - Function Keys; Menu Bar
NetMail/3000 Menu Interface Users Guide 2-11 Function Keys You’ll notice some special function keys while you are in the message display area. The function keys you will see include the “HELP” key (f1), “Zoom In<->Out” (f2), “Menu Bar” (f3), “Delete Message” (f4), “Refresh” (f5), “Tag this Mes...
Page 12 - Message Options
NetMail/3000 Menu Interface Users Guide 2-12 Message Options Once you activate the menu bar, the first selection you encounter are the message options. This is a pull-down menu (when you get to it, use the down arrow or RETURN key to view the menu). Under this selection are the NetMail/3000 commands...
Page 14 - ject; On; Filename
NetMail/3000 Menu Interface Users Guide 2-14 This box will pop-up over your message display and prompts you to provide information about the message you want to send. The first field you encounter is the “ message sub- ject ”. You can enter any text you want in this field (or leave it blank, but the...
Page 15 - Encoding
NetMail/3000 Menu Interface Users Guide 2-15 If you specified “8BIT” as the “Type”, you must now select an “ Encoding ” . The default encoding for “8BIT” messages is the MIME standard “Quoted Printable” encoding. The technical description of how this works is involved, but basically you only need to...
Page 16 - Read Receipt
NetMail/3000 Menu Interface Users Guide 2-16 MPE filename (traditional MPE syntax or Posix/HFS syntax if you are on MPE/iX 4.5 or later). If the “On” field specifies “PC” then you may enter a fully qualified path and filename for the file to be retrieved off your PC (or Macintosh). PC files (as HP f...
Page 17 - Attachments; Type
NetMail/3000 Menu Interface Users Guide 2-17 signature file specified but specified that it must ALWAYS be included, the “Add Signature” field will also be skipped over, but will be turned on (an “X” in it). If you specified a signature file but did not specify that it ALWAYS be used, the “Add Signa...
Page 19 - “On”; “Filename”
NetMail/3000 Menu Interface Users Guide 2-19 When you are done composing the message (or supplied a filename in the Send Mail win- dow above) you will then be prompted with the “Attach Files” window pictured above. At this point you have composed a message in the editor (or provided an external mess...
Page 20 - TYPE
NetMail/3000 Menu Interface Users Guide 2-20 After providing a filename (and specifying PC or HP for the source) you will be asked to pick a description for the file from the list available (the “ TYPE ” of the attachment file). This allows NetMail/3000 to decide how the file should be “encoded” (an...
Page 22 - Emulator
NetMail/3000 Menu Interface Users Guide 2-22 After you have selected the encoding (for any value other than “NONE”) you will be pre- sented with the “Emulator” field. The “ Emulator ” selections are only relevant if you are attaching an HP3000 (non text) file. For any other file type, use the defaul...
Page 24 - Recipients
NetMail/3000 Menu Interface Users Guide 2-24 Recipients Here you will be prompted to enter the ids of mailboxes to send the message to. Recipients of mail messages fall under three categories: To: (Primary) Recipients: NetMail/3000 prompts for the primary recipients of each messagefirst. At the “To:...
Page 25 - Help Finding Mail Names
NetMail/3000 Menu Interface Users Guide 2-25 Help Finding Mail Names At any To:, Cc:, or Bcc: prompt you may enter a question mark or use the function key labelled “Search for Name” (f2), and you will be prompted for a search criteria and will be pro-vided a list of mailbox names (and potentially ma...
Page 27 - Delete Message; “DELETE”
NetMail/3000 Menu Interface Users Guide 2-27 Delete Message At some point, after reading mail in your mailbox, you’ll need to delete old messages. While you are free to keep important messages for any amount of time (even after you have readthem), because there is limited space in the mail database ...
Page 29 - File Away Message
NetMail/3000 Menu Interface Users Guide 2-29 File Away Message Messages in the mailbox can be “filed” into other folders with the “File Away” command. By default, incoming messages are placed into the system folder “INBOX”. However, to aid in themanagement and tracking of potentially large amounts o...
Page 30 - Forward Message
NetMail/3000 Menu Interface Users Guide 2-30 Forward Message You may send on an exact copy of a message in your mailbox to someone else with the “FORWARD” command. Forwarding a message makes a copy of a message you have received in your mailbox and sends that copy on to another person (or people) yo...
Page 33 - Print Message; current
NetMail/3000 Menu Interface Users Guide 2-33 Print Message To actually print a copy of any message(s) in your mailbox, use the “PRINT” command. This will print a copy of the message(s) that you specify on the printer that is designated for you(see the SET PRINTER command). Only the text portion of m...
Page 34 - Read Message; All messages
NetMail/3000 Menu Interface Users Guide 2-34 Read Message There are two means of reading messages listed on the current display. The first and sim- plest, is to simply highlight it (using the arrow keys) and hit “RETURN”. This will display thecontents of the current message for you, after which you ...
Page 36 - Reply to Message
NetMail/3000 Menu Interface Users Guide 2-36 Reply to Message It is common in electronic communications to receive a message from someone which you wish to respond to. This might be a message from an individual discussing a particular topic, or a message from a mailing list or discussion group to wh...
Page 39 - Write to File; Write to file; All
NetMail/3000 Menu Interface Users Guide 2-39 Write to File To save a copy of a message as a permanent disc file you may use the ‘ Write to file ’ command. This command makes a copy of the mail message and writes it to a disc file that will becreated for you. This command only writes the text part of...
Page 41 - Save Attachment; Save
NetMail/3000 Menu Interface Users Guide 2-41 Save Attachment You can extract and save a file that is attached to a mail message with the “ Save Attachment ” command. As you read a message, you will see special blocks denoting that there is an “attached” file at that point in the message. Attachments...
Page 42 - name
NetMail/3000 Menu Interface Users Guide 2-42 When saving an attachment to the HP3000, the file will automatically be converted to either 1) its original format if it was an HP3000 file originally, or 2) a text file if it is a plain textattachment, or 3) a binary file in all other cases. As with othe...
Page 44 - Option Selections
NetMail/3000 Menu Interface Users Guide 2-44 Option Selections The Options menu selection groups mail configuration and other commands. By selecting and “pulling down” this menu (use the left or right arrow keys to highlight the “Options” item then use the down arrow or “RETURN” key to view the menu...
Page 47 - Verify Delete; VERIFYDELETE
NetMail/3000 Menu Interface Users Guide 2-47 Verify Delete You may select whether you want to be prompted for verification when you delete a mail message by setting the “ VERIFYDELETE ” ON. If ON, then whenever you delete a message you will be prompted to verify that you really want to delete that m...
Page 48 - Printer
NetMail/3000 Menu Interface Users Guide 2-48 (Set) Printer Whenever you choose to print a message on a printer, NetMail/3000 automatically sends the message to the printer which has been designated as the output device for your mail user. Youwill see the current setting of your print device by selec...
Page 49 - Notification
NetMail/3000 Menu Interface Users Guide 2-49 (Set) Notification You can specify the type of message notification (how you are notified when new mail arrives for you) and what type of messages you want to be notified of by setting the NOTIFYoption. By selecting the “ Notification ” selection under th...
Page 51 - EDITOR
NetMail/3000 Menu Interface Users Guide 2-51 (Set) Editor The file editor you use to edit and compose messages can be set with the “ EDITOR ” command under the Options menu or by the mail system administrator. You may set the editoryourself to any allowable editor, though certain restricted editors ...
Page 52 - AUTOSPELL
NetMail/3000 Menu Interface Users Guide 2-52 (Set) Auto Spell Checking You may select whether you want to be prompted for spell checking when you send a mes- sage by using the “ AUTOSPELL ” setting under the Options menu. This only applies if your system has a spelling checker available and it has b...
Page 53 - PASSWORD
NetMail/3000 Menu Interface Users Guide 2-53 (Set) Password You may change or initially set a password to protect access to your mailbox with the “ PASSWORD ” selection under the Options menu. Once a password is set, any attempt to gain access to your mailbox (when NetMail/3000 is run) will result i...
Page 54 - LANGUAGE
NetMail/3000 Menu Interface Users Guide 2-54 (Set) Language Each user can select their own language of choice for their user interface by choosing the “ LANGUAGE ” option. If there are other language catalogs available on your system (you will be presented a list of the available languages when you ...
Page 55 - AUTOREPLY
NetMail/3000 Menu Interface Users Guide 2-55 (Set) Auto Reply If you have been “allowed” by the mail administrator, you can disable the automatic read receipt function of NetMail/3000. Normally, when you read a message that has been sent with a“read receipt” requested, the mail system automatically ...
Page 56 - Mailbox Names
NetMail/3000 Menu Interface Users Guide 2-56 Mailbox Names You can search for mailbox names (without having to actually compose or send a mes- sage) with the “MAILBOX NAMES” choice under the Options menu.
Page 57 - Spellcheck a File; SPELLCHK A FILE
NetMail/3000 Menu Interface Users Guide 2-57 Spellcheck a File If you have a spelling checker installed on your system and enabled in NetMail/3000, you can spell-check any file by using the “ SPELLCHK A FILE ” command. You provide a filename to spell check, and the spelling checker on your system wi...
Page 58 - Display Selections
NetMail/3000 Menu Interface Users Guide 2-58 Display Selections Under the Display menu choice you will find options which control various aspects of how messages (and the list of messages) are displayed for you. Below, we’ll describe each selec-tion.
Page 59 - PAUSE
NetMail/3000 Menu Interface Users Guide 2-59 (Set) Pause Display “ PAUSE ” determines whether NetMail/3000 will automatically pause the dis- play when reading mail messages at 23 line intervals. The pause (if set) will stop the output of amessage being read every 23 lines and prompt you to stop the ...
Page 60 - HEADING
NetMail/3000 Menu Interface Users Guide 2-60 (Set) Headings By default all mail messages are listed with many lines of “header” information. These include the standard headers such as “From”, “To”, “Date”, “Subject”, and “Cc”, as well as poten-tially many others. While all these header lines are nec...
Page 61 - AUTO MM
NetMail/3000 Menu Interface Users Guide 2-61 (Set) Auto MultiMedia The ” AUTO MM “ setting controls the handling of multimedia attachments to mail messages. See the discussion of multimedia enhancements at the end of this chapter for details,but you can designate whether multimedia attachments which...
Page 62 - Listing
NetMail/3000 Menu Interface Users Guide 2-62 (Set) Listing The listing setting determines what (if any) messages in the current folder are automati- cally displayed in the message window. It can be set such that all messages in the current folderare listed, or that only unread messages are listed. L...
Page 63 - Interface
NetMail/3000 Menu Interface Users Guide 2-63 (Set) Interface NetMail/3000 supports two separate interface types - the PC style menu interface which this manual describes, and a command line interface (also used in batch mode operations). If you wish to switch to the command line interface you can us...
Page 64 - MIME
NetMail/3000 Menu Interface Users Guide 2-64 (Set) MIME By default, NetMail/3000 understands the MIME standard for encoding message attach- ments. The “ MIME ” Display option, however, allows the user to disable MIME encoding (when reading messages) temporarily. This option is for debugging and its ...
Page 65 - UUENCODE
NetMail/3000 Menu Interface Users Guide 2-65 (Set) Uuencode By default, NetMail/3000 understands UUENCODED message attachments. The “ UUENCODE ” Display option, however, allows the user to disable the interpretation of UUENCODED message attachments (when reading messages) temporarily. This option is...
Page 66 - HEX
NetMail/3000 Menu Interface Users Guide 2-66 (Set) Binhex By default, NetMail/3000 understands BINHEX message attachments. The “ BIN- HEX ” Display option, however, allows the user to disable the interpretation of BINHEX mes- sage attachments (when reading messages) temporarily. This option is for d...
Page 67 - Folder Selections
NetMail/3000 Menu Interface Users Guide 2-67 Folder Selections Once you start accumulating large numbers of messages in your mailbox, you may find it useful (or even necessary) to start organizing them into groups. NetMail/3000 provides “folders” for this purpose. Folders hold messages in your mailb...
Page 68 - GOTO
NetMail/3000 Menu Interface Users Guide 2-68 Goto (Folder) You may change the current mail folder with the “ GOTO ” command under the folders options. The “current” folder is the one from which you are viewing messages - if you have not changed it, every time you start up NetMail/3000 you begin in t...
Page 71 - Mailing List Selections
NetMail/3000 Menu Interface Users Guide 2-71 Mailing List Selections Anyone used to electronic communication can appreciate the usefulness of “mailing lists”. A mailing list is a list of electronic mail addresses grouped under one “name”. Each list can have only one, or it can have several hundred m...
Page 72 - ADD
NetMail/3000 Menu Interface Users Guide 2-72 Add (Mailing List) You may have noticed that some electronic mail addresses can be long and difficult to remember. To help you in remembering these names, you can create “mailing lists” which containone or more full electronic addresses, all conveniently ...
Page 74 - REMOVE
NetMail/3000 Menu Interface Users Guide 2-74 Remove (Mailing List) You get rid of private mailing lists with the “ REMOVE ” command. When you select the “REMOVE” mailing list command, you will be provided with a list of all your privatemailing lists, and you can then select the list that you want to...
Page 75 - EDIT
NetMail/3000 Menu Interface Users Guide 2-75 Edit (Mailing List) When you need to add addresses to a private mailing list, remove names from a list, or modify names on a mailing list, use the “ EDIT ” maillist command. When you select the EDIT command, you will be presented with a list of all the ma...
Page 78 - SUBSCRIBE
NetMail/3000 Menu Interface Users Guide 2-78 Subscribe (Mailing List) NetMail/3000 supports three types of mailing lists; private, system, and public. Public mailing lists are created by the mail administrator, but any mail user can join them with the “ SUBSCRIBE ” command. Once you have subscribed ...
Page 79 - SCRIBE
NetMail/3000 Menu Interface Users Guide 2-79 Unsubscribe (Mailing List) To remove yourself from a public mailing list you are subscribed to use the “ UNSUB- SCRIBE ” mailing list command. When you select the Unsubscribe command, you will be presented with a list of all the public mailing lists which...
Page 80 - EXPAND
NetMail/3000 Menu Interface Users Guide 2-80 Expand (Mailing List) You may view the members of any public or system mailing list, or a list which you own with the “ EXPAND ” command under the Mailing List options. When you select the Expand command, you will see a window like the following listing a...
Page 82 - Show All
NetMail/3000 Menu Interface Users Guide 2-82 Show All (Mailing Lists) You can display all the available mailing lists (all those lists that you could use as recipi- ents for a message) with the “ Show All ” mailing list command. This will present you with a list of all the public, system owned, and ...
Page 83 - Help
NetMail/3000 Menu Interface Users Guide 2-83 Help An important feature of NetMail/3000’s pc-style menu interface is the on-line help sub- system. You can browse through the help contents by selecting the “ Help ” menu topic which will present you with the main help window, allowing you to jump to ot...
Page 85 - Exit
NetMail/3000 Menu Interface Users Guide 2-85 Exit By selecting the “ Exit ” menu option, you will end the program, returning you to the MPE prompt (or menu system - or whatever you were in before running NetMail/3000).
Page 86 - NetMail in Batch Jobs
NetMail/3000 Menu Interface Users Guide 2-86 NetMail in Batch Jobs NetMail/3000 can be easily invoked in batch jobs by simply invoking the NetMail/3000 user agent (NETMAIL.SYS.THREEK) and providing input for the prompts which are generated.If only one command is to be executed, the command can be pr...
Page 89 - Programmatic Access
NetMail/3000 Menu Interface Users Guide 2-89 Programmatic Access NetMail/3000 can be invoked as a son process to send electronic messages or files under programmatic control. The rules are similar to those used for batch processes - invoke the pro-gram NETMAIL.SYS.THREEK (with an appropriate INFO= p...
Page 90 - MultiMedia Mail
NetMail/3000 Menu Interface Users Guide 2-90 MultiMedia Mail NetMail/3000 adds some exciting new multimedia features for users of Reflection for Windows. Using the MIME standard for encapsulating non-text message parts, NetMail users cannot only send multimedia messages, but can even have their cont...
Page 92 - MultiMedia Installation and Setup
NetMail/3000 Menu Interface Users Guide 2-92 MultiMedia Installation and Setup To process multimedia messages on your PC, special software is required. This software is provided with NetMail/3000, and will install automatically for you once you tell it to. To tell NetMail/3000 that you want the mult...
Page 93 - MultiMedia Operation
NetMail/3000 Menu Interface Users Guide 2-93 MultiMedia Operation Once you have set up the multimedia functions in NetMail/3000, you are ready to process messages with multimedia attachments. Of course, you might just be asking, “just what IS multi-media?” and “what would I use that for?” Both are g...
Page 95 - MultiMedia Customization
NetMail/3000 Menu Interface Users Guide 2-95 MultiMedia Customization When the NetMail/3000 PC software installs, one of the processes scans the MS Windows control file (WIN.INI) to get an idea of the types of applications you have installed on your PC.NetMail/3000 generates a list of the file types...
Page 97 - Special Terminal Types
NetMail/3000 Menu Interface Users Guide 2-97 Special Terminal Types If you need to run NetMail/3000 and you are connecting to the HP3000 over an X.25 net- work or use a terminal type other than the default (termtype 10), you will notice that NetMail/3000 treats your terminal as a non-HP terminal and...
Page 98 - HP AdvanceLink Terminal Emulator
NetMail/3000 Menu Interface Users Guide 2-98 HP AdvanceLink Terminal Emulator For users running HP’s Advancelink for DOS terminal emulator, there are some special setup steps you need to perform in order to be able to allow NetMail/3000 to automatically upload and download files between the HP3000 a...
Page 99 - Minisoft’s MS92 Terminal Emulator
NetMail/3000 Menu Interface Users Guide 2-99 Minisoft’s MS92 Terminal Emulator For users running Minisoft’s MS92 terminal emulator, there are some special setup steps you need to perform in order to be able to allow NetMail/3000 to automatically upload and down-load files between the HP3000 and your...
Page 100 - Unison Software’s Business Session Terminal Emulator
NetMail/3000 Menu Interface Users Guide 2-100 Unison Software’s Business Session Terminal Emulator Users running any current version of Unison Software’s Business Session terminal emula- tors for Windows or Macintosh will not need to perform any special setup (other than that men-tioned in the multi...
Page 101 - WRQ’s Reflection Terminal Emulator
NetMail/3000 Menu Interface Users Guide 2-101 WRQ’s Reflection Terminal Emulator Users running any of WRQ’s Reflection 1 or Reflection 7 terminal emulators will not need to perform any special setup (other than that mentioned in the multimedia installation section ear-lier). All capabilities are aut...
