July 2005
Intermediate to advanced
866 pages
29h 18m
English
Content preview from Mac OS X: The Missing Manual, Tiger EditionBecome an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Chapter 20. Mail and Address Book
Email is a fast, cheap, convenient communication medium. These days, anyone who doesn't have an email address is considered some kind of freak. If you do have an email address or two, you'll be happy to discover that Mac OS X includes Mail, a program that lets you get and send email messages without having to wade through a lot of spam (junk mail). Mail is a surprisingly complete program, redesigned especially for Mac OS 10.4, and it's filled with shortcuts and surprises around every turn.
All that, and it's free.
Setting Up Mail
What you see the first time you open Mail (by clicking its icon in the Dock, for example) may vary. If you've signed up for a Mac.com account (and typed its name into System Preferences as described on Section 19.8.5), you're all ready to go; you see the message viewer window described on Section 20.2.1.
If you're using any other kind of account, though, you confront the dialog boxes shown in Figure 20-1, where you're supposed to input various settings to specify your email account. Some of this information may require a call to your Internet service provider (ISP). Here's the rundown:
Account Type is where you specify what flavor of email account you have. See the box on Section 20.1 for details; check with your ISP if you're not sure which type you have.
Account Description is for your reference only. If you're the type to have an affectionate nickname for your email account, for example, type it here.
Full Name will appear ...
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Read now
Unlock full access
More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.Julian F.
I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.Addison B.
I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.Amir M.
I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.