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VI. The Aladdin Main Screen VI. The Aladdin Main Screen VI. The Aladdin Main Screen
The GEmail Menu
One of the most important and useful features of the GEnie
system is GEmail, GEnie's Electronic Mail system. GEmail is a
very powerful system which allows you to do just about
anything that has to do with mail, from sending a simple "Hi,
there..." note to transferring entire files attached to
messages. Aladdin, of course, gives you full access to the
GEmail system.
NOTE - Aladdin will always check your mail for you every
single time it logs on to GEnie, regardless of what operation
you told Aladdin to perform. If Aladdin calls GEnie, logs on
and finds that there is mail waiting for you, it will either
download it immediately or wait until it finishes all other
pending operations before logging off.
Before we get into the details of how Aladdin's GEmail
management system works, let's cover some basic points about
GEmail.
A GEmail message is composed of five basic components. They
are:
1) The recipient list 2) The "CC" list (CC stands for "carbon
copy", a standard abbreviation used in correspondence). 3)
The subject field 4) The body of the message 5) An optional
attached file
The recipient list and CC list are nothing more than a number
of GEmail addresses. These identify who is going to receive a
message within the GEnie system. The recipient list normally
contains one or more "main addressees". This is the person or
persons to whom the message is specifically directed. The CC
list contains the "secondary addressees" of the message.
These are the person or persons to whom you also want to send
the message for reference or other purposes. For example,
there are situations in which you want to send a regular U.S.
Post Office letter to a someone but you also want someone
else to receive a copy of the letter for reference purposes.
The person to whom you are sending the letter and whose
address is in the original letter is the "primary addressee"
equivalent on GEnie. The person or persons to whom you are
sending copies of the letter would be the "secondary
addressees" of the letter.
Copyright 1990 by General Electric
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Each of the recipients and/or CC list addresses must be
separated by commas "," to let GEnie know they are separate
GEmail addresses. For example, if you wanted to send a
message to a user whose GEmail address is "J.DOE", you would
simply enter the address in the recipient list. If, on the
other hand, you want "A.USER", "J.JONES" and "M.SMITH" to
receive copies of the message as well, you would enter their
addresses into the CC list as "A.USER,J.JONES,M.SMITH"
(without the quotation marks). If you don't separate the
GEmail addresses with commas, only one user (the first one),
or quite possibly none of them, will receive the copies of
the message.
The subject field is used to attach a one-line title to the
message which summarizes its contents. For example, if a
message is about an upcoming meeting, you would enter the
words "Upcoming Meeting" into the subject field. Always enter
a subject line into this field; GEmail copies the contents of
this field into all replies that relate to the original
message. If you don't have a subject field, it's very hard to
remember what a letter is about, particularly when you are
dealing with someone who replies to a notice with an "OK" and
nothing else.
The body of the message is just that, the body of the
message. As far as Aladdin is concerned, you can have from 1
to approximately 64,000 characters in a message. That's about
7,000 words (on average).
The optional attached file has to do with a very useful
feature of GEmail. Suppose you wanted to send a friend of
yours a file containing information, such as a spreadsheet,
which would take a while to retype should it have to be
entered manually into the computer. GEnie allows you to send
an "attached file" with a message. The process is a little
confusing if you are using GEnie in manual mode with a normal
communications program, but Aladdin makes it easy. All you
have to is tell Aladdin which file on your computer you want
to attach to the message. It takes care of the rest,
including the creation of the message and the uploading of
the file into GEnie's mail system. For example, if you have a
file called "WALLST.WKS" in your POWER directory which you
want to send to someone using GEmail, all you have to do is
create the message and attach the file to it. If the file is
located in your \POWER directory, you enter
"\POWER\WALLST.WKS" into the Path/File field, press <RETURN>,
and that's all it takes. Or click on the Path/File field name
to use the file selector to point out the file.
Aladdin ST Manual
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Now that we have covered some of the basic concepts behind
the GEmail system, let's discuss the specific commands on
Aladdin's GEmail menu.
NOTE - Aladdin does not check the attached file field to see
if the path or filename is correct or exists when you enter
it into the field. You must make sure that it is entered
correctly for the attached file to be sent out, otherwise
Aladdin will not be able to send the file.
Retrieve Mail - Send Mail
Select the GEmail Menu, from here you can "Retrieve Mail",
"Send Mail", and reply to Mail you have received. You can
also attach files to mail to accomplish tasks such as sending
a spreadsheet to a friend by using GEnie instead of the U.S.
Mail or expensive services like Federal Express or U.P.S.
There is another advantage: the file arrives instantaneously
in the recipients GEnie mailbox. No waiting for the delivery
truck to arrive or making arrangements to receive packages or
envelopes. It's there, ready to be picked up right away in
the comfort of your home or office.
If you had logged onto GEnie in the terminal mode and decided
to check for mail before you Log Off you could click on the
Retrieve Mail option and your mail, if any, would be
automatically downloaded. Or from an off line condition you
can click on Retrieve Mail and Aladdin would dial GEnie and
download your mail.
1. Retrieve Mail 1. Retrieve Mail 1. Retrieve Mail
This option tells Aladdin to immediately log on to GEnie and
download any new mail messages that may be waiting in your
mailbox, including mail that has a file attached to it. Once
the process is completed, Aladdin will log off. If there was
in fact mail waiting for you in your mailbox, Aladdin will
put a triangle mark next to the Read Mail option on this
menu.
2. Send Mail 2. Send Mail 2. Send Mail
Selecting this option tells Aladdin to immediately log on to
GEnie and send all mail and mail commands that are pending in
your computer. Aladdin will send all new mail, post replies
and forward any