Administrator Manuals

Index

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*, 24

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>, 24

A

Address, 3

ALL NOTEBOOK, 3, 19, 23, 27, 36

D

definition, 13

E

Electronic mail, iii

F

F1, 9

F10, 8, 9, 10, 17, 18, 39

F2, 4, 8, 9, 15, 16, 36

F3, 4, 8, 9, 35, 37, 39

F4, 4, 9, 15, 16, 17, 32, 36

F5, 7, 9, 24, 27, 28, 36

F6, 8, 9, 32, 36

F7, 8, 9, 16

F8, 8, 9, 16

File, iv, 17

files, 1, 17, 19, 39

H

help, 3, 40

I

input area, 15, 28

L

list of names, 6, 22, 23

M

MAIL command, 1, 10, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 37, 38

MAIL screen, 15, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 32, 34, 35, 36

MAILBOOK c

Creating Your Own Environment

The MAILBOOK Command In the preceding The MAIL Command section, we discussed saving your mail in notebooks. Now we'll see how to use the MAILBOOK command to read, reply to, forward, print, and discard the mail that you've saved. Getting Started If you know the name of the notebook you want and don't need to list all your notebooks, just enter MAILBOOK name where name is the filename of the notebook you want. The screen shown below will appear. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

The MAIL Command When you want to send or receive electronic mail, you will use the MAIL command. You may correspond with users on your computer system and users on any computer system linked with yours through a network. When you receive mail, the system will place it into a holding area until you get a chance to read it. Screen Basics Before we go any further, you need to learn a little about how to work with the screen.

Keeping Track of People

You'll use the NAMES command to build and update your electronic address book. Your address book is a file called userid NAMES (where userid is your userid) which NAMES will create and manage for you. We'll refer to it as your NAMES file. In it, you'll store your correspondents' electronic addresses (userids and domains) and other information of your choice such as full names, mailing addresses, phone numbers, and personal characteristics.

Communicating With Other People

Using the MailBook system will be very easy. As a VM user you have the capability of communicating with other people who are also VM users. You can send mail, messages, and files and receive mail, messages, and files.

When you send and receive mail, you are using electronic mail.

Before you can communicate with another user you must know his or her userid, which is the name with which a user logs onto the system.

Table of Contents

The following sections are HTML and plain text versions of the MAILBOOK user manual for quick reference while working online. The attachments at the bottom of this page provide PDF-formatted versions suitable for printing on most printers.

This is the latest draft of a proposed outline for a z/VM New Parents guide, in the style of Melinda Varian's classic "What Mother Never Told You About VM Service". It's intended as a discussion proposal. Please post comments to us and to the IBMVM mailing list.