Meridian 59 User's Guide
Meridian Mail Service
A third way to reach out and touch someone in Meridian 59 is by sending them mail. This works very much like e-mail you might have encountered in any other universe. You can send mail to anyone who has an account on the same server as you.
To enter Meridian Mail, type Mail on text line and press Enter; or click the Mail icon on icon bar (it's the last icon on the right). Either of these commands brings up the Read Mail window, from which you can read, compose, and send mail:
Incoming Mail List -- A complete summary of the mail you've received. To read a piece of mail, place the cursor on one of the listed items, and click on it.
Options Buttons -- Click one of these buttons to start a new message, update the incoming mail list, or delete a message from the list:
- Write -- Click this button to start a new mail message. Type your message in the window that appears. When you're done, click OK to send it, or Cancel to leave the window without sending the message.
- Reply -- To write a response to one of the messages on the list:
- Highlight one of the existing messages on the list above, then click the Reply button.
- Type your response in the notepad window provided. The address of the original author is automatically included.
- Click OK to send the message. To leave the Reply window without mailing your message, click Cancel.
- Reply to All -- When several people are part of a conversational thread, use Reply to All to send your response to everyone who received the original message. Here's how:
- Highlight the original message, and click the Reply to All button.
- Type your response in the window provided. The addresses for all the recipients of the original message are automatically included in the header.
- Click OK to send your message via Meridian Mail. To leave the Reply to All window without sending a message, click Cancel.
- Rescan -- Sometimes, while you're reading a long list of messages, new messages will arrive in your mailbox. You may want to click Rescan periodically to update the message list, ensuring that the news you're seeing is the freshest available.
- Delete -- To permanently remove a message from your mail list, highlight the message in the mail list, and click the Delete button.
- Close -- Click this button to leave the Mail area and resume your regularly scheduled life.
Once you've read a piece of Meridian mail, it's saved on the hard disk of the computer you opened it on. If you commonly use two or more different computers to access Meridian 59, remember that you will not be able to re-read mail received on one computer when you're using another computer.
