Reading Mail

To start Thunderbird, type thunderbird at the command prompt. If this is the first time you have run Thunderbird under you Computer Science account, check to ensure that the automatic account creation procedure was completed successfully (there should be a <login>@cs.wisc.edu entry in the left pane - if this is not present, consider mailing lab@cs.wisc.edu from a different account to troubleshoot the problem). Click on the plus or minus sign to the left of the account entry to expand or collapse the folder hierarchy. When the view is expanded, click on ``Inbox'' to bring up a list of messages which should then appear in the upper right pane. To read a message, click on the message in the upper right pane; the text of the message will subsequently appear in the lower right pane. If you desire to reply to a message, highlight the message and click on the ``Reply'' icon in the toolbar.