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What is web-based e-mail?

Having a web-based e-mail account means that e-mail messages are available from any computer with an Internet connection and a web browser. The e-mail messages are not kept on your computer. The messages are kept on the server where you log in to get to your mail. This means you are restricted to the storage constraints of the e-mail provider. It is important to clean out e-mail messages that are not needed to avoid reaching the e-mail limits.

(example: Yahoo! Mail allows 6MB of e-mail storage. Warning messages are sent if you get close to this limit and e-mail messages are no longer accepted once the limit has been reached.)

Does web-based e-mail cost anything?

Once you have an Internet connection and a web browser on a computer, then there are plenty of FREE web based e-mail accounts. Some web-based e-mail providers charge a fee if you use more than the allowed storage space.

Will there be web-based e-mail for LTUSD?

This is currently being worked. Once the hardware is installed and the software is configured, then people will have the ability to have web-based e-mail accounts for LTUSD. There will be a choice of non web-based e-mail accounts and web-based accounts at the beginning of the school year.

Is it okay to have more than one e-mail account?

The short answer is YES. But the answer is really up to you and how you wish to manage your electronic communications. Some people have certain e-mail accounts for specific purposes, such as one account for friends and family and one account for professional use. Some people prefer to have only one e-mail account for all communications.

How can I get a non-LTUSD web-based e-mail account?

Steps for creating a Yahoo! E-mail account: (There are other web-based

e-mail accounts to use, such as www.hotmail.com)
  1. Open a browser.
  2. Type in www.yahoo.com in the Location/Address field of the browser.
  3. Click on Check Email at the very top of the screen.
  4. Find the section that says, "New to Yahoo?" and click on Sign up now.
  5. Fill out the form and click on Submit This Form.
  6. Once all of the fields have been entered correctly, your logon ID is unique and you have determined if you want news to be delivered to your inbox, then you will have an e-mail account. There should already be mail from Yahoo in your inbox.
  7. Remember your login ID and your password. You will need them the next time you want to log into your account.

 

Sending an e-mail message:

  1. Log into your Yahoo! e-mail account at www.yahoo.com
  2. Click on Compose to start a new message.
  3. Fill in the recipient’s e-mail address in the To: field.
  4. Fill in the Subject: field.
  5. Fill in the message in the large box below the CC: field.
  6. Click on the Send button.

 

Reading and replying to an e-mail message:

  1. Log into your Yahoo! e-mail account at www.yahoo.com
  2. Click on Inbox or Check Mail.
  3. Click on the subject of the message to be read.
  4. Now that the message is open, you can reply or forward the message to someone else by clicking on the Reply or Forward buttons.
  5. Type in your response and click on the Send button.

 

Sending an e-mail message with an attachment:

  1. Log into your Yahoo e-mail account at www.yahoo.com
  2. Click on Compose to start a new message.
  3. Fill in the recipient’s e-mail address in the To: field.
  4. Fill in the Subject: field.
  5. Scroll to the bottom of the message and click on Add/Delete Attachments.
  6. There are three steps to attaching a document to a Yahoo e-mail message. Click on the Browse button to find the document to send. This process is similar to finding a file to open.
  7. Select the document to the e-mail message once it has been located by double clicking on the file name or by clicking on the Open button.
  8. Once the path for the file can be seen in the Attachments window, click on the Attach File button.
  9. Click on the Done button at the bottom of the page once you see the document name on the list of attachments.
  10. If all goes well, the original e-mail message will be displayed on the screen and the name of the document will show at the bottom of the message next to the word Attachments.
  11. Type in a message as you would normally do for any other e-mail message.
  12. Click on the Send button.

You just sent your first attachment!

Note: To read attachments that have been sent to you, you can just click on View Attachment and there is no need to download the attachment unless you need to modify the attachment.



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