NOTE: It is recommended that you configure PC-Pine to access a remote address book on the deskmail server. For more information, see page 6.

As you use email, you can build a list of your regular email correspondents in your PC-Pine address book. You can use the address book to store email addresses for individuals or groups, to create easily remembered "nicknames" for these addresses, and to quickly retrieve an email address when you are composing a message.

At the Main Menu, press A or double-click on the Address Book choice. You will see the Address Book List screen.

Your personal address book will be highlighted. Press <Return> or double-click on your address book.

There are, by default, two address books listed on the Address Book List screen. You can add your own entries to the Personal AddressBook. The UW Directory, however, cannot be modified. Those students, staff, and faculty who have agreed to the public release of their directory information are included in the UW Directory. Students wishing to change or restrict the information included in the UW Directory can contact the Registration Office. Staff and faculty who wish to change or restrict the information included in the UW Directory should contact their Departmental Payroll Coordinator.

Here is a sample page from an address book:

There are multiple ways to add addresses to your address book. For example, you can add addresses manually, take them from messages you receive, or save them from other address books. With any of these methods, you specify nicknames for your correspondents. A single address book entry (or nickname) can point to just one email address, or it can point to more than one. When it points to more than one, it is called a distribution list. Each distribution list has a nickname, a full name, and a list of addresses. These addresses may be actual addresses, other nicknames in your address book, or other distribution lists.

The two most common ways of acquiring addresses in your address book are to add them manually and to take them from messages you receive.

ADDING SINGLE ADDRESSES OR DISTRIBUTION LISTS MANUALLY

To add single addresses or distribution lists manually:

1. Have ready the address or addresses you want to add.
2. At the Main Menu, select A (AddrBook). You see the Address Book List screen with your personal address book highlighted.
3. Press <Return> or double-click on your personal address book.

   [NOTE: If you need general information about using the PC-Pine address book, this is the best place to get it. Press ? (Help).]

4. Select @ (AddNew) and follow the instructions. (Type <Control> G if you need help adding a new address.)

To take a single address from a message you are viewing or have selected in the index:

1. At the Message Text or the Message Index screen, press T (TakeAddr).

   [NOTE: The T command is not visible on your screen unless you press O (OTHER CMDS), but you need not see this command to use it.]

   You see the Take Address screen.

   If there is more than one address to take, you see this message:

   [Single mode: Use "P" or "N" to select desired address]

   Use P (Prev), N (Next), the up and down arrow keys, or your mouse to select the address you want, and press T (Take).

   At this point, or, if there is only one address to take, you see this message:

   Enter new or existing nickname (one word and easy to remember):

2. Enter a nickname for your correspondent and press <Return>.
3. Follow the instructions. (Type <Control> G if you need help.)

To take multiple addresses from a message you are viewing or have selected in the index:

1. Press T (TakeAddr).

   [NOTE: The T command is not visible on your screen unless you press O (OTHER CMDS), but you need not see this command to use it.]

   [Single mode: Use "P" or "N" to select desired address]

   Use P (Prev), N (Next), the up and down arrow keys, or your mouse to select the address you want, and press T (Take).

2. Press L (ListMode).
3. For each address you want to take, use P (Prev), N (Next), the up and down arrow keys, or the mouse to select it, and then press X (Set/Unset) in the box to its left.

4. Press T (Take).

   You see the following message:

   Enter new or existing nickname (one word and easy to remember):

5. Enter a nickname for your list of correspondents and press <Return>.
6. Follow the instructions. (Type <Control> G if you need help.)

To change a single address or a distribution list:

1. At the Main Menu, press A (Address Book) and then press (or double-click on the Address Book selection).
2. Use the arrow keys or mouse to select the single address or distribution list you want to change.
3. Press > (View/Update).
4. Press U (Update), and then use the arrow keys or mouse to get to the field where you want to make a change. Follow the instructions. (Type <Control> G if you need help.)

When composing a message, at the To: or the Cc: (Carbon Copy) fields you can enter an email address in any of the following ways:

• Type the entire email address.
• Type a nickname you have set up in the address book. For example, if your address book looked like the one on page 23, you could type the following nickname in the To: field:

  Mu

  After you pressed <Return>, PC-Pine would provide the full address for Mu from the address book as follows:

  To: Mu Li < muli@u.washington.edu>

• Select a name (or names) from the address book as you compose a message using <Control> T (To AddrBk).

To send a message to one person:

1. Place your cursor in the To: or Cc: field and then type <Control> T (To AddrBk) and then <Return>.
2. Use the arrow keys or mouse to select the name you want.
3. Press S (Select) or <Return>, or double-click the name with your mouse.

To send a message to several people:

1. Place your cursor in the To: or Cc: field and then type <Control T> (To AddrBk) and then <Return>.
2. Type L (List Mode).
3. Using the arrow keys or mouse, select a name you want and then type X. Do this for each person.
4. Press S (Select) or press <Return>.

Course Topics

Introduction
Obtaining PC-Pine
Installing PC-Pine
Running PC-Pine
Configuring PC-Pine

Composing & Sending
List, View, Reply, Forward
Organize with Folders
Save, Delete, Expunge
the Address Book
Quitting PC-Pine

PC-Pine Can Do More
Attachments
Viewing URLs
Signature
Multiple Users
Config Menu Features
PC-Pine w/Other Hosts