7-4 Sending mail
the secondary nameserverMail
The Nokia 9000 Communicator mail system is 
compliant with the Internet standards SMTP, 
IMAP4, POP3 and MIME1.
Mail is started in the Internet applications main 
view by selecting Mail and pressing the 
Select
 
command button. The Mail main view shows the 
following folders:
Own texts 
— Contains the texts you have created 
with the communicator. The listed documents 
may contain formatted text, but the text will ap-
pear in the editor without formatting. 
Received mail 
— Contains mail fetched from the 
remote mailbox. See "Remote mailbox".
Remote mailbox 
— Your electronic mailbox serv-
ice, which receives all your mail, is called the re-
mote mailbox. This service may be offered by a 
cellular network operator, your company, or a 
commercial Internet access provider. The mail 
protocol used between the communicator and 
the remote mailbox is IMAP4. Required mailbox 
and Internet Access Point settings are described 
in "Remote mailbox".
Document outbox 
— The communicator’s outgo-
ing communications manager. See chapter 12 
"Document outbox".
Sending mail
Mail can be sent either via the Mail, Notes (see 
chapter 8 "Notes: Sending") or Calendar (see 
chapter 9 "Calendar: Day view - Memos") appli-
cations.
To create new mail:
Press 
Write mail
 in the Mail main view. An 
empty mail editor opens.
Write the message. You can edit the contents, 
but you cannot apply any styles (i.e., format 
the text).
When the message is ready to be sent, press 
Recipient
 to select an address for the mail 
from the Mail directory. See "Mail directory".
To send previously created documents:
Select the Own texts folder in the Mail main 
view and press 
Open
. Select a document and 
press 
Open
. The document is loaded in the mail 
editor without any possible text formattings. If 
the document contained text formattings, be-
fore you can edit the document, you will be 
asked if you want to edit the original (and lose 
all formattings) or create a copy in the Own 
texts folder and edit the copy instead.
When the document is ready to be sent, press 
Recipient
 to open the Mail directory. See 
"Mail directory".
To reply to received mail:
Select the Received mail folder and press 
Open
. Select a message and press 
Open
. The 
document is opened in the mail viewer.
Press 
Reply
. The mail editor opens. If the set-
ting 
Include text in reply 
is used (activated in 
the Mail settings), the contents of the mes-
sage you are replying to are copied into the 
new message (see figure 7-2). If the received 
mail message is a MIME document, only the 
first text part is included in the reply.
When the reply is ready to be sent, press 
Send
. The Mail envelope view opens, see 
"Mail envelope".
To forward received mail:
Select the Received mail folder and press 
Open
. Select a message and press 
Open
. The 
document is opened in the mail viewer. 
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