Use Endymion To Access Your Addressb Book While Away From Home

First you must familiarise yourself with the MOTD page accessed from outside Melb PC using the URL https://wss.melbpc.org.au/motd/. This you can do when you dial in to Melb PC from any other ISP, Cable or ADSL login using your username and password (Figure 1).

If you're going to experience any problems it's better have them sorted before you are trying to connect from London, Hong Kong, Timbuktu, Sydney or some other place.

While you're away and with access to the Internet go to the MOTD site via https://wss.melbpc.org.au/motd/. [Tech-ed: An easy-to-remember alternative method is to simply dial-in to the group's main page http://www.melbpc.org.au/ and access the MOTD page or Webmail directly from there—DP].

You will be required to enter user name and password whether connected through the melbpc servers, or through any other ISP.

On the MOTD page under Important Links click the link to Check Your Mail.

Figure 1. The logon screen accessed via the MOTD page

Click Login and you will see a page like Figure 2.

To prepare a new message click the Compose link on the Left Panel (See Figure 3).

To read a message either click the Envelope Icon under the Show column or click the Subject which is underlined in the Message column.

To delete all messages click the tick box on the heading line between Show and Message if you wish to retain some messages remove the tick from the tick box on their line.

Now we get to the tricky bit.

If while away you wish to keep in touch with a number of correspondents listed in your Address Book,

First ensure that your email address is included in you own address book.

Use the Address Book facility to create a separate Contact list.

Click New Group and enter a name, say trave106 (see Figure 4)

Click Select Members

Highlight each contact to whom you wish to send messages while away (See Figure 5) and be sure to include yourself then click the Select button, and when that's done click OK.

Figure 4. Creating the new group.

We now have a new Contact List which includes yourself; in my case in the example it's named trave106.

Before you leave home create a new message, click on the To: button which will open your Address Book.

Highlight the appropriate Contact List then click the To:-> button. (Figure 6).

Click the OK button. The message will now be addressed to each of the correspondents listed in the Contact List which included yourself.

Figure 5. Selecting names that will be on the new list. Remember to include yourself.

Figure 6. Preparing the test message

Include an appropriate subject line and message body, then send the message. That message will arrive on your Melbpc Mail Server and remain there until you use Outlook Express or a similar mail client to download mail.

When using a computer away from home go to the MOTD page then the link to Check Your Mail. Your message will be listed among the other items. When you wish to send a new message to those listed, open your own copy of the message and click the Reply All button.

In the reply produced you can highlight the content then delete or edit it as you see fit, add further content and then click the Send button to dispatch the message to all the contacts.

You can if you wish add further recipients or add new ones by entering addresses in the following form dempk@melbpc.org.au and insert a comma > , < between each address.

To make the alterations click to place the cursor in the To box, and use the keyboard left or right arrows to move the cursor to the appropriate place to delete or add addresses.

Do not use Outlook Express for e-mail until you return home but remember to remove unwanted and surplus messages to avoid exceeding your mailbox limit of 10 MB.

Best wishes to all members who will travel during the remainder of this year.

About the Author
Kevin Dempster a Melb PC member for many years and participant in a number of Interest Groups. A senior citizen when exercise is required both for body and mind. Tennis does the job for the body and computers for the mind.

Reprinted from the May 2006 issue of PC Update, the magazine of Melbourne PC User Group, Australia

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