Email FAQs
Question:  How do I access my email from home?
Answer:  Go to the following web site:  
http://www.noacsc.org/hancock/mb/HS Web Class/Other/Cawley/teacherresources.htm 

Click on the McComb Email link.  Type in your username and password.  (These are your NETWORK username and password - what you log on with at the beginning of the day.)  It may also ask you for your domain - it is MLS
Question:  AOL and email.  I have received pictures on attachments to my email messages but have never figured out how to see them or print them out.  

Answer:  AOL should ask you whether you want to download the file or picture.  When you click you that you want to do this, it should ask you WHERE you want to save it.  If you don’t tell it a specific place such as my documents or something to that sort, it will automatically save it to a download folder inside your AOL folder.  That is probably why you cannot find where it is that you saved the file.

 If you did save it to the AOL folder, you need to open this folder and then open the download folder and there should be your picture or file.  

Question:  Pegasus email – how do I set up groups of addresses so I don’t have to type individual names every time I want to email a certain group of people.  
Answer:  A distribution list would be ideal to use if you have a group of people to which you commonly send email.  Examples:  a group of grade level teachers or administrators.  This only needs to be set up once.  After the initial setup, you can just edit it whenever you need to without having to completely redo it.  
Step 1:  Log into Pegasus as normal  
 Step 2:  Click on this button  

Step 3:  At the next box, click on New List

Step 4:  At the next box, type in what you want to name your list where it says “Long name for distribution list.”

Step 5:  Click on OK  
Step 6:  Highlight the new list that you just created and click on Edit  
Step 7:  In the next dialog box, click in the box that says “Addresses, one per line”  
Step 8:  Type in each address that you want to be a part of your distribution list.  Be sure to put the whole address for each person.  
Step 9:  Click on Save  
Step 10:  Click on Close to close out of your distribution list folder  
Question:  Is there a way for the computer to visually and/or audibly announce that I’ve got mail?...what about when I’ve locked the workstation?  
Answer:  In order for either of these things to take place, you need to log onto Pegasus and leave it running.  You can do this by minimizing it once you have logged on.  You don’t need to have it up on your screen the whole time, but it does need to be running.  
Visually - Whenever you get mail, the wings on the horse will start flapping in the lower right hand corner of your computer screen.  Again – Pegasus has to be running for this to happen.  
Audibly – You will need to set this up for it to work. 
Step 1:  Log into Pegasus as usual
Step 2:  Go to Tools
Step 3:  Go to Options
Step 4:  Click on the Advanced Tab
Step 5:  Toward the bottom of that text box it says “Play newmail alert sound”.  Click the box in front of that text.
Step 6:  Click on select sound
Step 7:  Double click on My Computer  
Step 8:  Double click on the C drive
Step 9:  Double click on Winnt
Step 10:  Double click on Media
Step 11:  Any file that ends with .wav can be used for your sound. Click on one of the files and then click on open.
Step 12:  Test it by clicking on the Test button in your Pegasus program.  If you don’t like the sound you have chosen, repeat steps 6-11.  
Question:  How do I print only the message part of an email and/or condense the message?  
Answer:  There is no real easy way to do this!  The easiest that we’ve found is to highlight the part of the message that you want.  Right mouse click on it and choose copy.  Open up Word and Paste the text into Word.  You may need to reformat the text some, but it will all copy into Word.  
Question:  In email - is there a way to easily condense and/or eliminate the spaces and arrows between the lines of text without doing it manually?  

Answer:  No!

Question:  In email - why can’t I open some stuff or why doesn’t it work, etc.  Are there thing I should never even open?  
Answer:  If you are getting some graphically intense emails, some of the machines here at school may not be able to handle them.  Sometimes, you can’t open them, just because they may be too large, or the sender may not have sent them correctly.  One way to check is to go to a newer machine somewhere – like the high school lab – and see if you can pull up the email there.  As a general rule – you should never open an email if you do not know who the sender is.