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2.In the Protocol drop-down list box, select the IM network you want to use. Your options are AIM/ICQ (if you need to use either AIM or ICQ, choosethis option), Gadu-Gadu, Groupwise, IRC, Jabber, MSN, Napster, SILC, Yahoo, and Zephyr. 3.In the Screen Name text box, enter the login name for your IMaccount. If you re using ICQ, use your membership number. 4.In the Password text box, enter your IM password for this account. 5.In the Alias text box, enter the name you actually want to have showup in people s IM clients, unless you want to use your screen name. 6.Click the Remember Password check box to put a check in it so thatyou don t have to enter your password every time you connect to thisIM service. Remember to log out or use the Lock Screen option if you walk awayfrom your computer, just in case someone gets it in his head to go play atrick on you and send messages to people using your IM client. 7.Check the Auto-Login box if you want GAIM to automatically log thisaccount on when you start it. Figure 9-15: The GAIMAddAccountdialog boxin FedoraCore 3.188Part II:Internet Now!

Because Gaim is the default in Fedora, that s what I cover in detail. Using the Gaim Instant MessengerYou launch Gaim with the following menu selections: Fedora:Choose Applications.Internet.IM (GAIM Internet Messenger). Knoppix:From the main menu, choose Internet.Gaim InstantMessenger. Linspire:From the main menu, choose Programs.Internet.InstantMessenger. After the application starts for the first time (see Figure 9-14), its main andaccount management dialog boxes both appear. To tell GAIM about one ofyour IM accounts: 1.Click the Add button in the Accounts dialog box. The Add Account dialog box, shown in Figure 9-15, appears. Figure 9-14: The GAIMIM clientwith its main dialogbox plusAccountsdialog boxopen inFedora Core 3.187Chapter 9: Using the Internet14_

Taking Advantage of Instant MessagingInstant messagingbetween people is like using a telephone except that youtype your conversation rather than speak it. In addition, you can simultane- ously hold multiple instant messaging conversations without the need foradditional connections to the Internet. America Online (AOL) provides onepopular instant messaging service, named AOL Instant Messenger, or AIM. Others are ICQ and MSN. A wide variety of computer operating systems, including Linux, support these various services (and, in fact, GAIM runs onmore than just Linux). The distributions covered in this book use the following instant message pro- grams by default: Fedora:Gaim (http://gaim.sourceforge.net/) Knoppix:Gaim Linspire:Gaim Mandrake:Kopete (http://kopete.kde.org/) SuSE:Kopete Xandros:Kopete (http://kopete.kde.org/) Figure 9-13: TheEvolutionSettingsdialog inFedora Core 3.186Part II:Internet Now!

5.In the lower window, type the body of your e-mail. Use the handy formatting buttons and the Format menu if you want to pretty up your e-mail. If you want to use the formatting buttons, setyour Format type to HTML first. 6.If you want to add a signature to the bottom of your e-mail, click thedrop-down list box next to Signature and select Autogenerated. To create custom signatures, go to the main Evolution window andchoose Tools.Settings to open the Evolution Settings dialog box (seeFigure 9-13). Select the account you want to create the signature(s) forand then click the Edit button to open the Evolution Account Editor. Inthis dialog box, in the Identity tab, click Add New Signature. Here, youcan create and format your new signature, and after you click the Saveand Close button, you can choose which signature should be the defaultin the Identity tab s Signature drop-down list box. Get rid of the extradialog boxes by clicking OK or Close on each one. 7.When you finish typing your message, click the Send button. The e-mail is now added to your Outbox, where you can edit it if you want. 8.Click the Send/Receive button. Your e-mail goes out, and Evolution checks for new incoming mail. Take some time to really explore Evolution. As you can see just from the fig- ures in this chapter, this program has many features, including the ability tofilter junk mail. Figure 9-12: An EvolutionCompose A Messagewindow in FedoraCore 3.185Chapter 9: Using the Internet14_

Sending and checking e-mailThe following steps outline how to create a new e-mail message and send it: 1.Click New. A Compose A Message window opens, as shown in Figure 9-12. If youwant to open another new item such as a new contact list entry or a newcalendar appointment, click the arrow next to New to open the list ofoptions to choose from. 2.Type the recipient s e-mail address (such as bob@example.net) or alist of addresses separated by commas (such as bob@example.net, tom@example.org)in the To text box. 3.If you need to add a CC (Carbon Copy) or BCC (Blind Carbon Copy) tothe list of recipients, open the mail message s View menu and selectthe appropriate field(s) to appear and then enter the appropriateaddress(es) into those fields. 4.Type the topic of your e-mail into the Subject text box. Figure 9-11: TheEvolutionapplicationwindow in FedoraCore 3, with theMicrosoftExchangeconnectorinstalled. 184Part II:Internet Now!

17.Change the Server Type entry if yours isn t SMTP. I assume that you re sending e-mail with SMTP. 18.Enter the full name of the SMTP mail server in the Host text box. The name may be something like smtp.example.com. 19.If you were told to use SSL for security, in the Use Secure Connection(SSL) drop-down list box, select either Always or Whenever Possible, depending on what your ISP has specified. 20.If you were told to use additional authentication for sending mail, check the Server Requires Authentication check box. Typically, nothing is required here. If you don t check this box, skip tothe next set of instructions. Otherwise, proceed to the next step. 21.Under Authentication, select the appropriate type as instructed byyour ISP. If you re not sure, click Check For Supported Types. 22.Under Username, enter the login name you re supposed to use toauthenticate with your outgoing mail server. This name may be different from the one you use for incoming mail. 23.Check the Remember Password check box so that you don t have toenter your password each time you send mail. Just make sure, again, to log out or use the Lock Screen option so thatno one can send joke e-mails at your expense! 24.Click Forward to proceed. You have now reached the wonderfully simple Account Managementdialog box. 25.Either leave the Name entry as it is (your e-mail address) or change itto something descriptive so that you can tell which account you relooking at if you have a list of accounts you need to use. It s common for your e-mail address to appear in this final box as some- thing like jane@computer5.example.com. If this happens for you, you llwant to edit this entry so that it matches your real e-mail address, whichin Jane s case is jane@example.com. 26.Click Forward to proceed to the Timezone dialog box. 27.Click a city that s in the same time zone you re in or use the drop- down list box to select your location or time zone. 28.Click Forward to proceed to the Done dialog box. Here you see just a quick message saying that you re finished. 29.Click Apply to save your settings. The Evolution program opens, as shown in Figure 9-11.183Chapter 9: Using the Internet14_

If you don t have a permanent connection to the Internet, you mayprefer to check mail manually. If so, leave the box unchecked and skip toStep 14.13.In the Minutes text box, set how often you want to automaticallycheck for new e-mail. 14.If you check mail from multiple computers, you may want to check theLeave Messages On Server check box so that you can access the samemessages from all your machines. If you select this option, you ll end up with copies of messages on multi- ple machines, but it also means that you ll have access to your e-mail nomatter where you re checking it from. Keep in mind that occasionallyyou ll need to uncheck this box and check mail, just to clear out all thespace that your e-mail is taking up on the server. You don t want to runout of space. 15.If your ISP told you not to use POP3 extensions, then check theDisable Support For All POP3 Extensions check box. 16.Click Forward to proceed. You re now finished setting up for incoming mail. In the Sending Maildialog box, shown in Figure 9-10, do the following: Figure 9-10: TheEvolutionSendingMail dialogin FedoraCore 3.182Part II:Internet Now!

9.Under Authentication Type, select the appropriate authenticationoption. If you don t know what kinds of authentication your mail server uses, click the Check For Supported Types button. Typically, it s justPassword. 10.Check the Remember This Password checkbox so that you don t haveto enter your e-mail password every time you check mail. If you re going to walk away from your computer and someone else maypossibly access it, protect yourself from outgoing prank e-mails by goingto the main menu and selecting Lock Screen. Doing so makes sure thatno one can use your GUI until you type in your login password. You have to have your screen saver turned on for this feature to work. Screen savers are on by default. 11.Click Forward to proceed to the secondary Receiving Mail dialog box(see Figure 9-9). Whether or not this dialog box exists is determined by which type ofincoming mail server you re using. If you re not using POP and you get asecondary dialog box, it may not match the one shown here, though itdoes share some of the options shown. 12.If you want to check for new e-mail automatically, check theAutomatically Check For New Mail check box. Figure 9-9: ThesecondaryEvolutionReceivingMail dialogbox, for POPmail users in FedoraCore 3.181Chapter 9: Using the Internet14_

Leave it as None if you don t want to receive e-mail on this computer this setting is useful if you only want to be able to send or only want touse the calendar and task management features in Evolution. Dependingon which item you choose, the dialog box changes to ask for the appro- priate information. I assume that you re using a POP mail server toreceive mail, so what you ll see when you select POP is shown in Figure9-8. If you re not using POP, then complete the dialog box you do see andthen proceed to Step 17. The latest versions of Evolution have support for Microsoft Exchangeservers available. If you need this, it may or may not be already installedin your distribution. For Fedora, use the information in Chapter 12 toadd the evolution-connector package to your system and then restartthe Evolution setup process. 6.Enter the full name for your POP mail server in the Host text box. The name may be something like pop.example.com. 7.Enter your login name for checking mail in the Username text box. If your e-mail address is jane@example.com, your username is jane. 8.If you were told to use SSL for security, in the Use Secure Connection(SSL) drop-down list box, select either Always or Whenever Possible, depending on what your ISP has specified. Figure 9-8: TheEvolutionReceivingMail dialogbox, withPOPselected, in FedoraCore 3.180Part II:Internet Now!

Click Forward to proceed past the Welcome screen, after which the Identitydialog box (see Figure 9-7) opens. To fill in this dialog box, complete the fol- lowing steps: 1.Change the Full Name field, if you want. Some people don t want to use their real name and opt to use a nick- name. There may or may not be default values assigned, depending onwhat other programs you ve configured on your machine. 2.Change the E-Mail Address field if it doesn t match the address yourISP gave you (it probably doesn t). 3.If you want this particular account to be your default mail account, make sure the Make This My Default Account check box is checked. Otherwise, make sure it is unchecked. 4.Click Forward to proceed. The Receiving Mail dialog box opens. 5.In the Server Type list box, select the type of incoming e-mail serveryour ISP uses. Figure 9-7: TheEvolutionIdentitydialog box in FedoraCore 3.179Chapter 9: Using the Internet14_