This document provides a tutorial on how to use the TSTC Mymail email system. It explains how to log in with your username and initial password, explore the layout including the inbox, main menu, and chat features. It also describes how to sort emails in your inbox by checking boxes, marking as important, or starring messages. The tutorial outlines how to compose emails, including entering recipients, adding a subject, typing a message, and attaching files or inserting links. It closes by thanking the reader for learning about the Mymail system.

1. How to use the TSTC Mymail System By: Mariano Garza

2. Introduction Hello fellow students, welcome to the TSTC MyMail tutorial. I know that becoming astudent at a new campus can be an overwhelming feeling, having to worry about learning the new campus, new professors, books, living space, etc. I’m sure the last thing you want is another caused by something as small as an e-mail. That’s why I created this tutorial, in order to explain the in’s and out’s of the TSTC Mymail system. You will learn how to read and sort out your inbox, compose new e-mails, add hyperlinks and attachments, etc. Now let’s begin shall we.

3. Logging In Username Password

4. Logging In Log in to your TSTC MyMail account at www.mymail.tstc.edu. Be sure to have your username and password ready. Your username is your first initial and middle initials (if one exists) and last name followed by numbers assigned t you when you first register. ex. ahernandez29528 If you have never logged in, your initial password will be the last six digits of your Student/Employee ID Number. Username and password are case sensitive and both fields are required. *( keep track of your username and password, don’t check “remember my password” unless you are on a personal computer)

5. Exploring the Layout

6. Exploring the Layout Once you have successfully logged into your mymail account you will a layout similar to other e-mail systems, but with a little dash of TSTC flavor. You can now read your e-mails from your inbox, organize the important and not-so-important messages, and compose e-mails to send to other students/professors, the choice is yours.

7. Exploring the Layout Search Bar ComposeMail Main Menu MAIN BODY Chat Menu

8. Exploring the Layout On the top next to the mymail logo is a search bar designed to easily find certain important e-mails, just simply type in any keywords from an e-mail and let the program do the searching for you. Right under the mymail logo is a button that says “Compose mail” which is used to create e-mails to send, we'll get into that section later. Under the Compose mail button is the main menu. This is used to navigate throughout the pages: Inbox, Starred meassages (flagged), Important, Sent Mail, Drafts. Under the main menu is the chat menu which lets you send messages back and forth with anybody located in your Contacts To the right of the main menu is the body of the mymail system. This is where you can find all of the messages contained in any of the subfolders from the main menu. (Inbox, Sent Mail, etc.)

9. Exploring the Layout Search Bar ComposeMail Main Menu MAIN BODY Chat Menu

10. Sorting out your Inbox

11. Sorting out your Inbox Check Box Mark as Important Messages Star Logo

12. Sorting out your Inbox To read emails simply click on an email and the message will open in a new tab To delete emails simply check the box on the left of the message, once you have checked off all the emails you wish to get rid of, click delete. To flag an e-mail as important open up the message and then click the Mark as Important icon. The message will now be stored in the Important sub-folder in your main menu. Starred messages To “Star” an e-mail simply click the star icon to the left of the message. The message will now be stored in the Starred sub-folder in your main menu.

13. Sorting out your Inbox Check Box Mark as Important Messages Star Logo

14. Composing Mail

15. Composing Mail Enter recipients address here. Subject title goes here Attach a file Insert a link TEXT for e-mail goes here. (Main Body)

16. Composing Mail When composing an e-mail you must enter the recipients address in the “To:” bar. Ex. Math.professor@mymail.tstc.edu. You are allowed to send one message to multiple addresses, just be sure to separate each one with a comma. Once you have all the recipients ready be sure to add a subject title in the “subject” bar. Ex. “Reason for absence from class” Once all that is ready, you can begin typing out the content of the message in the body window. Here you can say anything you need to, just remember to keep it netiquittely appropriate. If you have to insert any kind of image or file attachment, simply click the “attach a file “ link located right under the subject box. Once you click it a dialog box will pop up asking you to find the file you wish to attach. Once you’ve located the file click open on the dialog box and the Mymail system will attach as a download for the recipient(s).

17. Composing Mail To insert a hyperlink to a certain website click on the Chanlink icon located right on top of the Main body of your message. A dialog box will appear asking for “Text to Display” and “To what URL should this link to?” Simply enter the text you want the recipient the click on in the “Text to Display” box and enter the URL address in the “To what URL should this link to?”box. If done properly the text entered in the “Text to Display” box should come up blue in the main body.

18. Composing Mail Enter recipients address here. Subject title goes here Attach a file Insert a link TEXT for e-mail goes here. (Main Body)

19. Closing Congratulations, you now have learned the ins and outs of the TSTC mymail system. Feel free to use this tutorial as a refresher anytime one f the tasks seems to slip your mind. I know how stressful school can be sometimes and I hope this tutorial can help relieve any unecessary stress caused by a cloudy mind. If you have any other questions or comments regarding the mymail system, please dont hesitate to contact me at mgarza08@yahoo.com, Thank you.

20. How to use the TSTC Mymail System By: Mariano Garza