User's Manual
BrailleNote Apex BT User Guide
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11 E-mail.
This chapter introduces KeyMail, the BrailleNote's user-friendly e-mail package that lets you send,
receive and manage your e-mail.
If you are new to the world of electronic telecommunications you may wonder what e-mail is. That
is, apart from being short for electronic mail. Essentially e-mail is just the electronic equivalent of
paper mail, but it is faster and cheaper than ordinary mail. It takes minutes or hours rather than days
to reach its destination even when the destination is on the other side of the world.
In order to send and receive e-mail, computers need to have a set of rules, or protocol, which
determines how the information is sent. BrailleNote BT's e-mail program, KeyMail, uses the
popular POP (Post Office Protocol) e-mail format. This protocol has become the "industry
standard" which ensures easy connection to the majority of Internet Service Providers.
We commence this chapter by describing, in general terms, what KeyMail can do. We then take an
overview of the KeyMail package, and follow this with getting started with KeyMail from a first
time perspective. Following this is a fuller description of KeyMail and its component parts.