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These procedures are for U.S. government employees dialing from hotels, motels, pay phones, and other non-FTS2000 telephones. Dialing procedures are based on the network servicing the employees agency.
Network A (AT&T). To gain access to this network, employees must:
Network B (U.S. Sprint). To gain access to this network, employees must
If dialing from a rotary dial telephone using either card, users must wait for an operator after dialing the appropriate 800 number. For assistance, users can dial the THIS at FTS 295-8500 or (301) 295-8500.
Customer service telephone number:
Log-in Procedures. To log in to MCI Mail, users must:
Mailboxes. Mailbox sections and their contents include the following:
Section | Contents | |
INBOX | Messages that have not been read. | |
OUTBOX | Messages that were previously sent. | |
DESK | Messages that were read. | |
PENDING | Messages being created. |
Mailbox-related commands and their functions are:
ANSWER | For replying to the sender or a message that has been read. | |||
ANSWER EACH | For replying to the sender of a message and everyone else who received the message. | |||
CREATE | For writing an MCI Mail message. | |||
To cancel a message, the user types a slash (/) at TO, CC, or subject. | ||||
To complete a message, the user types a slash (/) on a blank line after the body of the message. | ||||
DELETE | Enables messages to be deleted from any mailbox selection. The user enters the command followed by the scan numbers to be deleted. For example, DELETE 5, 7 causes the fifth and seventh message in the current mailbox section to be deleted. | |||
FORWARD | Causes a copy of one or more messages in a mailbox to be sent to other people. | |||
INCLUDE | Enables text from other messages to be inserted into a message. Type/INCLUDE/scan-number in the message being created. For example,/INCLUDE/2,4 & 5 inserts text from messages 2, 4, and 5 in the message being created. | |||
NEXT | Causes the next message from the current section to be displayed after a READ command is issued. | |||
Enables a series of messages to be displayed without pausing between messages. Messages to PRINT can be identified by scan-number, mailbox section, or by one of the following: | ||||
ALL | ||||
ON [date] SUBJECT [words] | ||||
AFTER [date] TO [lastname] | ||||
BEFORE [date] FROM [lastname] | ||||
READ | Enables one or more messages to be displayed with page breaks between messages. Messages to READ can be identified by scan-number, mailbox section, or by one of the following: | |||
ALL | ||||
AFTER [date] TO [lastname] | ||||
BEFORE [date] FROM [lastname] | ||||
After reading a message one of the following commands can be used: | ||||
ANSWER | NEXT | |||
FORWARD | ||||
SCAN | Enables users to obtain a summary of the messages in their mailboxes. One or more of the following options can be used with SCAN: | |||
INBOX | AFTER [date] | |||
OUTBOX | BEFORE [date] | |||
DESK SUBJECT [text] | ||||
PENDING TO [name] | ||||
ALL FROM [name] | ||||
ON [date] | ||||
SEND | Enables a draft message to be transmitted for non-priority delivery. | |||
SEND ONITE | Enables a draft message to be transmitted for priority delivery. | |||
SEND 4HOUR | Enables a draft message to be transmitted by electronic mail and adds priority notification to the message. | |||
/UPLOAD | Enables one or more files containing addresses into the envelope of a message to be transmitted. |
Other MCI Mail commands include:
ACCOUNT | Enables a terminals characteristics to be defined to MCI Mail. | |
DOW JONES | Enables users to access Dow Jones News and Retrieval Information. | |
EDIT | Allows users to make changes to pending messages. | |
EXIT | For terminating the MCI Mail session. | |
FIND | Permits users to search for an MCI Mail subscribers name to obtain their MCI ID and other information. |
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