About The Pocketmail Service; The Pocketmail Composer - Black Box PocketMail Composer Manual

POCKETMAIL COMPOSER

2.2 About the PocketMail Service

Your PocketMail service is maintained on a server (a type of computer) located at
the PocketMail offices. Your PocketMail address refers to that server, rather than
the Composer itself. You use the Composer to access a portion of the server
allocated to you.
Imagine that you are part of a traditional business network in which everyone has a
post office box. Each morning you write letters and put them in your Out tray.
Later in the day you go to the post office to mail your outgoing letters and pick up
any incoming mail. The mail service transports your letters, to be picked up by
your associates from their post office boxes whenever they check them.
In the PocketMail scenario, the Composer is like your desk. There you compose
emails or faxes and put them in the Outbox. Dialing into the PocketMail server is
the equivalent of the trip to the post office. The Composer sends your outgoing
email and picks up any incoming messages that may be waiting there. The
PocketMail server forwards each of your outgoing messages to the server
maintained by the addressee's email service provider. Each recipient will log in to
their email service and pick up the message you have sent.
NOTE
See page 11 for instructions on activating the PocketMail service.

2.3 The PocketMail Composer

The front of the Composer has a button and four Progress Bar lights.
PocketMail button
Progress lights
Figure 2-1. Outside top view.
The bottom of the Composer has a speaker and a retractable microphone for
sending and receiving messages over phone lines.
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