Manual of Hikyaku free email, webmail version.

If you need to send or receive Japanese email without any possibility to process Japanese characters, please go to the manual page of applet version of hikyaku mailer. This is the first version of the program and consequently it may contain several bugs. For this reason, if you need to send or receive an important letter, we recommend not to use this program: we cannot guarantee it. If you don't know our service, please connect to our main page to learn it. If you have encountered any problems by using our program, please post your message onto our Japanese forum or look at Frequently asked questions.

Contents

1. Creating a free e-mail account
2. Logging into your mail account
3. Displaying all the mail headers
4. Displaying the message content
5. Choosing the encoding method
6. Composing a message
7. Sending the message
8. Deleting messages
9. Replying to a message
10. Attaching a file to the message to send
11. Closing your mail box

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1. Creating a free e-mail account

   If you have not yet got a free e-mail account of hikyaku, go to Creating hikyaku mailbox and follow the instruction there. You will receive an user name and its password at your current e-mail address.

2. Logging into your mail account

   
   
   Once you've got a mail account, go to the main page of hikyaku and input username and password on the left corner above. If you wish those data saved, check "Save password" box, then click on "Login". Next time, all the data will be automatically filled by clicking on "Username" field.

3. Displaying all the mail headers

   
   
   Once logged in, you can see all the mail headers with sender's name, sent date and subject. The default encoding method is "unicide" that should allow to display most of the language characters on the same page.

4. Displaying the message content

   
   
   By clicking on a subject link, you can see the content of each message. The display will be automatically adapted to the encoding method specified in the message header. Otherwise the default encoding method, "unicode" will be used. Nevertheless, many messages are circulating in the internet without specifying any encoding method. So you may have to choose manually the encoding method like below.

5. Choosing the encoding method

   
   
   Choose the desired language encoding method in the menu, then click on "Encoding" button. Please note that as long as you don't click on "Encoding" button, you choice should not be validated.

6. Composing a message

   
   
   Click on "Compose" button from the message header list after having selected the correct encoding method like above. Then, input all the necessary information like below on the composition form. Please never try to change the encoding method after having filled up the form. Otherwise, all the input data will be clean up!

7. Sending the message

   
   
   Click on "Send" button, after having filled up all the fields on the mail composition form.

8. Deleting messages

   
   
   
   
   Click on check box of the messages that you wish to delete from the message header list. "Check All" button allows to check all the messages while "Uncheck All" allows to cancel all the checks. Click on "Delete" button, then confirm your selection by logging out from your mail account. Otherwise click on "List" button to return back.

9. Replying to a message

   
   
   After having displayed the selected message, click on "Reply" button. Then, follow the same step as composing a new message.

10. Attaching a file to the message to send

    
    
    
    
    During a message composition, click on "Browse" button, then select a file to attach.

11. Closing your mail box

    
    
    Don't forget to close your mail box by clicking on "Logout" button when your work done. Otherwise, you could not login immediately because your mail box will remain locked for a few minutes.