How to get FirstClass notifications
If you were invited to join a community
If your organization uses another mail system, you'll see a few changes to what is documented in this help. The rationale is that you already have a private mailbox, personal calendar, and private contacts on your other system.
You won't see a Mailbox icon, and you can't use private email. You can only address messages to conferences and post to communities.
You'll see a Calendars icon instead of Calendar. This isn't a personal calendar, but rather a place where you can combine views of other calendars and create tasks. You can't create events here, but you can in group calendars, with one limitation: you can only invite people external to FirstClass (people with an Internet email address) to your events.
If you want to add a calendar that is inside a container to the list of calendars you can combine, choose Add to Calendars.
You won't have a Contacts folder.
If you open permissions forms or membership lists, you won't see anyone who is external to FirstClass.
You must supply an email address so that FirstClass will know where to send system notifications (such as calendar reminders when you aren't logged in).
To supply this address, choose Preferences from the application menu, then go to the Messaging section. Fill in the Automatically forward section:
If you are using FirstClass because you were invited to join a FirstClass community, you may encounter additional limits on what you can do. For example, you may not be able to: