Web Messaging Lite Help

Composing New Message

Click Compose New Message to initiate a New Message page to designate recipients, compose email, add attachments, and send email. You can customize your message by using the formatting and style toolbars located above the message box.

• Send. Click to send the message, with or without an attached file.
• Cancel. Click to cancel composing and sending a message.
• Save to Drafts. Click to save a draft of your message in the Drafts email folder. Select the message in the Draft folder later to re-open the message, then click Edit Draft to continue composing the message.
• Attachments. Click to display the File to attach text box, Browse button, and Insert File button.
• Encoding. A drop down list to change from the default message encoding used to send a new message.
  • UTF-8. Choose this character set for multi-language mail. In IMail, this includes English, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, French, German, Italian, Japanese,or Spanish.
  • English (US). Choose this character set for sending mail composed in English only.
  • Western European. Choose this character set for sending mail composed in French, Italian, Spanish, or German.
  • Chinese Traditional. Choose this character set for sending mail composed in traditional Chinese.
  • Chinese Simplified. Choose this character set for sending mail composed in simplified Chinese.
  • Japanese. Choose this character set for sending mail composed in Japanese.

    Note: To change the default encoding go to your User Preferences page.

• Options. Check boxes for the following options:
  • Show CC. Select this option to display the Carbon Copy (CC) text box.
  • Show BCC. Select this option to display the Blind Carbon Copy (BCC) text box.

    Send as Plain Text. Select this option if you do not want your message formatted with the text styles and formatting toolbar settings. Because you are sending mail over the Internet, you may prefer to use plain text rather than adding formatting that recipients might not be able to see. Plain text is text without formatting (bold, italic, underlined), bullets, or alignment.
    User Preferences has an option setting "Default new message style" where plain text can be set for all new messages, replies, and forwards.

    When this option is cleared, the html editor is displayed for message composition. Rich text messages include .htm tags to format the text. By default all editor icons (bold, italics, cut, fonts, and font sizes) have been removed to allow quicker processing for Web Messaging Lite.

    Note: After composing in formatted text, you can select the Send Message as Plain Text check box under Options.

• Save in Sent Folder. Select this option to save a copy of your message the Sent email folder. This will automatically be checked if your preferences are set to "Save copy of outgoing messages in sent folder". Depending on your preference setting checking or unchecking the check box will override your preference setting.
• To. In the text box, enter the email address(es) of the person(s) to whom this message will be sent. For more information, see Using Contacts to Address a Message.
• CC. In the text box, enter the email address(es) of person(s) to whom you'd like a copy of this message to be sent. For more information, see Using Contacts to Address a Message.
• BCC. In the text box, enter the email address(es) of person(s) to whom you'd like a copy of this message to be sent, without the recipient's address appearing in the message. For more information, see Using Contacts to Address a Message.
• Subject. Enter the subject of the email into the text box.
• Save Recipients to the following Address book. From the list box, select the address book to which you wish to add the message's recipient(s). User Preferences has a setting "Save Recipients by Default" which will save all recipients to your personal contacts. This setting will not add a duplicate entry when an email address already exists in the personal contacts folder.
• Attachments. Displays only if attachments exist. See Adding Attachments.
• Tool Icon. By default the only option available with Web Messaging Liteis spell check.

  Use the Spell Check feature to check your message's spelling before sending.

  1. To access Spell Check, click Spell Check on the toolbar.
  2. The Spell Check Web Page Dialog appears. The tool scans your message and displays in red, one word at a time, any word that does not appear in its dictionary.

     You can choose to do any of the following:

  • Change To text box. Enter a word in the text box to replace the word in red.
  • Ignore. Click this button if you choose to ignore the possible spelling error.
  • Ignore All. Click this button if you wish Spell Check to ignore all repeated misspellings of the word.
  • Add. Click this button to add the word in red to the Dictionary.
  • Replace. Click this button after you have selected a word from the Change To or Suggestions list to replace the word in red.
  • Replace All. Click this button after you have selected a word from the Change To or Suggestions list to replace all instances of the word in red.
  • Cancel. Click this button to cancel running Spell Check.