Composing New Message
Click 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.
- Click to send the message, with or without an attached file.
- Click to cancel composing and sending a message.
- 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 and continue composing the message.
- Click to display the File to attach text box, Browse button, and Insert File button.
- Check boxes for the following options:
- . Select this option to display the Carbon Copy (CC) text box.
- Select this option to display the Blind Carbon Copy (BCC) text box.
- . 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.
Manage User Options has an option setting 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 Lite Web Client.
- Select this option to save a copy of your message the email folder. This will automatically be checked if Manage User Options are set to
The options setting will override the User Options setting.
- From the dropdown list box, select the address book as the default contact folder to add the message's recipient(s). Manage User Options has a setting which will save all recipients to the selected contacts folder. This setting will not add a duplicate entry when an email address already exists in the contacts folder.
- . Default setting is normal. Select Low, Normal or High.
- A drop down list to change from the default message encoding used to send a new message.
- Choose this character set for multi-language mail. In IMail, this includes English, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, French, German, Italian, Japanese,or Spanish.
- Choose this character set for sending mail composed in English only.
- Choose this character set for sending mail composed in French, Italian, Spanish, or German.
- Choose this character set for sending mail composed in traditional Chinese.
- Choose this character set for sending mail composed in simplified Chinese.
- Choose this character set for sending mail composed in Japanese.
To change the default encoding go to Manage User Options from the main page.
After composing in formatted text, you can select the check box under .
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Enter the subject of the email into the text box.
- . Displays only if attachments exist. See Adding Attachments.
- Only limited options are available with Lite Web Client.