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Compose (New Message)

The Compose menu choice will take you to a new Compose page. Here you will find several fields and a couple of buttons.

The first field you will need to fill in is the To: field. In this field you should enter the e-mail address of the person or persons you are sending a message to.

You may enter as many e-mail addresses as you like. You must separate each address with comma.

You don°t need to put a space between the comma and the start of the next address.

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For example, bambam.rubble@latis.net.au,wilma@bedrock.com.au

If you do put more than one address in the To: field, you might not be able to see them all in the field. Don°t worry! The text box is a fixed length and might not be big enough for you to see all the addresses but rest assured that all the addresses will receive the e-mail.

You can also press the Addresses button to fill in the field. This will take you to your Address book where you can select the recipient.

CC and BCC
Next are the CC: and BCC fields. CC is an abbreviation for Carbon Copy and is used if you want to send someone else a copy of the message.

The recipients of your message will see the addresses of all the people you have sent your message to, ie, they will see who you have put in the To: and CC: fields.

If you don't want recipients to see the addresses of everyone you sent your message to, you can use the BCC: field. BCC is an abbreviation for Blind Carbon Copy. Use this field to send someone a copy of the e-mail without the recipients in the To: or CC: seeing that recipient's name.

Think of CC and BCC in the same way as, say, a memo is laid out. You can have as many people as you like in the To: CC: and BCC: fields. Only the people who are directly affected by the message will be in the To: field while those who will find the information useful will be in the CC: and BCC: fields.

Subject
Type in a relevant subject for you e-mail here.

Addresses Button

This button will open the address book after a search box is presented. Something must be entered in the search box to retrieve a result.

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Access more detailed info on the address book.

Message Body
The large empty box is for whatever you want to put there, ie this is where you type your message! If a signature file has been saved it will appear here as well.

Attach
The attach feature allows you to include a file with your e-mail. A browse button is present so you may search through your directories and select the file to include.

Once you have located the file, simply press the Add button to include the selected file as an attachment.

Once a file is added for attachment another button is revealed which allows you to delete the attachment. You can delete one or more attached files by selecting the offending file or files and pressing the Delete Selected Attachments button.