How to Compose and Send Messages (Palm)

This section includes the following information necessary to create and send messages.

Creating an Outgoing Message

An outgoing message is a message you send to someone else. To create a new message:

1. Tap Menu.

2. Tap Mail.

3. Tap New Message

You can also use Command Stroke N.

4. The New Message window appears

Notice that the new message screen is composed of two sections - the

header and composition area. Use the header to change the From: To: CC: and Subject: area. Use the composition area to write an email message.

Header Area

From:

Eudora automatically enters the real name and return address of the default account.

If you created multiple accounts and want to use another one, tap the From: field and select an account from the drop-down list.

To: Cc: & Bcc:

Use the To: field to enter an email address. To expand the To: or Cc: fields, tap To: or Cc:. The Message Addresses screen appears. To edit multiple fields from this window. Tap To: and a drop down menu will appear. Switch to either To: Cc: or Bcc.

Note: Only one line of addresses will fit on the line displayed in the main composition window.

Look up addresses from your Palm Address Book:

From the New Message screen:

1. Tap Menu.

2. Tap Edit.

3. Tap Addresses.

4. Tap the Lookup Button at the bottom of the Message Addresses window.

5. A short cut to your Palm address book opens showing records that have text in the email field.

6. Select the address you want and tap Add. If you have multiple people you want to send a message to, Tap Lookup again and repeat the steps. This has to be done for each address you want to add.

7. When finished, Tap Done.

These steps can also be done for Cc: and the Bcc:

BCC sends a copy of this message to someone without any other email recipients knowing it. To add Bcc recipients to this message, do the following:

• Tap Menu.

• Tap Show Bcc, A Bcc line is added to the screen.

Subject:

Enter a short title for the email message.

Composition Area

In the composition area, write your message.

To Send the message, tap Send. The message is queued in the Out box. Queued messages listed in the Out box are indicated by the letter (Q).

To Save a message, tap Save. Saved messages listed in the Out box are indicated with an (S). If you do not want to send the message now, you can tap Save to save the message for later editing.

You can also tap Discard to delete this message.

To assign the message a priority and include your signature, tap Details. The message dialog box appears.

• In the Priority field, tap the arrow to display the drop-down menu. You can select highest, high, normal, low, or lowest priority.

• In the Signature field, tap the arrow to display the drop-down menu. Select the signature you want to use for this message. If you have set up accounts to use signatures, the one you selected will be chosen by default.

• Tap OK to confirm changes.

TIP: You can create a personal mailing list by putting several addresses, separated by commas, into the email field of an address book entry. You can also create a mail list in your Palm Address Book to send mail to multiple recipients.

TIP: While composing your message, you can access text edit functions from the Edit menu. Just tap Menu then Edit. You can Undo, Cut, Copy, Paste, and Select All to edit your text.

Tap Keyboard to display the keyboard

Tap Graffiti to display the Palm device's Graffiti characters.

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