Composing Email Messages

• It's very easy to create new messages in Mweb Webmail as well as reply to existing messages or forward messages on to other individuals or groups. Below you'll find a brief walkthrough of each scenario.
  

  Setting To, From, Subject, etc.

  Creating a new message will pop-out the compose window. Mweb Webmail uses a pop-out window because it allows you to reference other areas of Mweb Webmail or easily navigate to other browser tabs if you're using other websites for information to include in your new message.

  The following fields appear in the new message window:

  • From - If you have more than one account set up, or one or more domain aliases, you have the ability to select the address from which the message will be sent. Otherwise, the message is sent from the one user you have set up. If multiple users are available, the From: line will have a down arrow. Simply click the arrow and select the address from the dropdown.
  • Signature - If you have more than one signature set up, you have the ability to select the signature used for the message.
  • To - Type the email address for each primary recipient you want to receive your email. Multiple addresses can be used; simply separate each with a comma or semicolon. When entering addresses into the To, Cc, and Bcc fields, Mweb Webmail will auto-complete addresses by referencing your contacts list, mailing lists, your auto-complete list, aliases or the Global Address List.
  • Cc - Carbon Copy (Cc) recipients are those who should be included as part of the conversation, but are not necessarily primary recipients.
  • Bcc - Blind Carbon Copy (Bcc) recipients are hidden from those people listed in the To and Cc fields. In addition, in a Reply All scenario, Bcc users do NOT receive a copy of the reply. For this reason, it is common practice to use the Bcc field when addressing a very long list of recipients or a list of recipients that should not (necessarily) know each other.
  • Subject - Type a descriptive subject or title of the email.

  Selecting Contacts

  In addition to simply typing in the address you want to send to, it's possible to select contacts to populate the To, Cc, and Bcc fields. To do this, simply click the field name. (I.e., To:, Cc, and/or Bcc.) This option opens a modal window and, from here, you can select the contacts based on a folder (i.e., Contacts, Global Address List, shared Contacts, etc.) or even display contacts based on a category. When a choice of folder or category is made, contacts associated to the selection are listed in the modal. One or more can then be selected, saved, and then added to the To, Cc, or Bcc field(s) as needed.

  Composing the Message

  Below the Subject line is a complete HTML editor that you can use to write and format your message. A number of formatting options are available, from selecting a font colour to inserting multimedia elements into a message.

  While it's possible to format a message using the buttons/tools available with the HTML editor, it's also possible to create a customised, HTML-rich message using an outside product or service, and then paste that code into the compose window of Mweb Webmail. Ideally, you'd switch Mweb Webmail's editor from "design view", where you're using the toolbar to format your message, to "code view" with the "<>" button. Using code view, you create or edit the actual HTML tags that are used for formatting the message. When creating a message using an outside editor, pasting the code that's generated into the code view of the compose window ensures your original formatting is used for the message. You can then swap back to design view and see how the message renders. Once the message is created, it's ready to be sent.