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Working with Messages

Click on the messages appearing in the Inbox window to perform these tasks:

Deleting a Message

To delete a message:

  1. Click the Subject of the message.
  2. This opens the message for viewing.

  3. Click Delete.
  4. For more information about deleting messages, refer to Deleting Messages.

Composing a Message

To compose a message, refer to Composing a Message.

Replying to a Message

You can reply to the sender of a message, or to the sender and to all recipients listed in the To, From, Cc fields of the original message.

To reply to a message:

  1. Click Reply to reply to the sender, or Reply All to reply to the sender and all the other recipients.
  2. A New Message window appears with the name of the recipient or recipients. The subject of the original message is prefaced with Re:.
  3. If you want to enter additional email addresses, click “To”, “Cc”, or “Bcc” to indicate how you want the address to be listed. Alternatively, you can manually add an email address.
  4. Click in the message box and type the text of your message.
  5. Click Send.

  6. Note

      • While replying to a Text message the original message appears inline in the compose window.
      • While replying to an HTML message the original message appears as an attachment in the compose window.

Forwarding Messages

To forward an opened message, and any files attached to it:

  1. Click Forward.
  2. Address the message using To, Cc and Bcc header fields.
  3. The subject of the original message appears prefaced with Fwd:. Attachments that came with the original message are included.

  4. Note

    While forwarding an HTML message, the original message appears as an attachment in the compose window.


    New attachments if any sent with the original message also appears in the Attachments field along with the original message forwarded.

Displaying Next and Previous Messages

You can easily move from one message to another by selecting the Next or Previous links to look at next or previous messages as they are listed in the current folder.

Filing Messages to a Folder

After reading a message, you can file it in another folder.

From the “Move message to folder” drop-down list, select the folder in which you want to file the message.


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