Overview of Convergence Online Help
How Can I Read an Encrypted or Signed Message Sent to me?
How Do I Check Spelling in My Message?
How Do I Add Contacts from Address Book?
How Do I Ask For a Return Receipt When I Send a Message?
How Do I Respond To a Message That Asks For a Return Receipt?
How Can I Send an Encrypted or Signed Message?
Searching Messages and Attachments
How Do I Search For a Message?
What Actions Can I Perform on my Attachments?
How Do I Search for an Attachment Using Filters?
What Actions Can I Perform On My Message(s)?
How Do I View my Overall Mail Quota Information?
How Can I Check my Mail Quota Usage for a Particular Folder?
How Do I Mark a Message as Spam or Not Spam?
How Do I Attach a File to Message?
How Do I View a File Attached to a Message?
How Do I Save a File Attached to a Message?
Sharing and Subscribing to Mail Folders
How Do I Share Mail Folders With Other Users?
How Do I Subscribe to a Shared Folder?
The Compose tab consists of the following parts:
Toolbar menu
The toolbar menu contains the following icons:
Send: Sends the message to the respective recipients.
Attach: Attaches a file to the Email message.
Save: Saves the Email as a draft which you can refer later.
Bcc: Enables you to send blind copy of E-mails to recipients.
Options: Enables you add more features to your Email messages.
Cancel: Closes the current tab and returns to the mail view.
From: This field contains a drop-down list with all the configured sender profiles you have for this account. This field is not displayed if you have not configured external POP accounts. This list includes the name followed by the email address of each configured external account. Convergence enables you to collect emails from other POP accounts in addition to the default account.
This feature enables you to receive, send, reply, or forward emails from or to other email accounts that support POP access. To know more about how to set up external accounts in Convergence, see Collecting Email From External Accounts.
To and Cc fields to include receivers email addresses.
Subject field.
Email format menu bar.
To compose and send a new message:
Click the Write icon on the center panel to display the Compose tab.
The Compose tab contains the To, Cc and Subject fields.
Type the email addresses of the recipients who should receive your message in the To field. Use a comma to separate multiple addresses.
Alternatively, click the Address Book icon next to the To field to select the email address. To send a copy to a recipient, type the email addresses in the Cc field or click the Address Book icon next to the Cc field to select email addresses.
Convergence provides an address book auto completion feature. This feature needs to be enabled at the back-end Convergence server. When enabled, type the first few characters of the display name of the recipient. The list of entries that closely match the typed characters from the Address Book are displayed in a drop down list. See How Do I Add Contacts from Address Book?.
To send a blind copy to a recipient, click the Bcc icon. Optionally, click the Address Book icon next to the Bcc field to select email addresses from the saved list.
The Bcc field is displayed. Type the email address in the Bcc field.
Type the subject of your message in the Subject field.
Click the Options icon in the top toolbar.
The expanded message icons are shown.
From the priority drop-down list, select the required priority.
The priorities are Normal, and Urgent. By default, the messages are sent with normal priority.
From the Receipt drop-down list, select an option.
The options are:
None: Does not perform any actions when the recipient receives this message.
Read: Sends a notification when the recipient reads the message.
Delivery: Sends a notification when this message is delivered to the recipient.
Read and Delivery: Sends a notification when your message is delivered and read by the recipient.
Select the Rich Text checkbox to include rich text features in the mail editor.
Click in the message text box and type the text of the message.
To attach a message to the mail, see Attaching Files to Messages.
Click Send to send the message.