5.4.1. Sending a new email

How to send a new email:

Click on Compose in the tool bar.
Enter the recipients' E-Mail addresses in the To field.
- While entering the recipients, matching suggestions will be displayed. To accept a suggestion, click on it.
- To select contacts from an address book, click the Select contact icon on the right side of the input field.
To send a copy to other recipients, click on CC or BCC on the upper right side.
- If the recipients are to see who gets a copy of the E-Mail, enter the recipients in the CC field.
- If the recipients are not to see who gets a copy of the E-Mail, enter the recipients in the BCC field.
Enter a subject. Enter the E-Mail text.
Click on Send.

Options:

If you do not want to send the email from your primary email account but from an external or a functional email account, select the account in the folder view.

Then, click on Compose.
With drag and drop you can move the recipients between the fields To, CC and BCC.
In the E-Mail settings, you can determine whether each outgoing E-Mail will also be sent as a blind copy to a specific E-Mail address.
To format the E-Mail text or to enter images, use the formatting bar below the text.
- If the formatting bar is not displayed, click the Options icon in the button bar. Enable HTML. Enable the Show tool bar icon in the button bar.
  
  You can define default values for the font style, size and color in the E-Mail settings.
- To enter images at the current cursor position, drag one or several images from a file browser or from the desktop to the E-Mail text input field.
  
  To remove an image, use the context menu.
You can use additional options by clicking the Options icon in the button bar:
- attach your signature
- set the priority
- attach your vCard
- request a read receipt

User interface:

Subordinated actions:

E-Mail