Send E-Mail

In this exercise, you will be mailing yourself a message, creating a signature for yourself, and sending a couple of messages to helpful colleagues.

Do this exercise using your e-mail software. You might like to print this page for easy reference. Just click on the Print button on the Tool Bar.

E-Mail Workout

1. Mail yourself a message.
   
   -- Put your own address in the To field. Enter a subject.
   -- Create a message with salutation, body, and signature
   
   
2. Create a signature for yourself. Look for, and use the Create Signature and Append Signature functions in your e-mail software.
   
   
3. Send a message to a colleague or friend with Bcc to yourself. If you do not know the e-mail address, it will be easiest to ask the person directly.
   
   
4. Send a message to a friend (or to yourself) to which you have attached a word-processed document.
   
   
5. Copy and paste text from a document into your e-mail message. Open a document and highlight some text. Use Edit - Copy to put the text in memory. Hop over to your mail program and use Edit - Paste to plop it from memory into your e-mail message. You might have to do some fiddling with the lines to make it look nice.
   
   

Length of Message

It can happen that a message or attached file is too large for the recipient's server or the mail program to handle. What begins as a text file of 50,000 bytes could mushroom to many times larger as a highly formatted Adobe PDF file. Even if the file gets through, there is overload on the system. If you want to send a large file (over 100,000 bytes), check with the recipient first to determine if there is a limit on message size. Never send a 1 MB file without asking! If you must send a large attachment that might be too large for the mail servers, use one of the services mentioned in the sidebar.

Where to next?

Now people are sending you messages. How should you reply? Practice in this Reply to E-Mail Exercise.