Use Palm Mail

After you have configured Palm Mail and successfully connected to the mail server, you are essentially ready to begin sending and receiving e-mail. Of course, the first thing you should do is send a test e-mail to your e-mail address to ensure you receive it and that everything is behaving as it should. See the section later in this chapter entitled "Compose and Send E-Mail-Basic."

Compose and Send E-Mail with Palm Mail

Many options are available to you when using Mail to compose and send e-mail messages. The following section describes the most basic way of composing and sending a message. There is also an advanced way of doing this (described a little further on). Advanced doesn't mean that the steps are more difficult, it just means that e-mail is covered in a lot more detail.

Compose and Send E-Mail-Basic

The easiest way to test your Treo Mail is to compose a new message and send it to yourself. These steps are the same whether you are sending an e-mail to yourself or to someone else.

[if !supportLists]1. [endif]In Mail, press the Menu button, select Message, and then New. The New Message screen looks like the one shown in Figure 6-4.

[if !supportLists]2. [endif]Enter the e-mail message.

[if !supportLists]· [endif]To Fill in the To field with the recipient's e-mail address. The recipient will be your e-mail address if this is a test message.

[if !supportLists]· [endif]Subject Fill in the Subject field with a short description of the e-mail.

[if !supportLists]· [endif]Body Fill in the Body section with the message content.

[if !supportLists]3. [endif]Once all of the fields have been filled in, press the Send button.

[if !supportLists]4. [endif]Your Treo will connect to the Internet and forward the message to the e-mail server.

Another time-saving feature of your Treo is that it allows you to easily look up and populate the recipient's e-mail address by typing in the first and last initial or last name in the To field. Press return on the keyboard, and a lookup screen will be displayed with any name and e-mail addresses that match your search. Scroll to the match and press the Center button on the five-way navigation control to add the name to the To or Cc fields.

If you sent the message to your own e-mail account, you likely won't receive the message back at the same time you send it. Wait a few minutes and then press the Send button on the screen. Afterward, press the Receive button on the screen or select the appropriate menu item under Messages. You should then receive your test message.

Compose, Send, and Manage E-Mail-Advanced

Palm Mail offers flexible and powerful e-mail options for your Treo. Once you have mastered the basic e-mail capability, there is a more advanced functionality to help you customize your e-mail, such as working with e-mail attachments, customizing your e-mail, and organizing your messages.

Change the Main View

The first screen you see when you launch Mail is your Mailbox. You can change what messages you want to view by selecting the secondary menu, as illustrated in Figure 6-5. The view options include the following:

[if !supportLists]· [endif]Inbox All received messages will appear in this view until you delete or file them.

[if !supportLists]· [endif]Outbox The Outbox contains any outgoing e-mail messages that have not yet been sent.

[if !supportLists]· [endif]Deleted The Deleted view lists any e-mail messages that you have deleted but that have not yet been purged. The Deleted box is similar to the Recycle Bin on your PC. You can purge (permanently delete) messages by choosing the Purge option under the Message menu.

[if !supportLists]· [endif]Filed The Filed view contains any messages that you move from your Inbox to the Filed folder. The Filed folder is where you will move messages that you want to keep.

[if !supportLists]· [endif]Draft The Draft view lists any e-mails you have chosen to save as drafts. Usually you save a message as a draft if you have not finished composing it and want to send it later.

[if !supportLists]· [endif]Sent The Sent view lists all of the messages you have sent from your Treo.

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