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Composing new email messages

Composing new email messages - macOS Tutorial

From the course: Computer Literacy for Mac

Composing new email messages

- [Instructor] There are basically three ways to compose a new email message. You can create a brand new email from scratch, you can reply to an email you received, or you can forward a message you received to another recipient. Let's start by taking a look at creating an email from scratch. In just about all mail clients, you can click a button labeled something like New Message or Compose or New. Here in Mac OS Mail, I have this button here that says, Compose a new message. This opens up a new message window. Now, you can fill out the fields here in any order, but let's work our way down from the top. In the To field, you enter the email address of the person or people you want to send the message to. Your email can have any number of recipients in the To field. In all email clients, you can separate the email addresses with a comma, or in the case of Mac Mail, just press enter or return on your keyboard. Now it's a general rule of etiquette you should only use the To field for…

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