D-Mail is a fun, easy program that lets you add graphics, wallpaper and music to your messages.
Inbox
Click on the Inbox to see all of your messages. Some things you can do with messages in your inbox are:
- Move: This allows you to move messages out of your Inbox to other folders. Be sure to clear out your Inbox on regular basis to prevent mail from piling up and slowing down the system.
Just click on the white box next to the messages you want to move. A check mark will show up in the box (to de-select the message, just click the box again.) Next, use the pull-down menu at the bottom of the screen to choose where you want to move the message(s). Then click on "Move", and the message(s) you selected will be moved to the folder you have chosen.
- Move to Trash: To move messages to the trash, select the messages you want to throw away (by clicking the white boxes next to the messages) and click the "Move to Trash" button. If you ever need to get a message that you have thrown away, select "Folders," from the left-hand menu bar, then click on the "Trash" link. Click on the message to be retrieved, and use the pull-down menu at the bottom of the page to select the destination folder, and click on "Move."
- Empty Trash: Clicking this button will permanently remove all the messages from your Trash folder. Be sure to do this regularly.
Reading messages: To read a message, click on the underlined subject and the message will be displayed.
What you can do with a message after you read it:
- Reply: Click on Reply to answer D-Mail.
- Reply All: Click on this button to send D-Mail to the person who sent you the original message, plus everyone else who received it.
- Forward: Click here to forward the message.
- Prev/Next: Click on these buttons to view the previous or next message in your Inbox.
Attachments: Attachments are documents, programs, and files that have been included with a D-Mail message. Attachments can be big files, so they can take a long time to download.
If a message has an attachment, there will be a little paperclip in the "Attached" column with a number next to it, telling you how big the attachment is.
Viewing attachments: To view an attachment, click to open the message (click the underlined subject), then click on the "Download" button right beneath it. If your browser can display the attachment, it will open it right up. If not, you'll get a message asking if you would like open the file from its current location or save it to your hard disk. Depending on your selection, the attachment will either be opened using the appropriate program or save to your hard disk, where you can access it at any time.
Create
Click on "Create" to compose D-Mail messages. You can get to this screen at any time by clicking the "Create" button on the left side of the screen.To create a message:
- Address Message: Use your D-Mail Address Book or type addresses directly into the To: field (example: [email protected]).
To use your D-Mail Address Book, click the "Address Message" button, then click on the white boxes next to the names of people you want to send D-Mail to, then click "Done."
- Subject: Type in a description of your message.
- Message: Type your message here.
- Choose a D-Mail Stationery Set: Choose stationery, a picture, a colorful background and music to add to your D-Mail message.
Choose a character from the bottom of the screen then click on your desired stationery.
- Preview Message: To see what your D-Mail message looks like, click "Preview Message" button. To change the message or the stationery, click the End Preview button, or click Send to send the message.
- Change Stationery: Click on Change Stationery to go back to the set of stationery you originally chose.
- No Stationery: Click on the "No Stationery" button if you decide not to use stationery. This will take you back to the original "Create" screen.
- Attach File: Click the "Attach File" button to the left of the "Message" window to attach a file to a message. This will present a 3-step process for attaching files.
- Selecting the File: Click on the "Browse" button to see your Windows Explorer. From here, find the file you would like to attach, select it and click "Open" on your Windows Explorer window. You will see the path to the selected file appear in the "Attach File" field.
- Attach to Message: After selecting a file, click the "Attach to Message" button. This will attach the selected file and it will appear in a new window at the bottom of the screen. To delete an attached file, select the file in this window and click the "Delete" button.
To attach more files, just repeat steps 1 & 2 above. *Note: there is a 500KB size limit on all attachments.
- Click the "OK" button to return to your message.
- Send: Click on the "Send" button at the bottom of the screen to send your message.
Folders
Make your own folders to save your old messages. You can get to the "Folders" screen at any time by clicking the "Folders" button on the left of the screen.
- Inbox & Trash: These two folders will be in your "Folders" area when you first get your D-Mail account. You can't delete them, but you can see what's in them by clicking on the Inbox or Trash links in the "Folder" column on the left of the screen. Don't forget to delete all unwanted messages!
- Create New Folder: Create new folders to organize your messages. Here's how:
Click the "Create New Folder" button in the middle of the screen. Then, when asked for a "New Folder Name," type in the name you want and click "OK."
- Moving Messages: As described in the "Inbox" section, within all folders is a "Move" button at the bottom of the screen. By selecting messages in a folder (clicking the white boxes next to the messages), selecting the folder you want to move the message(s) to (drop-down list next to the "Move" button) and clicking the "Move" button, you can move messages to the folders that you want.
- Rename: Rename folders by clicking the "Rename" button to the right of the folder. Just type in the new folder name and click "OK."
- Delete: Click on the "Delete" button to the right of the folder, then click the "Delete" button to remove a folder and its contents to the trash.
Change Address Book:
You can get to the "Change Address Book" screen at any time by clicking the "Change Address Book" button on the left side of the screen.
- Add Addresses: Click "Change Address Book" to add addresses of Club Blast Members and Non-Club Blast Members.
- Add a Club Blast Member: To add a Club Blast Member, leave this choice selected and enter your friend's Club Blast Member name. Click "Add" and you'll see a message telling you your friend has been successfully added.
- Add a Non-Club Blast Member: If the address you want to add belongs to a Non-Club Blast Member, click on the circle next to "Not a Club Blast Member." Enter the full email address of the person you would like to add to your address book, then click "Add" and you'll see a message telling you your friend has been successfully added.
- Remove Address: Click on the "Remove Address" button at the bottom right of the screen to remove addresses. You'll also see a list of all the addresses in your address book. To remove an address, just select from the list and click "Remove Address." Repeat this process for any other addresses you want to remove.
D-Mail Policies
- Storage limit: The storage limit for a Club Blast mail account is 5MB (5000KB) or 1000 messages, whichever comes first. As your Club Blast mail account approaches this limit (4.8MB or 950 messages), you will receive D-Mail reminding you to delete old, unwanted messages. Once you have exceeded your Club Blast mailbox capacity, all new incoming mail will be bounced back to the sender. Please be sure to clean out your D-Mail account regularly.
- Attachments: D-Mail attachments can be large, and quickly fill your mail account to capacity. Please be sure to save D-Mail attachments to your computer's hard drive or delete unwanted messages with attachments.
- Size limits for attachments: The size limit for D-Mail attachments is 500KB. This means that you can either send a 500KB attachment, or a few small attachments that add up to 500KB. Attempts to send attachments larger than 500KB will be unsuccessful. In turn, incoming messages sent to D-Mail accounts with attachments larger than 500KB will be bounced back to the sender.
- Junk mail policy: We prohibit mass mailings from D-Mail accounts, or spamming. As a rule, messages sent from D-Mail accounts will be limited to a maximum of 50 recipients per message. For more details on our policies, please see the House Rules. In order to prevent your guests from receiving unwanted D-Mail from a particular source, you can create a "block list" that prevents delivery of messages from specific addresses.