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Composing email in Pooka

The next thing that you will want to do with Pooka is to send an email. This is because, if you have a new email account, you might not actually have any mail available to you yet. If you would like to skip ahead to reading your mail, go to Reading email in Pooka.

To send an email, first you click on the Create a New Message button in your toolbar. (You can also create a new message by going to the Mail menu and choosing New Message, or by pressing Control-S.) A window will appear. This is the new message composition window. It has two areas of interest: a set of fields which are used to fill out the envelope information for the message, and a large text field which is used for the content of the message.

The envelope information panels consists of the following fields:

User
This is the account that the email will come from. It determines things like return address, the mail server to use for outgoing mail, and the signature file to be used. If you only have one email account, then this field will only have one entry.
To add a new User, go to Edit->User.
To
The email address of the person to whom this email will be sent. An email must have at least one entry in the To: field. You may also put in an alias as defined in your address book; see Address Books for more detail.
CC
Other recipients of the email. A CC: field may be blank.
BCC
Recipients of the email which won't show up on other recipient's address fields. Useful if you want to copy an email to someone without the other recipients knowning.
Subject
The subject of the email. Most email clients (including Pooka) will show the subject field of each message in the overview of the mailbox.

The large text area at the bottom of the window is where you type in the content of your email message. This should be fairly selft explanatory.