Sending Mail

While you are browsing user profiles after using SEARCH, within the profile is a link to SEND ONLINE MAIL to the user whose profile you are viewing. Clicking that link will take you to a mail form, allowing you to create a new online mail.

Mail Features
The MAIL link takes you to your IN BOX. All mail and message-related links are found on the MAIL BOX menu from the MAIL link.

Checking Mail via Mail Notice Link

Whenever a user sends you a new online mail, a mail notice is sent directly to your personal email address. Within this mail notice, it alerts you that you have new mail waiting on the web site, it tells you a little bit of biographical information about the user, and it provides instructions to go to the site, LOG IN, and click the MAIL link to read incoming mail.

Checking Mail via YOU'VE GOT MAIL link

Once you've logged into the web site, if you have new UNREAD incoming mail, on every page you will find a flashing You've Got Mail logo. This will continue to flash until you read the mails. To read the mails, simply click the alias of the person who sent you the mail, which appears below the You've Got Mail logo. This takes you directly to the mail to be able to read and reply.

You may optionally click the You've Got Mail flashing logo itself to take you to your INBOX and review the mini profile prior to reading the mail.

Mail Box

Go to your MAIL BOX by clicking the MAIL link in the left sidebar after you've logged in. Your MAIL BOX defaults to displaying all incoming mail in your IN BOX, but also has links to allow display of mail in your OUT BOX. The navigation menu in the MAIL MODULE has links to allow you to CREATE MAIL, set up a DEFAULT SIGNATURE for your mail messages, see a list of WHOM I'VE MAILED, WHO'S MAILED ME, and more.

Mail sorts by the most recent date sent. From the hyperlinks at the top of the Mail Box pages, you may select to view only the messages you have not sent, not read, read, replied, not replied or deleted -- within your INBOX or OUTBOX.

Click the "Subject" or the "Click to Read" hyperlinks to open the mail and read and/or reply. You may mark a message for Deletion by checking the "Delete Message?" check box that displays next to READ messages. Read messages are automatically purged from the system after a given number of days. Unread messages are retained longer and then purged from the system. If both parties mark a message as deleted, it will be removed prior to normal purge date. If a member's account is DELETED by them or us, the message will no longer be available.

When you create or reply to a mail, you may optionally send a carbon copy to your home email address.