If you know the e-mail
address of a person or organization, you can send an e-mail message to
that address. In most cases, the message is delivered within a few
minutes.
An e-mail address is a
set of characters that uniquely identifies the location of an Internet
mailbox. Each e-mail address takes the form username@ domain, where username is the name of the person's account with the ISP or within his or her organization; and domain is the Internet name of the company that provides the person's e-mail account.
If you do not know any
e-mail addresses, or, if at first, you prefer to just practice sending
messages, you can send messages to your own e-mail address.
Send an E-mail Message
1 Click New.
A message window appears.
2 Type the e-mail address of the recipient.
NOTE
You can add multiple e-mail addresses to the To line. Separate each address with a semicolon (;).
• To send a copy of the message to another person, click Show Cc & Bcc and then type that person's e-mail address in the Cc field that appears.
3 Type a title or short description for the message.
4 Type the message.
5 Use the buttons in the Formatting bar to format the message text.
NOTE
Many people use e-mail
programs that cannot process text formatting. Unless you are sure your
recipient's program supports formatting, it is best to send plain text
messages. To do this, press 
, click Format, and then click Plain text (
appears beside the command).
6 Click Send.
Windows Live Mail sends your message.
NOTE
Windows Live Mail stores a copy of your message in the Sent Items folder.
I have a large number of messages to compose. Do I have to be online to do this?
No, composing all the messages while you are offline is possible. Follow these steps:
1 While disconnected from the Internet, start Windows Live Mail, and click Cancel if the program asks you to connect to the Internet.
• Windows Live Mail displays Working Offline in the status bar.
2 Compose and send the message. Each time you click Send, your messages are stored temporarily in the Outbox folder.
3 After you are done, connect to the Internet.
4 Click Working Offline.
Windows Live Mail changes the status bar text to Working Online.
5 Click the Sync 
.
6 Click your e-mail account.
