New features to try on the web-based e-mail system

New eMail Features:

Signatures:  Click the Sprocket, then choose Mail Settings.  On the General tab, about ½ way down.  Enter your name, contact info, building website, or whatever you want in the box.  This will support “rich text” like bold, links, etc.

Add a picture others will see when you e-mail them.  On the General tab, about ½ way down, called My Picture.  You can upload a picture file into e-mail that will show up in the corner of messages.

You can turn on or enable “Drag and Drop file attachments” at the bottom of the General page in the mail settings.  When composing a message, just drag a file into the header area to attach it.  (If it doesn’t work, you might need an update to Adobe’s Flash Player).

Turning on “display images from trusted senders”.  When you get an e-mail that has images embedded in it, you can choose to add this sender to the “safe senders” list, which will make them show up.  Having this turned off by default is a security feature, keeping you safer from SPAM senders.

To mark messages as SPAM, click the “Exclamation point” icon. 

If you miss the split screen preview of messages, where you can have the e-mail list and the pane showing the contents, you can turn this on under Sprocket/Mail Settings/Labs/ then turn on Preview Pane

Check out the other options available in there, too.  There are several dozen to choose from, including “Mail Goggles” which lets you add a time delay to when outgoing messages are sent.  This can be useful if you often regret sending a message immediately after pressing “send”, and let you pull it back out of your sent mail. 

Note:  If you sign in using the http://mail.washougalsd.org login, you only enter your username (first.last) in the box.  If you sign in on any other google page (grey background, no WSD logo, you MUST use your entire e-mail address.  Either way, the passwords are the same.