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<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/"
type="guide"
id="write">
<info>
<link type="guide" xref="index#overview"/>
</info>
<title>Writing new email and replying</title>
<section id="overview">
<title>Composing and replying</title>
<p>To start a new email conversation, click the <gui
style="button">Compose</gui> button on the toolbar. Type the email
address of the people to receive the message in the <gui
style="input">To</gui> text field, and a subject line in the <gui
style="input">Subject</gui> field. You can then type your message
in the text area below these. Once the message is ready to send,
click <gui style="button">Send</gui> or type
<keyseq><key>Ctrl</key><key>Enter</key></keyseq> to send the
message.</p>
<note style="tip">
<title>Undoing sending</title>
<p>When sending an email, Geary will wait 5 seconds before
delivering the message. During this time, you will be able to
click <gui style="button">Undo</gui> on the pop-up notification
that appears or type
<keyseq><key>Ctrl</key><key>Z</key></keyseq> to re-open the
email, and make more changes to it.</p>
</note>
<p>To show the <gui style="input">Cc</gui>, <gui style="input">Bcc</gui>,
and <gui style="input">Reply-to</gui> fields, click the
<gui style="input">More options</gui> button at the end of the
<gui style="input">To</gui> field. Cc allows you to send a
copy of the email to other, secondary recipients. Bcc is similar, but the
Bcc list is hidden from recipients. The Reply-To field specifies an email
address to reply to, if recipients should reply to a different email
address than the sender's.</p>
<p>When entering an email address into any of these fields,
Geary will provide suggestions from your desktop address book and
from previously sent and received email messages. To choose one of
these suggestions, simply click on it.</p>
<p>To reply to the currently selected conversation, click one of
the <gui style="button">Reply</gui>, <gui style="button">Reply
All</gui> or <gui style="button">Forward</gui> toolbar
buttons. This will open a new reply or forwarded email composer
for the latest message in the conversation.</p>
<p>When replying, the message being replied to will be quoted and
copied into the footer of the new reply. This can be deleted
before typing a reply by pressing
<key>Backspace</key>. Alternatively, text can be selectively
quoted by selecting the desired text in a message and clicking
<gui style="button">Reply</gui> or <gui style="button">Reply
All</gui>, only the selected text will be quoted.</p>
<p>To reply to a specific email message, open the message menu in the
top corner of the message and choose <gui>Reply</gui>, <gui>Reply
All</gui> or <gui>Forward</gui>.</p>
</section>
<section id="features">
<title>Text formatting, images and attachments</title>
<p>Geary's email composer lets you use text styles such as
<em>bold</em> and <em>italic</em>, indent text to quote it, and
links to web pages. Simply select the text and click the
appropriate button on the formatting toolbar at the bottom of the
composer area.</p>
<p>Bulleted and numbered lists can be inserted or removed by
clicking the <gui style="button">Bulleted list</gui> and <gui
style="button">Numbered list</gui> buttons on the formatting
toolbar. The level of indentation of list items can be adjusted
using the <gui style="button">Indent</gui> and <gui
style="button">Un-indent</gui> formatting toolbar buttons.</p>
<p>Images can be inserted into rich text messages by clicking the
<gui style="button">Insert Image</gui> button on the formatting
toolbar and selecting the image to attach, by dragging an image
from the <gui>Files</gui> application into the email body and then
dropping it, or by pasting an image that has been copied to the
clipboard from another application.</p>
<p>Documents, music, videos, and other files can be attached to
the email by clicking the <gui style="button">Attach File</gui>
button at the bottom of the composer window and selecting the
document to attach, or by dragging a file from the
<gui>Files</gui> application to the composer window, and dropping
it either on the text fields at the top of the window or on the
toolbar at the bottom.</p>
<p>A number of keyboard shortcuts are available in the composer;
see <link xref="shortcuts"/> for details.</p>
<p>You may specify a signature to be inserted into the footer of
email in the composer via the <link xref="accounts"/> dialog.</p>
</section>
<section id="spellcheck">
<title>Checking spelling</title>
<p>Geary supports spell-checking your composed email in one or
more languages, as you type. To enable spell-checking, first
ensure your computer has spell-check dictionaries installed for
the desired languages. Consult your computer's help to determine
how to install dictionaries if not present.</p>
<p>To select languages for spell-checking, click the <gui
style="button">Spell check</gui> button on the formatting toolbar,
and the language selection popover will appear. Click on a
language in the list to toggle it on or off, and click the <gui
style="button">-</gui> button to remove it from the list. If a
language does not appear in the list, search for it by typing its
name in the search box, then click the <gui style="button">+</gui>
button to add it.</p>
</section>
<section id="drafts">
<title>Saving drafts and restoring discarded messages</title>
<p>For mail servers that support drafts, Geary will automatically
save the message as you type on the server after a short
delay.</p>
<p>To edit an existing draft, select the <gui>Drafts</gui> folder
in the folder list, select the message, and click "Edit Draft" in
the conversation viewer.</p>
<p>Geary will delete the draft when you send the message.</p>
<note style="tip">
<p>If you save or discard a composed email, you can re-open it
by clicking <gui style="button">Undo</gui> on the pop-up
notification that appears or by typing
<keyseq><key>Ctrl</key><key>Z</key></keyseq>. Composers can be reopened
for up to 30 minutes after they are closed. After that, you will need to
re-open the message via the <gui>Drafts</gui> folder, if present.</p>
</note>
</section>
<section id="plain-text">
<title>Plain text messages</title>
<p>Geary can also send plain text messages. Press the
<gui style="button">More options</gui> button at the end of the bottom
toolbar, then choose "Rich Text" or "Plain Text". Plain text mode is useful
when sending email to mailing lists that prohibit rich text (HTML)
messages, or when sending email to people that do no use modern
clients like Geary.</p>
<p>In plain text mode, text will be automatically wrapped using
soft line breaks so that it is no longer than 74 characters wide,
and indented text will be wrapped and quoted using a “>” character
for each level of quoting.</p>
</section>
</page>
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