The primary use of an e-mail address stored in the WintextCom directory is to enable you to quickly and unobtrusively send an e-mail message at any time while you work in any application. Like other WintextCom directory information, e-mail addresses can be retrieved into other applications as information, or sent over the 'phone by text-to-text users.

Normally, selecting a basic e-mail address enables you to compose a new message to that recipient in your default e-mail program (Outlook Express, Microsoft Outlook, or whatever you use for e-mail). This will address a simple message to the selected recipient, and you then type in the subject and body of the message. You can also add more recipients from the directory, and any attachments you require.

WintextCom supports some more advanced e-mail entry formats that enable you to:

Select entries in the Windows personal address book.
Automatically fill in the subject line.
Automatically fill in the body of the message with specified text or the contents of a file.
Address the message to multiple recipients, including carbon and blind copies.
Add attachments.
Automatically send a pre-formatted e-mail.

Support for the e-mail capabilities listed above and described in the following sections varies, depending on what e-mail program you use. Implementation is different from client to client. Most, if not all, of the features offered by WintextCom should be supported by most clients, but it is possible certain features may not be available at all.

If the e-mail options provided by WintextCom do not fully meet your needs, you can achieve even greater versatility by using an e-mail client with advanced features that can be deployed in the WintextCom directory as program entries, rather than e-mail entries. The free Blat utility is a command line e-mailer that enables you to send practically any and every kind of e-mail message with a WintextCom directory entry, regardless of how you ordinarily read and send messages.

When you send an e-mail message with a WintextCom e-mail directory entry, it is placed in your e-mail program's outbox and will be sent out the next time the program perfors mail sending. This will be immediately if your e-mail program always has Internet acccess (via broadband) and is set to senrd new messages straight away. The messages created by WintextCom can be accessed from your e-mail program itself, through the program's outbox and sent items functions. If you save a message without sending it, WintextCom may save it in your inbox rather than a drafts folder, but the behaviour may be diferent for different e-mail programs.

WintextCom does not automatically append any signatures used by your e-mail program, but uses its own signature procedure as described later in this documentation.

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E-mail Addresses