Composing mail

The form to compose new mail consists of a couple of mail address boxes, a Subject field, and a large box to write the contents of your mail. The following fields are available:

• From field: Your own name and email address.
• To field: One or more names and destination email addresses. These people are the primary recipients.
• Cc field: One or more people that also receive this mail, but merely for informational purposes. (Carbon Copy)
• Bcc field: One or more people that also receive this mail, but the other people cannot see that this mail also went to the people listed in this field. (Blind Carbon Copy)
• Subject field: A short informational note what this mail is about.
• Reply To field: Normally, a reply to this mail will go to the address listed in the From field. Here, you can specify that replies should go to another address.

There are two ways write addresses in the address fields:

• Just the address itself, consisting of a local part (e.g. a username), the "at"-sign (@), and a hostname.
  Example: webmaster@xs2mail.com
• The name of the recipient and the address between angle brackets.
  Example: The webmaster of XS2Mail <webmaster@xs2mail.com>.
  The name must be surrounded by double quotes if it contains special characters: a dot (.), comma (,), brackets (()), square brackets ([]), at-sign (@), angle brackets (<>), colon (:), semi-colon (;).
  Example: "W.J.A. Verheijen (@ XS2Mail)" <webmaster@xs2mail.com>

You must separate multiple address with a comma.

You can also specify a group of mailboxes. To do so, write the name of the group, a colon (:), a list of mailboxes, and terminated by a semi-colon(;).
Example: Authors of XS2Mail: Webmaster <webmaster@xs2mail.com>, "M.A.A. Peeters" <m.a.a.peeters@xs2mail.com>;

This can also be handy if you do not want to specify the destination emailaddresses, but only a name of the group.
Example:
TO: Some colleagues:;
BCC: email1, email2, email3

You can use the "Attach file(s)" to attach one or more files from your own computer to this email.

Choose a file to attach with the browse input field and click the "Add" button. At this time, your browser will upload (send) the file to the XS2Mail server, which stores it temporarly.

Your file will be listed in the list below. Besides the filename, you can also see the file size, the MIME type, and the Disposition. It is possible to change the Disposition field in "inline" or "attachment". If it is set to "inline", XS2Mail and some other mail clients display the file together with the message body.