University Computer Help Desk

Sending email in Windows Mail

Send email from your university email account with Windows Mail on Windows Vista.

To send email from your university email account using Windows Mail on Windows Vista, do the following:

  1. Open Windows Mail.
  2. Click the Create Mail icon.
  3. In the To: field, type the email address of the person to whom you are sending the email. If you want to add more email addresses, just press Enter after each address and type another one.
  4. You can change the To: field to CC: and BCC:.
    • The CC: field is used to send a Carbon Copy, a duplicate copy of your email, to another person.
    • The BCC: field is used to send a a Blind Carbon Copy, which works just like CC:, but hides the BCC: address so other recipients are unaware another person received the email.
  5. In the Subject: field, type a brief description of the content of your email.
  6. Click in the lower portion of the new message window and type the message that you would like to send.
  7. Click Send to send your email message.

Off-campus users: To check your email from off campus, you need to first establish a VPN connection using either the Cisco VPN Client or Network Connect in WebVPN. If you check your email primarily from off campus, you can configure Windows Mail to use MailVPN settings instead. This allows you to check and send email without the need for an independent VPN connection.