The first thing you probably want to do when you get your BlackBerry is to write an email to let your friends know that you've just gotten a BlackBerry. Follow these steps to write an email:
1. Highlight Messages from the BlackBerry Home screen and press the trackwheel.
2. From the message list, press the trackwheel and choose Compose Email from the contextual menu.
You are prompted to select a contact from your Address Book.
3. Enter the contact:
• If you have contacts in your Address Book: Highlight the contact you want and then press the trackwheel.
• If you don't yet have any contacts or if the one you want isn't in your Address Book: Use the Use Once option to enter the appropriate email address and press the ENTER key to finish and return to the Compose Email screen.
4. From the Compose Email screen, type in the subject line and the message to send to the recipient.
5. Press the trackwheel and choose Send.
Your message has wings.
Sending an email to more than one person
When you need to send an email to more than one person, just keep adding recipient names as needed. You can also add recipient names to receive a CC (carbon copy) or BCC (blind carbon copy). Here's how:
1. Highlight Messages from the BlackBerry Home screen and press the trackwheel.
2. From the messages list, press the trackwheel and choose Compose Email from the contextual menu.
3. When prompted, highlight a contact from your Address Book and press the trackwheel to choose that:
• If you have contacts in your Address Book: Highlight the contact you want and then press the trackwheel.
• If you don't yet have any contacts or if the one you want isn't in your Address Book: Use the Use Once option to enter the appropriate email address and then press the ENTER key to finish and return to the Compose Email screen.
You return to the Compose Email screen. You now have added the first recipient for this email, whose name appears in the To field. You now can add additional recipients to any of the recipient fields (To/CC/BCC).
4. Press the trackwheel and choose Add Cc (or Add To or Add Bcc), as shown on the left side of Figure 1.
The Cc field is filled with this contact's name in the resulting to-be-composed message, as shown on the right side of Figure 1.
This returns you to the Address Book to select additional contacts.
Figure 1: Add CC names like so.
5. Highlight the next contact and press the trackwheel to make that selection.
You are brought back to the Compose Email screen.
6. Add as many additional recipients as needed, repeating Steps 4 and 5.
If you have an email group set up in your Address Book, you can choose to email that group as a whole. This is a very efficient way of mass emailing from your BlackBerry that can save you valuable time.
7. From the Compose Email screen, type in the subject and message you wish to send to your recipients.
8. Press the trackwheel and choose Send.
Your mass message is on its way.
In addition to Add Cc (carbon copy), you can also use Add To and/or Add Bcc (blind carbon copy) to your email recipient list.
Replying to an email
Replying to an email couldn't be much more simple. Follow these steps:
1. From an open email, press the trackwheel and choose Reply.
This opens a compose screen in which you can type your reply. You can still see the original message beneath your reply. This is similar to the Compose Email screen, with the addition of the original email that you are replying to.
2. After you finish typing your reply message, press the trackwheel and choose Send.
This message is sent.
If an incoming email was sent to a group of people and you want to reply to all the recipients, choose Reply to All instead of Reply (Step 1).
Forwarding email
When you need to share an important email that you just received with colleagues or friends, you can forward that email. To forward an email message, follow these steps:
1. Highlight Messages from the BlackBerry Home screen and press the trackwheel.
2. From the messages list, scroll to an email and press ENTER.
3. With the email open, press the trackwheel and choose Forward.
4. When prompted, highlight a contact and press the trackwheel to select that contact from your Address Book:
• If you have contacts in your Address Book: Highlight the contact you want and press the trackwheel.
• If you don't yet have any contacts or if the one you want isn't in your Address Book: Use the Use Once option to enter the appropriate email address and then press the ENTER key to finish and return to the Compose Email screen.
You return to the Compose Email screen.
To forward a message to more than one person - or to a group - see the preceding section.
5. (Optional) From the Compose Email screen, type in a note.
6. Press the trackwheel and choose Send.
Your message is on its way to your recipient(s).
