Options for Creating a Message in GroupMail
There are a few options for creating a message in GroupMail.
- You can create an HTML message in GroupMail’s own WYSIWYG message editor. This is similar to standard email client editors and allows you to insert tables, images, hyperlinks, attachments and text/page formatting.
- You can use one of GroupMail’s email templates and add your own content. To use a template, click on Messages in GroupMail and click the Templates tab to select your template. For more information, read How to Use GroupMail’s Email Templates.
- You can create your HTML message externally using an HTML editor and import it into GroupMail. To import an HTML Document, open a new message in GroupMail and click File/Import/HTML Document. Here is a list of HTML Editors. Avoid using MS Word or other Word Processing software to create HTML for use in email as some of the formatting won’t be retained when it is used in different environments. Also, ensure that the image paths used in the HTML document that you are importing are either full, local paths on the computer where GroupMail is located (i.e. c:/image.jpg) or full, remote paths (i.e. http://www.yourdomain.com/image.jpg). You can check the image paths after importing the document into GroupMail by right-clicking on the image and selecting “image properties”.
- You can embed a web page in the body of your message. Again, open a new message in GroupMail and click File/Import/Web Page.
You can also add a plain text message part for each of the message types above. To add a plain text part to your HTML message, click the Plain Text Message Part tab at the bottom of the message editor in GroupMail and add your text-only part here. Adding a text-only part to your message will help to improve delivery rates and lower your spam score. For more information, read How to Create a Text-Only Part of Your HTML Email.
If you want to share your GroupMail message with other GroupMail users; open the message and click on File/Save As/A Document. This will save your message in GroupMail format which can be sent to another GroupMail user. When they click on the attachment, the message will launch in their GroupMail message editor.
You can also save your message as a draft or a user-generated template to use again. Just click, File/Save As/A Draft or File/Save As/A Template respectively. You can also edit a copy of previously sent messages in GroupMail. Just highlight the sent item and click the Edit Copy of Message link from the left side of the screen.
Pretty flexible, eh?











