BSCW helps you to send an email message to an ad-hoc selection of the members of a workspace:

• Click the icon next to the name of the workspace to display its members’ page.
• Click  Edit    Select all  and/or the individual check boxes to select the members to be included in your ad-hoc mailing list.
• Click  | email to |  in the selection menu bar to bring up your Web browser’s message composition form.

BSCW will already have entered the primary email addresses of the users on your ad-hoc mailing list into the ‘To:’ field. You may enter additional email addresses or select them from your browser’s address book.

For sending email messages to members of one of your workspaces you may also use a BSCW internal mailing form where you may use your BSCW address book for entering addresses.

• After having selected the members that you want to send a message to as described above, click on  | send |  in the selection menu bar.
• The ‘Send an Email’ form already shows the primary email addresses of the members selected in the ‘To:’ field. You may enter further email addresses either manually or by selection from your address book that is shown when you click on one of the [To:], [Cc:] or [Bcc:] buttons. Enter subject and body of your message and confirm with [OK] to send the message.
• You may choose between sending an email or a fax by using the respective buttons [Send a Fax] and [Send an Email]. When sending a fax you may also make use of your address book by clicking the [Fax-No:] button.

You may also send email messages to contacts in a contact list (see 4.5.4) — provided that email addresses have been entered for these contacts.

• Open a contact list and check the contact entries that you want to send an email message to.
• Choose  | email to |  or  | send |  in the selection menu to send the message as described above for members of a workspace.