Oncourse CL Email Archive: Overview

What it does

Each site has an automatically generated site email address, which you can view via the Email Archive tool. Email you send to the site email address is copied to the email addresses of all site participants and owners.

All email messages sent to your site's email address are stored in the Email Archive. Each message sent to site participants will indicate if there is an attachment, and provide a link to get the attachment from the worksite itself.

Site members can use Preferences in My Workspace to choose how often they want to receive email sent to the site's email address; see Changing notification preferences.

Key concepts

Mail Alias: Site owners can create an easy-to-remember alias for the site's email address. To set up the alias, from within the Email Archive, click Options.

Things to consider

• Use Email Archive to mail all site participants at once. You cannot use it to send mail to an individual or a group within the site. To send messages to an individual or a group, use the Messages tool instead; see Sending, forwarding, and replying to messages.
  
  
• You can choose to receive email either as it is sent, or in digest mode, with all posts for the day sent in a single email message.
  
  
• You can use any email program to send mail to the email address listed at the top of your Email Archive page.
  
  
• Clicking a column header (From, Subject, or Date Received) will sort the email messages by that header.
  
  
• When sorting by subject, clicking the up arrow will arrange the email messages alphabetically. When sorting by date received, clicking the up arrow will order the messages from most recent to oldest. In both cases, clicking the down arrow reverses the order.
  
  
• The Email Archive uses links to handle attachments. Instead of receiving an attachment directly in the body of an email message, you can click a link to view the attachment. This feature helps prevent you from going over quota.

Help documentation

For help documentation about the Email Archive, see Email Archive.

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