Your First riteMail Message

You are about to begin creating or replying to your very first riteMail message!

TOPICS IN THIS SECTION:
   Addressing riteMail Messages
   Creating riteMail Messages
      Message Separator
      Scrolling through riteMail Messages
      Writing Tools
      Ink Controls
   Editing riteMail Messages
   riteShape™
   Message Options
   Sending riteMail Messages

To create your first riteMail message, click on

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item in the left navigation bar of any page, on the

button on the product pages, or on the needed item on the downloads page. To reply to a riteMail message that someone has sent you, click the Write back button in the riteMail pane.

• If you are replying to a riteMail message that someone has sent you, you will see the following screen in the body of the email message:

  

Note that the actual email window will vary depending on the email client you use.  This image shows a riteMail letter in the body of Microsoft Outlook Express email.  

Click the Write back button. The response message will appear on the screen. 

You can now write anywhere on the message pane. When sending the new or response message, first time users will be directed to the registration page. After registering, you will be able to send your riteMail message and will receive access to riteMail service for your future correspondence. 

When replying to riteMail messages, a dashed red line appears above the message you are replying to.  This Message Separator provides an expandable blank workspace for your response: it separates previous messages and replies from your new content. You are free to mark up any section of the message. 

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Addressing riteMail Messages

If you are creating a new riteMail message (not replying to one), you will need to enter the addressing information in the message header area:

Enter the following information in the message header area:

• From address: By default, your Primary Email address entered during registration will appear in the From field. Your can enter another email address, registered under your riteMail account (see Registration and Login).  Use the format <user>@<domain>, for example, me@myhome.com.  Replies to this riteMail message will be sent to the specified email account. 
• To address: Enter the email address(es) of the person(s) you wish to send this riteMail message to in the To field.  Use the format <user>@<domain>, for example, steve@hismailaccount.com. Separate multiple addresses by semicolons or commas.
• Subject: Let your recipient know what your message is about by entering the desired subject in the Subject field

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Creating riteMail Messages

To create a riteMail message, select your desired writing tool and begin writing and/or drawing your message.  It's that simple!  You can select different writing tools, ink widths, and colors at any time while creating the message.

Message Separator

When creating or responding to riteMail messages, a red dashed line appears in the riteMail message pane.  This "splitter" line provides blank space for you to write and acts as a separation between riteMail messages that are being passed back and forth to avoid confusion.

If you add new content above the splitter, it automatically moves down and provides more space as your new drawings approach the splitter line as shown below:

If you mark up and edit the content that arrived in the riteMail message and is located below the splitter, the message separator does not move.

New space will also be added automatically when your create new riteMail messages or respond to existing messages and write or draw near the bottom of the pane. You will see the scroll bar slider in your message moving up, which indicates the additional free space. Scroll down to use this space. 

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Scrolling through riteMail Messages

You can scroll through riteMail messages by using the scroll bar on the right side of the pane. The scroll function and message separator combine to make riteMail messages function like infinitely long paper scrolls.

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Writing Tools

Clicking one of the three Writing Tool buttons selects the desired writing tool:

From left to right, your writing tool choices are:

• Pencil: This pencil never needs sharpening!  This writing tool simulates a round pencil lead

     

• Pen: This writing tool simulates a "chisel point" pen.  Like a real pen, the actual ink width depends on the direction of pen travel.  The pen can add unique calligraphy or other artistic effects

     

• Eraser: This tool simulates liquid paper with the background color of the work area (writing pad) and can be used to erase mistakes, make revisions to received messages, or to create highlights for other text or graphics.  You can write or draw over the "erased" area

     

          Eraser automatically assumes the paper color even 
        if you change that color on the fly. The previously 
        erased strokes are also "repainted" with every such 
        change.

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Ink Controls

You can switch ink thickness and color at any time while creating riteMail messages by using the Ink Control pull-down menus:

• The left pull-down menu allows you to choose your desired ink color.  To change ink color, click the arrow to the right of the currently selected color and highlight your desired color.  Note that you cannot select colors when the Eraser tool is in use
• The right pull-down menu allows you to choose your ink width.  To change ink width, simply click the arrow to the right of the currently selected width and highlight your desired width

These easy to use tools let you quickly create rich riteMail messages.  Want to add a personal touch to an email by sending it in your own handwriting?  Draw a map to help friends find your lunch?  Visually explain an idea?  riteMail lets you do all of this, adding a new dimension to traditional email!  Here is an example of a complete riteMail message:

In the above example, the basic picture above helps viewers find their way to your picnic far more effectively than the several sentences of text you would need to use otherwise!

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Editing riteMail Messages

Oops!  You've just made a mistake.  No problem. Click one of the Editing buttons:

• Clicking the Undo button cancels your last action.  You can also erase an area (cover it with "liquid paper") and write or draw over it to highlight your writing or drawing or add comments to a previous riteMail message
• Clicking the Remove  Strokes button allows you to delete words and drawings by crossing out strokes. You can also delete the bottom portion of the message by drawing the horizontal Remove  Strokes line from the left to the right margin of the message. Similarly, you can remove the top portion of the message by drawing the horizontal Remove  Strokes line right to left so that it crosses the whole work area.  
• Clicking the Clear button completely clears your riteMail message. This action cannot be reversed, so you will be prompted to confirm 
• If you need to erase a portion of content in a specific part of your riteMail message, use the Eraser writing tool. It works like a "liquid paper" with the background color of the writing pad and allows to fix minor errors or add revisions to the previous content. 

Note that the Undo button, when applied to shapes recognized by the riteShape tool, first recovers your original strokes converted to shapes, and then clears them. This helps you to freely mix shapes and handwriting without concerning too much about toggling the riteShape button every time you move on from drawing  shapes to writing text. You can also undo the Remove Strokes operation. 

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riteShape

Need a perfect circle, square, or other basic shape? Toggle the riteShape feature on and off by clicking the riteShape button:

This button appears normal when the riteShape feature is disabled, and pressed when enabled:

When riteShape is enabled, riteMail watches as you create your riteMail message and automatically smoothes shapes as you draw them.  This feature is great for basic geometric shapes, arrows, and delimiting lines to segment your note.  You may, however, want to disable it when using handwriting to avoid possible confusion.  See Smoothing Shapes

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Message Options

You can change paper color and grid color and appearance in your riteMail message. Clicking on the Message Options button opens the following menu:

In addition, you may choose to copy every riteMail message to yourself (riteMail for dekstops will not do it by default).

Sending riteMail Messages

To send a riteMail message, click the Send button:

When you send your first riteMail message, you will be directed to the registration page. See Registration and Login.

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