Email; Gmail/Email - Alcatel onetouch Pixi 7 User Manual

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Email

4.1

Gmail/Email

The first time you set up your tablet, you can select to use an existing
Gmail or to create a new Email account.
4.1.1 Gmail
As Google's web-based email service, Gmail is configured when you
first set up your tablet. Gmail on your tablet can be automatically
synchronized with your Gmail account on the web. Unlike other
kinds of email accounts, each message and its replies in Gmail
are grouped in your inbox as a single conversation; all emails are
organized by labels instead of folders.
To create and send emails
• Touch the icon from Inbox screen.
• Enter recipient(s)'s email address in To field, and if necessary, touch
to add a copy or a blind copy to the message.
• Enter the subject and the content of the message.
• Touch to add an attachment.
• Finally, touch the icon to send.
• If you do not want to send the mail out right away, you can touch
the Menu key and select Save draft. To view the draft, touch
the icon , then select Drafts.
If you do not want to send or save the mail, you can touch the Menu
key and then select Discard.
To add a signature to emails, touch the Menu key
Settings from inbox screen, choose an account, then touch
Signature.
and select
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To receive and read your emails
When a new email arrives, you will be notified by a ringtone or
vibration, and an icon will appear on Status bar.
Touch and drag down the Status bar to display the Notification panel,
touch the new email to view it. Or you can also access the Gmail
Inbox label and touch the new mail to read it.
You can search for an email by sender, receiver, subject, etc.
• Touch the icon from Inbox screen.
• Enter the keyword you want to search for in the searching box and
touch in the soft keyboard.
To reply or forward emails
• Reply
When viewing an email, touch
sender of this mail.
• Reply all
Touch
message to all people in a mail loop.
• Forward
Touch
other people.
To assign a star or remove the star from the
•
conversation
Managing Gmails by Labels
To conveniently manage conversations and messages, you can
organize them using a Label.
To label a conversation when reading a conversation's messages,
touch the icon and select the label to assign to the conversation.
To view conversations by labels when viewing your inbox or another
conversation list, touch the icon , then touch a label to view a list of
to reply the
and select "Reply all" to send
to forward the received mail to
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