Sending Email

While Travelog lets you send emails to other people, you can't use receive emails with it. It lets you send emails to up to 30 addresses at once, from the Send Email page.

This page describes how to send an email, and what happens next.

How to send one

To send an email you need to:

• Add one or more email addresses
• Enter your message
• Press the button!

You can add addresses in two ways. First, you can enter an email address into the To box and use the Add button. This will evaluate the email address and enter it into the Recipients box. If it thinks there might be a problem, it will warn you and let you know what it thinks the problem might be. If you wish to, you can correct the address in the Recipients box, of if you think it's right, you can just leave it. Travelog will try to send it anyway.

The other way to enter addresses is to enter them straight into the Recipients box, each one separated by a comma, like this:

sasatai@taiko.co.jp, tomoko@hotmail.com, sato@fujiwara.org

Note that it's not like MS Outlook (Express) where you separate addresses with a semicolon; Travelog uses the more standard separator.

Put a subject in the Subject box and enter your message in the Body box.

Use the Send button to make Travelog send the email. Travelog will then reevaluate the email addresses and warn you of any problems it finds. You can cancel the send to modify any of the addresses and try again. Travelog will also send a copy of the email to the address you specified as your email address.

If you would like Travelog to save the addresses in the Recipients box, then check the checkbox and when you next send an email it will have the contents of the Recipients box. Note though, that if any addresses get rejected when Travelog sends the email, it will not keep these addresses.

The Summary Page

Once you have sent the email, Travelog takes the addresses and sends one copy of the email to each of the addresses, so that each person appears to be the only recipient. It is for this reason that you can send to only 30 recipients at once. Travelog then produces a summary page which tells you whether any addresses failed, and presents a copy of the message. Please note again that any failed addresses will not be stored for future use.

Why only 30?

One of the things an unscrupulous person could do would be to use Travelog to send mass emails. Granted, this would be pretty silly as each one has a small Travelog signature, but you never know. This would be a bad thing because mass emailing is bad for the recipients, and it would also put a strain on the computer system Travelog runs on.

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