Web Based Email Instructions

The Cameron Park Corvette Club's email page was originally set up for those who use a client based email system. If you don't use a client system, and instead use a web based system, you can still send emails, but it will take a few additional steps. This page will explain how to do it.

First some definitions to help make this all clear:

Client based email - Client based means you have a program running on your computer that handles your email. Word, Excel, and the like are programs. An email program could be Outlook Express, Outlook, or Windows Mail - these are all Microsoft programs. Others like Thunderbird and Eudora are third party programs. Whichever you use is up to you. All of these programs collect your email messages off the Internet and keep them and copies of the mail you send on your computer's hard drive.
Since the club's email page was intended to be used with a client based system, it is very simple to use with one. You just click on a check box next to the name of the person, or persons, you wish to send to and then click on the "Radio Button" at the top labeled Email Club Members. When you click that button, your computer will open a new message in your email program and insert the names on the To: line. You then compose your message, and send the message. Depending on how your email program is set up, the message will be sent immediately, or perhaps put in a queue for later transmission.

Web based email - Web based means the entire email program you use is Internet based. No mail is stored on your computer; it is all kept on the vendor's website. Yahoo! mail is a popular web based system that I will use for this discussion, but others will be similar. Any differences shouldn't cause any difficulty in understanding how to use our E-Mail Page with a web based system.

Follow the instructions below to send email using the CPCC's email page and Webmail.

Note: Windows 7 does not have a built-in email program like previous versions of Windows. If you are using Windows 7 and use web based mail, you will have to download an email program for these procedures to work. Click here to download Windows Live mail 2011. If you intend use Windows Live mail only for using the club's email list, you do not have to configure it since you won't be sending or receiving mail with the program.

Step 1 - Go to the club email page by clicking on the green text to the left. When you clicked on the green link to the left, it opened the email page in a new tab, or window, so that you can refer back to this page as you practice sending email from the email page. This is what you will see when in the new window:

Note that the ALL MEMBERS box is checked. When you open the page no box will be checked. You can check any combination of boxes you wish to send email to. For this demonstration, I am using ALL MEMBERS since that is what most people wish to do when sending to club members. When you press the E-Mail Club Members button, the email page will cause your computer to open your default email program (Client Based - but you won't use it for sending), with a New Message and with the email addresses of the box(s) you checked filled in in the To: box.

It is possible the security settings for your computer will cause this dialog box to appear:

Since the website referred to in the warning is the club's, and since the club's website does NOT collect personal information from your computer, you can consider it safe to allow the operation to complete. Click the Allow button and proceed.

This is how it looks on my computer when it opens Windows Mail. Notice the To: box is filled with email addresses.

Step 2 - Left click (Windows only, Mac, you're on your own) in the To: box and "paint", or highlight, the entire area so that you can copy ALL the addresses. You might have to play with it a few times so you can capture the addresses that are not visible in the small box. I have found that by using the scroll button on the right and starting the last name, then moving the cursor up and to the left, as you "paint" the names, it is easier to get them all, rather than starting at the first name at the top left.
If you're not comfortable using right and left clicking on your mouse, the Copy, Paste, etc. commands can be found under the Edit menu at the top of the window.

With your pointer or cursor in the painted area, right click and select Copy from the dialog box. You're almost there, so don't give up now, the rest is easy.

Step 3 - Open your web based email, such as Yahoo! Mail, and select New (message). A new message window will open. Place your pointer or cursor in the To: box, right click, select Paste. If you have followed these directions correctly, you will have a new message with the To: box filled with the addresses you selected in Step 2. You probably won't be able to see them all unless you use the scroll arrows at the right of the To: box.

Type your message in the body of the message, and send as you normally would.

When trying something new the best way is to use your own email alone instead of the list of the entire club, so you know when you receive it that it worked! I encourage you to try this and let me know how it works.

If you have any questions about this, please feel free to call or email me and I'll try to resolve them.

Click here for Wikipedia definitions of email systems.