18.12 Selecting Send Options

18.12.1 Changing the Priority of Email You Send

To change the priority for email that you send:

  1. To change the priority of one item, open an item, click Send Options > General.

    or

    To change the priority of all items you send, click Tools > Options, double-click Send, and then click the Send Options tab.

  2. Select High Priority, Standard Priority, or Low Priority.

    The small icon next to an item in the Mailbox is red when the priority is high, white when the priority is standard, and gray when the priority is low.

  3. Return to the item you are composing.

    or

    Click OK, and then click Close to save the setting for all items.

18.12.2 Concealing the Subject of Email You Send

For sensitive information, you can conceal the subject line. The subject is visible only when the recipient opens the item.

  1. To conceal the subject for one item, open an item view, and then click Send Options > Security.

    or

    To conceal the subject for all items you send, click Tools > Options, double-click Send, and then click the Security tab.

  2. Select Conceal subject.

  3. Return to the item you are composing.

    or

    Click OK, and then click Close to save the setting for all items.

18.12.3 Delaying Delivery of an Item

When you delay delivery of an item, the item is delivered on the day and time that you specify. You can modify or retract the item before it is delivered, as described in Managing Sent Email. However, if the item has been configured to be delivered through the Internet, it cannot be retracted.

  1. To delay the delivery of one item, open an item view, and then click Send Options > General.

    or

    To delay the delivery of all items you send, click Tools > Options, double-click Send, and then click the Send Options tab.

  2. Click Delay delivery.

  3. Specify how many days later you want the item delivered.

  4. Return to the item you are composing.

    or

    Click OK, and then click Close to save the setting for all items.

18.12.4 Setting an Expiration Date for Email You Send

If you set an expiration date for an email or phone message you send to another GroupWise user, the message is retracted from the recipient’s GroupWise Mailbox when the message expires.

  1. To set an expiration date for one mail or phone message you sent to GroupWise users, open an item, and then click the Send Options > General tab.

    or

    To set an expiration date for all mail and phone messages you send to GroupWise users, click Tools > Options, double-click Send, and then click the Send Options tab.

  2. Select Expiration Date.

  3. Specify how long you want the message to remain in the recipient's Mailbox.

  4. Return to the item you are composing.

    or

    Click OK, and then click Close to save the setting for all items.

18.12.5 Changing the Security Setting (Classification) of All Items You Send

A classification is a security setting that lets the recipient know if the item is confidential, top secret, and so forth. This information appears at the top of the item. A classification does not provide any encryption or additional security. It is meant to alert the recipient to the relative sensitivity of the item.

  1. In the Main Window, click Tools > Options.

  2. Double -click Send, and then click the Send Options tab.

  3. Select a security setting from the Classification drop-down list.

    • Normal

    • Proprietary

    • Confidential

    • Secret

    • Top secret

    • For your eyes only

  4. Click OK.

18.12.6 Adding a Contact to an Email

When you add a contact to an email on the Send Options tab, the contact does not receive the email, but the email is displayed in the contact history for the contact. For additional information on contact history, see Viewing All Correspondence with a Contact.

To add a contact to an email you are sending:

  1. In an email you are composing, click the Send Options tab.

  2. In the Contacts field, specify a contact whose contact history you want to contain the message.

  3. Finish composing the message, and then click Send.

You can add users as contacts to an email after an email is sent or received, as described in Adding a Contact to an Email You Send or Receive.

18.12.7 Notifying Recipients

To keep Notify from alerting recipients when the item you’re composing arrives in their Mailbox:

  1. In an item you are composing, click the Send Options tab.

  2. Deselect Notify Recipients.

  3. Finish composing the message, and then click Send.