New message

This is the window e-mensa opens for default. It is the window which you can send the messages.

On the left side of the windows there are the different options to add the addressees.

 

Add phone number manually

This option will be used when you want to send a message to a addressee you don't have saved in your contacts list.

You will have to write the telephone number in "Phone number" field and if the addressee is from a different country than the one you have configured by default (in configuration window) you can select the country in the upper list and e-mensa will add the country code for you.

 

Groups and Contacts

Shows the contacts you have saved in your Contacts agenda. If you want to add a new contact you need to go to "Contacts" option on left pane.

Groups will show the groups list you have defined in contacts agenda, and contacts will show the contents of selected group.

If you want to send a message to an entire group, you can select it and press the green arrow icon on the right of "groups"(or double-clicking the desired group). Automatically all the contacts in the group will be added to the addressees list.

To select individual addressees, just select the group where they are, and select desired contact and press the green arrow on the right (or double-clicking the contact).

Send to...

Shows addressees list you selected. If you want to delete a contact, just select it and press the green arrow on the right. To clear the list press the red button.

 

Schedule sending

e-mensa enables you to schedule the sends, so the message can be sent automatically at a specified date and time you choose.

To do that you should activate the checkbox on the left of "Choose sending date and time" and select the date and time when you want to send the message.

The option "Send 24 hours before" if checked, will send the message on the date set above, but the hours specified here before.(in the case of the image, if checked send 24 hours before, the message will be scheduled to send on monday August 29 at 19:00. It can be very useful, for example for appointment management as you can see on Templates examples.

The option “Send specified day ” enables you to send a message periodically, you can choose the lapse of time on the list where you can see the different options.

 

Select template

Here you can select a previously created template. click here for more information about Templates. Also you can create a new one by clicking "New".

 

 

 

 

Message sent by:

When you send a message, the receiver of the message will identify who is sending the message by the text you write here, so you may write your name or the company name. It can not be longer than ten characters. If you don't select the Save check box, the text you write will not be saved, and next time you enter in e-mensa, the program will show previous text(or none if never has been saved), if you select Save, the name will be saved on the computer you saved it.

 

Message text

Here is where you should wirte the text of the message. If you selected previously a template, on the first text box, you will see some bookmarks (like ØNAMEØ) which e-mensa will substitute by his real text just before the message is sent.

Once you write the message, you can press "Preview" button to see exactly how the message will be sent. If you have several addressees, you can preview each one by selecting the different addressees on "Send To" text box.

And to send the message, just press "Send".