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WebCT
Faculty Tip Sheets
Manage Mail Message Settings
To forward messages to an external email account:
As you receive WebCT mail messages, they can be forwarded to an external email account. Note: You will not be able to reply from your external email account back into WebCT. You will have to log into WebCT to reply to the email.
- Click the Mail icon. The Mail screen appears.
- Click Message settings. The Message Settings screen
appears
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Under Mail Forwarding, in the Forward my mail to text box, enter the external email address.
- Click Update. All WebCT mail messages will now be forwarded, as you receive them, to this external email address.
- To return to the Mail screen, click Back.
- Note: Forwarded messages will appear in your extermal e-mail from
the address "WebCT@courseID.WebCT.Course".
The content of the message will indicate the sender's WebCT ID & your
course title.
To set the number of threads to display per page:
- Click the Mail icon. The Mail screen appears.
- From the Folder table, click Message Settings. The Message Settings screen appears.
- Under Threads per page, make your selection:
- To specify a set number of threads per page, select Display (text box) threads per page, and enter a number in the text box.
- To display all messages on the same page, select Display all threads at once.
- Click Update. A message appears to confirm that the settings are updated.
- To return to the Mail screen, click Back.
To set the length of subject displayed:
You can specify how much of the message's subject is displayed in the Mail Messages table.
- Click the Mail icon. The Mail screen appears.
- From the Folder table, click Message Settings. The Message Settings screen appears.
- Under Length of subject, make your selection:
- To specify a limit to the number of characters displayed, select Display first (text box) characters of subject, and enter a number in the text box.
- To display the full subject, regardless of its length, select Display whole subject.
- Click Update. A message appears to confirm that the settings are updated.
- To return to the Mail screen, click Back
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