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Sending e-mail notifications
Use e-mail notifications to contact fellow community members and give them the latest community news.
To send e-mail notifications to your community, e-mail must be configured to display in your deployment. If the administrator has disabled e-mail for your deployment, the Mail Community button does not display.
Community members can send e-mail notifications to other community members directly from Communities. There is no limit on the number of people that you can send an e-mail to.Follow these steps to send an e-mail notification:
- From any page within the community, click Mail Community.
- Specify the recipients of the e-mail.
- To send the message to everyone in the community, select Members.
- To send the message to community owners only, select Owners.
You can click To to display the contents of the To field.
- To send the notification using your default e-mail client, click Click to send using your favorite e-mail client.
- Fill out the following fields:
E-mail notification fields
Field name Value Subject Enter a title for your message. The title is prefixed by the name of the community by default. Message Type the content of your message.
- Click Send.
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