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EZReader - Email Help

    

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Coupled with ease-of-use and a full list of standard features, the EZReader email client opens new doors to communication with friends and family for users with visual impairments.

The Email client allows users to send and receive emails. Text message can also be sent (but not received). Users do not have to change their email address to use the EZReader Email client.

Incoming email is converted to text and displayed using the same user-selected settings with which text is viewed throughout EZReader. Email attachments are listed and may be viewed using EZReader's internal viewer or viewed using the default clients installed on the user's PC.

Three email folders are supported - InBox, OutBox and Archives. Messages are received in the InBox and may be transferred to the Archives once they are read. Sent Emails and Text Messages are stored in the OutBox.

 Email Main Screen

The Email main screen has 3 rows of navigation/action icons. The right-most icon, the "Menu" icon, is used to move through the available rows of icons.

The menu icon consist of multiple dots, where the number of dots tells you how many row of navigation/action icons are supported by the current screen. The dot with the white center indicates which row is currently displayed.

EZReader Email supports an InBox, OutBox and Archive. Users cannot create email folders of their own.

By default, the 3 folders are sorted by date. Also by default the listing of emails in the 3 folders display the name of the sender or recipient. Click on a column header to sort by that column.

By right clicking on the textbox containing the title InBox or OutBox or Archives, the email list can be toggled to show Recipient, Subject, or both.

EZReader also can display contacts, in which case the main screen lists contacts, not emails.

The three rows of icons provide the following functions:

Row 1 Icons

Row 2 Icons

Row 3 Icons

 View Email Screen

When viewing an email, the header information is normally shown separately, in the upper textbox.

Right click on either text box to cycle through the 3 options for displaying an email:

In this image, the email shows the header separated from the body:

The two rows of icons provide the following functions:

Email View Row 1 Icons:

Email View Row 2 Icons:

Email View Row 3 Icons:

Email View Row 4 Icons:

 New Email Screen

When a new email is created, the upper textbox displays header information, with the To: field and date supplied by EZReader. The Subj: line is displayed empty, reader for the user to type in the subject.

The user enters the subject and the body of the email. Any change to the date will be ignored (the current date will always be used in a new email. The fields must be entered in order as shown (To, Subject, Date)

The lower textbox displays the email body that is typed in by the user.

If no subject is entered, EZReader will use "No Subject" as the subject. If no body is entered, EZReader will use "No Body" as the body.

Use the Quotes list to send pre-defined body messages. Multiple quotes can be sent in the same email. When a preset(s) is chosen, it will replace whatever is currently in the email body. The user can then edit the body with additional information.

Files from the Editor, Gallery, JukeBox and Grid folders can be attached to emails.

Email New Row 1 Icons

Email New Row 2 Icons

Email New Row 3 Icons

Click on the first column of a line to toggle display of an X, which is considered as "checking" the line.

 Quotes Screen

EZReader email allows the user to create pre-defined text messages to use in a new email. These are called Quotes. One or more Quotes may be selected and inserted into a new email. When used, Quotes replace any new email content that may have been typed in by the user.

Quotes can be edited using the File Editor by editing the file "quotes" in the System folder.

Email Quotes Row 1 Icons

Click on the first column of a line to toggle display of an X, which is considered as "checking" the line.

Users can automatically place a signature at the end of all new emails. The signature is found in the system file "signature.txt", which can be edited using the File Editor. The Setting "Email - Use Signature" must be set for the signature to be automatically applied.

 File Attachments Screen

EZReader can attach files to outgoing emails. Attachments can be selected from any of the Editor, Gallery, JukeBox and Grid folders.

Email File Attachments Row 1 Icons

Click on the first column of a line to toggle display of an X, which is considered as "checking" the line.

 Email Settings

A system file called customerid.txt contains the email account information. The file is located in the editor\system folder and can be edited with the EZReader File Editor.

The next listing shows the default content of the emailsettings.txt file, set up to access a default email account for testing purposes. During installation, the EZReader technician will help the user modify the content to match their own personal email accounts, such as GMail or Yahoo.

The EZReader email client supports only POP3 email servers for incoming email. Here are some common POP3 server settings:

Getting POP3 access to email services such as Gmail and Yahoo require the user to go online and make settings changes to their email account. The EZReader technician will assist the user with that action.

 Keyboard Shortcuts

The following keyboard shortcut are supported by the Email client:

C- means press the Control key. CS- means press the Control-Shift keys.

Thank you for considering EZReader!