Writing one, and knowing it has gone
Write an email to somebody and then prove to yourself, afterwards, that it left.
An email is a form with four things on it. None of them can be filled in wrongly enough to cause any harm.
Key points
- Write a new message, fill in To, Subject and Message, and send it
- Prove a message left by finding the copy in Sent, with its time on it
- Pick up a half-written message from Drafts days later and finish it
What to remember
- Every mail program ever made has these same boxes and this same button, in roughly this same place.
- Sent is the answer to "did that go?" — and it is the same answer at three in the morning as at midday.
- Almost anything you start typing is kept. Drafts catches it every few seconds, whether you meant it to or not — so a message you walk away from is nearly always still there.
Try this
Send an email to yourself — put your own address in the To box. It will arrive in a minute or two, and you will have watched the whole chain work from both ends.
Practice: Writing one, and knowing it has gone. Your first lesson is free, with no account or card; the rest are part of a Lantern plan. Interactive lessons require JavaScript.