A quick course on the new
GCA Webmail can be accessed by clicking on the
Webmail link in the GCA page, or by going to either
www.gcaplace.org or email.gcasda.org
Type in your username and your password,
then click on Sign in to log in.
If this is your first time logging in to the
new GCA Webmail you will be required to
choose a language, type in a series of
letters for verification, then read the terms
of service and click on “I accept” to log
into your new account.
Your GCA webmail will load for a few
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After sending an email with an event you
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You can click on View Message to see more
about the event you just sent.
From this page you can see what message
you sent, as well as what was attached to
it, and the calendar events you may have
added.
After reading new email you can choose to archive it by checking the box next
to the emails you want to archive, then clicking on “Archive”.
Doing this helps keep your inbox cleaner, helping you see your new email
more easily, and does not involve deleting any email – all archived email will
be stored in the “All Mail” folder.
You can quickly choose what email to check for archiving by clicking one of the
categories under “Archive”: All, None, Read, and so on.
The emails you chose will be moved to “All Mail” and will no longer be in your
inbox.
You will be informed that your mail was archived, and will be able to undo it if
necessary.
Your archived messages will be stored in “All Mail”,
accessible from the sidebar. They will appear along all
other (even unarchived) mail in “All Mail”, but will no
longer appear in your inbox.
You can mark special email by clicking on the star next to the sender’s name.
Starred emails can always be found in the “Starred” option on the sidebar, as
well as in inbox (if not archived) or in All Mail.
Back in the inbox, when you get replies to email you sent, you can click on the
email to see a list of the emails sent to that person or from that person.
You can see a summary of the exchanges of emails
between you and the sender. You can click on any email to
expand its contents. You can click on the textbox in the
bottom of the messages to get to reply quickly.
Clicking on a specific email will show that email’s content.
By clicking on “Edit Labels” on the sidebar you can create
labels which can be used to mark specific emails.
These labels work much like Starred, except they can be
more specific.
You can also use the “Filters” option to automatically label
incoming email depending on sender and subject.
You can set up the filters to automatically do a specific
action when you receive an email that meets the criteria
you specify in this step. Click on Next Step when you have
decided your filter settings.
You can specify what specific action will be taken when
you receive an email that meets the filter’s settings here.
When you are done, click on Create Filter.
In Labels on the sidebar you can customize the color that a
specific label will have while it is labeling an email.
When you click on a label you will be shown a list of all
mail that contains that specific label.
While composing new messages, when you type part of a
name in the To: field the GCA Webmail may recognize
what name you are typing and will display it under your
text. If it is the right name you can press Enter and the
email address will be completed for you.
Any time while writing an email you can press Ctrl + S to
save your email as a draft. Drafts can be accessed at any
time from “Draft” in the sidebar.
You can access your calendar from the top of the page.
While in the calendar you will be able to see events added
by you or sent to you by others. You can edit your own
events by clicking and dragging them to make them last
more or less and moving them to other dates.
You can choose whether or not you want events from
certain users displayed by un-checking them in “My
Calendars”.