How to use email with Tact for Android

Connecting your Exchange account to Tact 

1. Open Tact and tap on "Connect Exchange Email" 

2. Enter your "email address", "username" (which is the same as your email address), "password", the "server" name, then tap on "connect"

3. The email tab will be empty for a few moments as it connects to Exchange and loads your emails

 *For steps on how to connect your Gmail account using Exchange ActiveSync click here

Compose a New Email 

1. Click on the orange "compose" button to create a new email

2. Fill in the necessary fields ("To", "Subject", "Cc/Bcc") and body of the email

   • You can attach images and files by tapping on the "attachments" icon

3. Tapping on the "attachments" icon will open up your available files to attach

4. Once you've sent your email you'll be prompted with some next steps: "Log", "Task", or "Note"

Reply to Emails

1. Tap on an email you'd like to reply to

2. Type the body of the email and add any attachments, then tap on the "Send" button

3. Once you've sent your email you'll be prompted with some next steps: "Log", "Task", or "Note"

Draft Emails and the Draft Folder  You'll see emails you've drafted in Tact in this folder. Emails drafted outside of Tact will not show up in this folder.

1. To save an email as a draft tap on the "back arrow" to leave the email

2. You'll be prompted to either "Delete Draft" or "Save Draft", tap on "Save Draft" to add it to your "Drafts" folder

3. To view your drafts open your email folders and tap on "Drafts" 

Mark Emails as Read or Unread

1. To mark an email as "read" or "unread" you can swipe right on the email
   
   • if an email is unread, a swipe right will mark that email as "read"
   • if an email is read, a swipe right will mark that email as "unread"

You can also mark multiple emails as "read" or "unread" at one time

1. Tap on the "Select" button
2. Select any emails you' like to mark as "read" or "unread" and tap on the "Read"/"Unread" button
3. Any emails marked as "unread" will now be "read" and vice versa

Delete Emails

1. To delete an email you can swipe left on the email
   • to undo deleting an email tap on the "undo" button that will pop up right after you've deleted the email

You can also delete multiple emails at one time

1. Tap on the "Select" button
2. Select any emails you'd like to delete and tap on the "delete" button
   • to undo deleting the emails tap on the "undo" button that will pop up right after you've deleted the emails