How to manage your address book in RoundCube

This tutorial assumes that you’ve already logged in to RoundCube webmail.

Now let’s learn how to manage our address book.

Click the Address Book link.

This is the address book, which lists all contacts we choose to include in our address book.

By selecting a specific contact, their details will display in the right window.

To add a new contact to our address book, click the plus icon at the bottom.

You can upload an image for the new contact by clicking the Add link.

Type in the First and Last name.

Click the Add field drop-down, to add other information about the contact.

When finished, click the Save button.

You can edit any of your contacts by highlighting them, then clicking the Edit contact button.

To remove a contact from the address book, highlight it…..

….then click the Trash icon at the bottom.

With a contact selected, you can click the Compose icon to write and send them an email.

Or if you want to send an email to multiple contacts, hold down your CTRL key while selecting multiple contacts….

….then click the Compose icon.

As you can see, the Compose Email window has opened, and your two contacts have automatically been inserted into the TO field.

This is the end of the tutorial. You now know how to manage the address book in RoundCube.

Using multiple identities in RoundCube

This tutorial assumes that you’ve already logged in to RoundCube webmail.

Now let’s learn how to use multiple identities.

Click the Settings option.

Under Settings, click the Identities option.

To create a new identity, click the plus icon at the bottom.

Enter the desired information for the new identity.

When finished, click Save.

The new identity is now listed along with our original identity.

You can create as many identities as you wish, by repeating the steps we just did.

Let’s return to the main E-mail page.

Click the Compose icon to compose a new mail.

Now when sending email, we can choose to send FROM any of our identities by selecting the identity from this Sender drop-down box.

This is the end of the tutorial. You now know how to use multiple identities in RoundCube.

How to mark messages in RoundCube

This tutorial assumes that you’ve already logged in to RoundCube webmail.

Now let’s learn how to mark messages as read or unread.

Both messages in the Inbox folder are currently marked as Read… you can tell this because the text is regular instead of bold.

Let’s highlight one of the messages.

Click the Mark dropdown icon.

Let’s choose to mark this message As unread.

The message is now marked as unread (since its text is bold), and our inbox shows 2 message as being unread.

Selecting an unread message will not change its status to Read…. but if the message was already selected, you can mark it as Read by choosing the option in the Mark dropdown icon.

This is the end of the tutorial. You now know how to mark messages as read or unread in RoundCube.

How to open an email message in RoundCube

This tutorial assumes that you’ve already logged in to RoundCube webmail.

Now let’s learn how to open an email message so we can read it, and perhaps respond to or forward it.

When you first login to RoundCube, you’ll see that the Inbox is highlighted…

….which means the messages shown here are in the Inbox.

To open an email message simply double click on the email itself.

To view the messages in any of the other folders, select the folders accordingly…..

Then double click on the email that you want to see.

This is the end of the tutorial. You now know how to open email messages from any folder.

How to reply to or forward messages in RoundCube

This tutorial assumes that you’ve already logged in to RoundCube webmail.

Now let’s learn how to reply to or forward messages that we’ve received.

Select the message you want to reply to.

To send your reply to the sender of the email, click the Reply icon.

To send your reply to the sender of the email AND any other people who were sent the message, click the Reply all icon.

Now click the Forward icon dropdown button.

The Forward inline option is the default mode, and makes the message available for editing and forwarding.

The Forward as attachment option will copy the selected message as an attachment and doesn’t allow you to edit anything.

Whether you’re replying to the sender, replying to all, or forwarding a message, you can always include additional email addresses in the To field.

When ready, click the Send icon.

This is the end of the tutorial. You now know how to reply to or forward email messages with RoundCube.

How to search for messages in RoundCube

This tutorial assumes that you’ve already logged in to RoundCube webmail.

Now let’s learn how to search for specific email messages.

Enter a term in the search box you wish to search for, then press Enter.

RoundCube searched all messages in the Inbox for the word Param and found one match.

You can just as easily search for messages in other folders.

RoundCube found one match in the sent folder.

To clear the search box, click the X icon.

This is the end of tutorial. You now know how to search for messages in RoundCube.

How to write an email message in RoundCube

This tutorial assumes that you’ve already logged in to RoundCube webmail.

Now let’s learn how to write and send an email message.

Click the Compose button.

This is where you write or compose a new email message.

Enter the recipient’s email adddress in To field.

To copy this message to another address, click the Add Cc link.

Then enter the email address you wish to copy in the Copy field.

You can optionally add Bcc, Reply-To and Add Followup-To email addresses.

Enter the email subject in the Subject field.

Then enter your message here.

If you want to include one or more attachments, click the Attach button.

Click the Choose Files button to locate the file, then click Upload.

When ready, click the Send button.

That’s it! We ‘ve successfully sent the message. Let’s go take a look.

Click the Sent folder.

Here is the message we just sent.

This is the end of the tutorial. You now know how to write and send email messages with RoundCube.

How to save a draft message in RoundCube

This tutorial assumes that you’ve already logged in to RoundCube webmail.

Now let’s learn how to save draft email messages.

Click the Compose icon.

Let’s start composing a message.

While composing an email, you may find that you’ll want to save your work and come back to it later.

You can do that by clicking the Save icon.

The message has been saved to Drafts now.

Let’s return to the main E-Mail page.

To find your saved draft messages, click the Drafts folder.

There is it! To continue composing the message, simply double click the message.

You can then continue to compose your email.

This is the end of the tutorial. You now know how to save messages as drafts in RoundCube, so you can complete them at a later time.

How to create folders in RoundCube

This tutorial assumes that you’ve already logged in to RoundCube webmail.

Now let’s learn how to create folder to help organize our emails.

Click the Settings option.

Click the Folders option.

At the bottom, click the Plus icon.

Type the name of the new folder in the Folder name window.

Select the Parent folder of the new folder we are creating OR leave the setting as it is to make this new folder as a primay folder.

Select the view mode as per your needs.

When finished, click the Save button.

That’s it! The new folder has been created, and is shown here in our list of folders.

Click our new folder to see its contents.

Select the folder to rename it.

Enter a new name for the folder.

To delete the folder, select it….

Then click this dropdown icon and select Delete.

This is the end of the tutorial. You now know how to create additional folders in RoundCube.