Contact fellow community members by email to give them
the latest community news. You must be a member of a community to
mail members of that community.
Before you begin
To send email to your community, email must
be configured to display in your deployment. If the administrator
has disabled email for your deployment, the
Mail Community option
does not display.
About this task
You can send email to other community members directly from
your community. There is no limit on the number of people that you
can email, however, you cannot specify individual members of the community
as recipients. You must send the notification to all community members
or community owners only. Choosing the option to send the notification
to all community members means that the email is also sent to community
owners.
You cannot send emails to groups.
Procedure
- From the community's Overview page,
select .
Note: You
must be logged in to Communities to access the Community
Actions menu.
- Do one of the following.
- To send the notification using your default
email client, click Click to compose using your default
email client.
- To use the email form provided:
- Specify the recipients of the email.
- To send the message to everyone in the community, select Owners
and Members.
- To send the message to community owners only, select Owners
Only.
- Enter a title for your message in the Subject field.
The title is prefixed by the name of the community by default.
- Type the content of your message in the Message field
and click Send.