Email fellow community members to give them community news. You must be a member of a
community to mail members of that community.
Before you begin
The ability to email a community might be disabled for community members. To reduce email
spam, the community owner might disable email for community members. If email is disabled for the
community, the
Mail Community option is not displayed. If you need to email
the community but email is disabled, ask a community owner to email the community on your
behalf.
Depending on the email privileges set by the community owner, you can email either the
entire community or community owners only.
About this task
The community owner configures the Mail Community option so that you can
send email to other community members or to community owners only. If you can send email to the
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.
Note: If you chose to send email to all community, users who are in groups who are also members of
the community do not receive the email. Mail community does not work with 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 actions.
- To send the notification by 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.