Sending a message

You can send a message to any Groove, email, or Jabber contact. You can also send a message to all members of a currently selected workspace. Your messages can include audio recordings, file attachments, and Web address (URL) references.

Starting a new message

Do any of the following to open the Send Message dialog box:

Select Options - Send Message.
Select Options - Send Message to Members to automatically address a message to all members of the currently selected workspace.
From Message History, click New.
Right-click one or more contact names and select Send Message.

Note: If your selection includes at least one email contact, your email client will open instead of the Send Message dialog box, with the email addresses of all selected contacts listed in the To: field.
Press Shift-Shift.

Note: If you already have a message alert in your system tray, pressing Shift-Shift opens the message, not the Send Message dialog box.

Addressing a message

Complete addressing information (if not already complete) as follows:

From. The "From" text box automatically contains your default Groove display name (identity). If you've created additional identities in your Groove account, you can select a different one from the drop-down list. You create new Groove identities on the Identities panel of the Preference dialog box.
To. The "To" drop-down menu includes all currently "known" Groove contacts: this includes Groove contacts you've added to your contact list in the Launchbar, as well as any Groove contacts who are members in one of your workspaces. Click More to open the Add Recipients dialog box in which you can search for and add other contacts.

Adding message content

You can add text with rich-text features, add audio and attach files to a Groove message.

Message. Type the message text. Right-click to see formatting options.

Click Check Spelling to check spelling in the text editor.
Audio features. Click the record button to add an audio message. Click the playback button to play back the message you record. Click the delete button to delete an audio message.
File button. Click to browse and select files to attach and send with the message. The name and size (in bytes) of files you select displays in the Attachments list box.

Note: The total size of all attachments in one message may not exceed 25 MB.

Note: Jabber recipients receive only the message text, without rich-text features.

Sending the message

Click Send to send the message. Groove posts alerts (described in the table below) to inform you about the progress of the message delivery for Groove recipients.

Note: Groove does not post these delivery alerts for Jabber recipients.

Alert	Meaning
Message for "sender": Waiting to send...	Groove cannot yet send the message. The sender's computer may be offline or may not currently have a live network or relay service connection.
Message for "sender": Sending...	Groove is sending the message either to the recipient's computer or to the relay service (if the recipient's computer is offline).
Message for "sender": Sent, waiting for delivery...	The message left the sender's computer and will get delivered if the recipient is online. If the recipient is offline, the invitation is routed to the relay service.
Message for "sender": Delivered...	The message has reached the recipient's computer.
Message for "sender": Opened	The recipient has opened the message.