You can reply to or forward most e-mail messages that you receive by clicking the Reply, Reply To All, or Forward button either within the message window or on the Standard toolbar. When you reply to a message, Entourage fills in the To and Cc boxes for you, addressing the response either to only the original message sender or to the message sender and all other people to whom the message was addressed or copied (the recipients listed in the To and Cc boxes), depending on the reply option you choose. Entourage does not include recipients of blind courtesy copies (Bcc recipients) in message replies. You can add, change, and delete recipients from any reply before sending it.

To include all recipients of a message in your reply, click the Reply To All button. Entourage addresses your reply to the original message sender and any recipients listed in the To box of the original message, and sends a copy to any recipients listed in the Cc box of the original message.

Similarly, you can forward a received message to any e-mail address (regardless of whether the recipient uses Entourage) provided that the message was not sent with restricted permissions. When you forward a message, Entourage does not fill in the recipient boxes for you.

When responding to an e-mail message, take care to use good e-mail etiquette. For example, don’t forward messages containing large attachments to people with low-bandwidth connections who don’t need the attachment. If your response is not pertinent to all the original recipients of a message, don’t reply to the entire recipient list, especially if the message was addressed to a distribution list that might include hundreds of members.

If the original message contains one or more attachments, be aware that replies do not include attachments, and forwarded messages do.

If you reply to or forward a received message from within the message window, the original message remains open after you send your response.