Your inbox

Every author gets a personal email address on the @valeon.blog domain — for example, jane@valeon.blog. Readers can send you mail there: corrections, questions about a post, or just kind notes. Anything sent to that address shows up in your inbox in the dashboard.

You can also configure the address to auto-forward to your personal email. See Email mailbox for how to set that up.

Open Messagesfrom the dashboard sidebar. The inbox shows incoming messages newest first, with a count of how many you haven’t opened yet. Click a message to read it. Attachments — if any — appear at the bottom as download links.

If a message is part of a conversation (a back-and-forth), the full thread is shown together so you can see what was said before.

From an open message, click Reply to write back. A full-page composer opens with the recipient and subject already filled in, so you can focus on your message. When you send, the reply is added to the thread and a copy lands in your Sent folder.

You don’t have to wait for someone to write first. Click New message at the top of the inbox to open the composer and choose who it goes to:

• Another author — pick a fellow Valeon author and your message is delivered straight to their dashboard inbox. Nothing leaves Valeon.
• An email address — send to anyone by typing their address. It goes out as real email from your @valeon.blog address, and their replies come back to your inbox.

Add a subject, write your message, and attach files if you need to. Sent messages appear in your Sent view.

The inbox has three views, switched from the top:

• Inbox— messages you’ve received and haven’t archived.
• Sent— every message you’ve sent, both replies and new messages.
• Archived— messages you’ve cleared out of the inbox but haven’t deleted. Useful for putting things out of sight without losing them.

Archive a message from its detail view with the archive button. You can move it back to the inbox at any time from the Archived list.

If you open a message but want it to resurface later as something to deal with, mark it unread from its detail view. It jumps back into the unread count and shows up again in the default inbox sort.