Send email messages from within another application
Use the share menu item in any application that supports this feature to send an item as an attachment to an email message. This feature is available in the Contacts, Photos, PDF View and Memos applications, among others. Depending on the app, the menu item might be called Share, Send or Email. For details, see the section in this guide on the specific application.
Messaging: All messages in one application
What kinds of messages can I send and receive?
You can use the Messaging application to send and receive the following types of messages:
•Text and multimedia messages (see Create and send a text or multimedia message)
•Instant messages for an IM account you already have set up online (see Set up an instant messaging (IM) account)
The Synergy feature enables the Messaging app to gather all your text, multimedia and instant messages to and from the same contact into a single conversation (sometimes called a "thread"). So you can see your entire message history with someone regardless of the different methods you happened to use to communicate with that person (see Work with conversations). You can even switch from account to account without losing the thread of your conversation (see Switch between messaging accounts in a
Work with conversations
When you exchange more than one message with a person, the messages are grouped into a conversation. A single conversation can contain text, multimedia and IM messages. When you start or continue a conversation, the top part of Conversations view displays all messages
you've exchanged with this person, and the bottom part provides the area where you type your next message.
You can carry on multiple conversations at the same time.
1Open Messaging 
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2Do one of the following:
•Start a new conversation: Create a message (see Create and send a text or multimedia message or Send and receive IM messages), or tap a message and reply to it.
•Continue an existing conversation: Tap the conversation.
3Enter your message.
4Tap 
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TIP You can copy the contents of a conversation as plain text, which you can paste in a memo, email message and so on (see Copy messages).
Switch between messaging accounts in a conversation
In a single conversation, you can switch between text/multimedia messaging and an IM account. So if you are having an IM chat with someone and he or she goes offline, you can send the person a text message to wrap up the conversation. You can also switch between different phone numbers for sending a text message to a person.
TIP To be able to switch between text messaging and IM messaging with someone, that person's mobile phone number and IM address must be in the same single contact or a linked contact. If the address and number are in different unlinked contacts, link them (see Link a contact).
1In Messaging, start a new conversation or open one that's listed in Conversations view.
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