Working with Mailboxes

Opening a Mailbox

To open a mailbox, select it from the Mailbox menu, or double-click it in the Mailboxes window.

Note. The unread message icon appears in the Mailbox menu whenever a mailbox or folder contains unread messages that are less than five days old. Also any mailboxes or folders in the Mailboxes window that contain unread messages are displayed as bold.

Understanding the Components of a Mailbox

Mailbox windows contain all of your incoming and outgoing message summaries. If the “Show message preview pane” option is selected in the Viewing Mail options window, mailbox windows also show the message preview pane, the bottom half of the window in the figure below. See “Viewing Mail” on page 210. Click the page number to display the topic.

To open a mailbox, do the following.

From the Mailbox menu, choose the mailbox you want to open, or double-click its icon or name in the Mailboxes window.

Mailbox window

Message Summaries

Each line in the list portion of a mailbox window represents a message and is called a message summary. Outgoing messages that are in any mailbox other than Out are shown with italicized message summaries.

To select one or more message summaries, use one of the following options:

To select one summary, click it.

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