To Read a Mail Message
Choose Check for New Mail from the Mailbox menu to retrieve any new messages that have been delivered to your mailbox.
Click to select the message to be viewed from the Message Header List.
The text of the message is displayed in the message view area.
Use the Next and Previous buttons on the Toolbar or options on the View menu to continue to select and read messages in the message view area.
To open a message into a separate window for reading:
Select the message and choose Open from the Message menu. From this window, the Edit and Attachments menus become available.
The message remains in the separate window even when you select another message in your Message Header List. You can then view two messages at the same time.
To Change the Character Set of an Incoming Message
On occasion, you may receive an email message from a machine that uses an encoding that is different from the default encoding for your machine. To be able to read the message, change the character set for your machine to one that matches the message's encoding (for example, US-ASCII).
Select the message in the Message Header List.
Choose Change Char Set from the View menu or press Control+Y, the keyboard accelerator.
Mailer displays the name of a character set (for example, US-ASCII) in the footer immediately below the Toolbar icons.
Choose the Change Char Set menu item or press Control+Y again to cycle through the choices until the correct one is displayed.
Selecting Default Char Set displays your message in the default encoding for your machine.
Mailer converts the text of the message to the character set that you selected, not its header or attachments.
Sorting Mail Messages
You can use the options on the View menu to order your messages.
By Date/Time | Sorts messages with the most recent at the bottom |
By Sender | Sorts messages alphabetically by sender name |
By Subject | Sorts messages alphabetically by subject |
By Size | Sorts messages from the smallest to the largest |
By Status | Sorts messages together by read and new (useful if you read your mail in non-sequential order) |
The message headers are rearranged and redisplayed in the mailbox in the new order.
Acting on Your Mail Messages
After reading your email, you may want to reply to, search for, delete, and (possibly) undelete some messages.
To Reply to a Message
Select the message to which you want to reply.
Decide on the type of reply:
To reply to the sender, choose Reply from the Compose menu.
A Compose window is displayed with the email address of the recipient and the message subject filled in.
To reply to the sender and all recipients, choose Reply to All from the Compose menu.
A Compose window is displayed with the email addresses of the recipients and the subject of the message filled in.
To reply to the sender or all recipients and include a copy of the message, choose Reply, Include Message or Reply to All, Include Message from the Compose menu.
A Compose window is displayed that includes the text of the message with the email addresses of the recipients and the subject filled in. Attachments are not included in the reply.
Type your reply and click Send.
For more information, see "To Address, Compose, and Send a Mail Message".
To Forward a Message
Select the message you want to forward.
Choose Forward from the Compose menu, or click the Forward button on the Toolbar.
The text of the message to be forwarded is displayed within a new message, as well as its attachments, if any.
If you do not want to forward the attachments, choose Forward, no Attachments.
Type the addresses of the message recipients in the To or Cc fields, or use the To or Cc button menus to access any aliases that you have set up.
Add any additional text and click Send.
See "To Address, Compose, and Send a Mail Message"for more information.
To Edit an Incoming Message
Select the message you want to change.
Choose Forward from the Compose menu.
Address the message to yourself.
Edit the message in the Compose window and send it.
Note - You may want to create a separate mailbox for these edited messages as they can add to the size of your Inbox.
To Save an Incoming or an Outgoing Message as Text
Select a received message, then choose Save As Text from the Message menu or, for an outgoing message in a Compose window, choose Text from the Save As submenu of the File menu.
Type a file name and location in the File Selection dialog box that appears, then click Save.
If a file of the name specified already exists, you are asked whether you want to overwrite the file or cancel the operation.