Chapter  10

Working with Mail

Mail is Apple's e-mail application, and has been part of OS X from its start. With each new release of OS X, Apple refines the Mail application a bit. With Lion, Mail not only picks up a few features, but gets a facelift in the process. This chapter will walk you through this latest version of Mail, showing you the following:

  • How to get around the new Mail interface
  • How to add and configure e-mail accounts
  • How to compose new messages
  • How to set up mail signatures
  • How to deal with junk mail
  • How to manage mail and mailboxes
  • How to use other Mail features like Notes and RSS

Introducing Apple's Mail Application

Up until Lion, most of the changes to Mail, at least as far as the interface, have been evolutionary. In ...

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