Lesson 4. Reading Your Mail

This is the lesson where the Inbox shines—it’s all about reading your mail. You’ll see how to receive, read, and deal with mail in this lesson.

Working in the Inbox

There are various ways of dealing with your mail that we’ll discuss here, such as starring important messages for later reference, reporting mail as spam, archiving mail, and more. One thing you’re not going to see in this lesson is how to use Gmail labels. That’s because that topic is covered in Lesson 6, “Organizing Gmail Using Labels and Tasks.”

Let’s jump in and get some mail!

Reading Mail

When someone sends you mail, that mail ends up in your Inbox, and that’s where this lesson starts. Want to access the mail in your Inbox? Just follow these steps: ...

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