Sending, Receiving, and Replying to E-Mail

If you have used an e-mail application before, such as Outlook Express, Entourage, or Eudora, using Mail to send, receive, and reply to e-mail will be familiar to you after you learn about the Mail interface.

The main Mail window has three panes. The top pane contains the Mail Toolbar and the Status Bar. The second pane from the top is the Message List, in which you see the list of items in a selected mailbox. The lower pane of the Mail window is the reading pane in which you read a mail item that is selected in Message List. All your mailboxes are in the Mail Drawer, which is a window that pops out of either side of the main Mail window (see Figure 12.14).

Figure 12.14. The Mail application uses three ...

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