Learn Vista - Reading E-Mail in Windows Mail

In Windows Mail, you can read the e-mail contents through the Preview pane, and also via the separate window. Reading an e-mail content in the Preview pane is more simple, but if you read it in a separate window, you will see a large portion of the message.

By default, there are six folders appear on your Windows Mail local folder:

- Inbox, the place for e-mail messages that you receive.

- Outbox, the place for e-mail messages before they are sent. When you finish writing a message and then clicking the Send button, the message will be placed in Outbox folder and waiting until they are sent.

- Sent items, the place for your e-mail messages that have been sent.

- Deleted items, the place for e-mail messages that you've removed. If you delete messages in this folder, so the messages will be permanently deleted. You won't be able to restore them.

- Drafts, the place for your unfinished e-mail messages that you want to send.

- Junk E-mail, this is one of the new features in Windows Mail. Junk E-mail is the folder for Unsolicited Commercial E‑mail (UCE) or also known as spam. By default, Windows Mail will automatically filter your incoming e-mail messages for spam. If a message is considered as spam, then it will be moved into Junk E-mail folder. You can change the level that Windows Mail uses to filter your messages for spam by clicking Tools and then click Junk E-mail Options.

To read an e-mail message:

- First, click a folder. (Inbox, Outbox, Sent items, or else).

- From the e-mail list, click a message that you want to read, and then the content appears on the Preview pane. You can read it there.

- Double-clicking a message from e-mail list will open a separate window that shows you the content of the message.