macOS Sonoma For Dummies

Chapter 15

Communicating with Mail and Messages

IN THIS CHAPTER

Mastering email with Mail

Conquering messaging via iMessage with Messages

In Chapter 14, you learned to use the Contacts app to manage information about the people in your life. In this chapter, you dig into two more terrific apps — Mail and Messages — that work with Contacts to make managing your email and messages (chats) a breeze.

Sending and Receiving Email with Mail

This chapter covers a lot of material in relatively few pages, so if there’s something you want to find out about Mail or Messages that it doesn’t cover, try choosing Help ⇒ Mail Help or Help ⇒ Messages Help.

Mail is an app for sending, receiving, and organizing your email. Mail is fast and easy to use. Click the Mail icon on the Dock or Launchpad to launch Mail. The Mail icon looks like an envelope, as shown in the margin.

You can use other apps to read email. The App Store has dozens of other mail readers, and most versions of Microsoft Office include the Outlook app, which handles email and more. Most email services, including Google’s Gmail and ...