Windows Vista™ Plain & Simple

Receiving and Reading E-Mail

Windows Mail lets you specify how frequently you want it to check for incoming e-mail, and it notifies you when you receive new mail. You can check your Inbox and see at a glance which messages have and haven’t been read, or you can set the view to list unread messages only.

Read Your Messages

1. Click the Inbox if it isn’t the currently active folder.

2. On the View menu, specify how you want to view your messages:

   1. Point to Current View, and choose the type of messages you want displayed.

   2. Point to Sort By, and choose the way you ...