Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard: Peachpit Learning Series

Lesson 5. Mail for Email, Notes, and To Do Lists

Goals

Set up an account in Mail

Read and send email

Filter junk mail from your inbox

Organize your mail with mailboxes and Smart Mailboxes

Use searches and Rules to find and organize your messages

Personalize your messages with signatures

Create To Do items that you can add to iCal

Use Notes to collect all your thoughts and ideas

Mail is Apple’s application for sending and receiving email. If you have more than one email account on more than one server, Mail can check them all at the same time. You can send mail from any of your accounts right through Mail.

A really wonderful feature is “stationery,” where you can create fancy HTML email messages with special fonts, images, and design—all with ...