macOS Ventura For Dummies

Chapter 15

Communicating with Mail and Messages

IN THIS CHAPTER

Mastering email with Mail

Conquering via iMessage with Messages

You can see how to use Contacts and Maps to find people and places in Chapters 14 and 12, respectively. 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, too. Click the Mail icon on the Dock or Launchpad, or double-click the Mail icon in the Applications folder 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 ...