Sams Teach Yourself Mac OS X Panther All in One

Chapter 15. Using Mail

The Mail application is Apple’s email client that comes with OS X. Mail provides excellent support for IMAP and POP email services and includes a powerful search mechanism, junk-mail filter, and message thread display that can make managing hordes of email messages fast and painless.

If you’ve used other common email programs, you’ll be completely comfortable in Mail. A toolbar at the top of the window gives access to commonly used functions for creating, responding to, and searching messages. (We’ll go into detail a bit later, but Figure 15.1 gives a sneak peek at the main window of a loyal Mail user.)

Figure 15.1. Mail provides ...