Chapter 9

Putting Your Mail in Its Place

In This Chapter

arrow Following the rules of email etiquette

arrow Throwing away spam automatically

arrow Responding to mail, or not

arrow Keeping an email address book

arrow Forwarding and filing mail

arrow Sending and receiving exotic mail and mail attachments

arrow Sorting and filtering your messages

After you get used to using email, you start sending and receiving enough messages that you had better keep it organized. This chapter describes how to delete, reply to, forward, and file messages in webmail systems such as Gmail and Outlook.com, smartphones and tablets, Outlook (which comes with Microsoft Office), and Apple Mail (which comes with Mac OS X). Refer to Chapter 8 to find out how to get started using these programs.

After you read (or decide not to read) an email message, ...

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