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.Out holds mail you've written and saved but haven't yet sent.Drafts holds messages you've started but haven't yet finished, and don't want to send just yet.Sent holds copies of messages you've sent.Junk appears automatically when you turn on the Automatic mode for Mail's spam filter, as describedlater in this chapter.On My Mac is a "folder" where you can file messages, within subfolders, from a standard ISP account(Earthlink, for example).Mac lists the subfolders you've created for filing messages from your.Mac account (Chapter 18).Trash works a lot like the Trash on your desktop, in that messages you put there don't actuallydisappear.They remain in the Trash folder, awaiting rescue on the day you decide that you'd like toretrieve them.To see what's in one of these folders, click it once.The list of its messages appears in the top half of the mainwindow.When you click a message name, the message itself appears in the bottom half of the main window.Figure 19-3.The many panes of Mail.Click a mailbox icon in the drawer pane to see its contents inthe upper-left pane.(Shown here are two accounts: A regular ISP account and a Mac.com account.)When you click the name of a message in the main list (or press the up and down arrow keys tohighlight successive message names in the list), you see the message itself in the Preview pane. [ Team LiB ] [ Team LiB ]19.3 Writing MessagesTo send email to a recipient, click the Compose icon on the toolbar.The New Message form, shown in Figure 19-4, opens so you can begin creating the message.Here's how you go about writing a message:1.Type the email address of the recipient in the To field.If you want to send this message to more than one person, separate their addresses with commas:bob@earthlink.net, billg@microsoft.com, steve@apple.com.You don't have to remember and type those addresses, either.If somebody is in your address book(Rebuilding Your Mail Databases), just type the first couple letters of his name; Mail automaticallycompletes the address.(If the first guess is wrong, just type another letter or two until Mail revises itsproposal.)As in most dialog boxes, you can jump from blank to blank (from the To field to the CC field, for example)by pressing the Tab key.2.To send a copy of the message to other recipients, enter the email address(es) in the CC field.CC stands for carbon copy.Getting an email message where your name is in the CC line implies: "I sentyou a copy because I thought you'd want to know about this correspondence, but I'm not expecting youto reply."3.Type the topic of the message in the Subject field.It's courteous to put some thought into the Subject line (use "Change in plans for next week" instead of"Yo," for example).4.Specify an email format.There are two kinds of email: plain text and formatted (HTML or, in Mail's case, what Apple calls RichText).Plain text messages are faster to send and open, are universally compatible with the world's emailprograms, and are greatly preferred by many veteran computer fans.And even though the message isplain, you can still attach pictures and other files.By contrast, formatted messages sometimes open slowly, and in some email programs the formattingdoesn't come through at all.To control which kind of mail you send on a message-by-message basis, choose, from the Format menu,either Make Plain Text or Make Rich Text.To change the factory setting for new outgoing messages,choose Mail Preferences; click the Composing icon; and choose from the Format pop-up menu. TIPIf you plan to send formatted mail, remember that your recipients won't see the fonts youspecify unless their machines have the same ones installed.Bottom line: For email to Mac andWindows fans alike, stick to Arial, Times, Courier, and similarly universal choices.5.Type your message in the message box.You can use all standard editing techniques, including the Copy and Paste commands, drag-and-drop, andso on.If you selected the Rich Text style of email, you can even use word processor-like formatting(Figure 19-5).As you type, Mail checks your spelling, using a dotted underline to mark questionable words (also shownin Figure 19-5).To check for alternative spellings for a suspect word, Control-click the underlined word; alist of suggestions appears in the contextual menu.Click the word you really intended, or choose LearnSpelling to add the word to the Mac OS X dictionary.(To turn off automatic spell check, choose Edit Spelling Check Spelling As You Type so that thecheckmark disappears.If you want to spell-check a message all at once, chooseEdit Spelling Check Spelling [ -;] after composing it.)TIPIf you're composing a long email message, or if it's one you don't want to send until later, clickthe Save as Draft button, press -S, or choose File Save As Draft.You've just saved themessage in your Drafts folder.To reopen a saved draft later, click the Drafts icon in the mailboxdrawer, and then click the draft that you want to work on.6.Click Send (or press Shift- -D).If you're not already online, your modem dials, squeals, connects to the Internet, and sends the message
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