Use the Mail app on your Mac to send and receive email
and organize all of your messages.
Here's how to use it.
We'll show you how to add your email account,
send an email, and search and organize mail.
Before you start, you'll need your email address
and your email password.
First, let's add your email account to Mail.
Open the Mail app from the Dock.
If you're setting up Mail for the first time,
you'll see a prompt
asking if you'd like to import your messages.
To do this, click Continue.
Next, select your email provider.
If your provider isn't listed here,
click Other Mail Account and follow the instructions.
We're going to add a Google email account.
Click Continue to move on.
Depending on your email provider,
this process might vary slightly,
and you might need to follow some additional steps.
Now, type in your email address,
click Next, and type in your email password.
Click Next again to continue.
From here, make sure Mail is selected
and then choose if you'd like to sync additional information
from your email account with other Mac apps,
like your Contacts and your Calendars.
Then click Done.
Next, choose if you'd like to turn on Mail Privacy Protection.
This prevents email senders from learning information
about your mail activity like your location
and if you've opened the email they sent you.
Click Continue to move on.
Now your emails will begin to download.
Keep the Mail app open and your Mac turned on
while this happens.
This might take a while,
but you can continue to use your Mac in the meantime.
You can check the download progress
in the lower-left corner of the Mail app.
Want to add another email account?
Click Mail in the menu bar
in the upper-left corner of your Mac.
Click Add Account... and select your provider
to start the process.
Now we'll walk you through how to send an email.
In Mail, click the New Message button
in the Mail toolbar at the top
and type in an email address or contact.
Then enter the subject...
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...and write the rest of your message.
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To add a document, photo, or other attachment,
click the Attachment button in the toolbar
and find the item you'd like to send.
Click Send at the top of your email when you're ready.
[MAIL SENT TONE]
Want to respond to an email?
Select the email from your message list
or double-click an email to open it in a new window.
Then click Reply or Reply All in the Mail toolbar.
Now write your message and click Send.
[MAIL SENT TONE]
There it goes!
Once your inbox is set up,
you can search your mail or organize your messages
to help you find things when you need them.
The Mail app organizes email messages into mailboxes,
which are like folders.
If you previously set up folders for your account,
Mail will import them for you as mailboxes.
You'll find them in the Mail sidebar.
You can hide or reveal your mailboxes
by hovering over your account and then clicking the arrow.
To search for an email,
click the search field in the upper-right corner of Mail
and type in a word or phrase.
Mail will look for contacts, subjects, messages,
and documents that match.
By default, Mail will search all of your mailboxes.
To search in specific mailboxes, select them in the sidebar.
To organize your email,
you can move a message from one mailbox to another.
Just drag it from the message list
into another mailbox in the sidebar.
That message will now only appear in this mailbox
so you can quickly find it again later when you need it.
When you no longer need an email, you can delete it.
Just select a message
and click the Delete button in the Mail toolbar.
You can click Trash in the sidebar
to view deleted messages.
Deleted messages are available
until they're permanently erased.
And those are a few things to get you started
with the Mail app.
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