Now the name of the attached file appears in the message, in the Attach text box. When you send the message, the file tags along. •• The short way. If you can see the icon of the file you want to attach—in its folder window behind the Mail window, on the Desktop, or wherever—then attach it by dragging its icon directly into the message window. That’s a handy technique when you’re attaching many different files. Tip: To remove a file from an outgoing message before you’ve sent it, just click it and then press the Delete key.
Reading Email All Versions
Just seeing a list of the names of new messages in Mail is like getting wrapped presents—the best part’s yet to come. There are two ways to read a message: using the Preview pane, and opening the message into its own window. To preview a message, click its name in the List pane; the body of the message appears in the Preview pane below or to the right. Don’t forget that you can adjust the relative sizes of the List and Preview panes by dragging the border between them up or down. To open a message into a window of its own, double-click its name in the List pane. An open message has its own toolbar, along with Previous and Next buttons. Once you’ve read a message, you can view the next one in the list either by pressing Ctrl+> (next message), by pressing Ctrl+U (next unread message), or by clicking its name in the List pane. (If you’re using Preview mode and haven’t opened a message into its own window, you can also press the , or . key to move from one message to the next.) Tip: To mark a message you’ve read as an unread message, so that its name remains bolded, right-click its name in the List pane and then choose “Mark as unread” from the shortcut menu.
Here’s another timesaver: To hide all the messages you’ve already read, just choose ViewÆ“Show or hide”Æ“Hide read messages.” Now only unread messages are visible in the selected folder. To bring the hidden messages back, choose ViewÆ“Show or hide”Æ“Show all messages.”
When Pictures are Part of the Message Sending pictures in email is a globally popular activity—but Mail doesn’t want you to see them. Mail comes set up to block images, because these images sometimes serve as “bugs” that silently report back to the sender whether you received and opened the message. At that point, the spammers know that they’ve found a live, working email address—