Viewing Emails

Learn how to select a specific email in a folder and display it in different ways in order to read it. An unread email will be marked as read by default as soon as selecting this email. You can change this behavior in the Reading section of the mail settings.
How to display an email:
    .1Open an email folder in the folder view.When having selected the Inbox folder and if you are using email tabs, you can select a tab.To display the number of emails in a folder, hover over the folder name.
    .2Click on an email in the list view. The content of the email will be displayed in the detail view.
  • If you enable the Conversations option in the More options menu  above the list view, all emails of a conversation will be shown as a list.To open or close an email that is part of a conversation, click on a free area next to the sender.
  • If the email includes a quote from a previous email, you can display the quote by clicking the Show quoted text icon .
Options:
  • In the Reading section of the mail settings, you can specify how to display emails.
  • In the External images in emails section of the security settings, you can define whether external images should be loaded.Depending on the setting, you can view external images by clicking on Show images.If you want external images to always be displayed in emails from the sender of the current email, click on Always show images from (this sender).
  • To sort the email list, use the More options menu  above the list view.The sorting setting will be applied to the selected email folder. You can use different settings for the single folders.
  • To combine all emails of a conversation in a single list entry in the list view, enable the Conversations checkbox in the More options menu .
  • To select a layout or to change the list view layout, use the entries below Layout or List options in the Settings menu .
  • You can open the email in a window by double-clicking on the email in the list view.
  • When having selected the List layout in the Settings, a list of all emails in the folder will be shown in the display area. If clicking on an email, the email's detail view will be displayed.
Tip: In the Email section of the notification settings, you can define whether a notification sound is to be played for incoming emails.
User interface:
  •  The Email list view  The Email detail view 
Related topics:
  •  Viewing or Saving Email Attachments  Showing the email source  Marking emails as read or unread  Categorizing emails  Searching for Emails 
Parent topic:  Email