Technical information

Windows 8 For Dummies, Dell Pocket Edition

Beneath the names of your e-mail accounts, the Mail

app lists its main folders:

Inbox: Shown when you first load the Mail app,

the Inbox folder lists your waiting e-mail. Mail

automatically checks for new e-mail, but if you

tire of waiting, click Sync, shown in the margin.

That immediately grabs any waiting Mail.

(Right-click a blank portion of the Mail app to

reveal its menus, including the Sync icon along

the bottom edge.)

Drafts: When you’re midway through writing

an e-mail and want to finish it later, click the

Close icon shown in the margin and choose

Save Draft from the drop-down menu. The

e-mail then waits in this folder for retrieval

later. (I explain how to send e-mail in this

chapter’s next section.)

Sent Items: Every piece of e-mail you’ve sent lin-

gers in this folder, leaving a permanent record.

(To kill any embarrassing e-mail from any folder,

select the offending e-mail with a click and click

the Delete icon shown in the margin.)

Junk: The Mail app sniffs out potential junk

mail and drops suspects into this folder. Peek

in here every once in a while to make sure

nothing falls in by mistake.

Deleted Items: The Deleted Items folder

serves as the Mail app’s Recycle Bin, letting

you retrieve mistakenly deleted e-mail.

Todelete something permanently from the

Deleted Items folder, select it and choose

theDelete icon.

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