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AUG-2.2.1-101 Android User’s Guide
Reading your messages
You can read messages in your Combined Inbox or in the Inbox or other folders for
individual accounts.
When you receive a new message, you also receive a notification in the Status bar,
unless you’ve turned off Email notifications using the Email Account settings, where
you can also set whether Email notifications vibrate the phone and pick a ringtone.
See “To change an account’s settings” on page 196. When you touch an Email
notification, it opens the combined Inbox.
To read a message
1 Open the Combined Inbox, an account’s Inbox, or another folder of messages.
2 Touch the message to read.
The message opens in a screen with information about who sent it, the date it was
sent, and related information at the top, followed by the contents of the message.
The Google Talk online status is shown next to the name of the sender of each
message. You can touch that status indicator to open Quick Contact. See
“Connecting quickly with your contacts” on page 43.
You can reply to, forward, delete, or take other actions on a message, as described
in “Responding to a message” on page 188.
Touch an arrow to read the next or
previous message in the folder.
Sender’s Google Talk online status.
Open an attachment.
Touch to reply to or delete the message.