- [Instructor] The application for sending and receiving
email that comes with Windows is called Mail.
I have it pinned to the Start menu,
so I'll launch it from there.
And I'm starting this video assuming that
you have your email accounts
already linked to your computer,
which is something we covered in another video.
First, I want you to see, as you resize this window,
the interface will change a little bit.
If your window is really small,
a lot of the controls are compact.
So you can resize the window and the interface adjusts,
or I think it would just be easier to maximize the window
so we can see everything.
Then from here, you probably want to read your messages.
I want to start on the sidebar over on the left,
and you should see that I have two email accounts.
So first, I need to make sure I select
the account that I want.
So I'm going to select my Outlook account.
And then, I can see my messages listed
in the middle in that account.
But also over on the left, I could select the inbox
or I could switch to one of the other folders
that I have set up with this account,
but I'm going to stick with the inbox.
So, to read a message, you can just click on it
and then you'll see that message over on the right.
And I want you to notice how
a few of these messages have this blue line next to them.
That means that those messages have not been read yet.
If I select one of them, then I select a different message,
you'll see that blue line goes away
because that message is no longer considered to be unread.
Now, if you do not immediately find the message
that you're looking for in the inbox,
you can use the search field up here at the top.
And after reading a message, you may want to reply to it.
So you select your message, and then up at the top,
you've got the option to reply,
or if the message was sent to multiple people,
you can reply to all of them by clicking Reply All.
So I'll click on Reply, and since I am replying,
the person that I'm sending the message to
is already filled in in this To field.
Also, the subject line is filled in
and the original message is here in the body,
but you're probably going to want to click here
in the body field and type in your response.
And when you're ready to send it,
you can click the Send button up in the top right.
But I don't want to actually send this,
so I'll click the Discard button
and confirm that I want to discard it.
Now up at the top, you also have the option to
forward this message to somebody else,
and you can delete it from here.
If you want to compose a new message,
you can just click the New Mail button over on the left.
But before I do that, again,
I want to point out that I have two accounts
and my Outlook account is the one that's currently selected.
So when I click the New Mail button,
I have a new blank message.
But in the From field, it shows me that this message
will be sent from my Outlook account,
so you should make sure to select the right account
before you click the button to compose a new message.
From here, you can put in the email address
for the person you want to send the message to
in the To field.
You also have these buttons for CC and BCC.
Click on that, and it opens up these fields.
So if you want to carbon copy or blind copy somebody
on this message, you can include that.
Then of course, you can fill in the subject field.
And then when you click down here,
you can write the actual body of your message.
You also have the option to attach files to a message.
To do that, we'll go to the top and click
where it says Insert to open the insert ribbon.
Then you can click where it says Files,
and then you can navigate to the folder
where you have some files that you want to attach.
So I'll go over to this folder,
then I'll select the file that I want, click Open.
And now, that file has been attached to this message.
You also have the option up here to attach pictures
from the Photos application in Windows
if you want to do that.
And naturally, when you're ready,
you can click the Send button
or you can click Discard if you don't want to send it,
and I'll confirm that.
So I think that's a good start for Mail,
giving you the essentials for sending
and receiving email in Windows 11.