- [Instructor] In this video, we'll look at some settings
in the Mail application, but we're really focusing on
three specific settings that I think all users
should be aware of.
First, over on the left,
I want to make sure my Outlook account is selected.
Then, when I look at my inbox,
I see these two categories up at the top,
Focused and Other.
This is part of a feature called the Focused inbox,
and it's meant to filter out messages
that are not important.
If you select the Focused inbox,
it will show messages from real people
who you communicate with.
And if you switch to Other,
you'll see newsletters, bulk email, that sort of thing.
You can always look at either one whenever you want,
and if something lands in the wrong section,
you can right-click on it
and you can move it over to the other one.
But here's the important part.
If you don't like separating your email like this,
that is something that you can change in Settings.
So to get to Settings in the Mail application,
we need to click this gear button down at the bottom,
and that opens this panel over on the left.
So first, let's go to the Focused inbox setting.
And I can see that the Focused inbox is turned on
for my Outlook account.
If you don't like this, you can turn it off.
Also, if you go to this menu, you can see any other accounts
where that feature is available.
Now, the Focused inbox feature is not available
for my Gmail account, so my Outlook account is
the only one on this list.
So let's see what happens when we turn that off.
Click outside of the Settings panel.
Now those two tabs are gone.
I just have one single inbox with all of my messages.
Next, I want to see something in my Gmail account.
So on the left, I'll select Gmail.
And at first, it looks like I don't have many messages here,
but that's only because I don't use this account very often
and it's actually only showing me the messages
that I've received in the last three months.
And that's another thing that we can change in Settings.
So once again, we'll click the gear button
to go into Settings.
Then we'll go to Manage Accounts.
I'll select my Gmail account.
Then I'll click Options for syncing your content.
And you can see, it's set to only download email
from the last three months, but you can change that here.
And if you want to see all of your messages,
you can choose this Anytime option,
and you will need to give it some time to download
all of those old messages.
For now, I'm just going to cancel this
and I'll close this window.
Okay, one more setting that I want to adjust,
and this one relates to when you send a message.
So of course, you need to select the email account
you want to send a message from,
then click the New Mail button.
And I want you to notice this line in the message
that says sent from Mail for windows.
That's the signature line, and that is automatically added
to the bottom of every message that you send.
Now, you could delete it right here
before you send the message,
or you can change your signature in the Settings.
So one more time, we'll click that gear button
to go to Settings.
This time, we're looking for the Signature section.
And from here, you can edit what the signature says,
or you can just delete it entirely.
You also have some formatting options,
so you can change the size or make it bold
or whatever you want to do.
But be careful.
You have options to set the signature for each account.
So if I delete the signature here,
I've deleted it for my Gmail account.
And if I switch over to my Outlook account
here in this menu, it'll ask me if I want to save my changes
and I will, but now in my Outlook account,
I still have that signature line.
So you should make your change individually
for each account, or you can make one change
and then click this box that says Apply to All Accounts.
So clearly, there are other options
that you can adjust in Settings,
but these are the three things that I think
every new user in the Mail app should be aware of.