. Reading Email Mail puts all incoming email into your Inbox; the statistic after the word Inbox lets you know how many messages you haven't yet read. New messages are also marked with light blue dots in the main list. | . Reading Email Mail puts all incoming email into your Inbox the statistic after the word Inbox lets you know how many messages you haven t yet read. New messages are also marked with light blue dots in the main list. Tip The Mail icon in the Dock also shows you how many new messages you have waiting it s the number in the red circle. Click the Inbox folder to see a list of received messages. If it s a long list press Control-Page Up and Control-Page Down to scroll. Click the name of a message once to read it in the Preview pane or double-click a message to open it into a separate window. If a message is already selected pressing Return or Enter also opens its separate window. Tip Instead of reading your mail you might prefer to have Mac OS X read it to you as you sit back in your chair and sip a strawberry daiquiri. Highlight the text you want to hear or choose Edit Select All and then choose Edit Speech Start Speaking. You ll hear the message read aloud in the voice you ve selected on the Speech pane of System Preferences Section .To stop the insanity choose Edit Speech Stop Speaking. Once you ve viewed a message you can respond to it delete it print it file it and so on. The following pages should get you started. . Threading Threading is one of the most useful mail-sorting methods to come along in a long time and it s available in Mail. When threading is turned on Mail groups emails with the same subject like Raccoons and Re Raccoons as a single item in the main mail list. To turn on threading choose View Organize by Thread. If several messages have the same subject they all turn light blue to indicate their membership in a thread Figure 1910 . Here are some powerful ways to use threading View a list of all the messages in a thread by clicking its heading. In the Preview pane you see a comprehensive inventory of the thread Figure 19-10 . You can click a message s name in this list to jump right to it. UP TO SPEED All the Little Symbols The first
