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Chapter 10. Mail

Mail, Windows 10’s built-in email program, is easy to use, beautiful, and

offers a fast, fluid way to work, especially if you have a touchscreen. Mail
even syncs with your other Windows 10 machines. Set up your accounts
once, and find them magically waiting for you on any other phones, tablets,

or PCs you may pick up. Finally, it’s handy that Mail’s messages notify you
by appearing in the Windows 10 Action Center (Figure 2-29).

Note

The Mail app is simple to use, but that’s another way of saying it’s fairly rudimentary.
There are plenty of alternative mail programs, though—including Microsoft’s own Windows Live
Mail, which came with Windows 8 but not with Windows 10. It’s a desktop program (rather than a
Microsoft Store app), so it’s far more complete. It’s a free download, it works great in Windows
10, and you can find it on this book’s “Missing CD” page at missingmanuals.com. In fact, there’s
a free PDF appendix to this book that describes it, on the same “Missing CD”: “Windows Live
Mail.”

Setting Up

The first time you fire up Mail—or any email program, actually—your first

job is to enter the details of your email account. When you open Mail for
the first time, you’re offered one button: “Add account.”

On the next screen, you’ll see that Mail comes ready to accommodate all

kinds of popular email services (Figure 10-1): Gmail, Yahoo, Apple’s
iCloud, Outlook.com (any of Microsoft’s free web-based email services,
including Hotmail, Live.com, or MSN), and Exchange (the system most

offices use). If you have any other service, hit “Other account” and fill in
the details.

In general, all you have to fill in is your email address, password, and name,

as it will appear in the “From” line when other people get messages from