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Focused Inbox

Here’s the on/off switch for the “Focused inbox” feature described on
Figure 10-3.

Message List

Here you can customize your swipe actions, a Mail feature that’s based on
typical smartphone mail apps. They let you operate on a message in the list
by dragging your finger right or left across it.

When you first use Mail on a touchscreen, swiping to the right across a
message in the list marks it as flagged (Figure 10-5), and to the left archives
it (moves it out of the inbox and into the Archived folder).

But on this panel, you can redefine what the right swipe and left swipe do
(or turn off the “Swipe actions” feature entirely). Your choices for swiping
each direction include “Set/Clear flag,” “Mark as read/unread,” “Archive,”
“Delete,” and “Move.”

You might set things up so a left swipe deletes a message and a right swipe
moves it to a new folder, for example.

The “Message list” pane also lets you turn off the first-line-of-the-body

previews that show up in the message list; turn off the tiny photos of your
correspondents; and turn off the appearance of attached photos right in the
message body.

Why would you want to? Only Microsoft’s focus groups know for sure.

Reading Pane

Here’s what you’ve got on the Reading pane options:

Auto-open next item. What this phrase leaves out is “when I
delete a message.” In other words, when you delete a message,

what do you want to take its place in the Message pane—the next
message on the list or your background photo?