5.2. Viewing Emails

Learn how to select a specific email in a folder and display it in different ways in order to read it.

How to display an email:

Open an email folder in the folder view.

When having selected the Inbox folder and if you are using email categories, you can select a category.

To display the number of emails in a folder, hover over the folder name.
Click an email in the list. The content of the email will be displayed in the detail view.
- If the Conversations option is enabled in the Sort drop-down, all emails of a conversation will be displayed as thread.
  
  To open or close an email that is part of a conversation, click on a free area between the sender and the date of receipt.
  
  To open or close all emails in the conversation, click the Open/close all messages icon on the upper right side of the detail view.
- If the email includes a quote from a previous email, you can display the quote by clicking the Show quoted text icon .

Options:

To sort the email list, click on Sort by above the list.

The sorting setting will be applied to the selected email folder. You can use different settings for the single folders.
To combine all emails of a conversation in a single list entry, enable the Conversations checkbox in Sort.
In order to select a layout, click on View in the toolbar.
You can open the email in a window by double-clicking on the email in the list.
When having selected List from the View drop-down, a list of all emails in the folder will be shown in the display area. If clicking on an email, the email's detail view will be displayed.

Tip: In the email settings, you can define whether a notification sound is to be played for incoming emails.

User interface: