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<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/"
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type="guide"
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id="overview">
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<info>
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<link type="guide" xref="index#introduction"/>
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</info>
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<title>Overview</title>
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<p>Geary is an email application built around conversations, for the
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GNOME 3 desktop. It allows you to read, find and send email with a
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straightforward, modern interface.</p>
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<p>Conversations allow you to read a complete discussion without
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having to find and click from message to message.</p>
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<p>The main Geary window is divided into several areas: The folder
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list, the conversation list, and the conversation viewer.</p>
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<section id="folder-list">
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<title>Folder list</title>
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<p>The <em>folder list</em> displays all <em>folders</em> and
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<em>labels</em> for your email accounts. Geary uses the term
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<em>label</em> for any folder that you have created to organize
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your email messages.</p>
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<p>Select a folder or label to display the conversations it
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contains in the conversation list.</p>
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</section>
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<section id="conversation-list">
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<title>Conversation list</title>
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<p>The <em>conversation list</em> displays a list of
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conversations in the selected folder. Newer conversations appear
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at the top.</p>
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<p>Each sender’s name appears bold if there are unread messages
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from that sender. If a conversation has more than one message,
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Geary displays a count of messages in the conversation.</p>
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<p>Geary does not automatically download all messages in all of
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your mail folders. When you first visit your Inbox or any other
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folder, Geary downloads the most recent messages in that
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folder. To see more messages, simply scroll down the conversation
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list and Geary will fetch more messages automatically.</p>
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<p>Some commands in Geary can act on a group of conversations. To
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select multiple conversations, hold down the <key>Ctrl</key> key
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and click each conversation in turn in the conversation list.
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Alternatively, click the first conversation in a range, then hold
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down <key>Shift</key> and click the last conversation.</p>
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</section>
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<section id="conversation-viewer">
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<title>Conversation viewer</title>
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<p>The <em>conversation viewer</em> displays all email messages in
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the selected conversation, with the oldest message at the top.</p>
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<p>When you view a conversation, Geary collapses messages that
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you’ve already read. Click collapsed messages to expand
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them. Click an expanded message’s header to collapse it.</p>
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<p>Click on any of the sender’s or receiver’s names or email
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address for a message to open the <em>contact menu</em>, which
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displays additional information and options for the email
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address. You can to start a new conversation, copy the email
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address to the clipboard, and search for related conversations. If
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the email address is present in your desktop address book, it will
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show the contact’s photo, preferred name, and whether they are a
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favourite contact. You can also open the contact in the address
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book. If the email address is not already present, you can choose
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to add them to the address book, and update the remote image
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loading preference for that address.</p>
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<p>Click the star button present on each message to mark or
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un-mark a message as being starred. Staring a message will mark
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the whole conversation as starred, and Geary will display the
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first starred message in a conversation when returning to it.</p>
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<p>Click the menu button present on each message to open the
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<em>message menu</em>, which allows you to reply and forward to a
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specific message, update which messages have been marked as read
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or unread, print a message, and so on.</p>
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<p>Any attachments in a message appear at the bottom of the
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message. Double click an attachment to open it, or use the Open and Save
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buttons to open and save selected attachments.</p>
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</section>
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</page>
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