Long gone are the days of Microsoft Outlook Express being included with new releases of
the OS, replaced instead by the Microsoft Mail app. This app first appeared in Windows 8,
was vastly improved in 8.1 and has now been improved yet again for Windows 10.
Explore the Email
App in Windows 10
If you are not replying to an email, but
rather starting a new email, you can
do so in a couple of different ways. You
can either click the New Mail button
at the top of the Mail Menu or you can
use the Ctrl-N. Both methods open a
new email in the main window, with a
blank recipient field.The left-hand menu, which can be
minimised and expanded using
the button at the top of the panel,
contains all of your email accounts
(those you have added to Windows
Mail). Click on any of your email
account headers and the individual
folders, such as Inbox and Sent Items,
are displayed here also.You can open the Windows Calendar
app directly from within the Mail
app. Click the Mail app icon at the
bottom of the Mail Menu panel and the
calendar screen will open in a second
window. If you have never used the
Calendar app before, you will need to
link it to an account.The settings for the Mail app allow
you to easily add accounts, change
how emails are displayed when they
arrive, whether outgoing emails
have a signature (which can be
customised) added to them, as well
as how you are notified of new emails
in Windows 10.The messages in whichever email folder you have
selected are shown in this panel. By default, the
most recent emails are at the top of the list. You
can change how the emails are viewed, so that
only unread or flagged emails are displayed,
using the dropdown menu at the top of the inbox.New Mail Button
Mail Menu
Calendar View
Mail Settings
Mail Folder