Now that you've had a look around the Inbox, it's time to check for new mail. Click Get Mail in the toolbar to check your mail. If you haven't entered any mail settings yet, the setup assistant will ask you for the information it needs to check your email.
The assistant will give you several dialog boxes where you configure:
your personal information
your outgoing email server information
your mail account identity name
To check your email, press the Check Mail button. If this is your first time checking mail, or you haven't asked Evolution to store your password, you'll be prompted for the password. Enter your password and your email will be downloaded.
Can't Check Mail?: If you get an error message instead of mail, you probably need to check your network settings. To learn how to do that, have a look at the section called Network Settings in Chapter 9, or ask your system administrator.
Newsgroups are so similar to email that there's no reason not to read them side by side. If you want to do that, add a news source to your configuration (see the section called News Servers in Chapter 9). The news server will appear as a remote server, and will look quite similar to an IMAP folder. When you click Get Mail, Evolution will also check for news messages.
If someone sends you an attachment, a file attached to an email, Evolution will display the file at the bottom of the message to which it's attached. Text, including HTML formatting, will appear as part of the message. To minimize download time, and to foil spammers who use server information to track their messages, images linked from an HTML message not display unless you select the View->Message Display->Load Images option. For other files, Evolution will show an icon at the end of the message.
To Save an Attachment to Disk:
Open up the desired email
Click on the down arrow at the bottom of the email for the desired attachment.
Select Save to Disk.
Choose the directory and filename you wish.
Click OK
Reading email with keyboard: You can click the spacebar to page down while you're reading an email, and press backspace to page up in an email. This may help to make reading your email faster.
To Open an Attachment in a Program:
Open the mail message with the attachment you want to read.
Click the aarrow next the the attachment icon.
Select the program you'd like to use. It will start up and open the document.
Evolution can also display HTML-formatted mail, complete with graphics. Graphics don't load automatically by default, because they can be large and take a long time to download. They can also be used by spammers to help track who reads their email. So having them not load automatically helps protect your privacy.