How do I access mail and customize how it displays in my Inbox on an Android device?
After powering on your device, you can access and search your email messages, and customize how they display.
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You can access your mail messages by choosing the Mail icon in the application launcher.
The default view for Android phones shows your Inbox sorted by date, with the newest messages displaying first. You cannot change the sort order. To view the contents of different folders, select the Home icon to open the navigation drawer. Alternatively, you can swipe in from the left to open the navigation drawer.
Depending on the available space on the screen, you may be presented with a one- or two-column view. In the two-column view, the list of messages displays on the left and the currently selected message displays on the right.
You can search your mail by selecting the search icon . You can search the To, From,, Cc, Bcc, and Subject fields.
You can filter your mail by selecting the filter icon to show the filter bar:
Tapping on a filter enables that filter. You can tap on more than one icon to combine filters. To hide the filter bar and disable filters, tap the filter icon.
Filter icon | Action |
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Show unread messages | |
Show messages with attachments | |
Show messages from important to me senders | |
Show messages marked urgent |
Setting | Description |
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Organize mail by thread | Group mail messages from the same conversation together as threads, so they can worked with together. |
Show remote images | Automatically load images located on remote servers and show them in the message. Note that there are security implications to enabling this setting. |
Other mail preferences | Show additional mail settings for IBM Verse. |
Setting | Description |
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Message preview | Display the beginning lines of the message body in each mail list item. |