Overview

The folder list displays all folders and labels for your email accounts. Geary uses the term label for any folder that you have created to organize your email messages.

Select a folder or label to display the conversations it contains in the conversation list.

The conversation list displays a list of conversations in the selected folder. Newer conversations appear at the top.

Each sender’s name appears bold if there are unread messages from that sender. If a conversation has more than one message, Geary displays a count of messages in the conversation.

Geary does not automatically download all messages in all of your mail folders. When you first visit your Inbox or any other folder, Geary downloads the most recent messages in that folder. To see more messages, simply scroll down the conversation list and Geary will fetch more messages automatically.

Some commands in Geary can act on a group of conversations. To select multiple conversations, hold down the Ctrl key and click each conversation in turn in the conversation list. Alternatively, click the first conversation in a range, then hold down Shift and click the last conversation.

The conversation viewer displays all email messages in the selected conversation, with the oldest message at the top.

When you view a conversation, Geary collapses messages that you’ve already read. Click collapsed messages to expand them. Click an expanded message’s header to collapse it.

Click on any of the sender’s or receiver’s names or email address for a message to open the contact menu, which displays additional information and options for the email address. You can to start a new conversation, copy the email address to the clipboard, and search for related conversations. If the email address is present in your desktop address book, it will show the contact’s photo, preferred name, and whether they are a favourite contact. You can also open the contact in the address book. If the email address is not already present, you can choose to add them to the address book, and update the remote image loading preference for that address.

Click the star button present on each message to mark or un-mark a message as being starred. Staring a message will mark the whole conversation as starred, and Geary will display the first starred message in a conversation when returning to it.

Click the menu button present on each message to open the message menu, which allows you to reply and forward to a specific message, update which messages have been marked as read or unread, print a message, and so on.

Any attachments in a message appear at the bottom of the message. Double click an attachment to open it, or use the Open and Save buttons to open and save selected attachments.