Overview

The folder list at the left displays all folders and labels in your mail account. Geary uses the term label for any folder that you have created to help organize your messages. (The Gmail web interface also uses this term; most other mail services do not.)

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 50 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 message area displays all messages in the selected conversation, with the oldest message at the top.

At the upper right of each message, Geary displays a dropdown arrow that lets you open the message menu with commands that operate on the message.

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.

Any attachments in a message appear at the bottom of the message. You can click an attachment to open it or right-click to save it.

Geary uses Gravatar to display an avatar for each message's sender in its header.