While our Mozilla Mail tutorial focuses on Windows, keep in mind that Mozilla Mail is a "cross-platform" email client: it runs and operates the same way on Windows, Apple's Mac OS X and Linux. The Mozilla Foundation also offers the standalone Thunderbird email client: see the Mozilla Thunderbird Tutorial

Mozilla Mail's Mail Toolbar

Unless you use keyboard shortcuts to operate Mozilla Mail -more on that later- the Mail Toolbar is the feature you will use most. It will control most aspects of the way you use email.

Please find below a summary of Mozilla Mail's Mail Toolbar keyboard shortcuts.

	This button checks for emails on the server. Mozilla Mail will check the mail server on its own, at a configurable interval, but this gives you control. Besides, there is a drop down arrow on the right of the icon: if you have multiple email accounts, this lets you select for which email account to check the server.
	This button creates a new, blank, email message.
	This button (only enabled when an email is selected in the right pane) lets you reply to the current email. This replies only to the sender of the email, (see next.)
	This button allows you to reply not only to the send of the email currently selected, but also to all the other people who received the email, ("recipients.") Example: Jane emails you and other friends about a party tomorrow evening; by clicking "Reply All" you will let her and all the others know that this time isn't convenient for you.
	Enabled only when an email is selected in the right pane, this button allows you to forward the email or emails currently selected to another recipient.
	Clicking this button unfolds a menu representing all folders available in Mozilla Mail. By navigating to the appropriate folder, you can file ("move") the email(s) currently selected. Very handy if you have more folders than you can see in the current view.
	A click to this button will automatically select the next unread email in the current folder, and go back to the top of the folder if needed. If there are no more unread emails in the current folder, Mozilla Mail will ask you if you want to read unread emails in the next folder that contains unread emails. Very practical!
	This button toggles between "Junk" and "Not Junk," and determines how Mozilla Mail treats the email. Since images can let the sender know that the email was read (i.e. that the email account is active) Mozilla Mail and other email clients have started blocking images when an email is perceived as junk, to protect your privacy and fight spam. (More on that later.)
	This button deletes the email currently selected. And actually, the selected email(s) aren't really deleted yet: they are moved to the "Trash" folder, from where they can be restored. Once the emails are deleted from the Trash folder, they are gone forever.
	This button lets you print the email currently selected; (unlike other email clients, it will not print directly to the default printer, but pop open the print dialog and let you choose where to print.) The drop down arrow on the right of the icon allows you to see a preview of how the email will look on paper, ("Print Preview.")
	This button stops the current incoming transfer. (It does not let you stop outgoing data, i.e. an outgoing email.)

Keyboard Shortcuts Summary 

Functions covered above can also be performed using keyboard shortcuts. ("Ctrl+M" means "Hold down the control key and at the same time press the M key.")

Ctrl+T Get new mail for current account
Ctrl+Shift+T Get new mail for all accounts
Ctrl+M Create blank email
Ctrl+5 Address Book (Character 5)
Ctrl+R Reply to email
Ctrl+Shift+R Reply to all receipients
Ctrl+L Forward email
Del Delete selected email
J Marks current email as junk
Ctrl+P Print current email

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