well, you may have another problem. when I tab through my window, I have two columns, mailboxes and messages just like good old outlook express <giggle> On Dec 28, 2011, at 4:26 PM, barbara jones wrote: Do others use classic view? Under preferences I actually just changed to none in the lines to read area and it solved that problem. Thanks Barbara -----Original Message----- From: mac4theblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mac4theblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David Hilbert Poehlman Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2011 7:30 AM To: mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [mac4theblind] Re: Deleting a message in Mail you can bos mail around in mail preferences, with mail open, press command-coma and go through the preferences. I think classic view is what you want and you can tell mail not to show any of the message but to do this you have to close the preview payne. On Dec 27, 2011, at 4:38 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote: All you do is close the window and it will ask if you want to save the message. Hit don't save and the message will be gone. As for your other questions I don't have the answer. Take care. On Dec 27, 2011, at 10:51 AM, barbara jones wrote: > Hello > How do I delete a message I do not want to send? Also, if the send > command is shift command d, I cannot get it to work and have to go > into the message menu in order to send a message. Any reason why? I > am using Lion. Also, should mail be set up in a certain view? And, one > more if I may, is it necessary to listen to part of the message before > opening it? The person at Apple set my computer up like this and I > think if I can just read who it is from, the subject and the list I'm > all set and don't need to read the first few lines. Any help is > appreciated. Thanks Barbara > > ************ > > > You are subscribed to the mac4theblind mailing list. > > > The url for this list, where one can unsubscribe or make any > changes to their list subscription is: > > //www.freelists.org/list/mac4theblind > > The list archive is located at > > //www.freelists.org/archive/mac4theblind/ > > All emails intended for the list owner can be sent to: > > john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > ************ You are subscribed to the mac4theblind mailing list. The url for this list, where one can unsubscribe or make any changes to their list subscription is: //www.freelists.org/list/mac4theblind The list archive is located at //www.freelists.org/archive/mac4theblind/ All emails intended for the list owner can be sent to: john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- Jonnie Appleseed with his Hands-On Technolog(eye)s reducing technology's disabilities one byte at a time ************ You are subscribed to the mac4theblind mailing list. The url for this list, where one can unsubscribe or make any changes to their list subscription is: //www.freelists.org/list/mac4theblind The list archive is located at //www.freelists.org/archive/mac4theblind/ All emails intended for the list owner can be sent to: john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ************ You are subscribed to the mac4theblind mailing list. The url for this list, where one can unsubscribe or make any changes to their list subscription is: //www.freelists.org/list/mac4theblind The list archive is located at //www.freelists.org/archive/mac4theblind/ All emails intended for the list owner can be sent to: john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- Jonnie Appleseed with his Hands-On Technolog(eye)s reducing technology's disabilities one byte at a time ************ You are subscribed to the mac4theblind mailing list. The url for this list, where one can unsubscribe or make any changes to their list subscription is: //www.freelists.org/list/mac4theblind The list archive is located at //www.freelists.org/archive/mac4theblind/ All emails intended for the list owner can be sent to: john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx