Just to ad a little to Alexes explanation.
I agree that standard view is the way to go. However, I collapse the preview
pane as otherwise messages are marked as read as soon as you put focus on them,
even if you haven't actually read them. However, if this doesn't bother you
then having the preview pane open should be no problem.
I disagree, however, about the show related option. I like having Mail group
related messages together in a conversation thread. Makes it much easier to
read messages and their replies. VoiceOver only annnounces a number and
collapsed if there is indeed more than one message in the conversation. You can
press right arrow to expand the thread and view the individual messages, or
just press command o to open the conversation. Or, of course, just arrow up or
down to avoid them, or delete to trash the whole conversation.
I currently use five accounts and it works great. I find Take Control of Apple
Mail a great book so that's a good start you're reading it. having multiple
accounts will, as Alex says, give you multiple accounts listed under inbox,
drafts, sent, trash, archive, and VIPs. You can view these individually or view
the commbined folder. These special mailboxes are collapsable, so you can
simply view the combined route level or expand them to view the individual
accounts below. You will also have in your mailbox list collapsable entries for
each of your accounts, with all their custom folders within once you expand
them.
Again, as Alex said, adding these to your Favourites Bar is a great idea.
Another way to do it is as follows:
• Ensure your mailbox list is visible. You can toggle it with
COMMAND-SHIFT-M.
• Ensure you are in full screen mode.
• Navigate to the mailbox in the mailbox list you wish to add to
your Favourites Bar.
• Press VO-Comma to mark it for drag and drop.
• Navigate to the Favourites Bar and press VO-SHIFT-COMMA to drop
it before the item under the VoiceOver curser, or VO-SHIFT-PERIOD to drop it
after the item under the VoiceOver curser.
You can then use COMMAND-numbers 1 through 9 to view the corresponding mailbox
in your Favourites BAr, or COMMAND-CONTROL-nunbers 1 through 9 to move the
currently selected message to the corresponding mailbox in your Favourites Bar.
COMMAND-CONTROL-A is, of course, to archive the selected message.
You can do the following to remove mailboxes from your Favourites Bar:
• Make sure your trackpad commander is off, by pressing the
VO-keys and rotating two fingers counter clockwise.
• Navigating to the mailbox in the Favourites BAr you wish to
remove.
• Routing the mouse to the VO curser with VO-COMMAND-F5.
• Check that the mouse is over the mailbox you wish to remove by
pressing VO-F5. If it's not, repete the previous step.
• Then, click down on your trackpad and drag a finger from the
top right to the bottom left.
One other tip is that you don't need to interact with the table of messages. By
simply focusing on it with QuickNav off, you can arrow up and down between the
messages.
Hope some of this helps a little. Best thing is to read Take Control of Apple
Mail, replacing any clicking or dragging and dropping with the relevant
VoiceOver keystrokes, and experimenting a bit yourself.
Best of luck,
Nic
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