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    Table of Contents

    Mail User Guide

    • Welcome
    • What’s new in Mail
    • Get started
    • Switch to Mail
    • Add and manage email accounts
      • Send email messages
      • Edit text and email signatures
      • Send attachments
      • Read and respond to emails
      • Mark emails to revisit later
      • Search for emails
      • Manage notifications
      • Delete emails and manage storage
      • Automatically sort incoming emails
      • Create or delete mailboxes
      • Import or export mailboxes
      • View, save, or delete email attachments
      • Mark up email attachments
      • Protect email privacy
      • Reduce junk mail
    • Change settings
    • Keyboard shortcuts
    • Copyright and trademarks

    Send email messages in Mail on Mac

    You can send email messages to individuals or groups, hide your recipient’s email addresses, schedule a message to send later, or unsend a message.

    Open Mail for me

    Send an email

    1. Go to the Mail app on your Mac.

    2. Click the New Message button in the Mail toolbar.

    3. In the To field, type the email address you want to send the email to.

    4. Enter the subject of your email in the Subject field.

    5. In the Message field (below the subject), type your message.

      Tip: If you’re not ready to send your message, you can save it as a draft. In the message that you want to save, choose File > Save. You can find it in the Drafts mailbox (from the Favorites bar or the Mail sidebar).

    6. Click the Send button.

    You can format the text of your message and send photos and other files as attachments to your email.

    Send emails to a group

    If you use lists in the Contacts app—for example, for a book club or cycling team—you can send messages to a group.

    1. Go to the Mail app on your Mac.

    2. Choose Mail > Settings, click Composing, then deselect “When sending to a group, show all member addresses.”

    3. In an address field (such