As Reminder-to turn a message that contains some action you need to take as a to-do.As Pending-to mark the message as something you expect a reply to or some further action by someone else.Thread As Read-to mark the thread the selected message belongs to as unread.Unread-to mark the current message as unread.Here's what you can do from the Mark menu. It contains a lot of things you can do to the e-mail, but for now, select the Mark menu. Right-click on a message to display a pop-up menu. Since Postbox is built on the idea that your e-mail contains all sorts of things you want to keep track of, we provide ways in which you can mark messages to help you quickly get to them later.

When you're done, click the Send button to fire off your response.

We'll show you what you can do in the Compose window a little later.

If you'd like to write a full-on reply-with text formatting and the ability to add attachments-click the pop-out button in the upper-right corner of the Quick Reply window, shown with the red magnifying glass in the screenshot above.

Click it again to toggle back to a single correspondent.

When you're replying in a thread with multiple people, Postbox defaults to replying to the person whose e-mail you were just viewing, and also offers you the option of replying to everyone by clicking 'Reply to all' just above the message.

Click in the Quick Reply window-it expands to reveal an already-formatted reply with the cursor at the top of the e-mail, waiting for you to type your answer.

(You can also get to the Quick Reply field by typing 'shift-r.')

Scroll down to the bottom of the e-mail to reveal the Quick Reply window.Though you can always reply to an e-mail, Postbox makes it even easier to dash off a fast answer using Quick Reply.

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