Microsoft Surface - Mail and Outlook.com Essentials

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Mail and
Outlook.com
The Mail, People, Calendar, and Messag-
ing apps share account information. That
means that if you enter your Gmail email
account to add contacts to the People app,
you will also be able to access the Gmail
account in the Mail app. Of course, not all
account information is shared across all
apps. For example, the Messaging app
doesn’t access Gmail accounts, so you can’t
use the Messaging app on the tablet to
have IM conversations with Gmail contacts.
It can be a bit confusing, but the chapter for
each app specifies supported accounts.
By visiting Outlook.com in a web browser,
you can access information that allows
youto do more with People, Mail, Cal-
endar, Messaging, and SkyDrive. This
chapter focuses on the Mail app and how
it, alongwith People and Calendar, uses
Outlook.com to do more on the tablet.
In This Chapter
Mail Accounts 64
Email 68
Outlook.com 72