# Viewing Emails ##### How to display an email:
1. Open an email folder in the folder view. When having selected the **Inbox** folder and if you are using email categories, you can select a category. To display the number of emails in a folder, hover over the folder name. 2. Click an email in the list. The content of the email will be displayed in the detail view. - If the **Conversations** option is enabled in the **Sort** drop-down, all emails of a conversation will be displayed as thread. To open or close an email that is part of a conversation, click on a free area between the sender and the date of receipt. To open or close all emails in the conversation, click the **Open/close all messages** icon on the upper right side of the detail view. - If the email includes a quote from a previous email, you can display the quote by clicking the **Show quoted text** icon .
##### Options: - To sort the email list, click on **Sort by** above the list. The sorting setting will be applied to the selected email folder. You can use different settings for the single folders. - To combine all emails of a conversation in a single list entry, enable the **Conversations** checkbox in **Sort**. - In order to select a layout, click on **View** in the toolbar. - You can open the email in a window by double-clicking on the email in the list. - When having selected **List** from the **View** drop-down, a list of all emails in the folder will be shown in the display area. If clicking on an email, the email's detail view will be displayed. Tip: In the email settings, you can define whether a notification sound is to be played for incoming emails.