Windows 10: Turn On or Off Message Preview Text in Windows 10 Mail app

How to: Turn On or Off Message Preview Text in Windows 10 Mail app

Hide or Show Preview of Text in Message List of Windows 10 Mail app


The Mail and Calendar apps included with Windows 10 help you stay up to date on your email, manage your schedule and stay in touch with people you care about the most. Designed for both work and home, these apps help you communicate quickly and focus on whats important across all your accounts. Supports Office 365, Exchange, Outlook.com, Gmail, Yahoo! and other popular accounts.

By default, the Mail app displays the subject line and first line of each email message in the preview pane. If you don't want the message preview text (first line) to show in the preview pane, you can turn it off to only have the subject line show for each email instead.

This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off show preview text of messages in the Mail app for your account in Windows 10.


EXAMPLE: Show message preview text on and off








Here's How:

1. Open the Mail app.

2. Click/tap on the Settings icon at the bottom left, and click/tap on Message list in the Settings flyout. (see screenshot below)



3. Under Preview text, turn on (default) or off to Show a preview of a message's text for what you want applied to all email accounts. (see screenshot below)



4. When finished, you can close the Mail app if you like.


That's it,
Shawn


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Message previews in mails from forums

Some forums have the option to enable message previews in mail notifications. Not only do you get a notification, but in that email you will see the text posted. This way you know if you should visit the topic or not.

 

How do I enable the Windows 10 email app preview pane?

Thanks for the screenshot. We recommend checking the settings of your Mail app if
Show preview text is turned on. Here's how:

• Open Mail.
• Go to Settings > Reading.
• Under Conversation, make sure that the Show preview text
  is turned on.

If the issue persists, we suggest reinstalling the Mail app to go back to the default settings for Mail.

Let us know how it goes.

 

Hide message contents preview in Mail

Hi,

Thank you for being a part of Windows 10.

I appreciate you for providing details about the issue and we are happy to help you.

Please be informed that the message content preview pane in the Windows Mail app cannot be disabled and it is by design.

I would suggest you to leave a feedback in the Windows Mail app.

Refer the below steps:

• Open the Windows Mail app.
• Click on the gear icon from the bottom left corner.
• Under Settings click on
  Feedback.

Reference: Refer to the following Microsoft article on
Windows 10 help & how-to.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10/support

Kindly let us know if you need any further assistance with Windows. We are glad to assist you.

Thank you.

 

Using Windows 10 Mail app but messages show no images just line text

Think you could. Have no idea, why is happening. Your permissions and defaults are OK?

 

Mail app will not open on 10041.


Hello Adam,

This is the suggested solution below if you haven't already tried it.

In this Windows 10 build 10041, the Mail, Calendar, and People apps may be broken due to a licensing issue with the Store Beta. To get these apps working again, you need to follow these steps:

• Open powershell as administrator
• Run the command Get-appxprovisionedpackage –online | where-object {$_.packagename –like “*windowscommunicationsapps*”} | remove-appxprovisionedpackage –online
• Re-install Mail, People and Calendar from the Store (green tile)