Email questions

Sorry for all the questions, just got a MBP and there's a few things I've noticed re the mail programme that I'm not used to... after using Outlook on Win for years...

Hope you can clear them up for me.... Would probably help others on here who have switched from Windows too, because it's quite a different set-up.

Just finding out what I can before deciding whether I need to purchase Outlook... be nice not to!

Thanks!

1) I'm assuming the 'Get Mail' is the send and receive button, but it shows no sign of anything in mail activity when you are using it, so don't know if it's working or not unless something is coming in. Outlook showed movement even when not receiving so you knew it was checking ok.

2) Mail activity showed receiving 2 of 2 but only 1 came in and nothing went to junk.

3) When it said receiving there was quite a delay of it showing in the inbox, Is that usual on this programme even when it's a one line email, nothing bigger?

4) Would like to see bigger font in Inbox list of emails.. Is that possible or only on the actual emails?

5) i don't want my picture/avatar on a business email in the top right hand corner, why is it there? It's on all emails from and sent to, the avatar they make you use when you first start the Mac. Wondered where that would crop up as not seen it anywhere else since.

6) I only use the one account and yet on top left when it shows sentmessages there are 256 messages it has downloaded when i set up account today, and they are only the ones sent from my iPhone, (which incidentally were messages deleted months ago) but below where it shows'Sent/Spam/Trash' the 'Sent' folder is only showing 29 messages but some are from last year? Confused,... Why are there two and both different dates of 'sent' emails for the same account?

7) How do you differentiate between 'Spam' and 'Junk'? I thought it was the same thing, but you have one folder of each on here?

8) Just found the Trash folder, as it wasn't there which I've now got under Mailboxes, and again there's 2 of them there now, a sub folder, one 'On My Mac' and the other my name account? And then ANOTHER trash one below where the Sent/Spam/Trash' is, and that one is empty! Again, I've only one account on there.

9) Why offer me 'Load Images' on incoming emails when the picture is already showing in the body of the email?

10) Is the 'ding' alert for new messages guided by the volume for the whole MacBook, because it's very low and don't hear it.

That's all for now...

Thank you for reading

As an afterthought, cutting and pasting from the email into another page, ie. this one, all the lines went over each other and different point sizes, Either this site or the email prog?