Q: How do i select an email without opening it?

i didn't know there were other options.

CLICKY CLICK--> Mac email clients

 

I'm a PC user who has recently moved to the other side and know pretty much nothing about Mac.

CLICKY CLICK---> http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2477  Mac Basics: The essentials

 

CLICKY CLICK---> New to Macs/My First Mac

 

 

Thanks for your help.

In what ever mail app: in most this is the same: old list viewe or new list view: what do you ever do: put your mousepointer on the dividerline between the list and the display of a particular message: then drag the divider line into he display window making it smaller and smaller, until it disappears.