Message disappearing? It won't if you double-click...

I have been single-clicking on my emails as I always did
with BTYahoo and wondering why my Inbox disappears to
be replaced by the message. Then the message disappears
again when I click on 'Inbox'.
I have not been able to have several messages open at once
on different tabs. It has been incredibly frustrating.
Here is the answer: you have to double-click on the message,
then it opens up in its own tab. You can read it and leave it
open and come back to it when you are ready instead of not
knowing where it is. That is the big thing that is different
about the new Mail and nobody has been telling us - I had to
trawl through the Help pages.
The nearest I found was this one:
https://community.bt.com/t5/Email/email-tabs-not-visible/m-p/1369185#M26429
but even then people were telling the original poster that they
had to do all sorts of complicated stuff . . . you don't, you just
have to double-click your messages instead of single-clicking
them like you used to with the Yahoo mail.

I would like to create a file that stores my documents and has a password on it so that if I lend my laptop to someone, they can't access my documents. I went into utilities and followed his instructions to do that. I created it on my desktop and its a .dmg extension

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