If this help you, here and here are to good tutorials that slowly goes into “everything emacs”. My advice is to expand one step at a time, see what works for you and what not.
As to email - mu4e is a good starting point. Most of the setup is actually outside of Emacs (isync and msmtp) and interface is kinda familiar to what you can find in other email clients.
You learn all life. Just take your time. Emacs won’t go away anytime soon ;)