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Trouble sending emails in Apple's Mail Application
I can't send any emails on one of my email accounts in Apple's mail application even though I can receive emails with this account. My other accounts send and receive. I have no problem sending from ...
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No new mail notification at apple mail dock icon when rules apply
I've set a rule in apple mail. It's very simple. If a specific individual sends me mail it moves it directly to the destination folder. The problem is that it does not notify me that a mail arrived! ...
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Want to use multiple email addresses for one contact
I am updating my address book on my MacBook, and filling in all the information on the cards for each contact. My contacts have both work and home email accounts listed under their name. I'd like to ...
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How to recover access to Apple ID in iTunes?
When I first set up my iTunes account I used a different email account for my Apple ID than I want to use now. This was years ago and since then the computer has died and I know have a laptop. I tried ...
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is there a way to store mail on an external hard drive using apple mail?
I've been trying to save up space and for this reason I'm using the "don't keep copies of any messages" option.
I was thinking though, can I instead choose to save all emails and attachments, but an ...
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Archive folder not appearing in IMAP account on Mail.app
I have a standard IMAP account configured in Mail.app (on Mountain Lion).
That account contains a folder called Archive, which does not appear on the list of folders on the left.
However, it does ...
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How can I leave Gmail for Mail?
I've decided I want to take the plunge and leave Gmail for Mail, using my iCloud account. Why? I've lost trust in Google (incl. their search bias, how they handle my privacy, and how they treat the ...
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What is com.apple.mail.plist and why was it slowing Mail down?
I fixed an annoying problem with Mail 6.2 (I'm on ML 1.8.2), where Mail was slow and a pain to use. I am on a SSD so everything was jerky while typing, sending mail out, and it would take ~1 second ...
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Can Applescript ask for the names of the people you want to send to and fill this in send to
I’d like to be able to send to people from my address book where a dialogue would say who would you like to send the email to and I would write in like peter, john, George etc and that would populate ...
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iPhone and Mac “Mail” app emails sync not working…?
I just bought a brand new Macbook Pro 15" and I already have an iPhone 4. I'm using Hotmail (now called Outlook) for email management. Since I'm using a Macbook now, I want to use Mail.app to manage ...
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Rules in Mail randomly don't apply
I have a very simple rule set up in Mail like the following:
If [any] of the following conditions are met:
[From] [Contains] @gmail.com
Perform the following actions:
[Move Message] to mailbox: ...
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Is iCloud email address different from me.com address?
I have a me.com address that works on my iPad and on my Mac.
However, I am trying to set up iCloud to sync all of my devices on my Mac using the instructions found here, ...
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IPhone 4s cannot send mail, rejected by the server because it does no allow relaying
iPhone 4s cannot send mail, it was working fine up to about a month ago but now I keep getting the message:
rejected by the server becuase it does not allow relaying...
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Set Gmail as default mail handler for Mail PDF print option for Snow Leopard
I handle most of my email through Gmail's web interface either in Firefox or Chrome.
Often I would like to print -> PDf -> mail pdf to a customer. However the Mail PDF option in the print panel ...
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how do I get Gmail into Outlook mail and on my IPad? [closed]
I would like to know what the settings are for getting Gmail from Google into Outlook (formerly Hotmail) and vice versa. I also would like to know how to do the same thing with my IPad 3. Thank you so ...
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Connecting to Postfix using Python or Telnet
I managed to configure a local postfix server, which works correctly when using the mail command (and I receive emails from the cron deamon),
however, if I try to connect using telnet localhost 25 ...
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Stop Reminders App from sending emails every time a change is made on a shared reminder list
I have a shared reminders list with my wife. For the last couple of weeks any time she updates/deletes an item I get an email - however when I update she doen't get an email. She is the owner of the ...
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how to auto download a certain attachment in mail
I have looked on stack exchange and other sites for a simple applescript. I have found more complex scripts that it's hard for me to understand (not knowing a lot about the applescript syntax). So, ...
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Mail.app 6.3, How to exclude folders from being downloaded?
An example would be, a Yahoo IMAP account. Is there a way to exclude bulk mails from being downloaded to the Mail.app?
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How to exclude mailboxes within a smart mailbox?
I have made some smart mailboxes in Mail.app. The smart mailboxes I am using only for my Gmail account.
While they send the emails to the smart mailbox they always send duplicates. The email from the ...
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Delete definitely a message from Mail
I am subscribed to a newsletter, everyday I get emails but once I read them I delete them. After sending them to the trash and emptying it, next day I receive the usual email, but the previous email ...
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Very strange me.com/iCloud email behavior
I have a gmail address, say, x@gmail.com and a me.com address, say y@me.com. If I use the web based iCloud email client for my me.com account, and I send an email to the following 3 versions of the ...
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How to use two email handlers in Google Chrome?
I am looking for a solution that would enable me to open a mailto: hyperlink with one of two email handlers.
Sometimes I want to use Gmail but sometimes I want to use Outlook (default OS X one).
Now ...
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iPad Mail client - IMAP with X.509 client certificates?
Short version: Does anyone know if X.509 client certificates are supposed to work on the iPad for IMAP mail? Am I wasting my time trying to get a feature that doesn't work to work? If the built-in ...
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Can I oblige Mail.app to (ask to) send via BCC when sending to a large group?
I just made the (classical) stupid mistake to not BCC-send a mailing to ± 100 people.
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Is there an extension or application or script for mail.app to prevent this failure and e.g. intelligently ask ...
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E-Mail notifications only work for first e-mail account (GMail)?
Currently I finally - way too late - noticed that still in iOS 6, the Apple Mail app is not sending me push notifications - or any notifications for that matter - for any of my e-mail accounts except ...
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Is there a way to hide the unread count badge in Mountain Lion's Mail.app?
Mail.app used to have the ability to hide the unread count badge, as shown on this 37signals blog post:
It seems that Apple has removed this in OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion. Is there any way to restore ...
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Mail program not showing all Exchange Sent boxes
I'm using Mail (version 5.3) on Mac OS X version 10.7.5. I have three different e-mail accounts which all are Exchange accounts by their type. All of them work correctly, I can send and receive ...
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Mail.app won't recognize a contact's name from my Address Book
I use Mac OS X Mail and have all of my work contacts in Address Book. When I receive email from one contact, the "From" field just displays his email address (as opposed to his first and last name) ...
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iOS Email client supporting Exchange, GMail and Hotmail push?
I've recently updated my iPhone software so it seems Google sees this as a different device and thus the changes removing Exchange support for gmail have come into effect. This means the only way I ...
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Replying in Mail.app to Google Groups fails
I have set up two accounts in Mail.app, say a@email.com and b@email.com. b@email.com receives messages from a Google group, say c@googlegroups.com. When I reply a message in the group using "From: ...
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iPhone/iPad GMail Stopped Sync'ing Properly
I have a couple of GMail accounts which I track on my iMac, iPhone, and iPad. On the iOS devices, both of the accounts are setup as Exchange accounts with Push delivery. I read that this is the ...
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Rules in Mail don't work when message is read
When I read a message on my iPhone it seems to be by passing the Mailbox Rules when that message gets into my iMac. So I end up having messages in my Inbox instead of in the appropriate Mail folder. ...
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how do i get newest emails to show up first on my iPad?
how do i get newest emails to show up first on my iPad? It's showing emails starting in December LAST year (2011)...not the most current emails first in the list
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New iPhone 4S user looking to sync Outlook email
My IT departmant does not have activesync on our exchange server(nor do they plan to get it any time soon) are their any apps out there that will allow me to connect my iphone 4s and sync my outlook ...
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How to sync Yahoo Mail with OS X?
Ever since I moved to a MacBook Air from a PC about two weeks ago, I have had a problem in syncing my Yahoo Sent Mail on my MacBook Air with my iPad and iPHone. What gets synced is some old sent mail ...
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Why can't I share my voice memo on my iPhone via e-mail?
When I go to to share a memo created in the Voice Memo app via e-mail, the e-mail will get sent, but there will not be an attachment. In the outbox before it gets sent, the attachment is there, but ...
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Outlook 2011, Where are the mails stored?
Just as the mails in Outlook under windows are stored in a PST file , where are the mails in Outlook under Mac stored ?
I understand they are stored as OLM files . But can anyone tell me the exact ...
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Mail count with Automator?
I am trying to create file containing different statistics about things such as email count and such things, trial here: this proto returns empty file, not sure why. How can count the amount of emails ...
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Is there a way to automatically forward text messages to email?
Is there a way to automatically forward text messages (received on my iPhone) to email?
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How can I delete Mail.app's cached e-mails that are saved to disk in OS X Lion?
I am running out of some disk space, and noticed Mail has about 30GB of emails stored.
What is the best way to delete these emails? I don't need them as a server has a copy.
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Not receiving email from a specific person
I have 3 apple devices: iPhone, iPad, Macbook pro, all receiving emails from the same provider. When one specific friend of mine sends me an email, I receive it on the iPhone and iPad, but not on the ...
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Delete Stored Offline Attachments in Mail.app
I'm using Apple Mail and have noticed that the ~/Library/Mail/V2 folder is using up over a gigabyte of space. I'm guessing that a lot of that is stored attachments for my email messages. I've already ...
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Problem with getting attachments on apple mail
I occasionally have an issue that if I open up an email on my iphone or ipad that has an attachment, when I open it up on my macbook in mail the message will appear but without the attachment. How ...
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outlook.com (Exchange ActiveSync) on OS X Mountain Lion
Outlook.com offers email/contacts/calendar similar to Google. With my iPhone and iPad (iOS 6.1.3) I can connect to outlook.com by setting up an Exchange account. It uses the Exchange ActiveSync ...
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Apple mail saves IMAP Attachments Locally, even with the omit option is enabled, and account rebuilds
Apple Mail 10.8x - (Version 6.3 (1503)
Apple mail is saving attachments for all of my accounts in:
/Users/james/Library/Mail/V2
It does this even though each account has offline viewing options set ...
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Problems setting up gmail on ipad
On my IPad I use a GMail app for my email.
However some applications seem to require sending via the built in Email client.
That's question #1 - why doesn't for example my camera app allow me to send ...
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How to change the Mail “Archive” folder for email account/s?
On OS X 10.8.3, in Mail, is there a way to change the account folder that the "Archive" button sends the mail messages to?
For example, on GMail it should go into "All Mail".
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mail and mailx fail to send emails to gmail
Quite frequently I have to send the outputs of my work on terminal (e.g. when compiling code) to my colleagues via email. I was wondering if it is possible to pipe (|) the output of a terminal command ...
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When using Mail with Gmail IMAP, how to move emails to different folders and not label them?
I'm using Mac Lion Mail app with Gmail IMAP and when I drag and drop or command-click to move messages from my Inbox to a folder called Personal, it appears to work in Mail. But when I look at Gmail, ...
