Email is short for electronic mail. There are tags for popular mail clients including the mail tag in case your question is related to a specific program and not email in general.
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Can Mail warn when emailing certain addresses?
I have my own personal mail account (a gmail account) and my academic email account (a university account) as different profiles on my Mail application in OS X Snow Leopard. I sometimes forget to ...
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How do I stop emails highlighting dates (with links to my calendar)?
On my iPad, how do I stop emails highlighting dates (with links to my calendar). I find this distracting.
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Forward/redirect using mail-rules on Lion is missing attachments
I am using Mac mail on my MBP under OSX Lion. I've got a mail rule set up to forward mail from a specific sender to another person in our office. The mail forwards fine but is always missing the ...
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iPhone Mail not showing multiple attachments
I'm trying to send out an e-mail from a PHP script. The script works fine.
The e-mail shows up in Gmail as HTML, with an (attached) embedded image, and a small (< 1M) downloadable file attached as ...
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How to set reply-to address in Apple Mail
I have two accounts set up in Apple Mail. The second account is for backup purposes and because at times the primary account is unavailable. When that happens, I send from the second account but would ...
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“Natively” add emails to Mail by PHP pipe script
I found this awesome tutorial on how to send emails on localhost that will open your Mail showing you the email that was sent from PHP, however this is slightly annoying getting Mail to open when an ...
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How to get my lost mail and accounts back after kernel panic?
Today while working my system suddenly had a kernel panic.
I tried to restart in safe mode and the meter went to about 1/4 and no further (did this twice). Since that didn't work I restarted normally ...
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How to set up OS X Server Mail to auto-configure Mac Mail IMAP clients?
Our Thunderbird mail clients successfully pick up their IMAP settings for their accounts on (Mountain Lion) OS X Server automatically. They just supply their email addresses and Open Directory ...
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Is it possible to share a smartcard (via bluetooth) to multiple Apple devices and Windows?
Is there a way to securely share a Smartcard with multiple devices (OSX, iPhone, iPad) in addition to any VM I have installed (Bootcamp, Oracle Virtual Box, Parallels) etc?
My goal is to store my ...
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How to stop mail.app from marking sent messages as unread?
I've just set up my new iMac, and I'm using Apple's Mail app. Every time I send a message, the message appears in my "Sent" mailbox (good) and is marked as unread (bad).
I have selected "Inbox Only" ...
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Did I expose myself to information-theft via possible malware on iPad by opening an e-mail in Safari?
I received an email from cdhhospitals.org/upload.htm and opened it. I immediately was redirected to a waiting screen. I immediately closed the Safari app.
I tried to track this site down and the ...
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Is there a .eml email file viewer that can also save attachments?
I'm looking for a free .eml file viewer to just read email files and for extracting attachments.
I don't want to use Mail.app as it requires account setup - when I click on a .eml file Mail.app opens ...
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Send mail from iPhone via Gmail (Exchange) sends 'Sent Item' back as 'New Mail'
I have just set up Gmail on my iPhone4 using the Exchange/IMAP method (m.google.com).
Everything works great - the only problem I'm having is that when I send a new mail from my iPhone to myself, I ...
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How can I download a message from the server in Mail?
When I open a message in Mail and then lose the connection to the Internet, Mail opens a message saying that "This message has not been downloaded from the server".
When I open the message again ...
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Show progress indicators in Mail 6 (Mountain Lion)
Apple seems to have taken the brilliant decision of not showing progress indicators when you are checking for new emails. This is annoying, as you get 0 feedback when you press the "Get new messages" ...
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Mac Mail default email reader list
My Mac Mail always defaults to Acresso Software Manager (Windows XP Pro). I have tried to set it to Mail 6.0 but it always defaults back to the Acresso. I also noticed the long list of default email ...
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How to set the language of iCloud calendar reminder emails?
Ever since iCloud Calendar became publicly available I am using it to arrange my schedule. I meet with people from other countries on a regular basis and I'd like the calendar reminder emails I send ...
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What is causing Lion's Mail to freeze for upwards of 45 seconds after launch?
This just started happening today. I have no idea what is causing it. No useful system.log information. I tried rebuilding the envelope files to no avail.
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Pages “Send via email” doesn't work after upgrade
I just upgraded to Mountain Lion. So far, so good. Great upgrade. I also upgraded to Pages '09 latest version: 4.2.
"Send via email" option works on Pages if and only if Mail.app is not running. If ...
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Mountain Lion can no longer see my email mailboxes - how do I get them back? [closed]
I cannot access my email mailboxes that were there before I downloaded Mountain Lion.
I am so afraid that they are lost. Please help.
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Syncing POP email between devices
A friend is having trouble with her email on her iPhone and iPad. If she reads a message on her computer, it doesn't show as read on her iDevice and vice versa. She's with Bell/Sympatico, and from ...
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How to remove Gmail from iPad mail?
During iPad setup I configured Gmail as email on iPad, now I want to remove Gmail from my iPad email, how to do it?
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Does Mail have to be open for Notification Center to work in Mountain Lion?
I upgraded to Mountain Lion and thought the Notification Center would be quite handy, however I've had a look around the web and it seems to me that emails only appear in notification center while the ...
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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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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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back up mail, contacts and calendars, sort of
I want to back up all the information stored in the "mail, contacts and calendars" thing without actually backing up the content – as in, all my Mail is on IMAP and I can't be bothered to back it all ...
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What is a neat way to delete a stale amavisd pid_file on first boot after panic or power failure?
Lion Mail Server component postfix/smtp 100% reproducible blocks inbound smtp mail delivery on first boot after a panic or power failure.
Error messages from mail.log are like:
postfix/smtp[45785]: ...
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Mail.app configured to access gmail, is there a way to sync “sent items”?
I've decided I'd like to use only my @gmail.com email account. I configured Mail.app to access my Gmail account and I can see the 'inbox' just fine.
However, when I send an email with Mail.app it ...
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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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Mac Postfix - Force from address, prevent from using Mac Username
After making the switch from Windows using WAMP and sendmail, to Mac using MAMP Pro and hopefully Postfix I am having issues getting the emails configured correctly. I have fully configured the ...
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How to sort mail.app conversations by subject rather than sender?
Most of my work-related mail goes through a ticketing system. Whenever a customer or me or any of my colleagues sends a mail or replies to a mail, the ticketing system sends a copy of said message to ...
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Recent gmail emails not showing up anywhere on iPhone [closed]
So my iPhone 4 inbox is displaying deleted emails from previous to a day about a month ago. Yesterday, all my recent emails were showing up and now they're not. I don't know what's happening. I didn't ...
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Signature formatting changes in Mail
I'm having a problem with Mac Mail.
I'm trying to get a HTML signature to work. I make the HTML and open in Safari, click "File" -> "Mail Contents of this page" and it opens it in mac mail in a new ...
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Location of OSX Lion Mail Server sent mail
I had to restore a mac mini server I use for web and mail hosting. Since the restore was due to a software problem, I had to do from scratch instead of recovering from a disk clone. I copied from the ...
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How can I access emails in Apple Mail programmatically?
I have an iMac running OS X 10.6.8 and use Apple Mail version 4.5.
I need to access specific parts of specific emails programmatically using Mathematica (others of course could do this more generally ...
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iPad 2 certain emails received are gibberish
Why are some emails I send to others received in gibberish- containing dozens of extra characters? What settings can I change to prevent this?
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iPhone Mail forgets JPG after downloading it for several minutes
Somebody (a legitimate email contact) sent me a 1.6 MB JPG file. I am trying to load it but after minutes of downloading ("384 bytes of 1.6 MB") iPhone Mail just forgets what it has loaded and I am ...
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Setup Exchange OWA / Activesync on iPhone
I'm wondering whether there's a way I can configure my phone sync my corporate emails and calendars?
Sometimes when I'm away for meetings all day, I am not informed of any last minute meeting ...
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Mac Mail: Add other message as attachment
I'd like to add other mail message as an attachment to a new one but Mail (On OSX Lion) does not allow me to do that.
Any workaround?
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How do I configure Gmail in Mail.app to sync the mail messages with multiple clients?
I want all my mails to stay on Google server (as I read them from multiple clients and from the web), being able to delete then from the client (deleting them on the server as well) and do not ...
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How can I remove my me.com address from Mail?
I have a few email accounts set up in Mail. One of them is my xxxxx@mac.com email address. At some point (maybe after I switched to iCloud), Mail started including the xxxxx@me.com address in the list ...
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Recursive Apple ID password procedure?
One of my friends has forgotten his Apple ID password and is attempting to reset it. I told him to go to Apple's password reset page, which he has done. He opted for email authentication/reset since ...
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How do I fix “An email message can’t be created because Safari can’t find an email application.”?
I have both Safari and Mail installed - ever since a fresh OSX Lion install. Also, I have never removed or reinstalled them or messed around with them. So this "error" message is quite a surprise to ...
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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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Copy message_id from selected message
In Mail, when I've selected a message, I would like to have a shortcut to copy the message_id (see my previous question) to the clipboard.
How do I manage that? Applescript, I presume?
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URL to individual email
Is it possible to have an url that links to an individual email message on my local machine? So that if I click on osxmail://759847982 my mail client will open that specific message.
GMail can do ...
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Printing emails automatically
I have a flash quizing system for my students in which the result is emailed to an email ID. I wish to have a system in which the emails are printed automatically as soon as they arrive in the inbox.
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Mac OS X 10.4 - Thunderbird 3 to Thunderbird 13
I'm working with an ancient PowerPC Mac running Tiger. I managed to migrate the POP email from Apple Mail 2 to Thunderbird 3, but I now need to migrate it to a newer machine with Thunderbird 13. How ...
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import sent mail from a POP3 server into Mail?
i have been using this german free mail provider GMX (POP3) next to GMAIL (IMAP AFAIK) for some time now and i want to keep using it.
For a while though unfortunately I was without a mac and I could ...
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iCloud server side wildcard mail rules
I couldn't find any information on how to set up wildcard rules in iCloud mail. I want to forward mail from any sender of a certain domain to another address.
What exactly is the syntax of the ...
