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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How do I delete a previous recipient's email address from Mail?
I am trying to delete a friend's old email address so it doesn't automatically pop up when I enter his name while addressing an email. I have removed it manually from the address book, but it still ...
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How can I use Gmail as the default mail client app in Mac OS X?
I use Gmail as my e-mail client, but when I click on a "mailto:" link, the Mail.app is opened.
Is there a way to avoid the Mail.app opening in this case? Can I open Gmail instead?
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How do I delete all Terminal mail?
I set up a cronjob a long time ago that now doesn't exist. Whenever I open up Terminal, it now says "You have mail". I have something like 100 messages that all say the same thing. How do I mass ...
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How can I get a me.com e-mail address?
Was this a service only offered with Apple's Mobile Me? Is there anyway I can still get an e-mail address ending in @me.com?
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How do I stop iCal from launching Mail.app?
I do not use Mail.app, instead using Postbox 2 for all my email needs. I do use iCal for my calendaring, syncing it with my Google Apps accounts.
Whenever iCal wants to send a reminder, it tries to ...
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Why are some Mail messages shown as empty with “This message has no content”?
Sometimes new messages come in and Mail (on OS X Lion and Mountain Lion) shows them as empty, with "This message has no content" in the preview column. The message is empty in the full message view ...
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Disable / Uninstall Mail app in Lion
I'm running Sparrow mail client and would love to disable Mail.app, which keeps opening from time to time.
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Insert code blocks in the body of emails
I'm a developer, and I'd like to be able to distinguish blocks of code from regular text, when I write emails.
Basically I wanna be able to do this. In the Mail app, (or Sparrow!).
Is there a way ...
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Can I remove or hide the VIP Folder in Mail on iOS 6?
Is there anyway to remove or hide the new VIP folder in the native Mail app on iOS 6? I use lots of filters on my Gmail backend and have no use for it.
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Merge e-mail addresses on iCloud
I have made a mistake. I'm a developer and while testing iCloud I made an @me.com (let's call it dummy@me.com) account. Now I am setting up iCloud on all my devies and would like to use my original ...
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Is there a command line mail program for Mac?
My C++ professor has had us use Terminal for editing code. Is there an app or program that will allow me to send and receive email via Terminal, so I can stay in one window?
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Does Gmail push on iPhone 4S?
I just got the iPhone 4S, and it seems like my email is polling rather than push. I set up my Gmail account, and emails do not come to my phone instantly. It appears to be polling, rather than ...
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Is there any way to automatically set outgoing email address based on recipient's email or domain in mail.app?
I'd like mail to be automatically be sent from an account based on domain the domain of the recipient.
Details:
I've set up multiple email accounts in mail.app, both personal and work. I find ...
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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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What's your strategy for archiving emails in Mail.app? Do you archive your Sent & Trashed emails too?
I'm using Mail.app + IMAP email accounts for my email. I want to be able to archive all my email and make them searchable.
Currently I copy the previous month's email from my IMAP folders to local ...
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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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How can I use Siri to select between multiple email addresses?
When using Siri to send an email to a contact with multiple email addresses, I can't find a way to select one of the addresses in a hands-free way (without clicking with my finger). Siri reads out ...
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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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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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How can I change a defunct Apple ID email address?
I never changed my student email account to which all app purchases have been made. I just upgraded to iOS 5, and it requires to authenticate the iCloud, by verifying an email sent to the now defunct ...
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How do I send multiple photos from my iPhone camera roll in a single email?
I'm sure I'm missing something obvious, but:
From the camera app, I can select a photo, and then hit the send button to create an email with that photo in it.
From mail, I can't find any way to add ...
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Access iCloud mail via http from iPhone
There are times when you can't use any TCP ports other than 80 (HTTP) or 443 (HTTPS), so you can't use Mail accounts that communicate with iCloud via IMAP/POP3/SMTP. But when you go to iCloud.com, it ...
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How do I get Google Notifier (Mac) to report the number of new messages in Priority Inbox?
I'm using Google Notifier for Mac 1.10.6.879 and I want it to report the number of new messages in Priority Inbox. Previously, I had Notifier report the number of unread messages that had a certain ...
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What does Mail do when it sends Windows friendly attachments?
What does Mail do to the file or files differently when it sends attachments that are Windows friendly?
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Can I hide the new messages notification in the Mail icon for only one of my email accounts?
Basically I would like to have two email accounts setup on my iPhone 4, one my personal account and one for work.
However for the work account, I'd like to not have it's unread message count included ...
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Is there an app that lets me send email only?
I'm looking for an app that will let me send email only. Often in the course of my work I need to just fire off a quick email but don't want to get stuck firing up my mail client and reading new ...
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Is there a full-featured Mac email app that natively implements labels (instead of folders) and archiving?
I love Gmail's features, but I'm increasingly wary of having my entire email history depend on Google. Every Mac email app I know of, other than Sparrow, insists on being based around IMAP folders. ...
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Sending email from iCloud with a different Reply-to field
I want to use iCloud's email service (me.com) as the ultimate destination for my incoming mail, as well as the repository of all my Sent mail. And when people reply to my email, I want it to be sent ...
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Is it possible to time adjust push mail on iOS 5?
Is it possible to time adjust push mail on my iPhone? What I want is that the phone automatically adjust the push setting for some time slots a day. E.g. that it should push mail between 9-17, but ...
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How can I force iOS Mail to download the entire email every time?
I have a Wifi-only new iPad, which uses an Exchange-type account for my Gmail. It connects just fine when I'm at home. But the last time I was out and about, I found I had a new email, but only the ...
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Eudora email migration
When Lion comes out, PPC Rosetta support for the Eudora email app is reported not to be available.
Which contemporary Mac OS X email clients might support the most painless and reliable importing and ...
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I'm looking for a good, lightweight email client
I'm looking for a good, lightweight email client.
What do you guys recommend?
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How do I stop email reminder from iCal?
I'm using Google calendar, and I subscribe to my Google Calendar from multiple computers. Whenever I set an event with (an) email reminder(s) on Google calendar, I'll get multiple emails because (1) ...
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Is there any way to get a pop-up notification on my iPhone or iPad when mail arrives?
I have gmail set up to send me "true" push notifications (using the exchange server setup). So my mail arrives in realtime, and I instantly get badges on my springboard screen to indicate new ...
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Why do I have 8.3 GB mail on my hard drive even when using gmail?
I am short of space on my 128 GB SSD so I've been using Grand Inspector to see what has been using up all this space. I found that in Library/mail/v2 there is 8.2 GB of email.
What is this and how ...
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How do I attach more than one photo to a single email sent on my iPhone?
There doesn't seem to be a way to attach photos to an email in the Mail app on the iPhone. I can send photos from the Camera Roll in the Photos app, but I can only attach one photo per email? Is ...
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App/solution for having alerts for emails
I have following case: when something bad happens with services I'm responsible for, I get email to specific email account. And I'd like to get alert about it from my phone.
But I don't mean just ...
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How to send an email from command line?
How to send an email from command line or script? I want to be able to run the script programmatically by passing the receiver and the message.
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Why can't I delete messages from my IMAP account on my iPhone 4?
I have an iPhone 4 and have set up mail with an IMAP account. When I delete a message a popup says Unable to move message - The message could not be moved to the trash folder.
How can I fix this?
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Avoid 'via gmail' for messages sent from my iPhone
I've set up my own domain (say owndomain.com) to forward all his e-mail to my personal Gmail account. It works great and once setup, I can send e-mails from the iPhone using that account with the coma ...
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How can I add an email signature in my iPhone Gmail app?
I understand it is fairly easy to add a signature to the standard iPhone mail app. However, I am now using the Gmail app on my iPhone 4S, and I can't seem to figure out how to append a signature to ...
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Are there any other iOS apps other than Mail which can send email?
I have been trying to find an iOS app which will let me send email from various accounts without going through Mail.app.
I know about the comma trick but that is not what I am after.
I also do not ...
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iOS5 reply to email with attachment
Is there a way to attach an image from the library using the default Mail app, while replying to an email?
Email photo in the Camera roll creates a new message, and Reply doesn't give you an option ...
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Why doesn't my new @me.com email address work?
The Problem:
I've just updated to OSX 10.7.2, with iCloud support. Everything works fine. Except... when I try to enable 'mail and notes' under iCloud settings, it just gets stuck displaying ...
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How can I save a template email on my iPhone so I can send it repeatedly?
I am about to head to a Meetup, and I would like to be able to share my contact information with other people I meet. I wanted to save a "template" email on my iPhone containing my contact information ...
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Is it possible to show multi-level threads in Mail.app?
I like the threaded view for mail.app, but it only groups the messages per thread. In other words, there's only two levels: the original messages, and all the replies that came after that.
Is it ...
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Can anyone recommend good third party iOS email clients (especially regarding signature support)?
Can anyone recommend an iOS email client (Exchange/ActiveSync or IMAP... preferably both) that supports really sweet email signatures? Our company email signature has an official format that has a ...
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Is it possible to export a specific mail folder from Mail?
Is it possible to export a specific mail folder from Mail.app?
For example, I have a folder of mail messages containing invoices that I need to export and hand over to a new accountant.
In my search ...
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sync sent mail between iPhone and mail.app
Can I set up my mac/iPhone/mobile me to sync the mails I've sent on my iPhone back to my mail.app on my mac?
I use two email addresses: an IMAP (gmail) address and a microsoft exchange address.
On ...
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How do I make different email accounts use the default sounds again?
On an iPhone running iOS 6.0.1, I used Settings → Notifications → Mail to set different "new message" sounds for different mail accounts. Now I want to make all mail accounts again follow ...
