Apple Mail, the email client application provided with Mac OS X
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how to make an “archive” button for Mail.app in mac os x mountain lion to work with gmail accounts?
has anyone tried to build an "archive" button for apple mail to move mails from the Inbox to All Mail in Mail.app (Mountain lion)?
there is this page: http://stl.techinno.nl/archive/
but it wont ...
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How to iterate over visible mail messages in display order?
I have several IMAP/SMTP email accounts set up in Mail.app. Each of these has a folder called 'Action'. I have an Applescript (see below) which moves the currently selected message(s) to each one's ...
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iOS Mail uses wrong return address
tl;dr: I have several email addresses on the same Mail account, iOS defaults to the wrong one as the sender, and I can't figure out how to change that.
Full version:
I set up my email accounts on my ...
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How do I search Mail.app by country code?
I want to look at just the emails sent to me from the .ru (or any other domain code), and I'm not having ay luck. Searching from:.ru orfrom:".ru" doesn't work. A wildcard approach doesn't work either. ...
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Can't get folders to download photos?
I used to have an iPhone that I had sorted pictures into folders on. I had to get a new iPhone because it was cracked and the camera didn't work, along with other problems. While I was in the mall of ...
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Mail app correctly marks spam but does not move it to the junk mail folder
as by message, Mail app does not bother moving mail correctly marked as spam in the spam folder -- this only happen when I am at home, and only during the week-end. I suspect that the IMAP server is ...
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Drag email from mail.app to create a shortcut, not eml
Title is self-explaining.
Once I succeeded, and there was .inetloc file including xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" ...
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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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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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Mail App is using internet connection to capacity (Retina Macbook Pro Early 2013)
My internet connection is working to capacity while "Mail" is open. Of course, it was loading all my mails when I used it the first time, but now all mails are on the machine and still "MagicanPaster" ...
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Can't delete iCloud account from Mail, Contacts, Calendars
When trying to log into iCloud from System Preferences, I'm told
[appleid] is already signed in to iCloud
To use this as your primary iCloud account, delete it from Mail, Contacts,
and ...
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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 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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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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Running Applescript using cron jobs not working
I'm new to conjobs and applescript but I have the script done correctly i believe. (any critique is welcome) I don't want to bloat my calendar with events to do this because I use my calendar for ...
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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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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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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.
:(
Is there an extension or application or script for mail.app to prevent this failure and e.g. intelligently ask ...
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my Mac OS X Version 10.6.8 will no longer recognize the mail.app? How do I get it to recognize it again?
I have been having off and on trouble with my Mac not wanting to recognize my mail application, but it would eventually recognize and do fine. Now it absolutely will not recognize it at all. It ...
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not using Apple Mail, but using Calendar
I use gmail through the web interface, but have Apple Calendar synchronising with google's calendar. I don't want to use Apple Mail for anything at all. Every time the calendar synchronises with ...
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smart mailbox email sent only to me
I am kind of surprised that I couldn't find anything by general search. Like many of us I receive ton of emails everyday. I have several smart mailboxes on my mac to get to the ones I need to fast.
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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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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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Mountain Lion Mail using over 40GB of memory
Mail in Mountain Lion (10.8.3) seems to be having one heck of a memory leak.
As you can see, it's using over 44GB of memory and 200% CPU.
Machine specs:
Mac Pro
2 x 2.4 GHz 6-Core Xeon
64GB RAM
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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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How does one fix incorrect dates of mail messages after migrating a mailbox from one OS X Server to another?
I have OS X Server 2.2.1 (running on OS X Mountain Lion). I migrated from one OS X Server to another and migrated a mailbox with 4GB of mail. On OS X Mountain Lion client, I connected to the mailbox ...
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Apple Mail not saving Smart Mailboxes
I'm having some trouble with Apple Mail 6.3 (1503) and Smart Mailboxes under 10.8.3. When I create Smart Mailboxes they work just as one would expect them to. When I quit Mail and re-open it, they're ...
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Add to Existing Contact from Mail.app to Contacts.app
I am looking for an option to add the choice "Add to Existing Contact" from the Apple Mail.app From address field. As you all know, we have "Copy Address, Add to VIPs, New Email, Add to Contacts, and ...
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Identifying mail marked as junk; marking and unmarking mail as junk
I use several different macs to read my mail from an imap server. Each has developed its own junk mail filtering rules. I'd like to merge the rules, and keep them merged.
Is there a way to merge ...
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Mail.app on Mac corrupting PDFs
A co-worker is having an issue where PDFs sent as attachments are being corrupted. If opened through webmail, the attachment is fine. Any ideas here?
I've rebuilt the Mailbox (using Mail.app's ...
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How to move all of my mails to external HD and make them appear only when its connected
I have 200 GB of mails, and I would like to place them in an external hard drive, and to make the appear, in the Mail.app, only when this external HD is connected.
Is this possible?
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Mountain Lion email share option opens a secondary Mail application
I am having a weird issue when I use the share functionality baked into Mountain Lion. Whenever I have a file highlighted in finder and choose the email option to share a file with someone, it decides ...
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Mail - Deleting/Hiding Exchange mailbox's (e.g. RSS Feeds)
We're running Exchange 2010 and I have access the server if I can make changes there.
Basically is there a way to hide or delete the RSS Feeds folder that shows up on the Mac Mail app?
When I try to ...
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Is there a way to disable data detectors from Mail?
Is there a way to disable the data detector "feature" from Mail?
LE: OSX 10.8.3 / Mail 6.3 (1503)
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Original Draft As Well As Edited Version Sent?
I have Mac Lion version 10.7.4. I prepared a draft in email and saved it. A few weeks later I edited the draft and sent it. When I opened the email in SENT, I saw my edited draft highlighted in blue ...
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Reliable (free) mail provider for both iphone and mac [closed]
I recently switched to iPhone from an Android device and the only thing I still dont like is lack of reliable mail service which will work on both my Mac and iPhone. I want to have push mail on both ...
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How do I setup Apple Mail to automatically move old email to the Archive folder?
I want Apple Mail to automatically move all email, read and unread, to the Archive folder IF it's past a certain date. I want this move to take effect on ALL my devices (mac,iPad,iPhone,etc). How can ...
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Mail.app: How can I archive the “smarts” of Smart Mailboxes?
I have certain Smart Mailboxes in Mail.app (Mountain Lion, Version 6.3 / 1503) which help me find invoices for my tax declaration. I only need them once a year and would like to archive them for the ...
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How to create an email group easily in Mac OS X?
I have a list of email addresses to which I frequently send emails. How can I create an email group in my address book easily? Is there any method other than add one email address at a time? I'm using ...
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Lion Mail.app messages marking themselves as read
My boss is accessing his emails via the MAPI (Exchange) protocol using:
The mail app on his iPhone 4S
Mail.app version 5.3 on an iMac running OS X 10.7
For the most part everything works as ...
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Is there a Mail plugin to let me view unread emails first?
Similar to Gmail priority inbox, is there a Mail 6.3 (OSX Mountain Lion) plugin that lets me view unread messages first or sort them so they're at top of inbox?
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iPad Mail app doesn't completely search inbox or contact
I tried to use my Mail app connected to Hotmail and Gmail to search for emails in my inbox and contacts, but the app doesn't fully search my emails in the inbox nor the contacts I have saved. What ...
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Mail signatures--assigning to specific users
Is it possible to assign a Mail signature to specific recipients? I want my signature to appear in emails I send to some people but not appear in emails I send to other people. Thanks.
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Permissions error when downloading or quick-looking attachments in mail.app after symlinking Mail Downloads directory
Awhile back, I symlinked my ~/Library/Mail Downloads directory to ~/Downloads so that my email attachments would be downloaded to the same location that all my other applications download files to.
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Apple Mail make mails unsigned by default
I have lost patience with outlook and have started using apple mail with my corporate exchange account.
A problem is that every mail I send by default picks up an ios developer certificate that i ...
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Starred folder showing up in Mail
I have a gmail account connected via IMAP to the iPhone 4. For some reason it shows a folder named "starred" which I cannot delete, move, nor find via the web interface in gmail. Can anyone tell me ...
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Can not preview message in Mail.app
Using last OS X Lion, I was using Mail.app, classic view, so there was always a preview for each message. This has now dissapeared, how can I solve this?
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Enable OS X Mail editing toolbar
Some time ago somebody helped me to know how to display the OS X Mail message editing toolbar. Please note, this is not the main Mail toolbar, but appears on the message window. I did not record the ...
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Mail.app button to explicitly move to Junk without built-in filtering
I'd like to create a button in Mountain Lion's Mail.app to move mail to an IMAP folder called Junk, much like the Archive button moves mail to my IMAP Archive folder. (This folder is automatically ...
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Share a Mail.app mailbox between multiple computers
I have a Mail.app mailbox on my Mac where I archive mails received from an IMAP account which has a relatively strict quota on mailbox size (500MB). I write mails into the archive once a month (as I ...
