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Using Mail.app junk filter to filter some languages
Is it possible to use Mail.app junk filter to filter some specific languages like chinese, russian, greek and dutch?
I do not speak these languages and I am receiving a lot of spam from morons ...
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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...
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How to make Mobile Safari open email links in the Gmail app?
Is it possible to make a mobile Safari open email links directly to the native Gmail app, rather than open up to Apple's Mail.app?
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Mac Mail won't connect to Exchange 2007
We recently had a mail outage and eventually got mail back - it was a disk space issue. The PCs with Outlook can connect in without issues but the couple of Macs we have won't connect at all. I can ...
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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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Mail.app: connect to IMAP server with STARTTLS
I have an IMAP account on a private server and they said me to configure my mail with a STARTTLS secure connection on the port 993 and authentication with standard password.
How can I set STARTTLS in ...
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Fixing a corrupted OS X Mail structure after an import of mailboxes from the previous system volume
Due to various and persisting problems, I had to reinstall 10.8.2.
What I did
Shut down iMac with internal system disc A.
Started 10.8.2 recovery system
Copied iMac's system disc A to an external ...
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How to show my sent mail in a smart mailbox (& not show EVERY email I sent to everyone else not in that group.)
This is regarding Mail and Contacts in Snow leopard. (ex Eudora user)
I created the group ABC in my Contacts.
I would like to see all the mail members of that groups sent to me (To, CC and BCC), ...
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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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Draft messages in Mountain Lion Mail do not include server draft messages
I had a clean install Mountain Lion on my Macbook Pro, early 2011.
Following suggestions in the forums, I carried my "Mail" folders (folders, preferences, etc) from my cloned backup of Snow Leopard.
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refresh mail.app inbox when returning from standby (IMAP)
When returning from standby mail.app does not refresh my inbox. New mails (or changes to old mails, like move or delete) are not synchronized. I have to manually close mail.app and restart it to make ...
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How can I stop Mac Mail continually caching attachments?
Two problems really:
I'm using Mac Mail version 5.3 on Mac OSX. My Yahoo mailbox is continually fetching new mail i.e. the wheel by 'yahoo is continually spinning. It has been doing this for a few ...
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How to save sent messages in same folder as message being replied to?
One of my favorite features back when I used Outlook was the option to save sent emails in the same folder as the message being replied to. For example, if I had moved a message to folder A and was ...
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How do I access a mobile mailserver on a mac as opposed to a web mailserver?
I have an iPad on which I can access my email through a mobile mail server. It all works fine. But when trying to access my mail through my mac there is a security problem of some sort that won't ...
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New email message with a global keyboard shortcut
I got, for the first time in my life, a Mac this Christmas and I was wondering if it is possible to create system-wide keyboard shortcut.
No matter what app I is using, is there a way to configure a ...
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Apple Mail 6.2 - Turn OFF automatic checking for new messages
Well I am very disappointed with Apple Mail. Its checking for new e-mails automatically from time to time regardless the options.
In General options I set "Check for new messages" to "Manually"
In ...
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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, ...
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Mail.app connection errors (offline) after sleep
My 10.8.2 MacBook Air is having constant connection errors in Mail.app when the computer has been sent to sleep or hibernate.
A small alert triangle appears next to all account names (I have several) ...
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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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Apple alias in Mail and iCloud revealing my identity
I've set up a few email aliases in iCloud under pseudonyms.
If I receive an email to one of them (e.g. "Alias Name <pseudonym@icloud.com>), and I try to reply in Mail for Mac, it uses the ...
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how can i block email attatchments from downloading?
i just got the iPhone 5 and connected my Gmail account to the mail app. however Verizon charges through the nose for data, and i realized that the most data that i chew up is through email ...
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using multiple emails in the mail app and sending texts to that app as well
the question is almost identical to the title: i just got an iPhone 5, coming over from a blackberry. on my blackberry i was able to receive all my text messages and emails from both of my accounts ...
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Mountain Lion Mail.app messages syncing preferences
When I clean installed ML I set up the mail app to connect with my web based IMAP/SMTP email accounts. I was surprised and pleased that it seemed to download all my email as I had been forced to use ...
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Configure your mail with mail.app on Mountain Lion
I have Macbook Air 2012 model (128 GB SSD) with Mountain Lion (10.8.2) and I am having difficulties trying to configure the mail.app. When I first tried to set-up my gmail account it started to sync ...
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Why won't Mountain Lion Mail connect to Custom Dovecot IMAP server where Lion Mail connects just fine?
I am trying to set up a new Mountain Lion install on a mac mini to connect using Mail version 6.2 with IMAP to my custom Dovecot mail server which is on an old G5 on my network.
My Macbook Air ...
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Edit subject line of email in inbox in mac mail
in mac mail is there a way to edit the subject line of an email thats in the inbox, this is just for internal filing reasons, say you get sent an email with the subject line 'attn:sam' that dosnt ...
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Error when choosing Print > PDF > Mail PDF - document mail PDF damaged or incomplete?
I'm trying to send a document to email as a PDF. To do this you'd normally go to 'Print > PDF > Email PDF' but when I do this I get an error message:
The document mail PDF could not be opened ...
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iMac 27inch (late 2009) -Recovering Mail Rules from cloned drive
Apple recalled my late 2009 iMac recently and fitted a new hard disk. I backed up the entire disk using SuperDuper before it went away, and also had sets of Time Machine backups to hand just in case.
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How do I delete attachments from mails I sent
In Mountain Lion’s Mail app, I can delete attachments from mails others have sent me, but not from the mails I sent to others.
In the mailbox, the messages I have sent are not marked with the small ...
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Contacts only showing up as email address in Mail
I've recently transferred over to the Apple Mail client (as well as iCal and Address Book) on my iMac and for some reason there are certain people that email me and only their email address shows up.
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