Apple Mail, the email client application provided with Mac OS X
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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 can I send a mail message later?
Back in the day, I remember having an e-mail program (perhaps it was Eudora?) that could schedule the sending of mail, so when composing a message, you could set some preference for when it would be ...
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No email notifications when Mail.app isn't running?
On Mountain Lion, I don't get email notifications in Notification Center when Mail.app isn't running.
This is not the expected behaviour (it is inconsistent with the Mail.app behaviour on iOS) and ...
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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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Mail signature changes font size when sent to Gmail
I have created a signature in Mac mail. However, every time I send an email to a gmail account it enlarges the font size. Has anybody else come across this? Is there a workaround?
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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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Is there a good Hotmail client for Mac OS X?
I have had an Hotmail account since 1997 (i.e. don't ask me to switch - have hundreds of filters and folders and thousands of contacts) and I recently switched to a Mac and I am looking for a Mac ...
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Mail.app extension to avoid sending email from the wrong account?
I have recently starting using Mail.app with two email accounts (work and home). Every now and then I send email while having the wrong folder selected, and the default "from" account will be not ...
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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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In Mail.app, how can I set a recipient's default email address?
When typing a recipient's name in the "To:" field, Mail.app will bring up an autocomplete menu showing all email addresses for that recipient (e.g., Home and Work). If I don't pay attention and just ...
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How can I re-map Mail's “Sent Messages” folder to an IMAP server's “Sent Mail” folder?
I use Mail to connect to a traditional IMAP server (non-Gmail). I've noticed that all the messages I send are placed in Mail's "Sent" folder and that Mail is translating this folder to a server folder ...
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Mail.app - keyboard shortcuts to move mail and jump to folder
I'm coming to Mail.app with a background using both Outlook (on the PC) and GMail. In every mail client I've used, there are easy keyboard shortcuts to do these:
jump to any folder I want, just by ...
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Why does my Exchange account work on my iPhone, but not Mail.app?
I can set up my work Exchange account just fine on my iPhone, but I can't get it to work on Mail.app under Snow Leopard.
I have read some forums and understand that mobile devices use ActiveSync in ...
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How do I revert the default mail client back to Mail from GMail?
I downloaded Google Chrome and it automatically changed my default mail reader from Mail to GMail in Chrome. I went to the preferences section of Mail and didn't see an option to make Mail the default ...
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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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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 to change the default Mail account in Mountain Lion?
I have 2 mail accounts configured. When composing a new message, it will default to the account for the currently selected mailbox, which is fine. However, when no particular mailbox is selected (when ...
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How to retrieve windows that have moved 'off-screen'
I have this problem sometimes with my dual-screen setup, especially when I'm juggling lots of things around.
Occasionally I seem to be able to move a window entirely off-screen (I'm not quite sure ...
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How do I prevent Lion Mail from marking a message as read after deleting/archiving another message?
This is driving me nuts. I go through my mail in reverse chronological order. This means I look at the newest mails first and then go back from there. So this scenario happens dozens of times a day:
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How do I stop marking mail as read caused by looking at the preview pane?
I use Mountain Lion.
How do I prevent Mail.app (6.0) from marking a message as read automatically, just because I have looked at it in the preview pane?
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How can Apple Mail be configured to mimic Gmail's “Archiving” behaviour for a generic IMAP account?
It is straightforward to configure a Gmail account being accessed through Apple Mail to Archive messages when you "delete" them from the mail client. With generic IMAP accounts, however, the only ...
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How can I send a mail message later? On Mountain Lion
I want to compose a message, but rather than clicking "Send", I want to schedule a future delivery date and have the mail sent then without my taking action as long as the computer is still running.
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What does Synchronize mean in Mail.app?
In Mail.app, what does Synchronize actually do? How is it different than "Get New Mail?"
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Is it possible to attach a file to an email from the command line?
I am often using the terminal, and I'd like to be able type a command that will attach a selected file to an email in mail.app.
:~ mailme myfile
Any idea on how to do that?
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Is it safe to remove ~/Library/Mail folders
I just traded in Mail.app for Sparrow and want to clear up some space on my hard drive. Is it safe to remove the ~/Library/Mail/V2/IMAP-[mailbox] folders for any mail accounts that I have removed from ...
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How to delete bad entries in Mail's helpful drop-down lists?
When I send an email, I type two or three letters and select the recipient's full name in the list that pops up. A great feature. But one day I mistyped an email address and now have several junk ...
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Non-modal dialog in full-screen Mail.app
When used in full-screen mode, Lion’s new Mail.app has a modal (= always in foreground, disables rest of application) dialog for composing and viewing messages.
Can I disable this? It’s quite ...
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How can I re-build Mail.app's search index?
Since upgrading to Lion, my search in Mail has gotten drastically less helpful. Since I have read many reviews about what an improvement Mail 5.0's search is, I can only assume that my search index ...
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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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Why does my Spotlight index get corrupted?
Recently I have been having an issue where at least once a month my Spotlight index gets corrupted, and I can no longer search the content of mail in Mail.app. I can fix the problem by taking my HD ...
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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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Mail and multiple accounts in Gmail
I Have a gmail account configured to receive and send emails of a live mail account and I have some services that I need to send emails as live mail to be identified, but in Apple Mail I'm only able ...
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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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Is there a keyboard shortcut in Mail.app for moving the active email to the top of the inbox?
I'm trying out Mail.app on Lion (10.7.3) for the first time and, nice as it is, I'm frustrated that I have to use the mouse to jump to the top of my inbox after using the search function.
To give you ...
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Composing messages in Apple Mail: Displaying text on screen in larger size without changing font size
When composing messages in Mail.app, as I now have an HD screen on my MBP, the default Helvetica 12pt appears quite small.
I would like to be able to enlarge the text size, but only locally, ...
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How can I map the “Archived” folder to “All Mail”?
I would like to map the "Archived" folder that's created when you Archive mail to the "All Mail" folder in my Gmail account. How can I do this?
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How can I add some html to my Mail.app signature?
I want to add my company logo and and some juice to my contact information in the signature part in Mail.app. How can I do that with little or no efforts?
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How to hide the Flagged folder in Mail.app (Mountain Lion)?
Since upgrading to Mountain Lion, my Mail.app has sprouted a Flagged folder for each of my Gmail/Google Apps accounts.
I have no use for this and would like to disable or hide it - how can I do ...
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How can I get rid of duplicate Sent, Draft, and Trash folders in my IMAP accounts?
I use several IMAP accounts for e-mail, and, except for iCloud, all of them show duplicate folders for Sent, Trash, and Draft mailboxes:
These duplicate folders are (generally) always empty, and ...
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Why would Mail's message counts not match Gmail's?
I have Mail 4.5 on 10.6.7 and a Google apps account.
My total message counts for each folder in Mail don't match the counts I see in the GMail web UI.
I don't have any custom labels or folders. I've ...
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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 Mail.app be configured to always load remote images from certain domains?
I like how Gmail gives me the option to, for example, Always display images from allsongs@n.npr.org.
Is there a way to have Mail.app do the same? I can only find the global option for displaying ...
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How can I synchronize contacts with Google?
How can I download (also, possibly upload from my iPhone) contacts of my Google account?
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Can I use Google Sync (Exchange, Push) through Mail.app in Mountain Lion?
I love using gmail through Google Sync on my iPhone because it supports PUSH through the Exchange protocol.
See: https://www.google.com/mobile/sync
Essentially, they provide an Exchange compatible ...
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Mac Mail forgets my email password every few days. How to fix it?
I'm running Mac OS 10.8.1 and have a (personal) Gmail and a (work) Google mail account setup inside Mail client. Every few days (weekly?) Mail seems to forget my personal gmail password and I have to ...
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In Mail.app 6.0, is there a way to drag-select parts of message bodies? [closed]
In Mail.app 6.0 with 10.8 Mountain Lion, Apple has chosen to make it impossible to drag-select text in a message that has been sent or received. In previous versions, you could do as you can with ...
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apple mail 4.5 max. mbox export size limited to approx. 4.7GB
following is a problem that we have been trying to solve for a while now...
we are attempting to archive a couple of rather large mail folders from within apple mail, they contain in excess of 20000 ...
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Mail.app rules - how to write the following requirement
I cannot seem to get the following rule working.
Requirement: I want to run a mail filter which says:
If the mail is in Account X, and has subject Y, was received less than 10 days ago, and has no ...
