Apple Mail, the email client application provided with Mac OS X
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Mail.app doesn't load new emails because is synchronizing a deleted email with large attachment
I created a new message in Mail with some pictures attached. When I noticed it was more than 10 MB, I didn't send it and deleted the draft. But my settings included "synchronize drafts with server", ...
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Mail account sync via iTunes not working
I recently switched from Sparrow.app back to Mail.app and added a whole bunch of accounts. Now I am trying to sync them with my iPhone 5 via iTunes 11, since I am everything but keen on adding them ...
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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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How to uninstall deprecated Unsubscribe plugin from Mail.app?
I used the Unsubscribe plugin for Mail.app, but it is now a part of TrustedID (http://www.unsubscribe.com/), so now I can't use it anymore and want to remove it.
When I want to uninstall the plugin ...
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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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Apple Mail - Do not apply rules automatically
As I understand it, active Apple Mail rules automatically get applied when mail comes into the Inbox.
Is there a way to prevent rules from being applied automatically, so that they are only applied ...
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In Lion's new Mail.app, is it possible to change the font size of the mailbox list?
I have a small screen and MANY email mailboxes. I'd like to make the side panel font size smaller, but I can't find an option for it. Is there one?
(I can change the font size in messages and in the ...
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How can I convert a .eml file to a .mbox file for Apple Mail?
How can I convert a Windows Live Mail eml file to Apple Mail mbox file
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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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Smart Mailbox Folder not displaying mail
I've got two smart mailboxes named NEW eric@ and NEW ericgorr@ which contain only new message for corresponding email accounts. I have placed these two smart mailboxes into a smart mailbox folder ...
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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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check mail for certain word before sending
I have mail templates with placeholders for names (ex. Dear XXXXXX).
Is it possible to make apple mail check the content of my mail when sending and to stop an email from getting send out when it ...
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How to set Mail.app to always open URL's in the external browser in the background?
I'm on Mountain Lion and in Apple Mail whenever I click a link in an email it opens my browser in front of Mail.
I'd like to keep reading the email and open all links behind Mail, then switch to my ...
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Quickly mark all emails as read?
Is there a way to quickly mark all emails as read instead of going over each one of them manually ?
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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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Sending emails with the Apple Mail program using AppleScript.
I don’t know AppleScript at all so thanks in advance for any help offered on this question. I’m on my Macbook Pro laptop with the latest version of OSX installed. I have a csv file that looks like ...
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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 ...
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Apple Mail vs Thunderbird performance
I'm running Apple Mail 5.3 and Thunderbird 17.0.4 on Mac OS Lion 10.7.5. The system I'm running those apps it's an iMac with 3Gb of RAM and 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo.
I run both applications at the ...
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Cannot open Mail Preferences in Mountain Lion
I have a user that whenever she tries to open mail preferences it consistently locks up with the pinwheel icon and requires her to force quit mail. Mac mail was fine until a gmail account was added to ...
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Apple Mail conversation view - show original sender?
Is anyone aware of a way to get Apple Mail.app to display the original sender (or all senders) rather than just the latest sender in the From header when using conversation view? I'm referring to the ...
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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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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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IMAP folder named Notes does not appear in Mail.app
I have a folder on my IMAP server named « Notes ».
I have deactivated the use of the IMAP account by the Notes.app, but the folder is still not visible in Mail.app.
Is there a way to have this ...
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iPhone ActiveSync showing sent email in Inbox
Curious if anyone else is experiencing ActiveSync email accounts showing sent email in your iPhone mail.app Inbox.
Messages still appear even if "organize by thread" is disabled.
iPhone mail seems ...
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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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Google apps and Apple Mail
Apple Mail struggles when bringing in attachments from GMail run on Google apps.
The GMail account will show a 4mb attachment in a millisecond.
Apple Mail when importing the same attachment produces ...
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How to hide GMail labels in Apple Mail?
When searching for mail in Mail.app with a GMail account, every instance of the mail shows up with every Gmail label, especially in the Bin label, since Apple mail autosaves drafts as you go along, ...
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Mail app missing plug-in
For some reason there are some e-mails that I get where I need to scroll down a lot to see the entire message. The message is filled with "missing plug-in" errors (and they do not include the small ...
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“Save As…” in Mail Not Sorting by Date Received
I am a recent convert to Mountain Lion (new iMac arrived a week ago). Been using the "Save As..." option in Mail.app for years now to save chunks of email as RTFs.
Previously (in Snow Leopard), using ...
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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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Mail is showing me garbage for certain messages
Certain incoming emails are showing up as nonsense. Any idea what is causing this or how to fix it? The strangest part is that I can copy/paste the garbage into a text editor and read what it says! ...
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Problems with contacts in Mail
I have a problem with Mail and I don't know how it happened. I somehow accidentally added several names for one email address. Now these names are displayed randomly. This problem is driving me crazy. ...
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How to seamlessly switch between spelling languages in Mail?
I write my emails in two languages. So system-wide spelling language setting is not very useful for me, since in span of working day I usually write half of my emails in one language and half in ...
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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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How to see the members of an Active Directory group in the Mail application
I'd like to find out how to check the members of a group defined in Active Directory from the Mail application in OSX 10.8.2 (Mountain Lion). I have my corporate AD server defined as an LDAP server, ...
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Can Apple Mail be optimized to perform well when I have 30k messages in my inboxes?
I have about 31,300 emails in 4 different inboxes in Mail. Sadly to say, it is extremely slow.
Is there any tips or trips to optimize Mail? And no, I don't want to delete any, I need them for work.
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Error while Compressing the Mail DB: file is encrypted or is not a database
I am trying to compress the Mail database by running the sqlite3 vacuum command. But I get the following error:
SQL Error: file is encrypted or is not a database
I was running Mac OS 10.6 and I ...
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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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Keyboard, notification, or menubar shortcut to compose mail message?
Im looking for a quick way to bring up a compose mail message dialogue.
Either a keyboard shortcut, or even a little tool within mountain lion's new notification center would be cool.
Anyone got ...
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Stop Mail from keeping sent drafts?
I use iCloud and I like Mail to save my drafts on the server.
But I have no desire to keep them as drafts after they are sent. But Mail keeps the drafts and I have to manually delete them.
I ...
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Is there some way to keep the mail.app always opened? [closed]
Is there some way to the make mail.app open on boot, and maintain always opened? Like a service in linux. It would be perfect if it continues to run even when not showing on Dock or on "command+tab", ...
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Why do so many IMAP providers not work properly with Mail.app?
I've been using Mail.app to read my email since 1992 or so, back when it was called NeXTmail. I'm generally pleased with it. Lately, though, I've been having a problem with the IMAP implementation, ...
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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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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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Turn off automatic preview in apple mail
Is it possible to turn off automatic preview of attachments when composing an e-mail?
NOTE: Yes I know that I can manually ctr+select the attachment and disable preview, but I want this done ...
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Dragging an email with attachment to another mailbox looses attachment
I was dragging an email message in Mail.app and intended to drag it to another folder. I accidentally went too far and then I was dragging an icon around the Dashboard. when I went back to Mail.app, ...
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Applescript to add sender of message to specific group in Contacts
I'm trying to set up an Applescript to add the sender of a selected message in Apple Mail to a specific group in the Contacts app. By reconfiguring the code provided in this answer, I worked up the ...
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What's is new in Mail app in Lion compared to Mail app in Leopard Snow?
I find Mail app (in Leopard Snow) very limited for my needs. I need something like Thunderbird but before switching I just like to know what's is new in Mail app in Lion compared to Mail app in ...
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iCloud Mail setting not saved in System Preferences on Mountain Lion
I'm having difficulty keeping a Mail setting in System Preferences (10.8.2) persistent.
I have an iCloud account that is the same as my AppleID - xxx@mac.com.
I don't want to use the xxx@mac.com as ...
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Why don't accepted event invitations through MS Exchange show up in iCal?
I'm using Lion's iCal and Mail.app, and I've started working in a company where everyone uses MS Exchange. I haven't connected iCal to Exchange. When I receive an event invitation (sent with Outlook) ...
