Apple Mail, the email client application provided with Mac OS X
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How to use SMTP and IMAP with iCloud email?
I've never used @me.com or @mac.com emails before. Neither did I use MobileMe.
So when the iCloud came out last night I created @me.com email account this morning. Registration on its own went just ...
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Error stating that I'm running an older version of Mail with a newer version of Mac OS X
Mail.app stopped working on my Snow Leopard Mac after installing Security Update 2012-004 (Snow Leopard) (Post Date: September 19, 2012). Long ago, I moved Mail.app to a directory different from ...
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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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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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Is there a way to add all of the recipients of an email to a group/folder in contacts from Mail?
In mail, I'll get email to a list of about 50 people, all of whom need to be in my address book. Is there a way to add them all at once? I can tell it to add one at a time, but I can't seem to get it ...
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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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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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Copy message_id from selected message
In Mail, when I've selected a message, I would like to have a shortcut to copy the message_id (see my previous question) to the clipboard.
How do I manage that? Applescript, I presume?
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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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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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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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Delete Stored Offline Attachments in Mail.app
I'm using Apple Mail and have noticed that the ~/Library/Mail/V2 folder is using up over a gigabyte of space. I'm guessing that a lot of that is stored attachments for my email messages. I've already ...
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Mail.app in Lion - is there a way to create tasks from email?
I'm not sure if I haven't seen that in earlier versions of Mail.app, but I would really love to have the ability to create a task in iCal from an email - and that this task could link to the original ...
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How do I get archive to work in Mail.app in Lion?
I can't get archive to work on Lion. When I choose archive in Mail.app it creates a folder called Archived. That's not what I want. When I choose delete it doesn't remove the message from my inbox. It ...
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Set up Gmail to work properly with Apple Mail
I often can't find my sent mail in my Gmail account viewed on my Mac in Apple Mail. I did not set up these folders, but I have both a "Sent Mail" folder indented under a "Gmail" folder and a "Sent ...
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How to remove Mail.app data after opening it to configure it to not open in the future?
Sorry about the title. I followed these answers as suggested by some users on Ask Different. They've solved my problem.
However, when I opened up Mail.app to inform it I want to use Google Notifier ...
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How can I embed a linked local image in an Apple Mail signature?
I think my question says it all (and yes, I've googled and searched StackExchange already) - but to clarify:
I want to embed an image, which I have locally, in my html email signature (i.e. my logo, ...
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Can I use multiple gmail-based accounts with the same username (but different domains) with Mail.app & IMAP?
A recent mail file corruption has led me to finally putting Eudora to bed. Since my personal email has been backed by gmail for a few years, and my work email is a Google apps email account, I ...
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Mail.app encounters recurring connection error (to Gmail IMAP server) after installing Mountain Lion
I have a Gmail IMAP account in Mail, which up until installing Mountain Lion has always worked smoothly.
Now after the upgrade, I find that if I have Mail open for a while in the background or I put ...
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Mail.app import from Entourage failed
I am trying to import my entire folder structure from Entourage 2008 to Mail on a Mac running OS X 10.5.8.
First I tried to export the whole email database from Entourage to the Desktop as a .rge ...
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Automatically Save Attachments in Mail.app in 10.8 Mountain Lion
I am trying to automatically save all email sent to one address (let's call it test@example.com) to this folder /Users/luomat/Dropbox/Incoming/e2w/ (where /Users/luomat = $HOME).
Here is the rule ...
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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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Save attachments from Mail.app based on subject
I have been trying to write an Applescript to help me saving attachments, but realized quickly that I do not have the knowledge to do such a difficult script. Here is some background.
We receive ...
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How to change/customize mail signature in Mountain Lion?
To add an custom mail-signature in Lion you had to add an signature via preferences, and then replace the contents of the webarchive with your own.
In Mountain Lion, Apple replaced the webarchive ...
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Mail.app on Lion with Exchange doesn't get updates
I've noticed since upgrading to Lion that Mail.app doesn't seem to update the mailbox and synchronize properly with Exchange.
Before on SL, or using Outlook now, they always maintained correct state, ...
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Gmail SMTP server going offline
I have a Google Apps account, with 2-step verification, set up in Apple mail. Typically it works great for several weeks, or a month, but then the SMTP server has (Offline) next to it, and it will ...
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Controlling which address my outgoing mail is seen to be from
I have access to the company's general email as well as my own. Both are Gmail accounts. Seemingly randomly, even when I send from my own account, the other party's reply is to the general email ...
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Duplicated mail settings caused email loss in Mail on Lion
Oh dear, not having much luck at the moment. Having recently wasted hours on a simple problem, I've transferred my anti-Midas magic to a friend, and lost some email data. Could someone advice (a) ...
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How can I embed an image in an Apple Mail signature?
I use Apple Mail daily, and up until recently I could have images inside my mail by referencing an external source. However the external source has since become unavailable, so ideally I would like to ...
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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 to fix Lion Mail.app that keeps asking for keychain password?
I am getting this message every time I start mail.app.
I've read this tech note, but neither checkbox is selected.
I've run Keychain First Aid, and no problems were found.
How do I fix Mail.app in ...
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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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How setup Mail.app IMAP to migrate Mail Server
We changed recently our Hosting provider.
How can we remove the old IMAP account in Apple Mail without loosing any Mails and have them uploaded to the new server including all IMAP folders?
Thanks,
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Mail.app - Shortcut to switch signatures?
Is there a keyboard shortcut (or way to set one) that allows to easily switch between different email signatures in mail.app ?
