Apple Mail, the email client application provided with Mac OS X
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How to clean up emails when replying in plain text?
I have a problem that I want to solve after many years of using Mac OS X Mail.app... I generally like to send plain text emails that are full width (format=flowed) and nicely indented for quote ...
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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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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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“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 do I export mail.app rules to other filtering solutions such as procmail?
In the past I handled email filtering using Mail.app's Rules. I want to move my filters out of Mail.app and into another solution, such as a centrally-organized IMAP + procmail setup.
Is it possible ...
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Mail.app mailbox corruption
Once a week or so, Mail.app will not display the contents of a mail message. Selecting Mailbox -> Rebuild fixes bandaids the issue until next time.
I only have one account in Mail.app, pointing to ...
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How to view text/rtf message part in .eml files which are ignored since Mail 6.0 upgrade?
I have a bunch of .eml files that contain the message part encoded as
Content-Type: text/rtf
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: inline
Up to OS X Lion, Mail and Quick View both ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Mail.app messages won't stay filed/deleted
I use Mail.app connected to my work's IMAP server. About two weeks ago I noticed that when I moved messages from the INBOX to an Archive folder, or delete the messages, some eventually come back to ...
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Disable the text/html part in outgoing messages in OS X 10.8's Mail application
I'm using the Mail application bundled with OS X 10.8. When switching from Mac OS X 10.6, I noticed that Mail now always includes a text/html part, alongside the text/plain part, in messages that ...
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MacMail client getting notifications from Google+ in Chinese - why?
For some reason all notifications from Google+ are coming through in Chinese when sent to my dad's @mac.com email address (when accessed on iPhone, iPad or on his regular Apple computer). When the ...
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In apple mail, with contact photos enabled next to mail subjects, one person in my contact doesn't have his picture show up
In Apple mail for OSX, I have pictures enabled for both the mail list view as well as in the message itself. This works fairly well, grabbing pictures from my contacts except for one person. Their ...
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How come Apple Mail reports 'outgoing message' although I haven't written any?
When I open the Mail application (vers. 5.3, OS X 10.7.5 Lion), it contacts all mail servers (several POP3 and IMAP), which is reported in the Mail Activity section in the lower left. However, I ...
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Can I export my account configuration from Mail app and import it into Outlook?
I am meeting an unexpected issue where Mail app connects just fine to my Exchange 2007 server given my email address, login and password (autodiscovery), but Outlook 2011 fails to connect. If I try to ...
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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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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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Contents of gmail “Spam” folder appearing in search results
I updated Mail.app that comes with Mountain Lion and it seems to be unable to identify "Spam" folder located in my Gmail account as a spam folder.
Consequently, it treats "Spam" as a regular mail ...
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Mail App Open wrong attach in iOS 5.1.1 iPad 2
In my inbox there are two different email with an attachment with the same name, i.e. "my document.pdf", but different contents.
The problem is that, when I open a such email, the attachment ...
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Drafts going in Trash
I have configured my Gmail account with OSX Mail Client. The problem is that the drafts on the Mail Client aren't stored in draft on Gmail. And all the drafts are going in Trash of Gmail. I had mapped ...
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Can I prevent OS X 10.8 Mail.app smart mailbox configuration changes/corruption?
I have an IMAP account with number of archive mailboxes structured like
+ Archive
+-- 1996
+-- 1997
+-- ...
+-- 2011
I have configured a smart mailbox including all of these mailboxes plus ...
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How can I fix keystroke delay while typing in Mail on Mountain Lion?
I have Mail Version 6.0 (1485), Mountain Lion 10.8, build 12A269.
When composing messages in Mail the keystrokes are delayed. This makes typing awkward. I have not had this happen under Lion and it ...
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Change Lion's Mail 'Archive' and 'Junk Mail' Folders
I have a hosted Exchange 2010 (Office 365) mailbox and use it together with Lion/Apple Mail but I was wondering how I can change were Mail stores Junk Mail to as well as its 'Archive' folder (the one ...
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Gmail-like keyboard shortcuts in Mail.app (keys without modifiers)
How can I create keyboard shortcuts in Mail.app that do not require modifiers? For example, I'd like j/k to scroll the message pane. Maybe n/p to navigate between messages. Maybe N/P to navigate ...
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How do I make Safari, Chrome, Mail, and other applications all use different SOCKS proxies
How do I make different applications like Safari, Chrome, and Mail all use different SOCKS proxies.
FireFox has it's own proxy settings, but Safari, Chrome, and presumably Mail all use the system ...
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Why do some emails go into deleted messages folder in iCloud?
I forward all email from my gmail account to iCloud using POP3 but when I delete emails in iCloud some go to the trash folder, which is where I want them to go, but sometimes a folder called 'deleted ...
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Junk mail counter shows nonexistent messages
Why does the Junk counter shows a number while there are no email messages in the Junk folder? How do I get rid of that?
This happens on Mac OS 10.6.8 on an IMAP email account.
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Email downloads but then is immediately removed
I this problem at the moment where when I check my email, it downloads an email and I see it at the top of the list (it's from SongKick). I just see the subject and sender, not the body. After about ...
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Can I make Mail.app search Received: headers?
I'm running 10.6.8 and I set up a smart mailbox with two conditions: one, to look in a specific folder, and two, to match any recipient = recipient2@foo.com.
Problem:
Mail.app doesn't seem to search ...
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Sharing Flag colors and names over multiple macs running Lion
I have upgraded to Lion and have found that Flagit is not compatable. What I liked is that I could share settings over IMAP. I am wondering if this is possble using the Mail flag colors and custom ...
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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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How can I stop 'bin' items from appearing when searching Mail.app?
Whenever I search for a particular message, the results throw up tens of seemingly related messages/part messages from what appears to be the "bin" folder.
What exactly is the bin folder (junk, ...
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Can I enable conversation view in imap folders by default?
I am using 'show related messages' to enable conversation view in my apple mail inbox on mountain lion. I also have a bunch of imap folders, but this setting seems not to apply here. However, I can ...
