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Mail.app Assumes Google is the Desired Service for a Self-Hosted Domain
I am migrating from Google Apps for Domains to a self-hosted service. After removing my Google account from Mail, and attempting to add my self-hosted account, Mail and System Preferences always ...
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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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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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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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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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Is there a way to disable data detectors from Mail?
Is there a way to disable the data detector "feature" from Mail?
LE: OSX 10.8.3 / Mail 6.3 (1503)
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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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Enable OS X Mail editing toolbar
Some time ago somebody helped me to know how to display the OS X Mail message editing toolbar. Please note, this is not the main Mail toolbar, but appears on the message window. I did not record the ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 edit the right click menu to remove certain options?
I'm using Sparrow as my default email app. I have also removed Mail.app from my Mac. Whenever I right click on a file or folder I see options to compress, and options to email the folder/file, but ...
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Stop flagged messages in inactive accounts from contributing to Flagged counter
I have two accounts set up in Mail 6.2. Most of the time I disable one of them (my personal account) to avoid being distracted at work.
Strangely, the number of "Flagged" messages includes messages ...
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Why doesn't this simple applescript work any more in ML mail.app (as a rule)
It works only when you right click on the mail message and choose "run rules", but not on incoming messages (without interaction).
The first dialog is shown both when incoming or running manually, ...
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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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OS X Mail: Search within message (including header)
I would like to search within an individual email message using OS X Mail version 5.3 or above (Lion, Mountain Lion). I would like this search to include the email header.
Using Edit > Find > Find… ...
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How can prevent certain senders from going to Junk Mail without creating contact?
I am running Mountain Lion 10.8 and use Mail.app for my email mostly. I recently purchased a product from Amazon, somewhere I order from frequently, and noticed that I didn't receive the usual sales ...
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Disable backspace to delete e-mails in Mail.app
Sometimes I accidentally move messages to the trash in Mail.app when I hit backspace. I tried to find what the 'Backspace' shortcut stands for, but I could not find it in the Mail.app menu. The only ...
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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 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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Mail app freezes after opening? [closed]
Ok, let me start by saying that I just started using a Mac about two months ago.
Yesterday I was doing something that kicked off about 500 emails to my email account. When I tried to open my mail ...
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mail.app missing plug-in
Today I opened mail.app and my mail attachments showed up as "missing plug-in". I faced this issue before, at that time I quite the mail.app and opened again were fix the problem. Now that also not ...
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Mail.app inbox becomes blank after a few minutes of use
On a newly installed and fully updated Mountain Lion system, I see the following problem:
After a few minutes of using Mail.app (or even just letting it sit in the dock), the inbox becomes empty. ...
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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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Exchange invites accepted twice - once from mail, once from calendar
When I receive an exchange meeting invite, it appears in my email inbox (with controls to accept/decline) and also in my calendar (under the small invitations icon). When I accept from one, the other ...
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Mail.app behaving strange when sending mail
When I send an email to somebody I get this dialog:
Link to image (I'm a new user)
But when I click on "Connection Doctor" and then "Try With Selected Server" it works.
How can I fix this?
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Two Email Accounts in Mail.app / Can I disable notifications for one of them?
Hopefully this is an easy one! :-) I am working in Mail.app these days in Mountain Lion and I have two mail accounts within. I'd like to disable all notifications for one of those accounts. This means ...
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Can I automatically remove my signature from all replies? Mail 6.2 OS x 10.8.2
In OS X Mail.app (version 6.2 from OS X 10.8.2), I can see how to automatically add a signature for all new messages, but I do not want it automatically added when I reply to a message. Is there a way ...
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Disable outgoing mail for an account?
I have an account that I want to receive but never send email from in Mail.app. Is there a simple way to disable this one account?
I'm running Mountain Lion.
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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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Mountain Lion Mail: Only sync last month (or limited amount of time)
I just synced my Mountain Lion Mail app with my Exchange work email account in order to have it locally on my machine (rather than continuously going through the web interface). However, now Mail ...
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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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Is there a way to see which contacts are “VIPs” outside of Mail.app?
Obviously, with Mountain Lion, users may define VIPs in Apple’s Mail.app. I would like to see which contacts are marked as VIPs outside of Mail – for example in Contacts.app (smart list??), or in ...
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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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Calendar opens mail.app even though I've changed the default mail client to Sparrow
I changed the default mail client to Sparrow yet every time I try to decline a calendar invite, Mail.app launches to send the decline message.
Any ideas?
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Archive to Gmail Fails, but only when using the Archive Button on the Toolbar
If I try to archive an email using the toolbar 'archive' button I get this error message:
"The IMAP command “UID COPY” (to Archive) failed for the mailbox “INBOX” with server error: No folder Archive ...
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Migrating Local Folders from Thunderbird to Mail.app
I am moving from Thunderbird to Mac mail on my iMac running OSX. If I uninstall Thunderbird will the local folders I created in Thunderbird remain on my computer for importing later? I don't want to ...
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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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Prevent email signature from being inserted when replying
Is there a way to prevent Mail.app on OS X from auto inserting your email signature when replying to a message?
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Is it possible to store “on my mac” local folders on a network device?
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System info:
Model Name: MacBook Pro
Processor Name: Intel Core i7
Processor Speed: 2.7 GHz
Memory: 16 GB
System Version: Mac OS X 10.6.8 (10K549)
Network: GB ...
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How to stop mail.app from marking sent messages as unread?
I've just set up my new iMac, and I'm using Apple's Mail app. Every time I send a message, the message appears in my "Sent" mailbox (good) and is marked as unread (bad).
I have selected "Inbox Only" ...
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How to make Mail.app to delete Gmail messages to trash when pressing the keyboard delete button?
When I accidentally pressed delete on mail in Mail it removed the incoming mail permanently!
How can I change this behaviour so that when I press delete on the keyboard, it will remove it from the ...
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Mail and Entourage causes system hang
I have been using Mac OSX 10.6.8 Build 10K549 for over a year now.
I have a 3.06 GHz Intel Core i3 with 4 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 RAM. I also have 2 cores.
I usually use Microsoft Entourage 2008 Version ...
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How can I archive automatically on reply in mail?
I'm using Mail with Google Apps (Gmail). My goal is to archive automatically the email I've just reply. Leaving me with a clean inbox. How can you that exactly? (I'm using MailTags and Mail Act-On a ...
