Mail

You’ve run into a problem: the Mail icon bounces endlessly in the Dock (and the pointer may or may not change to a spinning beach ball), or it unexpectedly quits and presents you with a window indicating such. How can you solve this frustrating event? Perform the following steps—in order and one at a time—until [...]

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Apple’s Mail can import folders and messages from many other email applications. This is obviously useful if you are switching from another email program and have not stored your messages on the email server. The import service provides a unique troubleshooting tool, however, in that you can use it to re-import your existing mail folders. [...]

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Quickly Find Files Recently Attached in Mail

by Matt on February 13, 2009

Roger wrote in to ask this question: As a recent convert to Leopard from Vista, I much prefer the look and feel of the OS X. However Outlook has a facility that when I want to attach a file to send it to someone, it will give me, (as part of the “open” attachment) a [...]

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Setting a Default Email Address in Mail

by Matt on January 13, 2009

If you have more than one email account set up in Apple’s Mail application, you might have noticed that, at some point, you sent an email from the wrong email account. Why? Because Mac OS X’s default configuration for composing or replying to email addresses is to send an email from the previously viewed account. [...]

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Allen wrote in to ask how users of Apple’s MobileMe service can create email aliases. You might be wondering what these email aliases are and with good reason: Apple basically hides the service deep in its webmail preferences. That being said, email aliases can be a wonderful addition to your MobileMe experience, as they can [...]

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How many times have you received an email and said to yourself, “I need to respond to this,” but the message gets lost among all the other messages in your inbox? It happens to me quite often. It’s great when we can respond right away with a very short message, but usually we need to [...]

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Software Updates: Mail Update 1.0

by Matt on December 22, 2008

Apple released an update for its own Mail.app today due to a bug that affects 10.5.6 users: This update addresses stability issues with Mail. After updating to Mac OS X 10.5.6, Mail may unexpectedly quit.  This can be caused by using a copy of Mail that wasn”t updated properly (you may need to install the [...]

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