Mail

Problem: Every time Mail sends or receives email, it rejects your password and asks you to reenter it. Sometimes, Mail may even accept your password but refuses to save it, even when you have asked it to. How can you get Mail to accept your password and remember it forever? Solution: Mail does not actually [...]

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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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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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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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