How do I get Mail to not start up when I login to my Mac?
Whenever I login to my Mac (running OS X 10.5.8 Leopard), Mail starts up. How do I get it to not start when I login?
It's not in my Login Items in my Accounts preferences, and Open at Login is not checked for the Mail icon on my dock.
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How do I move saved Mail.app mail from one machine to another?
I have two OS X machines running Snow Leopard, a laptop and a desktop. I have saved mail messages on my laptop that I'd like to move to my desktop. However, the obvious method—copying ~/Library/Mail/Mailboxes/Saved Items/ and …Saved Items.mbox to ~/Library/Mail/Mailboxes—doesn'...
Why is iPhone mail much faster than Mail.app?
It is noticeably faster to send and receive mail on my iPhone than on my MacBook, both through a Gmail IMAP account. (I'm still using Leopard, though.) I have a few rules set up in Mail, but it seems like the slowdown on the Mac is in the communication to Google's servers.
Any exp...
Certain letters are suddenly showing up as fractions in Mac's Mail program
Certain letters are suddenly showing up as fractions in Mac's Mail program. Specifically,
lowercase a = 1/2
lowercase b = 1/4
lowercase c = 3/4
Capitalized, they work fine, the other keys are working fine, and this ...
What Is the Keyboard Shortcut for Moving to Last Message in Mac OS X Mail.app?
I'm on Mac OS X 10.5.8 (Leopard).
In Mail, I have the first message in my Inbox selected and I'm trying to navigate to the last message using my keyboard.
In Thunderbird, I just hit the End key, which for me is "Function-right arrow" because I'm on a MacBook Pro....
Sending (simpler) plain text emails with Apple Mail
I would like to send plain text emails using Apple Mail. (I'm using version 3.6 on Leopard.) This looked fairly straightforward: Preferences -> Composing -> Message Format: Plain Text. However, Apple Mail sends messages using this MIME type:
Content-Type: text/plain; chars...
Mail.app doesn't detect sender in Address Book
Hi there.
I don't understand, how does 'smart addresses' in Mail.app work. Recently
I mentioned, that for some emails I don't see person's full name in 'From' column.
I started to dig into this behavior and found out, that I have few contacts in my Address Book, ...
GMail IMAP + Apple Mail / iPhone - "Account exceeded bandwidth limits. (Failure)"
Started seeing this this morning in Apple Mail. I have one of those exclamation point error indicators next to "Inbox", with this error message when I click on it:
There may be a problem with the mail server or network. Verify the settings for account “IMA...
How should I configure Mail.App and Google Mail?
I'm running the Mac OS X 10.6 version of Mail.app and accessing Google Apps' mail via IMAP. I'm trying to make the integration as seamless as possible because I'm thinking of switching my wife to the combination.
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Apple Mail doesn't apply rules unless I choose "Apply Rules" manually
I'm using Apple Mail with IMAP account. I have several filtering rules defined. The problem is that Mail doesn't apply them automatically to incoming email. Even spam isn't filtered automatically.
For all incoming email, every time, I have to select e-mails and select "Apply Rules...
How do I move a pop3 account in apple mail to use Exchange on Snow Leopard?
I have a pop3 email account set up in Apple Mail and now that I have upgraded to Snow Leopard, I would like to make it an Exchange account. How do I change that account to use Exchange, making sure all the mail in that account isn't lost?
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How do i download all mail from my POP server?
Does anyone know how i can download all mail from my GMail server via POP? I am using Mail on a Mac.
Thanks
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Recovering OS X Mail Accounts Lost in Crash
I had a hard crash on my Mac PowerBook and when I restarted, Mail came up with only my MobileMe account still available and I cannot figure out how to restore the other eight email accounts I have.
The directories in ~/Library/Mail all seem to be there. I even did an rsync of the ...
A way to strip certain text from incoming email in Mail.app (Mac Mail)?
I receive a large number of emails from a particular client of mine. These emails all come with a fairly long standard disclaimer at the bottom. When I print these emails, Mail makes a complete bodge of it due to the long line length of the disclaimer. None of the three formatting options 'rewrap...
Greyed out emails in Mail.app
Within Mail.app on my Gmail account, deleting or moving items no longer removes that item from the Inbox, instead they appear as greyed out.
In the image above these emails have either been...
Mac Mail: Inline Attachments?
Let's say a user sends me e-mail with an attached file: attachment.txt, which contains the text
This is the contents of attachment.txt!!!1one
In Thunderbird, I would see a little icon labeled "attachment.txt". ...
To get Mail work for `git am`
I use Gmail and Mac's Mail for emails.
It seems that you can use git am only with a terminal's Mail in OS X/Ubuntu.
I apparently need to set up my ~/.mailrc such that
# gmail account
account gmail {
set from="masi.masi@gmail.com (...
How do I copy a link to a Mail.app message without using drag-and-drop?
I keep a daily journal, and I like to have links to email messages, my mail client is Mail.app on OSX. I can drag-and-drop links to my journal program (VoodooPad), but I would really prefer to copy and paste them, so I have a link that looks like message://%3C30533360.1931252053580.bla.bla.bla....
IMAP on Mail.app, and Gmail questions
I recently setup my gmail account with IMAP on my email account.
Unfortunately, I now have a stubborn white folder called [Gmail] that contains all of gmail's folders. I can't get rid of them, or hide them. When mail arrives, it also appears in Gmail's folders. Syncing is a littl...
Import contacts from MS exchange to Address Book
Does anyone know how to import contacts from MS exchange to OSX Leopard Address book? I am able to get auto-complete in Mail for the email address stored in Exchange but I cannot import the contacts to Address book. Anyone know how?
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