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Manually Setup a Mail Account in OS X Lion

November 3rd, 2011 by macguy | File in: Mail

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One of the major changes in Mac Lion is the default integration of major email services. Gmail, Yahoo Mail, AOL Mail, Hotmail, and other major webmail providers have built-in functionality, as they are streamlined for OS X 10.7. There are some times, however, when you may not want to use Lion’s built-in email setup. In [...]

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Users of the OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Mail app often experience a recurring problem with repeat e-mail messages being saved in the Recovered Messages Folder.  One large e-mail can easily max out the memory designated for mail storage.  If you sent a particularly large file, the load time for your Mail app will go [...]

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Creating To Do’s in Mail

May 1st, 2011 by srobles | File in: Mail

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When using the Mail application, you can create To Do’s and Reminders directly from a mail message. Any text can be made into a To Do, and any date or time written in the email can be added to your iCal. Open the Mail application by clicking its icon in the Dock or Application Folder. [...]

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Resize Photo Attachments in Mail

January 2nd, 2011 by srobles | File in: Mail

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When emailing lots of photos to family and friends, it can be very time consuming to upload all those large file sizes. Even resizing them individually will create duplicate files taking up space on your hard drive. Using the Mail application, you can resize photos directly inside an email message while composing. This saves time [...]

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Using Groups in Address Book and Mail

November 29th, 2010 by srobles | File in: Address Book, Mail

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A great feature in OS X’s built in Address book is Groups. Groups are the equivalent to Outlook’s Distribution Lists. Once a group is created, bulk emails can be sent to all members of that group through the Mail application. Groups can also be dragged into spreadsheets with Keynote (Apple’s iWork Suite) to quickly create [...]

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Adding Signatures to Mail

November 18th, 2010 by srobles | File in: Mail, OS X

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Adding a signature to all your outgoing mail is a great way to let people know how to contact you and even promote your own website or Twitter account. Typically a signature may contain your position and place of employment, personal website, email address, phone number and any other personal information you would like people [...]

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How to Check your Hotmail using Mail.app

May 14th, 2009 by Aseem Kishore | File in: Mail, Tutorials

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This tutorial will guide you through setting up Mail, the default email application that comes with OS X, so that you can send and receive your Hotmail messages from directly within Mail. Start out by launching Mail, and selecting Mail -> Preferences… from the top drop-down menu. Select the Accounts tab and then click the [...]

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Improve your Mail.app Productivity with MailWidget

April 30th, 2009 by Aseem Kishore | File in: Mail, Tutorials

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MailWidget is a great widget for the MacOS Dashboard. It resides in you Dashboard and checks for incoming emails. It notifies you when you receive a new email message, and the great thing is that it works even if Mail.app is not running. To install it go to the MailWidget website and download the latest [...]

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How to Create Smart Mailboxes in Mac Mail

January 29th, 2009 by Aseem Kishore | File in: Mail, Tutorials

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Mac Mail is a really handy email client. One of the really neat features of the Mail application are Smart Mailboxes. Let’s take a look at what smart mailboxes can do to enhance your productivity. Using smart mailboxes you can create virtual folders to help organize your mail. This feature allows you to sort your [...]

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