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Apple Mail (or Mail.App) is the email client included with Mac OS X, developed by Apple.

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How do I stop Apple Mail from opening because of iCal appointments?

I use only webbased Gmail for mail, but Mail.app keeps popping up as a result from iCal-appointments that have a e-mail reminder setting. I also get these reminders from Gmail anyway and I would like to disable the Mail.app program altogether. I'm…
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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…
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How to stop Mail.app in Lion creating an Archive folder for archiving in Gmail?

Mail.app in Mac OS 10.7 added an Archive button. Unfortunately, when archiving a message in a Gmail account, instead of simply putting the message into All Mail folder, Mail.app creates a folder called Archive (in Gmail web interface this folder…
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How to open/browse an mbox file?

Specifically an Apple Mail .mbox file. I'm looking for a way to browse the emails it contains short of just importing it back into Apple Mail and cluttering up my currents emails. I don't mind having to convert the mbox file to something else if…
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Font changes when sending from Mac Mail to Windows Outlook

How do I get the font to display properly when sending email to my Windows Outlook colleagues from Mac Mail? Currently it just picks any font up as Times New Roman on their machine even though I have chosen something else in Mac Mail. On occasion…
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Apple's Mail showing "the identity of smtp.gmail.com cannot be verified"

When trying to send email using Gmail in OS X Mail, I get: The identity of "smtp.gmail.com" cannot be verified. The certificate for this server is invalid. You might be connecting to a server that is pretending to be "smtp.gmail.com" which could…
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Modern vertical layout for Thunderbird?

It's weird that I haven't been able to find relevant information anywhere. Basically what I want is a modern vertical layout for the inbox of Thunderbird. That is to say, the message sender and subject should not be crammed into one line, but…
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Managing MS Exchange server-side email rules on Mac OS X?

Has anybody found an easy way to manage server-side rules from Mac OS X? Here's a brief list of what I know doesn't work: Entourage 2008 - it supports client rules, but not server rules. No good, there are certain actions that should happen before…
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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…
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Backup Gmail using Mail.app and IMAP without redundancy

I don't care for actually using mail app. I use it just for offline access, for eventual quick reading and even more eventually replying. I use mostly the gmail interface. So I've setup and tuned up it with gmail and everything is working fine. I…
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Clearing Cache in Mail on Snow Leopard

Can anyone tell me how to clear the cache in the Mail application on Snow Leopard? I noticed that it was automatically backing up my gmail messages so it ended up caching 11GB of emails even though that's more than my account. The only solution I…
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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…
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How to fix incorrect dates in Apple Mail after migrating from IMAP to Exchange?

My company has just transitioned from an IMAP provider to a Microsoft Exchange server. As part of the transition, I moved all of my old messages from the various IMAP folders into corresponding folders on the Exchange server. They've moved, but some…
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Mail.app: Showing my sent messages in thread view

I would like to know if there is a way to show my sent mails in thread view in Mail.app. I like thread view a lot, the only thing that I would love to have is viewing my sent mails also in the threads, just the way GMAIL does it. Thanks!
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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…
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