TUAW Tip: open a second Mail window to stay productive

Nice, thanks!

#5: andre_sala - I can think of two things that could be causing these issues. 1) It could be a permissions error, which means you could go to Applications/Utilities, open Disk Utility and run a 'Repair Permissions' on your main Macintosh Hard Drive to see if it helps matters.

2) You might need to rebuild your mailboxes, but that can *sometimes* be a little tricky. I'll list out the steps, but proceed at your own risk here (sometimes a rebuild can lose messages, but it's rare. I recommend backing Mail up before doing this): First, you should probably go to ~/Library/Mail and backup the Mail folder. Clicking on Mail and pressing cmd-d to Duplicate the folder should be fine, though it might take a while depending on how big your Mail folder is. Then, in the Mail app, click on the Inbox that you're having troubles with, and go up to Mailbox > Rebuild. This might take a while as well, and you can monitor the status with Window > Activity (cmd-0).

I hope this helps!

#7: It was meant to be a goofy joke. I hope you didn't get the wrong impression that I though AOL invented email in the mid-90's or anything. I totally know Compuserve was there first.

:)

Read again your first sentence "This whole 'electronic mail' really seems to have taken off with the internets, and we need to rely on it for an increasing amount of communication with email lists, coworkers, friends and more."

And try to see what is absurd into it ;) Or maybe you can explain what is "electronic mail" without internet. Ray Tomlinson has created email with the @ sign in 1971. Or maybe you want to talk about… its first creation… in 1961… the CTSS? :)))

this is great! soo simple, too. I always hated navigating the folders w/ my cursor! Great work. ( I feel so,,,, zen-like,,, or is that indigestion?)

Cool tip!

I wish mail app crashed less. Everytime I view an email sent from a PC mail client that has an attachment, I get an immediate crash, and when I relaunch mail app, all my viewer settings are gone and open drafts are no longer open.

Smingram, double click on an item in the source list other than the "Music" item. That's been in there since iTunes was SoundJam.

Thanks for the fix Ben! Post edited.

thanks for the correction, this is super useful. is there a command like this for itunes?

The keyboard shortcut is actually Option + Command + N