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Turn off Data Detectors in Mail.app
Among the new features Apple touted in Leopard was data detectors in Mail.app. The idea is that if somebody sends you an email with a street address in it, for example, Mail.app can detect that it's a street address and add it an Address Book contact ...
Speed Up Your Mail.app
The guru of all things Mail.app, Tim Gaden at Hawk Wings, has posted a tip that seems to offer a considerable speed boost to Mail. Basically performing the tip strips the "bloat out of [Mail's] Envelope index, an SQLite database Mail uses to store ...
RelatedMail plugin for Mail.app
RelatedMail is a free plugin for Mail.app which "shows messages related to the currently viewed message" in a panel next to the preview pane. It does this by building an index based on message headers and content which it then uses to guess what ...
Immediately delete messages from Mail.app with a hotkey
Sure, you can simply hit the delete key in Mail.app to send a
message to the Trash, then empty the trash or go in and manually delete the message again to remove it for good. Or,
you could use a simple, handy little tip that MacOSXHints tracked down ...
MailBadger: free unread badges for Mail.app
We've mentioned Dockstar ($8) several times as a way to add extra badges to your Mail.app Dock icon for indicating unread message counts for mailboxes other than the inbox. Now Mail Badger appears on the scene to offer similar functionality in a ...
Is the Mail.app look being copied too much?
Fraser Speirs, developer of apps like FlickrExport and Xjournal, posed an interesting issue on his blog the other day: is the general
look and UI of Mail.app being duplicated by too many other developers? Fraser doesn't necessarily dislike the ...
Apple to add iPhone notes syncing to Mail.app?
A loyal reader recently sent in a tip asking us had we seen a dialog in Mail.app. The dialog in question is produced when creating a new note and pressing command + b. You would expect it to be a shortcut for bold, but no ... it brings up the above ...
Give Mail.app a three-pane view
For those of you longing for the often-requested three-pane view in Mail.app, Tim Gaden at Hawk Wings has dug up yet another stellar find: an actual working version. This Ars Technica forum thread begins with the typical "gee, it'd be great if..." ...
Mail.app replacement
Okay, sure, we've asked this before, but after months and months of using Mail.app and loving it, I'm kicking it to the curb and shopping for a new email client. Why would I do such a thing?
Well, I get about 100 emails an hour and Mail.app ...
Ask TUAW: Cookies, Mail.app vs Outlook, Party Shuffle and more
We got a lot of great questions following last week's Ask TUAW. This means, unfortunately, we won't be able to address all of them this week, but we still have managed answers for several more than usual. This week we'll be tackling questions about ...
Give names to your .Mac aliases in Mail.app with a simple AppleScript
I.heart.macosxhints.com. An enterprising reader of their site submitted an AppleScript that offers you a simple dialog for each .Mac alias you have, allowing you to enter custom names to be associated with each alias in Mail.app (something Apple ...
Hawk Wings wraps up "Talking Mail.app" series
Hawk Wings, Tim Gaden's blog about all things Mail.app, has been running a
series for the last couple months in which he chats with various developers and "iCelebrities" about the ups
and downs of Apple's default email client. The list ...
Three-pane Mail.app turns into a plug-in
Well that was quick. First Mail.app received a widescreen, three-pane face-lift, and now it's been morphed into a plug-in. The author provides two different sets of instructions for installing: drag and dropping into your ~/Library/Mail/Bundles/ ...
TUAW Tip: keep a Mail.app message open when replying
Today's tip
involves a Mail.app hint I found that I thought was just too handy not to mention. If you use Mail.app and you open
some messages in their own window, you might have noticed that if you hit reply, the original message disappears in
favor ...
Changing Mail.app's icons
I'm a pretty boring guy when it comes to my OS UI. I don't change the default icons, I don't change the sounds, heck I hardly even change the desktop picture. Now, I know some other folks like to go crazy and if Mail.app's defaults are too bland for ...


