Mail.app Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Dear Aunt TUAW: Let me help people fix their notes on Mountain Lion

by Erica Sadun (Jul 31st, 2012)

Dear Aunt TUAW, I am writing you because I think you may want to publish this on your column, as a tip to your trillions of readers. On Leopard, Apple included Notes within Mail, an app I use exclusively. I wrote many notes on Mail, including to-do reminders and background notes. Enter ...

Mountain Lion 101: Mail VIPs

by Steven Sande (Jul 28th, 2012)

This Mountain Lion 101 feature is a quickie -- Apple's Mail app now has a new feature called VIPs that gives you one-click access to emails from those very important people in your life. Emails from VIPs have a star next to the sender's name, and a mailbox for each VIP is added to the ...

Lion Mail: Faster, full-screen, and feature-packed

by Steven Sande (Jul 20th, 2011)

During my testing of OS X Lion during the last month, I decided to take a break from my beloved Sparrow to see if the reboot of Mail.app could bring me back into the fold. I hate to tell the Sparrow team, but I'm heading to back to Mail. In this post, I'll discuss the features that have made me ...

Clearing old addresses from Mail's auto-complete list

by Michael Rose (Jun 30th, 2011)

If you find yourself inadvertently emailing friends or colleagues at the address they quit using years ago, chances are Mail.app's Previous Recipients list is at fault. It's easy enough to clear out the cruft; just go to Mail's Window menu and choose Previous Recipients. Select the addresses ...

Sparrow update eats bugs, changes default settings

by Steven Sande (Jun 14th, 2011)

A minor update to Mail.app competitor Sparrow was released today. Sparrow 1.2.1, available through the Mac App Store, provides fixes to a number of crash-related bugs, as well as some changes to default app settings. According to the release notes, the Facebook wall post option is now unchecked ...

Ask TUAW: AppleScripting coolness

by Justin Esgar (Apr 27th, 2011)

It's Tuesday Wednesday, which means it's time for Ask TUAW Video Edition. We've gotten great comments and questions coming in, and we have been trying to get to them all. Some of them are just too hard to show in a video format such as Ask TUAW, so today I have decided to do a little AppleScript ...

Get email design chores under control with equinux Mail Designer

by Chris White (Apr 16th, 2011)

If you've ever had to code together a complex HTML email then you know how painful it usually is. It's like taking a trip back to 1999 before the web discovered standards and everyone was still doing table-based design -- only with the addition of cumbersome inline CSS, and the challenge of ...

5 productivity tips for Mail.app

by Sang Tang (Nov 8th, 2010)

Like Kelly Taylor from Beverly Hills 90210 and her flings with Dylan, Brandon and Colin, I've been around the block with mail clients, both on the Mac and PC side.That said, I prefer Mail.app. While Mail.app is simple enough for less advanced users, it also contains some niceties for power users. ...

Mac 101: In Mail.app, reply with selected text

by Matt Tinsley (Oct 29th, 2010)

More Mac 101, tips and tricks for the novice Mac user. I've been using the Mail app in Mac OS X for a good four or five years now. I thought I pretty much knew most of how to use it, but today I've been pleasantly surprised. I've just stumbled across a nifty little feature that I hadn't known ...

Mac 101: Making a fancy signature in Mail.app

by Steven Sande (Oct 16th, 2010)

I was leafing through some emails this afternoon and came upon one with an extremely attractive signature block. So attractive, in fact, that I promptly stopped doing the writing I was working on and decided to create my own new signature to replace the ugly one I had been using. I wanted to have ...

Postbox adds Things and OmniFocus support

by Brett Terpstra (Mar 9th, 2010)

The first time I heard about Postbox, it was a relatively new email client for the Mac. Based on the details in the first announcement and my trial run, I was very intrigued. I recall telling the rest of TUAW that -- if its stated goals were achieved -- it had the potential to take over my Mail.app ...

reMail may be reIncarnated as it goes open source

by Sang Tang (Mar 7th, 2010)

Several weeks back, we noted that Google had acquired reMail, and had placed founder Gabor Cselle and others from the reMail team on other Google projects. The reMail app distinguished itself from the iPhone's built-in Mail.app in several ways: It could download all of your emails in a way that ...

Mac 101: Getting your RSS feeds in your inbox in Mail.app

by Sang Tang (Dec 29th, 2009)

RSS reader support has been a built-in feature of Mail.app since version 3.0 (when Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard was released). Although I subscribe to a number of RSS feeds, I've yet to find the need for a dedicated RSS reader app -- such as Newsgator's NetNewsWire. I like having my email and news feeds ...

Mail.app plugin WideMail makes a comeback in Snow Leopard

by Brett Terpstra (Dec 28th, 2009)

Since upgrading, Snow Leopard users with widescreen displays may have been missing WideMail, the plugin for Mail.app that gives you a 3-column display of your messages. We mentioned it some time ago, and you may recall it being one of the casualties of my Snow Leopard upgrade. Letterbox, an ...

Not too late to send some free holiday cards from Mail.app

by Mel Martin (Dec 19th, 2009)

Ah, the virtues of email. Quick, convenient and free -- but most email greetings don't really look all that spiffy. Jumsoft comes to the rescue with some free email templates you can easily customize and get to your friends in plenty of time for the holidays. Jumsoft makes all sorts of apps and ...