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iOS 5 features: Mail

by Steven Sande (Oct 13th, 2011)

Of the many new features in iOS 5, some of the most subtle changes came with the Mail app. iCloud now brings a free email account to anyone who wants to snag one, and that email account is accessible from any device -- Apple or not. First, text can now be formatted using bold, italic, or ...

Dear Aunt TUAW: Help me expand Mail's tracking-fu

by Erica Sadun (Aug 22nd, 2011)

Dear Aunt TUAW, I really like Mail 5's shipment tracking feature, but it only seems to look up shipments in USPS. What if I have a package arriving from some other service? Is there a way to change what site Mail looks up for tracking info? Your loving nephew, Bob V. Dear Bob, Those ...

A few nasty gotchas in Lion

by Mel Martin (Jul 21st, 2011)

Any major system update always has a few bugs and surprises, and Lion is no exception. There are two bugs that hit me directly -- one in Mail, and the other in working with network attached storage (NAS) devices. Let me hit NAS first. I have a pretty old Buffalo Linkstation that I use to back ...

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 ...

MobileMe webmail balks at political bulk mailings

by Mike Schramm (Jul 8th, 2011)

Unfortunately, as originally reported by John Brownlee at Cult of Mac, it looks like Apple may be filtering out emails sent from the online MobileMe client based on content. The story is that a user was trying to send an email mentioning "Authoritarian Oppressive Regimes," and when sent, those ...

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 ...

Postbox 2.5 out with new Mac theme, 64-bit mode

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Jun 29th, 2011)

Postbox is a favored alternate email client among the TUAW staff and version 2.5 was just released with a number of updates. This includes Postbox now running in 64-bit mode along with a new theme, interface and icon set that does much to make it look similar to the built-in Mail app, but retain ...

New iCloud FAQ: Yes, there will be webmail

by Steven Sande (Jun 24th, 2011)

Since iCloud was announced by Apple on June 6, the TUAW inbox has been filled to capacity with questions about the many features of Apple's cloud computing platform of the future. Unfortunately, we have been just as much in the fog as you have about what features are moving from MobileMe to ...

TUAW's Daily Mac App: MailTab

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Jun 10th, 2011)

Even with the upcoming overhaul to Mail in Lion, there are still plenty of alternatives for accessing your Gmail in OS X without going through the default Mail.app. Several TUAW bloggers are ardent fans of Mailplane, a US$24.99 app that turns Gmail's web interface into a dedicated email ...

Mail gets major overhaul in OS X

by Mel Martin (Jun 6th, 2011)

It's the app we probably use the most, and Mail is getting some big-league features in Lion. Attendees at WWDC only got a brief glimpse of the new Mail app, but it's loaded with new and compelling features. The app has been completely redesigned, with a new multi-column view that looks a bit ...

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 ...

Sparrow 1.1 lands in the Mac App Store

by Steven Sande (Mar 22nd, 2011)

The eagerly-awaited 1.1 update to the Sparrow email app (US$9.99) has landed in the Mac App Store, adding the promised features and bug fixes. The app now supports general IMAP, so for those of you who were waiting to add Yahoo!, AOL or MobileMe accounts to Sparrow and totally ditch Mail.app, ...

Sparrow for Mac beta hands-on review

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Dec 21st, 2010)

p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Helvetica} Sparrow is essentially what happens when Gmail and Tweetie for Mac hook up and have a baby. It's very much what Gmail should be on the Mac -- minimalist and classy. I tried out Mailplane a few months ago, but ...

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 ...