Apple Mail

Apple Mail has a number of capabilities that make it easier to work with email. Some of the special features are hidden, or at least not very obvious. In this guide, we'll show you many of the little tips and tricks that make it easier to use Apple Mail.

The search function in Apple Mail is surprisingly slow and unwieldy at times. If you need to find certain email messages quickly, use Smart Mailboxes instead.

The default Apple Mail interface is clean and easy to use, but you might want to tweak it a bit to make it just right. We'll show you how to customize the Mail toolbar.

The first step to taking control of your email is to organize it. We'll show you how to organize your email messages in Apple Mail by creating mailboxes.

Apple Mail can make your life, or at least your email messages, more colorful, with a number of stationery options to choose from.

When you send email messages to a group in Apple Mail, use the BCC (blind carbon copy) option to protect everyone's privacy.

You can save time and ease your stress level by using the Rules feature in Apple Mail to organize incoming email. We'll show you how in this quick tip.

Apple Mail has a built-in spam filter with a respectably high level of accuracy. You can use it to set suspected spam aside to check later, or to whisk junk mail out of your sight, never to be seen again.

You can use the flag feature in Apple Mail to mark important email messages for later reference. We'll show you how to turn the flag feature on and off in this quick tip.

You can use Apple Mail Notes and To-Do's to keep reminders of appointments and tasks just a click away. You can also integrate notes and reminders with iCal.

You can save yourself at least a few minutes a day by creating a signature to use in your email messages in Apple Mail. You can even create multiple signatures and switch between them.

Apple's Mail is one of the most intuitive email applications currently available for Macs. It can easily handle Gmail and other web-based email accounts.

Apple's Mail is one of the most intuitive email applications currently available for Macs. It can easily handle AOL and other web-based email accounts.

Troubleshooting Apple Mail: Troubleshooting Apple Mail can at first seem like a difficult process, but Apple provides some built-in troubleshooting tools that can help you get your Mail application up and running quickly. When you're having trouble with Apple Mail, check out our Apple Mail Troubleshooting guides, which we've gathered in one...

Troubleshooting Apple Email and a Dimmed Send Button: A dimmed 'Send' button in Apple Mail means there isn't a correctly configured outgoing mail server (SMTP) associated with the Mail account. This can happen for a number of reasons but the two mostly likely are that the mail service you use made changes to its settings and you need to update your settings, or your Mail preference file is outdat…

Troubleshooting Apple Mail: Apple Mail is very straightforward to set up and use. Apple provides convenient guides that step you through the process for creating accounts. Apple also provides a few troubleshooting guides designed to help you when something isn't working. The three main assistants for diagnosing problems are the Activity window, the Connection Doctor, and Mail logs.

Moving your Apple Mail to a new Mac, or to a new, clean install of the OS, may seem like a difficult task but it actually only requires saving three items and moving them to the new destination.

Apple Mail rules allow you to set up conditions and actions that tell Apple Mail how to process incoming messages. With Apple Mail rules, you can automate and organize your email for a better workflow.

You can add a photo to an email message in Apple Mail without launching iPhoto. This tip shows you how to use the Photo Browser in Mail.