Some research the other day led me to a helpful blog post explaining how to stop attachments from showing a preview of a PDF and/or image. If you would like to make this the default behavior you’ll need to use the Terminal to set the preference. Terminal is in Applications>Utilities. Open ...
Apple Mail, IMAP, and special folders
Note: everything below can be generally applied to most any IMAP mail application, including Outlook, Thunderbird, and the version of Mail included in iOS. Only the details vary. Unfortunately, no standards exist as to what IMAP special folders should be called, so every mail host and IMAP client ...
IMAP Versus POP Mail on the Mac
There are 2 ways your email can be set up: POP and IMAP. Do you know the difference between POP and IMAP? Read on! POP POP stands for Post Office Protocol. It is a standard way for computers to send and retrieve email. Most mail hosts, including Yahoo and Gmail, support POP. If your mail is set ...
Entourage Database Problems on Your Mac
If you use Entourage on your Mac for your mail, how many times has the program told you that your email database is corrupted? Because of the way Entourage stores mail (in one giant file), if even one email has a problem with it, the entire database may be unusable. There are a few solutions or ...
IMAP, Gmail, and Apple Mail–the combo
In this week's issue of TidBITS (an incredible Mac resource, by the way--and they just had their 19th anniversary!), Joe Kissell has an article about IMAP, Gmail, and Apple Mail, and how he mixed and matched features and functions to get his email system working perfectly for his needs. The article ...