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Mail - How to keep in touch!

Welcome to this 3rd installment of the Mac Productivity Series.

Mail for Mac OS X

Mail is a very robust e-mail client. Mail integrates with your Address Book, iChat, iCal, and even Finder smoothly and seamlessly.

Some Major features:

  • Smart Mailboxes - These dynamic folders can be configured just about anyway you like. For example, suppose you want to keep track of all email you get from Aunt Dora, but only what she has sent in the past 30 days that you have not yet responded to. Set up a smart mailbox like so: Smart Mailbox(Picture Smart Mailbox) Now all mail from dear ol' Auntie Dora that you have not had time to reply to is conveniently located in it's own mailbox. This will change automatically as the messages change. Any new messages your dear aunt in your inbox will also show up in this folder. If you reply, that message will no longer be there. If the message is more than 30 days ago, it will disappear from this folder. (The messages will still be in your inbox or where ever you moved them.)
  • Adding a new contact - Got an email from a new friend? It is a simple matter to add them to your address book. Note the picture here:

    Add to Address Book


    Now you can simply add what ever information that you wish and it will appear in Address Book.
Mail also has many templates that you can use as well to dress up your messages. Do you like to follow blogs? Read the RSS feeds right in Mail! Any new posts to the blog will show up in Mail.

Our next installment in this series will feature iCal.
What do you enjoy about using Mail for Mac? Let me know! I'd love to hear from you.
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Anonymous said…
You can do a similar thing with Rules. When an e-mail comes in from a certain sender you can highlight it a certain color, move it to a folder, even play a "ringtone" sound. I counted 26 different criteria and 13 different actions. try it out!
September 29, 2008 at 10:56 AM
Bob Kuivanen said…
Great suggestions, alex!
September 29, 2008 at 3:56 PM
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