We’ve all seen it. Â The little “On My Mac” label in Apple Mail, or Entourage’s “On My Computer” label… Almost every modern mail package offers a similar feature, but many people don’t understand what this means… Â So here’s the scoop. There are three different major ways to handle email: Post Office Protocol (POP 3) IMAP […]
I’ve tried everything I know and searched everywhere, but I can’t find an answer to this problem. Several of my clients have this issue and now I have it, after adding two new accounts to Mail – both of the new accounts are effected, but the older ones work fine. Mail picks up email and […]
You may to wish to back up your mailboxes, messages, addresses, and account settings as part of your regular backup strategy. To back up this information, make copies of the files listed below. Copy all the files located in ~/Library/Mail. Copy the file “com.apple.mail.plist,” located in ~/Library/Preferences. This file stores the preferences you set in […]
Can you create sub-folders in Apple Mail and store them on a drive the way you can do is Microsoft Outlook? In MS Outlook, you could create a .pst folder and create as many sub-folders. Can you do the same thing in Apple Mail? Apple Mail can do so much more than OutLook.. Â Mail […]
Apple Mail’s stores it’s email in an unusual location…  You would think, since it is user created content, that they would be stored in ~/Documents, but for some reason Safari Bookmarks, and Apple Mail are actually stored in ~/Library.  By the way, the Safari content is in ~Library/Safari. Apple Mail emails are stored in ~Library/Mail.