Category: email
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How to make a copy of all your Gmail emails before you delete them.
I use a spark as my OS X email client but my mail is hosted by Google. After about seven years I found that I reached Google’s free 15 GB email limit and I could not receive any more emails. I could have started all over again with a new Gmail account but I wanted…
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Not getting new emails after OS X upgrade
Since OS X Mojave my Apple mail stops getting new emails every few months. This seems to occur with each new OSX upgrade. (e.g. 10.14.3 to 10.14.4) The mail app loses the password for the Gmail accounts, a lightning symbol appears next to each account, and no new emails come in. There’s a simple fix,…
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How to paste html email into Apple Mail
I just went to add a Facebook invitation button to an email only to discover that the code that Facebook gave me would not paste properly into Apple mail. This is because Apple mail does not allow you to paste ‘html’ directly into an email. Here’s how to get html (like a Facebook button, or…
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How to set up Gmail in Apple Mail
Gmail seems to be the main email provider and no wonder – it is free and it has the best spam filtering and protection. But the Gmail web interface is a bit clunky so it is nice to be able to use Gmail with the built in Apple mail program. Here’s how to set up…
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How to quickly add an emoji to an email in OS X Apple mail
Here’s a great little trick I learned from my youngest daughters. If you are in the OSX mail app just hold down control-command-space and a window will appear full of emoji. Click any emoji and it will be added to your email. (Emoji are the little smiles etc that people put in emails. 😉)…
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How to forward photos in Apple mail and keep the high quality
I just noticed than if you ‘forward’ an email containing photos Apple mail will reduce the quality and size of the photos. I noticed this when I forwarded some photos to myself from one computer to another and they shrank to about 1/10 of the size! Thankfully there is a way to change this to…
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Removing old email addresses from iPhone mail
Have you ever had the problem in the mail app on the iPhone that when you start to type a person’s name all their past (obsolete) email addresses come up! Even after you have deleted someone from your ‘Contacts’ they can appear in the ‘To’ field of Mail app when you are writing a new email. This is because the…
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How to delete an email on Gmail but keep it on your Mac
What do you do if you wish to delete emails to de-clutter your Gmail account, but you’d like to keep a copy of some emails in case you need them in the future? If you use Gmail in the Apple mail app, and you delete an email in Gmail, it’s deleted from your computer as well. There is, however, a…
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Improving OS X Email – How to bulk delete emails from Google Mail
Here’s how to bulk delete emails from your Gmail account to speed up the Apple mail app.
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Improving OS X Email – How many emails do I have in my gmail account?
I’ve had gmail account for over 5 years and as the number of emails stored at google mail has increased Apple mail has slowed down. Recently it got to the point where Apple mail almost came to a grinding halt. When I checked my mail sometimes it would take up to 5 minutes to finish checking the…
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How to get Gmail to send mail in OSX 10.9 Mavericks
So it turns out there can be a glitch with Mavericks and Gmail. When I installed Mavericks on my Macbook Pro, all my messages piled up into my outbox, but weren’t sent. It turned out that Mail wasn’t picking up my password properly from the System Preferences. Here’s how I got it going.
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How to Share a Pages file with a Windows user.
Here’s how to share a pages document with a PC user.
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How to access your gmail contacts from Apple Contacts app.
This article has been updated here: How to sync your Apple address book with Google contacts The method below is obsolete but I have left it here for reference in case you are running an older version of OS X.
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How to set up Apple mail to work with a Gmail account. (This is the original article from 2013)
How to set up email for Google gmail on your mac.
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How to send a nicely formatted email in Apple Mail
How to make an nicely formatted email in keynote and mail it to anyone as a pdf.
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How to copy a font
How to copy fonts between Mac computers eg to make the fonts available to Keynote on your laptop.
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How to stop spam
“I’m getting heaps of spam, ever since I put my email address on my webpage. Is there a way to stop it?”
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How to send lots of files or folders in an email
How to make a zip file to email to someone.
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Switching to OS X
Switching to OS X from a PC is a big change. Here are a some of my random thoughts on the transition.
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How to upload iWeb 09 sites without a .mac account
iWeb from 2009 onwards has the ability to publish your website directly to an ftp server. This means that you don’t need a .mac account to publish your iWeb site.
