Category: mail
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How to change the default OS X email Application.
I’m not sure why – I must’ve changed a setting somewhere – but recently whenever I click ‘send an email’ in OS X it opens up a Chrome browser window and tries to send a new email through Gmail. I wanted to send email with the old fashioned OS X Mail app. I went searching…
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Apple Mail can’t find my Gmail messages
If your Gmail messages stop appearing in Apple Mail, or you can’t send emails, or you are getting an error message, here are some tricks to try.
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Apple mail changing my ‘From:’ sender account
Over the past couple of months our family has discovered a strange little problem. Our emails have been getting mixed up! My daughters have been sending emails, but the replies have been coming to me. I have been sending emails, and they have appeared as coming from my wife. And in the worst case, some…
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Gmail messages stuck in Outbox in Apple Mail in Yosemite
Today I discovered a whole pile of messages in my “On my Mac: Outbox” and no matter what I tried I couldn’t get them to send. I use gmail as my mail server. The emails looked like they were sending – there was no error message – but they didn’t actually send. They were still…
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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 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This article has been updated here: How to sync your Apple address book with Google contacts The method below is obsolete but I have left it here for reference in case you are running an older version of OS X.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 stop old email addresses appearing automatically in the ‘To’ field in mail app
To delete a person’s old email address, in Mail go to ‘Window’ menu and ‘Previous Recipients’. Then click on the old email address and press the ‘Remove from List’ button.
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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 send lots of files or folders in an email
How to make a zip file to email to someone.
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How to create envelope labels from a numbers.app file
Avery has just released a free program designed to be able to print on any of their labels, of course you can use them to print on anything, but they work well with the Avery stuff because you can just type in the number from the packet and it has all the sizes already.
