Tag: mail
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How to stop Apple mail opening when you are watching a movie
Since Catalina our movies keep getting interrupted by the Apple mail app randomly opening. One minute we are watching a movie then next moment half our scene vanishes and the Apple Mail appears! Thanks to my son Tim who worked out the solution below. If you close Apple mail (Apple-W or hit the red circle)…
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How to open a browser window that’s logged into a specified Google account
I have four different Google accounts and quite often I find myself in a browser in the wrong account. For example I might be trying to edit my church calendar, which resides in my work Google account, but because I have just been reading my personal mail in Gmail, I am logged into that Google…
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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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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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Apple support Scam
In Australia there is a very clever scam going on at the moment. When your email stops working, you may get a call from someone claiming they are from ‘Apple Support.’ It may be a polite greeting like ‘Hello this is Mary from Apple Support and we’ve noticed you’ve had a problem with your Gmail…
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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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What to do when Apple mail is telling you that your Google password is wrong
If you get a message in Apple Mail saying that “the user name or password for ‘imap.gmail.com’ is incorrect” but you know that your email address and Password are the right ones, here are some things to try.
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Google Inbox iOS app – a great alternative to Apple Mail App
Google Inbox has become my preferred email app for my iPhone. I have been using it alongside Apple Mail for about a year but in the last couple of months I have completely ditched the Apple Mail app in favour of Google Inbox. It’s just lovely to use, where do I start?
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Google beat Apple at their own game – 3 must have iOS apps by Google.
I have been keeping an eye on three iOS apps that Google have been playing with over the last few years, and they have all come to age at the same time. I’m not sure if the timing is coincidence or some kind of subversive move by Google but Google have nailed these three wonderful iOS…
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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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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 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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Search problems in Mail application
I’ve been having a problem with mail – I can’t do a search on ‘entire message’. It is greyed out.
