Dude I just bought an M1 iMac I'm a 20 year long windows user. Your content as been absolutely god sent. If you are ever in South Africa, let me know , as I'd like tk buy you a beer and pizza .
I cannot imagine ANYONE who could do a better job of explaining everything Mac, than Gary!!! Gary, do you know how many lives you've touched and made better?! THANK YOU! 🤗
I have been using AirMail for years and just purchased a new MacBook Air. I couldn't get it set up properly so I "resorted" to Apple Mail. This video helped me enormously - thank you for making it!
I would love to select a ‘Save to” mailbox as an option for emails I send. I have a mailbox for each client/customer I service. All my created emails end up in my sent folder, which I then copy to the appropriate client mailbox, if I remember at end of day - a real pain. It would be so much easier to have an option to select any mailbox, or none, before sending. I know there must be others out there that need to save sent mail. It would be fun to see which of your viewers have the most number of emails currently sitting in their sent folders!
Thanks Gary, great video, wife is asking, whats the main reason for the archive boxes ? She says it keeps all the mail anyways, so why save it twice ? Curious. Ron
Might not be directly relevant to this video - but is there a way to get Mail to stop automatically downloading attachments? I'm using a 256 GB MacBook Air at the moment, and storage is always tight.
Here is the main problem that I have with Fonts on the Mail app. I want to be able to see larger text without impacting the font that is sent back on the reply. Outlook for example allows you to change your view (smaller/larger) without having this effect. The mail app is so limited. If you are using a 4K display or better, its difficult to view. And if you change the display resolution, you of course impact every application that you view.
I am curious as well. In outlook you can zoom in, which means the size of the fonts stays the same, but the preview will be enlarged. It seems the author of this videos never used a 4k monitor or his eyesight is perfect.
There was a really useful feature that Apple removed and I can't understand why. When you've replied to or forwarded a message and the message is still in your inbox for future reference, a little arrow appeared to the left in the message. When you clicked that arrow it took you to the message you sent. Now that no longer does that. There is another function that most mail apps have always had that Apple mail has never had and that is the ability to scroll through your unread messages with marking them as "Read." I get a fair amount of email every day. If I scroll down through 20 of them looking for something in particular, now all of the mail I have just scrolled past has been marked as read. I know you can "Page through" multiple emails quickly but the ability to scroll is much more useful. There used to be an app that fixed that but it hasn't been updated in years and doesn't work with the newer MacOSs.
Hi Gary, I saw you also don't have the arrow to give you the drop-down menu next to your send button. I want to use the "Send Later" feature but I'm struggling to find it. Any ideas?
I have Mac Mojave 10.14. In My pref/font/color : the message list font change bar is dim therefore I can't change email message size and its getting far too small to read. Can't find a way help to fix... help
Is there any way by which in Sent Items view I want to see in Column Lapyout whereas in Inbox I want a different view ? I am checking as in Outlook for Mac as well as in Windows this option is there ? When I checked in mail what I found was that once I change a view, it changes all across . The reason is in sent items I want Sent to in the column view whereas in Inbox I want from whom was the mail received. This is elementary as I am concerned however not able to see that option in Mac Mail
Hey Gary, I'm on Catalina and I always wanted to use something native instead of downloading 3rd party. The thing about the native mail on Catalina is, instead of sorting emails based on accounts as shown in this video (I.E Each email account has their down inbox, drafts, sent folder etc), they are sorted based on categories (I.E Inbox dropdown shows 3 accounts, draft dropdown shows 3 accounts etc). How do I configure it to sort based on accounts basis?
The sidebar doesn't have a color, but depending on your settings it will tint with the color of the background wallpaper behind it. See ruclips.net/video/NzIZyDPLmbc/видео.html for options to turn it off.
Hi Gary, how can I set a specific color so that every time I write a new email or I reply/forward one, Mail picks always that color? it works with the font, but not with the color unfortunately.. Thank you! Matteo
Hi Gary, before Big Sur when looking for a particular email there was an option to click From & it would alphabetize the emails to quickly find what I want. I have not been able to find it, Is it hidden? You are such a gem!
How do you customise incoming mail sounds ? I don't mean the sounds that come with the mail program, but something you download. I've downloaded a sound, converted it into AIIF, it appeared in itunes. How do I install it in Apple mail ?
For me this issue is all accounts email come in one folder, I don't like that, I want to spread them inbox and sent box-like windows, I have different emails ... Do you have a solution for that?
Thanks Gary - Learned a lot from this Video; Now if there was some way I could get emails I reply to to go into the Folder of the original Message rather then Sent (as per my old Windows Email Client) MacMail would be perfect.
Hello thank you for the videos its great to learn new stuff. Is there a way to organise emails off certain senders ie invoices from a. wholesaler tone all stored into a separate inbox. Thank you
Hi Gary, I'm on Big Sur, and when I open Mail in full-Screen mode, and want to compose a new message, a new windows opens and it will NOT go to split view. So there must be just one other setting that triggers the split view, but I do not know which 🤷🏼♂️
Invaluable resource! I have been racking my brain and the help tab in Mac mail. I have 6 separate emails and 5 of them have their own "all sent" box. How do I add a "all sent" for the last one? I would greatly appreciate your wisdom.
the list of mailboxes in apple mail sucks! Its so complicated. 🤨 When I search for a sent email, I have to klick through al the inboxes-folders to find the mail. Is their a easier way?
Can you please help me as to why my Junk mailbox gets so many ad mails every day? It’s driving me mad, I’ve enabled some rules but to no avail. Thank you
Rules won't help against real spam as it always comes from fake email addresses. If these are going to your Junk mailbox, then that's exactly where they should be.
Gary-welcome to 2021. Looking forward to learning more from your videos. Shift/Command/M-genius. Since I converted to Mac Mail exclusively a few months ago I have been wondering how to get rid of the sidebar. Thank you! Customize toolbar is new to me and I need to use that more often. How did you get your sidebar to be a diff color from the rest of the Mac mail?
@@macmost thanks for the feedback but that does not apply. I have "colors" as my desktop background that is also set to random order, and my sidebar is very "white/bright". Any suggestions?
@@javtimestwo Not sure what you mean. You can't customize the sidebar color of the Mail app. I was merely explaining why my sidebar color looked different, which is what I thought you were asking. If you use a solid color as a Desktop background then the Mail window's left sidebar will take on an aspect of the color. But that's all you can do.
@@macmost gotcha 10-4. I appreciate it. sorry for misunderstanding. I'll see if I can find a background color that will possibly change the sidebar color from time to time. I really don't prefer the bright/white color of my sidebar, even with the blue highlights. thank you!
Hey Garry, great video, I learned a lot. Thanks and subbed. Can I ask, is there a way to stop apple mail from automatically flagging my mail? It seems to flag stuff I don't want flagged. Thanks kindly.
Hello, I lost all incoming messages from the favorites bar by accident. How to restore incoming messages to the favorites bar? Thank you and best regards
Do you mean your inboxes under Favorites? First, hover over Favorites and see if you you simply closed the Favorites. Look for the > button and click it to hide/reveal. If they are revealed ( > pointing down) then click th + button you should see next to it and add your inboxes and All Inboxes back in.
No, read means read. It sounds like you are storing both read and unread in your inbox. Instead, if you want to differentiate, use your inbox only for unread (or email where you still need to take an action) and archive for email you have dealt with. Ignore read/unread.
Hi mate, I'm looking at getting a custom domain email. I'm wondering if I should go for Apple Mail (with iCloud+ subscription) or GMail (with Google Workspace subscription). Could you please cover this?
@@macmost I'm using Gmail now, but would like to switch to Apple Mail with iCloud+ subscription. I want the extra security and ease of use. Also, iCloud+ provide more storage (50 Gb) vs 30 GB of Gmail. I should also add that I have a mac and iPhone which should make it easier to connect services.
Hi Gary, can you tell me how to change the background colour in Mac Mail please? My background is black and I cannot find how to change the colour back to white.
One question, off the topic. I'm a brand designer and I bought an Ultra Mac M1. But it runs so slowly that I can not even do my job properly. It is laggy and extremely annoying. It is broken or I'm doing something wrong? I'm thinking of asking for a refund or replacing it. Extremely disappointed.
Impossible for me to tell. It shouldn't be slow. Have you installed something that could be slowing it down (security software, system extensions, etc)? Is the internal drive almost full, maybe?
That feature hasn't been around for many years. Probably for the best as it is hard to guess if the recipient can even see those given they could be using mail apps on a variety of desktop and mobile devices.
Another great video thanks. An email sent from Mac Mail ends up with a different font when viewed on recipient’s PC in Outlook. Try it if you don’t believe me folks. Anyone found a solution to this?
If the other person doesn't have that font, then yes, it will have to be displayed in a different one. If you are sending plain text emails, then they will see it according to their font settings in their Mail app. Why do you need them to see the exact same font? What's your use case?
I have spent 4 hours with Apple Support and got no answers. I had a problem and lost the SMPT and IMAp stuff and could not send or receive by opening my ENVELOPE. I did figure out I could go to Google and open it but it is so different and I don't like it. I want my envelope back. I open up Mail account and then click on Google but it soon will not allow me in and they kept telling me to do this. It does not work. Can I get the envelope back? I am 77 years old and this is really getting to me.
Hi. Thanks for your tutorials. I was wondering of you have a video or could let me know how to combine two inboxes (my wife's and mine) into an All Inboxes with a little arrow to the left of it as I see in your list of favourites. I had this function but it recently disappeared after upgrading the IOS. I cannot recall how it first came about so I do not know how to create it again. Thank you.
@@macmost Wish it was that simple. I have tried a lot of things. This is not effective to move the heading group of Favorites to the top. You can only click and drag mailboxes within a group. I dont know if I could share a screen shot to show the issue.
☠BLACK BARON☠ Apple Mail on OSX Ventura gets stucked (Activity window panel) when iTry to copy and move a bunch of mailbox folders to a new IMAP server using a secure SSL port number. Moving Messages 45.000 of 95.000 ... IT hangs around for hours and the thin blue line for indicating the progress doesn't move forward. Any iDeas?
It is probably one of the "SF" fonts. But if you want it to be the exact one, I don't know which one of those Mail is using. You'll need to then go to System Settings, Privacy & Security and grant Full Disk Access to Terminal. Then launch Terminal and enter: defaults delete -app Mail MessageListFont. Then restart Mail. That should do it.
No, there's no function for that. Also, I would be worried when doing that about what the recipient would see. Remember that what they see depends on the capabilities of their email app. Even if it supports tables, what if they are using a narrow screen (phone).
Thank you for the useful mail content. Im using Gmail as my private mailbox and when I try to use mail I don't see the different sections of Gmail like Primary, Social and Promotions. is this something that could be implemented in Mail?
Just recently all my mail (gmail) started disappearing (deleting) from mac mail and of course being imap they dissappeared from gmail as well, after lots of googling I found a way to get them all back folders and all (phew) but I want a way to back up everyday everything in mac mail, folders, sub folders, mail etc to desktop not time machine, I know I can export folders but seeing as I have a lot of folders this would be extremely time consuming, I wish mac mail had a backup facility. Do you have any suggestions even third party apps would be better than nothing cheers even if you don't know could you let me know. thanks wendy love your tutorials
IMAP is really all about the server and you only have a cache of that on your Mac to make viewing easier. Look for ways to download your Google IMAP data from Google for a backup if you really want that.
I don’t like having a preview pane but I would like to know if I can add a calendar on the right of my mail.. like in outlook for Mac? How about a contacts button or widget? Is that an option?
Thanks for all of your videos. As a new Mac user, I refer to them often. Is there a way to change the color of the MAIL.app? Not the fonts, the backgrounds or the sections? TY
Not really. But maybe I could suggest something if I knew WHY you wanted to do this. For instance, if the goal is to make it easier for you to read, perhaps some of the macOS accessibility options would accomplish that.
Hi Gary, I'm on OS 12.2.1. For tracking purposes (using Mailbutler), I'd like to send each member of a mac mail group an individual identical email without everyone else's email in the To or Cc field. Bcc doesn't work for this purpose as it doesn't allow tracking. Is this possible without having to create a separate email for each recipient? Thank you!
Hi Garry, can you explain to me why some people on a group email have the WHOLE thread included every time they comment? and others don't? I like that the conversation is grouped, but SO much scrolling for some of the replies?!
@@macmost Thank you for your reply. Just to clarify, they are replying to a conversation, as are others in the group. For some, their every response has pages and pages of the entire thread included, which means I am scrolling through around 10-15 screens of thread every time they respond. For others, it is just their response (still grouped in the conversation but without the pages and pages of thread every time). Hope this makes sense. Happy with the emails grouped in conversation but trying to turn of the repeats of thread from some of the participants. Not sure why it happens for some and not others in the same conversation.
You can just move and resize a window to one side, and move and resize a window to the other side if you like. There are even shortcuts for that (Window menu, hold down the Option key).
Still trying to figure out how to keep Mail from automatically removing the blue dot (unread) from my mail when I'm just previewing it. Outlook gives you the option to turn that off, but I can't find it in Mail. I'd like to preview a message and know that I need to get back to it but not mark it as "read" yet by having the blue dot disappear. Yes, I know I can select it and mark it as unread again, but that's hugely inefficient. Anyone got a solution other than go back to Outlook?
Hey Gary ! Im loving your videos and im even addicted. I watched most of them everyday and I need more :) you explain things really in a good way and make Macos look really powerful. I would appreciate if you could also do videos on IPadOS as I have many issues with it. After viewing your videos I deleted most of the apps im using and started using the ones you recommend only (including antivirus removal and cleaning apps..etc). Ive moved from spark to Apple mail. However I have some issues and appreciate your reply on it. First its consuming load of CPU suddenly when I send an email or the screen splits (even when mailbutler is off). Second I tried creating on exchange web rules so my folders would be synced across my apple devices, however the folders were not syncing sometimes unless you go through them and second issue is that if I open an email inside a folder it doesnt reflect on the main mailbox if its a move or copy. Sometimes the rule is to move but i find it in two inboxes. I tried using the smart mailboxes which isnt useful for many apple devices, the issue that its not filtering emails right by subject contains and by Sender from is equal to. I tried so much. Im thinking of going back to spark somehow. I do receive thousand of emails per week.
If you are using Exchange's folders and then also trying to use the Mail app's Smart Mailboxes, you could be overcomplicating things. Try to stick with just Exchange's features if that is your email server of choice. Most of what you talk about is specific to the server (Exchange) not the client (the Mail app). I don't use Exchange so I can't help much, sorry.
@@macmost that was quick thanks. No im not using both smart folders and rules. I was testing both of them only to find out which works. Exchange server is used for for my work email so i must stick to it. Are you saying that cpu issue and wrong smart filtering is from the server ? Nothing wrong perhaps by my rule?
@@Abdullah-zl9ub I don't know what your CPU issue is. Could be that Mail is still syncing with your Exchange server. Could be that Mailbutler is using the CPU. Or it could be fine. Remember that unused CPU is not helpful so if your apps can use it for some processing they should.
Everyone? They should see the "from" according to their Contacts app (or equivalent). But also make sure you have your contact set up right in the Contacts app.
Yes. Create a new mailbox folder. Move the draft from Drafts to that folder. Then open that message and select Message, Send Again. This makes a copy of the message ready to go.
Could be referring to Mac Mail's "local" junk mail, filtered by the Mail app. And what you are seeing is the junk mail filtered by your email service. Just delete it as normal or ignore it.
Never seen one video from you where I have not learned something important, that's why I watch them till the end. Thanks Gary.
Dude I just bought an M1 iMac I'm a 20 year long windows user.
Your content as been absolutely god sent. If you are ever in South Africa, let me know , as I'd like tk buy you a beer and pizza .
I cannot imagine ANYONE who could do a better job of explaining everything Mac, than Gary!!! Gary, do you know how many lives you've touched and made better?! THANK YOU! 🤗
Wow, thank you
Did an update that screwed up my mail screen; listened to you and FIXED! Awesome. Thanks.
Super helpful, I messed up my email and haven't been able to figure out how to fix it. Your video was exactly what I needed.
I have been using AirMail for years and just purchased a new MacBook Air. I couldn't get it set up properly so I "resorted" to Apple Mail. This video helped me enormously - thank you for making it!
Thank you, Gary! It’s easy when you know how. Now I do.👍🏻
Always superb tuition , thank you so much!
Thank you for the great content. You just keep helping me more and more every day. 🙂
This was worth watching just to learn about the split screen feature in full screen view!
I would love to select a ‘Save to” mailbox as an option for emails I send. I have a mailbox for each client/customer I service. All my created emails end up in my sent folder, which I then copy to the appropriate client mailbox, if I remember at end of day - a real pain. It would be so much easier to have an option to select any mailbox, or none, before sending. I know there must be others out there that need to save sent mail. It would be fun to see which of your viewers have the most number of emails currently sitting in their sent folders!
I am obsessed with you! My new hobby is watching these videos
thank you so much for the tips, given me an idea to explore my MAC
Gary, in my opinion, in the authority of anything mac.
Brilliant tutorial, really exploring Apple Mac mail. Love the colour options too. thanks Gary
THANK YOU! You saved my life.
Thanks Gary!
thank you SO much for your help
Thanks Gary.
Thanks, I am new to Apple, you make it a pleasure to use with your hints and help.
Hi Gary,
You're the best.. Thanks for your effort.
Liked the Bonus tip #10. It was something that I have seen in gmail, yet understood it better here! Keep up the great work.
Very good tutriual
Great and thanks much!
Thank you
Super useful, thanks!
Thanks Gary, great video, wife is asking, whats the main reason for the archive boxes ? She says it keeps all the mail anyways, so why save it twice ? Curious. Ron
Was able you find how to turn this #%*@%$ option off?
Great job!
Might not be directly relevant to this video - but is there a way to get Mail to stop automatically downloading attachments? I'm using a 256 GB MacBook Air at the moment, and storage is always tight.
so useful!! thanks for this video!!
Great video! Thanks :)
You can also change the font in the inbox column or any of the favorites that you have selected.
Is there a way to make the text in the preview section larger? I tried zooming in but it doesn’t change the setting
i used to use paid apps to get mails and sort them now i fully use only apple stuff and apple mail is amazing !!
Quick question how to refresh to retrieve new mail. Great video
how do i change the default font for new messages ?? I cant find this setting
Mail, Settings, Fonts & Colors.
Here is the main problem that I have with Fonts on the Mail app. I want to be able to see larger text without impacting the font that is sent back on the reply. Outlook for example allows you to change your view (smaller/larger) without having this effect. The mail app is so limited. If you are using a 4K display or better, its difficult to view. And if you change the display resolution, you of course impact every application that you view.
I am curious as well. In outlook you can zoom in, which means the size of the fonts stays the same, but the preview will be enlarged. It seems the author of this videos never used a 4k monitor or his eyesight is perfect.
Excellent!
Great info. Thank you. How do I find all the email from one sender from over the last 2 years so that I can delete them all at once?
Just search for that sender.
There was a really useful feature that Apple removed and I can't understand why. When you've replied to or forwarded a message and the message is still in your inbox for future reference, a little arrow appeared to the left in the message. When you clicked that arrow it took you to the message you sent. Now that no longer does that. There is another function that most mail apps have always had that Apple mail has never had and that is the ability to scroll through your unread messages with marking them as "Read." I get a fair amount of email every day. If I scroll down through 20 of them looking for something in particular, now all of the mail I have just scrolled past has been marked as read. I know you can "Page through" multiple emails quickly but the ability to scroll is much more useful. There used to be an app that fixed that but it hasn't been updated in years and doesn't work with the newer MacOSs.
Hi Gary, I saw you also don't have the arrow to give you the drop-down menu next to your send button. I want to use the "Send Later" feature but I'm struggling to find it. Any ideas?
Probably because this is a tutorial from before that feature was added. Which version of macOS do you have?
Great video!!
Hello Gary! Love your channel. Just one question how can I disable the inline attachment from mail?
You can't. What is it you are trying to do? If you want the attachments at the end of the message, just put them at the end.
I have Mac Mojave 10.14. In My pref/font/color : the message list font change bar is dim therefore I can't change email message size and its getting far too small to read. Can't find a way help to fix... help
Perhaps the message is in plain text mode?
It is possible to clean up/customise the sidebar so all you see is the favourites? Thanks!
Sure. Do it. Remove other things.
Is there any way by which in Sent Items view I want to see in Column Lapyout whereas in Inbox I want a different view ? I am checking as in Outlook for Mac as well as in Windows this option is there ? When I checked in mail what I found was that once I change a view, it changes all across . The reason is in sent items I want Sent to in the column view whereas in Inbox I want from whom was the mail received. This is elementary as I am concerned however not able to see that option in Mac Mail
No, I don't think you can do that in Mail.
Gary... is there a way to control the order of suggested email addresses when composing a new email?
Hey Gary, I'm on Catalina and I always wanted to use something native instead of downloading 3rd party. The thing about the native mail on Catalina is, instead of sorting emails based on accounts as shown in this video (I.E Each email account has their down inbox, drafts, sent folder etc), they are sorted based on categories (I.E Inbox dropdown shows 3 accounts, draft dropdown shows 3 accounts etc). How do I configure it to sort based on accounts basis?
Do you know how to change the colour of the background of the sidebar? that pink colour? Most appreciated.
The sidebar doesn't have a color, but depending on your settings it will tint with the color of the background wallpaper behind it. See ruclips.net/video/NzIZyDPLmbc/видео.html for options to turn it off.
Hi Gary, how can I set a specific color so that every time I write a new email or I reply/forward one, Mail picks always that color? it works with the font, but not with the color unfortunately.. Thank you! Matteo
How do I create an "All Inboxes" like yo you have? mine are all separated and I don't like that.
Hi Gary, before Big Sur when looking for a particular email there was an option to click From & it would alphabetize the emails to quickly find what I want. I have not been able to find it, Is it hidden? You are such a gem!
How do you customise incoming mail sounds ? I don't mean the sounds that come with the mail program, but something you download.
I've downloaded a sound, converted it into AIIF, it appeared in itunes.
How do I install it in Apple mail ?
For me this issue is all accounts email come in one folder, I don't like that, I want to spread them inbox and sent box-like windows, I have different emails ... Do you have a solution for that?
Awesome Video can you do the same thing like this for Apple Mail on IOS, You ROCK great video. Big FAN.
Thanks Gary - Learned a lot from this Video; Now if there was some way I could get emails I reply to to go into the Folder of the original Message rather then Sent (as per my old Windows Email Client) MacMail would be perfect.
One way would to be CC: yourself on the reply.
Hello thank you for the videos its great to learn new stuff. Is there a way to organise emails off certain senders ie invoices from a. wholesaler tone all stored into a separate inbox. Thank you
wow, awesome
Gary, I work with the most updated Mail. However my Archive is not active. How come? Please, advise. Regards, Paul
What email service are you using? Perhaps it doesn't have an archive function. The Mail app is just your interface to your email service.
Hi Gary, I'm on Big Sur, and when I open Mail in full-Screen mode, and want to compose a new message, a new windows opens and it will NOT go to split view. So there must be just one other setting that triggers the split view, but I do not know which 🤷🏼♂️
Yup. Just tested this and same thing happened to me.
Hm. Seem you can change this setting in Mail>Preferences>General.
Invaluable resource! I have been racking my brain and the help tab in Mac mail. I have 6 separate emails and 5 of them have their own "all sent" box. How do I add a "all sent" for the last one? I would greatly appreciate your wisdom.
Move your pointer to the right of "Favorites" at the top of the sidebar. Click +. Then add All Sent.
the list of mailboxes in apple mail sucks! Its so complicated. 🤨 When I search for a sent email, I have to klick through al the inboxes-folders to find the mail. Is their a easier way?
Go to your Send email mailbox first, then search.
Can you please help me as to why my Junk mailbox gets so many ad mails every day? It’s driving me mad, I’ve enabled some rules but to no avail. Thank you
Rules won't help against real spam as it always comes from fake email addresses. If these are going to your Junk mailbox, then that's exactly where they should be.
Gary-welcome to 2021. Looking forward to learning more from your videos. Shift/Command/M-genius. Since I converted to Mac Mail exclusively a few months ago I have been wondering how to get rid of the sidebar. Thank you!
Customize toolbar is new to me and I need to use that more often. How did you get your sidebar to be a diff color from the rest of the Mac mail?
The Mail sidebar in Big Sur is translucent, taking on some of the color of your Desktop background.
@@macmost thanks for the feedback but that does not apply. I have "colors" as my desktop background that is also set to random order, and my sidebar is very "white/bright". Any suggestions?
@@javtimestwo Not sure what you mean. You can't customize the sidebar color of the Mail app. I was merely explaining why my sidebar color looked different, which is what I thought you were asking. If you use a solid color as a Desktop background then the Mail window's left sidebar will take on an aspect of the color. But that's all you can do.
@@macmost gotcha 10-4. I appreciate it. sorry for misunderstanding. I'll see if I can find a background color that will possibly change the sidebar color from time to time. I really don't prefer the bright/white color of my sidebar, even with the blue highlights. thank you!
Hey Garry, great video, I learned a lot. Thanks and subbed. Can I ask, is there a way to stop apple mail from automatically flagging my mail? It seems to flag stuff I don't want flagged. Thanks kindly.
Hi,
which email client is good ? Apple Mail or Gmail ?
no dislike nice one
Hey Gary. How do I get the folders in mailbox to sort in alphabetical order?
Do you mean in the left sidebar? You have to order them manually, or the order is determined by the email service you are using.
Hello, I lost all incoming messages from the favorites bar by accident. How to restore incoming messages to the favorites bar? Thank you and best regards
Do you mean your inboxes under Favorites? First, hover over Favorites and see if you you simply closed the Favorites. Look for the > button and click it to hide/reveal. If they are revealed ( > pointing down) then click th + button you should see next to it and add your inboxes and All Inboxes back in.
Do you have a way to stop marking email as read when using preview ?
No, read means read. It sounds like you are storing both read and unread in your inbox. Instead, if you want to differentiate, use your inbox only for unread (or email where you still need to take an action) and archive for email you have dealt with. Ignore read/unread.
Hi mate, I'm looking at getting a custom domain email. I'm wondering if I should go for Apple Mail (with iCloud+ subscription) or GMail (with Google Workspace subscription). Could you please cover this?
Which service do you use now for email? Any reason you want to switch?
@@macmost I'm using Gmail now, but would like to switch to Apple Mail with iCloud+ subscription. I want the extra security and ease of use. Also, iCloud+ provide more storage (50 Gb) vs 30 GB of Gmail. I should also add that I have a mac and iPhone which should make it easier to connect services.
Hi Gary, can you tell me how to change the background colour in Mac Mail please? My background is black and I cannot find how to change the colour back to white.
Maybe you have Dark Mode turned on in Control Center?
@@macmost thank you Gary, I went into preferences and turned off dark mode which worked. I really appreciate your help your RUclips channel 🙏
great but I want to make the side toolbar where inbox and outbox and sent etc are, and make icons bigger there???
System Preferences, General, Sidebar Icon Size.
@@macmost thanks so much your awesome , and very quick to reply much appreciated .x
One question, off the topic.
I'm a brand designer and I bought an Ultra Mac M1. But it runs so slowly that I can not even do my job properly. It is laggy and extremely annoying. It is broken or I'm doing something wrong? I'm thinking of asking for a refund or replacing it. Extremely disappointed.
Impossible for me to tell. It shouldn't be slow. Have you installed something that could be slowing it down (security software, system extensions, etc)? Is the internal drive almost full, maybe?
How do you add stationary on the new Mac mail that used to be there?
That feature hasn't been around for many years. Probably for the best as it is hard to guess if the recipient can even see those given they could be using mail apps on a variety of desktop and mobile devices.
Another great video thanks. An email sent from Mac Mail ends up with a different font when viewed on recipient’s PC in Outlook. Try it if you don’t believe me folks. Anyone found a solution to this?
If the other person doesn't have that font, then yes, it will have to be displayed in a different one. If you are sending plain text emails, then they will see it according to their font settings in their Mail app. Why do you need them to see the exact same font? What's your use case?
I have spent 4 hours with Apple Support and got no answers. I had a problem and lost the SMPT and IMAp stuff and could not send or receive by opening my ENVELOPE. I did figure out I could go to Google and open it but it is so different and I don't like it. I want my envelope back. I open up Mail account and then click on Google but it soon will not allow me in and they kept telling me to do this. It does not work. Can I get the envelope back? I am 77 years old and this is really getting to me.
Maybe find a local expert who can take a firsthand look.
Hi. Thanks for your tutorials. I was wondering of you have a video or could let me know how to combine two inboxes (my wife's and mine) into an All Inboxes with a little arrow to the left of it as I see in your list of favourites. I had this function but it recently disappeared after upgrading the IOS. I cannot recall how it first came about so I do not know how to create it again. Thank you.
That should be automatic. They should both be under All Inboxes and you just select that and it shows you everything in both.
U r great!
Hello. Great videos. How do you move Favorites group to top of the sidebar if its below another group? Thanks,
Click and drag.
@@macmost Wish it was that simple. I have tried a lot of things. This is not effective to move the heading group of Favorites to the top. You can only click and drag mailboxes within a group. I dont know if I could share a screen shot to show the issue.
@@GMRdesigntube I just tried it and was able to click and drag "Favorites" and the whole section relocated. Then back again.
@@macmost Thanks for the reply. Mine doesn’t work. I’ll restart and try again. Something is not working right with my app.
☠BLACK BARON☠ Apple Mail on OSX Ventura gets stucked (Activity window panel) when iTry to copy and move a bunch of mailbox folders to a new IMAP server using a secure SSL port number. Moving Messages 45.000 of 95.000 ... IT hangs around for hours and the thin blue line for indicating the progress doesn't move forward. Any iDeas?
Move messages in smaller groups maybe? You are at the mercy of whichever email services you are using and how much they can deal with at a time.
how do i reset the mail settings to default? the system font is no longer available :(
It is probably one of the "SF" fonts. But if you want it to be the exact one, I don't know which one of those Mail is using. You'll need to then go to System Settings, Privacy & Security and grant Full Disk Access to Terminal. Then launch Terminal and enter: defaults delete -app Mail MessageListFont. Then restart Mail. That should do it.
Hi Gary, can we create a table directly in a message?
No, there's no function for that. Also, I would be worried when doing that about what the recipient would see. Remember that what they see depends on the capabilities of their email app. Even if it supports tables, what if they are using a narrow screen (phone).
Thank you for the useful mail content. Im using Gmail as my private mailbox and when I try to use mail I don't see the different sections of Gmail like Primary, Social and Promotions. is this something that could be implemented in Mail?
I don't believe so, no. Those are something special Google does in its web interface and not something a mail client app sees.
Just recently all my mail (gmail) started disappearing (deleting) from mac mail and of course being imap they dissappeared from gmail as well, after lots of googling I found a way to get them all back folders and all (phew) but I want a way to back up everyday everything in mac mail, folders, sub folders, mail etc to desktop not time machine, I know I can export folders but seeing as I have a lot of folders this would be extremely time consuming, I wish mac mail had a backup facility. Do you have any suggestions even third party apps would be better than nothing cheers even if you don't know could you let me know. thanks wendy love your tutorials
IMAP is really all about the server and you only have a cache of that on your Mac to make viewing easier. Look for ways to download your Google IMAP data from Google for a backup if you really want that.
@@macmost I have used gmails takeout but that is very cumberson
I don’t like having a preview pane but I would like to know if I can add a calendar on the right of my mail.. like in outlook for Mac? How about a contacts button or widget? Is that an option?
No, there's nothing like that in the Mail app.
Bummer.. how about is there a way to lock the widgets so we can see them all the time in the right of the screen?
Thanks for all of your videos. As a new Mac user, I refer to them often. Is there a way to change the color of the MAIL.app? Not the fonts, the backgrounds or the sections? TY
Not really. But maybe I could suggest something if I knew WHY you wanted to do this. For instance, if the goal is to make it easier for you to read, perhaps some of the macOS accessibility options would accomplish that.
@@macmost Color-coding helps with dyslexia. that is main reason
@@chrisfusco2943 OK, so now I'm confused as to WHAT you want to change the color of. You said not the fonts. What, exactly, do you want to change?
Hi Gary, I'm on OS 12.2.1. For tracking purposes (using Mailbutler), I'd like to send each member of a mac mail group an individual identical email without everyone else's email in the To or Cc field. Bcc doesn't work for this purpose as it doesn't allow tracking. Is this possible without having to create a separate email for each recipient?
Thank you!
Looks like you want a pro business email service.
@@macmost Could be. Thanks for the prompt reply, Gary!
Hi Garry, can you explain to me why some people on a group email have the WHOLE thread included every time they comment? and others don't? I like that the conversation is grouped, but SO much scrolling for some of the replies?!
If they are replying to past emails then it would group them if you have that feature turned on.
@@macmost Thank you for your reply. Just to clarify, they are replying to a conversation, as are others in the group. For some, their every response has pages and pages of the entire thread included, which means I am scrolling through around 10-15 screens of thread every time they respond. For others, it is just their response (still grouped in the conversation but without the pages and pages of thread every time). Hope this makes sense. Happy with the emails grouped in conversation but trying to turn of the repeats of thread from some of the participants. Not sure why it happens for some and not others in the same conversation.
cn we do split screen style without full screen mode
You can just move and resize a window to one side, and move and resize a window to the other side if you like. There are even shortcuts for that (Window menu, hold down the Option key).
the three finger touch does not work in mail , hwo to fix i tthanks
Sorry, not sure what you are referring to. Where in the video do I mention a three-finger touch of some kind?
Still trying to figure out how to keep Mail from automatically removing the blue dot (unread) from my mail when I'm just previewing it. Outlook gives you the option to turn that off, but I can't find it in Mail. I'd like to preview a message and know that I need to get back to it but not mark it as "read" yet by having the blue dot disappear. Yes, I know I can select it and mark it as unread again, but that's hugely inefficient. Anyone got a solution other than go back to Outlook?
The way you use the blue dot, I use the inbox. Things in my inbox need an action. When I'm done, I archive the message.
Hey Gary ! Im loving your videos and im even addicted. I watched most of them everyday and I need more :) you explain things really in a good way and make Macos look really powerful. I would appreciate if you could also do videos on IPadOS as I have many issues with it. After viewing your videos I deleted most of the apps im using and started using the ones you recommend only (including antivirus removal and cleaning apps..etc). Ive moved from spark to Apple mail. However I have some issues and appreciate your reply on it. First its consuming load of CPU suddenly when I send an email or the screen splits (even when mailbutler is off). Second I tried creating on exchange web rules so my folders would be synced across my apple devices, however the folders were not syncing sometimes unless you go through them and second issue is that if I open an email inside a folder it doesnt reflect on the main mailbox if its a move or copy. Sometimes the rule is to move but i find it in two inboxes. I tried using the smart mailboxes which isnt useful for many apple devices, the issue that its not filtering emails right by subject contains and by Sender from is equal to. I tried so much. Im thinking of going back to spark somehow. I do receive thousand of emails per week.
If you are using Exchange's folders and then also trying to use the Mail app's Smart Mailboxes, you could be overcomplicating things. Try to stick with just Exchange's features if that is your email server of choice. Most of what you talk about is specific to the server (Exchange) not the client (the Mail app). I don't use Exchange so I can't help much, sorry.
@@macmost that was quick thanks. No im not using both smart folders and rules. I was testing both of them only to find out which works. Exchange server is used for for my work email so i must stick to it. Are you saying that cpu issue and wrong smart filtering is from the server ? Nothing wrong perhaps by my rule?
@@Abdullah-zl9ub I don't know what your CPU issue is. Could be that Mail is still syncing with your Exchange server. Could be that Mailbutler is using the CPU. Or it could be fine. Remember that unused CPU is not helpful so if your apps can use it for some processing they should.
I wanted to know how to change the colour of the email accounts. But could not find the solution.
The color where? Email accounts don't have any "color" as far as I can see.
When people get emails from my Apple mail it's label is user? I want it to have my name as the label.
Everyone? They should see the "from" according to their Contacts app (or equivalent). But also make sure you have your contact set up right in the Contacts app.
@@macmost Thanks for the response, but I figured it out.
Is it possible to retain a draft email. I.e. create an email, save as draft but when used you keep the draft for future use.
Yes. Create a new mailbox folder. Move the draft from Drafts to that folder. Then open that message and select Message, Send Again. This makes a copy of the message ready to go.
@@macmost Thanks Gary
the one thing that stopped me from using this app instead of spark, is that mail doesn't have a widget in the iphone
Under mailbox menu erase junk mail. It does not get rid of the mail in junk, I must delete it and then remove trash all accounts?
Could be referring to Mac Mail's "local" junk mail, filtered by the Mail app. And what you are seeing is the junk mail filtered by your email service. Just delete it as normal or ignore it.
I cannot drag my mailboxes as you have in this video. Is there a trick to it?
Should b e straightforward. Keep trying.
@@macmost Thank you, got it at last with 3 finger movement.
Thank you I hated the shape of it sm 😅