Apple (Mac) Mail Primer Tutorial

Apple (Mac) Mail Primer Tutorial

Apple (Mac) Mail Primer Tutorial (try twirling round bottom of image for a synopsis ... 'do the twirl now')

Here we have a Mac (laptop) Mail (desktop email client application), or Apple Mail, or Mail.app, tutorial where we see various parts of its functionality and see the IMAP configuration of the setup for a Gmail account ( see Gmail Email Invitation Primer Tutorial ). Gmail is the email product of Google. We also see the POP3 configuration of an OzEmail email account. Being a desktop application Apple Mail has the benefits of interfacing to your Mac OS X operating system in a more direct way than a webmail arrangement of Gmail usage would do. The mixing of IMAP and POP3 arrangements so seamlessly got my attention, and usage, though still would use webmail for 90% of my toing and froing because of being on the “net” anyway. Below is some Apple Mail information from Wikipedia:

Mail (also known as Mail.app or Apple Mail) is an email program included with Apple Inc.’s Mac OS X operating system. Originally developed by NeXT as NeXTMail, a part of their NeXTSTEP operating system, it was adapted to become OS X’s Mail application following Apple’s acquisition of NeXT. The current version of Mail utilizes the SMTP, POP3, and IMAP protocols, and supports Yahoo! Mail, AOL Mail, Gmail, MobileMe and Exchange. iOS features a mobile version of Apple Mail with added ActiveSync support, though it is still missing the functionality of attaching files to reply emails. Mail has often been praised for its combination of simplicity and extensive functionality.

Enjoy this tutorial.

You may have noticed that there are Apple Mail Rules and here is a support webpage for that. “Rules” in any email application is the way you can define email identifiers to say how to postprocess your email. One useful “anal” thought is to organize your mailbox into folders with good descriptive names and have a “Rule” that collates your emails into those folders based on sender or subject line, and maybe even get it to the point that only surprise first-time-type emails arrive in your original Inbox place … “email nirvana”.

Link to Apple Mail information from Wikipedia where the information above originated.

One important concept with email setups is the choice between POP3 and IMAP methods of checking email, and you can read more about this here. Gmail supports both.

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