Mail.app tips & tricks
I still haven’t found any mail client I really like on the Mac… I’ve been using Thunderbird now for a while, but it doesn’t really have what I want in a mail client. I guess I’m spoiled, since I’m used to using KMail at home (and I’m forced to use Lotus Notes at work - a horrible client from a usability point of view).
Recently I’ve been trying to get Mail.app to work for me. It doesn’t have quite all the bells and whistles I like, but after looking up some things online it’s getting there.
Here are some handy things for Mail.app to fix some of it’s shortcomings:
- Adding custom headers to outgoing mails:
Type this in Terminal.app:
defaults write com.apple.mail UserHeaders '{"Reply-To" = "me@mydomain.tld"; }'
Ofcourse you can replace the header with what you want, I used this to send a BCC copy to myself of every mail sent out) - Adding multiple mail addresses (aliases) to one mail account:
You can type them in the “Email Address” field, separated by comma’s. - “Go to next unread message”:
Use something like Fastscripts with the following AppleScript (from Macscripter)tell application “Mail” to try
tell message viewer 1 to set selected messages to {first message of beginning of (get selected mailboxes) whose read status is false}
activate
on error
beep
end try
What I still need:
- A way to improve the threading - it’s horrible
- An easy way to switch from mailbox to mailbox through all the ones with unread messages
Let’s see if I find some way to fix those two… especially the threading.
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