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Q&A: Replacing a broken Mail app

I want to give my old Mac away, but it has lost the Mail app. How can I replace that?

August 2, 2015 Macs, Technology

Q&A: Storing libraries off the boot disk

How can I make Photos, iTunes, and Mail save their files to an external hard drive?

July 16, 2015 Macs, Technology

Q&A: Scripting Mail to send Out of Office responses

Is it possible to script Apple’s Mail to send an automated response, such as an ‘out of office’ reply, to all incoming email?

July 1, 2015 Macs, Technology

Q&A: Archiving mail

What is the best way to archive some of my 250,000 emails prior to migrating to a new Mac?

June 26, 2015 Macs, Technology

Q&A: How can I stop Mail embedding PDFs?

Whenever my friend attaches a PDF to a message in Mail, it opens and gets embedded in the message, rather than being attached as a file. How can he change that behaviour?

May 5, 2015 Macs, Technology

Q&A: Mail’s Preferences won’t work

A couple of preference settings, controlling automatic correction of spelling errors and ‘from’ addressing, that I have made in Mail keep becoming undone whenever I restart my Mac mini. How can I get them to persist properly?

May 4, 2015 Macs, Technology

Q&A: Why are my photos distorted?

Q Why, when I attach photos to emails, do they come out squashed flat, or tall and skinny? […]

April 26, 2015 Macs, Technology

Q&A: Why does this message crash Mail?

Q I’ve received an obvious scam email. Usually I consign these to the Junk folder. However, when I […]

April 23, 2015 Macs, Technology

My email is broken – how to diagnose and fix mail problems

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Most common problems are failure to collect or send, but this gives you clues to solving many other problems such as stuck messages.

March 4, 2015 Macs, Technology

The medium of the message – email clients and types

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Electronic mail remains one of the fundamental network services. Here I explain POP, IMAP, and SMTP basics.

March 1, 2015 Macs, Technology

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