Bryan Campbell emails to say that he inadvertently came across an undocumented keyboard shortcut.

If you hit Command-I while you’re in Mail, it will bring up an Account Info dialog box which tells you all sort of interesting things about your account. If you have an IMAP account, for example, it will tell you how much of your quota you have used and how big all your mailboxes are, and allow you to modify the behaviour of Mail’s Special Mailboxes.

If you have a POP account it will list any messages still on the server and give you the option to delete them.

I say “undocumented”. That is to say, it is not included in the 70+ keyboard shortcuts in Mail’s help file (I’ve made a helpful PDF of them which you can find in this entry). Nor does it appear as an option in any of Mail.app‘s menus.

Of course, you can get the same result by selecting a mailbox in the Mailbox Drawer on the left, Control-clicking and selecting the “Get Info” option. But you have to use a mouse for that.

[Thanks, Bryan!]

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Tags: keyboard shortcut, mail.app, mailboxes

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