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Three new online tutorials for Mail.app users

MortarboardIf you ever stop blogging for a bit due to an insane period in your Real Life, you will notice that eventually collections of interesting things begin to pile up in your inbox.

Over the last little while, three helpful on-line tutorials have appeared which offer Mail.app users extra tips on smart mailboxes, spam protection and setting up IMAP accounts.

Merlin Mann at 43Folders has written up some good tips on smart mailboxes , how to make them and how to use them to make yourself more productive. He includes screenshots of some useful smart mailbox setups which are ripe for copying or for sparking off your own thinking about how smart mailboxes could make your life easier.

Macinstruct writer Matthew Cone explains how Mail.app users can better protect themselves from spam by outlining the main methods for catching spam, how Apple Mail’s “latent semantic analysis” spam filter works and how to make the best use of it. Finally, the explains how to set up SpamSieve for those who need extra Bayesian protection.

Dan Rubin has discovered that “a surprisingly large number of people don’t know all the steps involved in properly configuring an IMAP account in Apple’s Mail.app.” He plugs the gap with a “mini-tutorial” on get it right, including Mail.app’s mysterious ” Use this mailbox for…” option which trips a lot of people up.mail.app, apple mail, productivity, smart mailboxes, spam, IMAP, junk mail, email

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7 Responses to “Three new online tutorials for Mail.app users”

  1. Michael says:
    May 1st, 2007 at 6:42 pm

    From the piece on IMAP:

    “IMAP allows all mail (including your Sent, Drafts, Spam and Trash folders, as well as custom folders) to live on the server.”

    Really, Trash folders are more a POP3 concept, and some IMAP servers won’t even allow you to create one. With IMAP the standard approach to deleting mail is two step: (1) mark it as deleted (but leave it inline in whatever mailbox it’s in) and (2) send a command to “expunge” to remove it permanently.

    You can remove deleted messages in a mailbox in Mail.app by pressing Command-K (or select compact mailboxes automatically in the Preferences).

  2. tino says:
    May 23rd, 2007 at 1:41 pm

    is this website dead? haven’t seen a post in almost a month .. :(

  3. Patient Saint says:
    May 23rd, 2007 at 5:52 pm

    Is this site dead? As part of my normal, morning ritual, I open up Hawk Wings and see what the latest is… unfortunately, nowadays, “latest” seems to mean “about-a-month-ago”. Tim? Are you still alive? We miss our daily dose of Hawk Wings!

  4. sjk says:
    June 5th, 2007 at 8:23 am

    Yep, a separate Trash mailbox works better with a single POP3 INBOX. Unfortunately Mail was mysteriously misbehaving when I tested marking messages in IMAP mailboxes as deleted for future expunging/undeleting instead of using Trash. Seemed like a client-side issue since Mulberry did it properly using the same IMAP servers. Maybe I’ll give it another try with Tiger’s Mail.

  5. Dennis says:
    June 6th, 2007 at 3:12 am

    Hi Tim, I hope everything is alright. No sign of life for over a month…

  6. Tim Gaden says:
    June 17th, 2007 at 3:05 am

    Tino – It’s not dead. It’s just sleeping.

  7. john says:
    June 27th, 2008 at 3:22 am

    You’ve had 1 year and 8 daysto sleep…do you feel like wakingup?

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