Andreas has a Ph.D. in physics and works for a small company in San Diego, CA which develops measurement instrumentation mostly for research.

Despite having no formal programming training he keeps his few skills up to date by writing some software on the side, like the very excellent Mail Scripts and Eudora Mailbox Cleaner

HW: What kind of Mac do you use?

AA: My personal Macs have always been portable (5300c 100MHz, 3400c 200MHz, G3 “Lombard” 333MHz - all of which don’t exist any longer, TiBook 550MHz - fulfilling its duties as my personal server despite it broken screen hinge - and currently an AlBook 1.5GHz). My first encounter with a Mac was a Mac 128k I had to write a program for during my university days.

HW: How long have you been using Mail.app? What other clients have you used (and why did you stop)?

AA: I switched to Mail.app in January 2002 (I guess that would have been OS X 10.1). Before that I used Eudora (starting with some version 1.x or 2.x back in about 1992). After Eudora more than once mangled mailboxes beyond repair I decided to ditch it.

Apart from that I am using Thunderbird on my PC at work (after ditching Outlook once I realized how bad it did with IMAP accounts).

HW: What plugins and extensions do you use to make your email experience better?

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Andreas Amann, in a comment on an earlier Hotmail entry, makes the following suggestion:

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I just tested sending a message to my hotmail (?¢‚Ǩ¬ùspam honey pot?¢‚Ǩ¬ù) account and it arrived just fine (well, in the ?¢‚Ǩ?ìJunk?¢‚Ǩ¬ù folder) even with no priority changes.

Since I can?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢t test this myself, here is something to test - my guess is that hotmail is looking for the X-Priority header for some reason - sending messages as ?¢‚Ǩ?ìNormal?¢‚Ǩ¬ù priority does not add this header in Mail (which is smart). However, you can add this header to all your outgoing messages typing the following in the Terminal (with Mail closed):

This will add a X-Priority header to ALL outgoing messages, ?¢‚Ǩ?ì3?¢‚Ǩ¬? represents ?¢‚Ǩ?ìnormal?¢‚Ǩ¬ù.

I don?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢t know whether this works (since I can?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢t get messages not to arrive to my account) by my guess is it should - if you normally don?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢t use priorities you should be fine (I don?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢t know what happens if you set another priority from the UI).

In order to reset this, you would type the following in Terminal:

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I tested this and it does work. The benefits of Andreas’ solution are obvious. Having the X-Priority header set at “3″ is not disruptive in any way to non-Hotmail recipients, and it saves you from having to do anything special like remember to carbon copy or select a high or low priority from a drop-down box for emails that are going to Hotmail users.

[Thanks, Brad!].

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