Mail.app tips & tricks

Posted in Mac OS, Software-related on June 4th, 2008 by Jan

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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    Leopard ships on october 26th

    Posted in Mac OS, Software-related on October 16th, 2007 by Jan

    Apple has confirmed the 26th as the releasedate for Leopard!

    Mac OS X - Arriving 26th!

    I’ve already preordered my copy of this operating system, which has over 300 improvements.

    Now go order yours! ;) (just kidding ;p)

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    Leopard delayed until october…

    Posted in Mac OS, Software-related on April 13th, 2007 by Jan

    From http://www.apple.com/hotnews/, there’s an Apple Statement:

    iPhone has already passed several of its required certification tests and is on schedule to ship in late June as planned. We can’t wait until customers get their hands (and fingers) on it and experience what a revolutionary and magical product it is. However, iPhone contains the most sophisticated software ever shipped on a mobile device, and finishing it on time has not come without a price - we had to borrow some key software engineering and QA resources from our Mac OS X team, and as a result we will not be able to release Leopard at our Worldwide Developers Conference in early June as planned. While Leopard’s features will be complete by then, we cannot deliver the quality release that we and our customers expect from us. We now plan to show our developers a near final version of Leopard at the conference, give them a beta copy to take home so they can do their final testing, and ship Leopard in October. We think it will be well worth the wait. Life often presents tradeoffs, and in this case we’re sure we’ve made the right ones. [Apr 12, 2007]

    Majorly big *POUT*! :( :( :(

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