Ok, so I got a phone call this morning from a friend. He was feeling frustrated because he could not send and receive email. He decided to delete his Apple Mail account and create a new one hoping that would solve his problem. To his horror he saw that his Inbox has been deleted as well. It didn’t occur to him that all of his messages would be lost as well. Panic ensues, text messages were sent, phone calls were made.
Luckily Christopher at AWP has posted a step by step procedure on how to recover deleted email as a result …read more

I like the version of Apple Mail that ships with Leopard. Don’t get me wrong. I love that it’s faster. I love that it has ‘todo’ integrated with it. I love the small improvements in the interface and the overall polish of the application. I love all of that.
I do have one gripe though.. So far.. When you receive an email with an attachment and you want to save it, the previous Apple Mail had the option for you to select where you want to save it. On every email. Now Apple Mail either saves it to your downloads folder …read more

Former The After Mac writer and current b5 Tech channel editor Jayvee Fernandez wrote about a problem that he was experiencing with an undeletable draft mail problem on Leopard’s Apple Mail. Apparently other people are also experiencing these problems.
Quoting from his blog:
The first is to simply highlight the email and click on the REBUILD option. The mail will disappear. If this still does not happen, you can check out this post of onkeljonas from Ars Technica that shows you how to do it:

Poking around ~/Library/Mail/ showed that while Mail still showed the 1 unread message, it didn’t actually exist – …read more

The Pro Site of Apple features “Tips of the Week”, for this week it’s all about creating iCal events from Apple Mail. This tip is exclusive to Leopard users. So if you’re on Leopard already, read the useful tip from Apple.

Leopard is smart—smart enough to recognize dates within the text of an email in Apple Mail.
When your cursor hovers over a date in the body of an email, a dotted rectangle surrounds the date, and a small arrow appears. Hold on the arrow, and up pop two iCal options: Create New iCal Event and Show This Date in iCal.

Choosing Create …read more

Skype’s pretty much popular these days. It’s being used more and more for communicating with loved ones, friends and colleagues from all over. Well Skype is best used in conjunction with other communication tools such as email, instant messaging, etc. So it’s only logical that you’d want to add your Skype info on your email signature. Taking it a step further, it’d be nice to add a Skype Me button to your email signature. Someone can actually just click the Skype Me button and it would launch Skype and call you. Cool huh.
Well if you’re using Apple Mail there’s a …read more