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Top 50 Most Popular Mac OS X Mail Tips, Tricks and Secrets

By Heinz Tschabitscher, About.com

A simplistic name and unpretentious interface cannot fool the connoisseur or the enthusiast — or you. Mail, which comes with Mac OS X, is one powerful email program.
Now make good use of all that power put at your finger's tips. Let's start with the tips, strategies and tutorials others have found helpful: the most popular Mail tips, tricks and secrets.

Done with the popular stuff?

21. How to Add a Reply-To Header to All Emails You Send in Mac OS X Mail

You know how to add a Reply-To header to an email you write in Mac OS X Mail — and you know how cumbersome this is if you have to do it for every outgoing message. Here's how to have Mail append your Reply-To line to all emails automatically and in the background.

22. How to Insert Text Snippets Fast with Shortcuts in Mac OS X Mail

Don't type, at least not everything. Let type instead, with automatically expanding text snippets in Mac OS X Mail.

23. How to Delete a Message in Mac OS X Mail with the System Trash

The Mac OS X Trash is not picky about what to delete. Here's another way to delete messages in Mac OS X Mail.

24. How to Use Draft Messages as Templates in Mac OS X Mail 1.3

Do you send similar messages often? Here's how to use the "Drafts" folder in Mac OS X Mail to hold message templates that you can use and reuse easily.

25. How to Back Up or Copy Your Mac OS X Mail Junk Mail Training Data

If you have trained the spam filter in Mac OS X Mail to spot junk mail perfectly, there's no need to teach it all anew when you get a new Mac. Here's how to transfer the training data to a different computer.

26. How to Set up an Autoresponder in Mac OS X Mail

Reply without moving a finger. Here's how to set up an auto-responder in Mac OS X Mail that generates and sends replies to incoming mail automatically.

27. How to Rearrange Mail Folders in Mac OS X Mail

Why rename folders to get them into the desired order when you can get the same result with some mouse flicking in Mac OS X Mail?

28. How to Change the New Mail Sound in Mac OS X Mail

Alter the way new mail sounds in Mac OS X Mail.

29. How to Send a Message to a Group Fast in Mac OS X Mail

Type but one recipient — a group recipient — and have Mac OS X Mail deliver a message to all the group's members.

30. How to Add Links to Signatures in Mac OS X Mail

Insert a text link to your site into your Mac OS X Mail signature — or link images even.
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