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

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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.

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1. How to Access Windows Live Hotmail with Mac OS X Mail

Fetch and read and reply to Hotmail messages from within Mac OS X Mail.

2. How to Access Free Yahoo! Mail with Mac OS X Mail

Web-based or desktop email? It's great to have the choice, and with Yahoo! Mail, IzyMail and Mac OS X Mail you do have the choice. Here's how to set up a free Yahoo! Mail account in Mail.

3. How to Access a Gmail Account in Mac OS X Mail

Double the elegance: Gmail and Mac OS X Mail work together blissfully. Here's how to set up Mac OS X Mail to receive mail from your Gmail account and send through it.

4. How to Access Free Windows Live Hotmail with Mac OS X Mail

You want to access all your email accounts — including a free Windows Live Hotmail account — in Mac OS X Mail? Here's how to set that up with MacFreePOPs, a smart little webmail tool.

5. How to Import Your Outlook Contacts into the Mac OS X Mail Address Book

The OS X Address Book application can import Outlook contacts for use in Mac OS X Mail.

6. How to Request Read Receipts in Mac OS X Mail

Have you ever wondered what happened to an email you sent? In Mac OS X Mail, you can request a read receipt for all messages and get notified when your mail is opened.

7. How to Create an Address Book Group for List Mailing in Mac OS X Mail

Collect all members of your sales team, your soccer team or any other group in a Mac OS X Address Book mailing list so you can email them all at once and with ease.

8. How to Delete an Email Address from Auto-Complete in Mac OS X Mail

If the email address of one of your contacts has changed or if you want to remove an email address from the auto-complete list in Mac OS X Mail for another reason, here's how to undo a bit of history.

9. How to Send an Email to Undisclosed Recipients in Mac OS X Mail

Mail a group of people in Mac OS X Mail, but so that all the recipient's email addresses are hidden.

10. How to Block a Sender in Mac OS X Mail

Get rid of annoying mail in Mac OS X Mail by blocking and trashing all messages from certain senders automatically.
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