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Top 20 Most Popular Mac OS X Mail Tips, Tricks and Secrets

From Heinz Tschabitscher,
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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.

Done with the popular stuff? See all Mac OS X Mail tips.

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 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.

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 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.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. How to Change the Mac OS X Mail Dock Icon

Want to give Mac OS X Mail a new, a different, a custom and creative face? Changing Mail's Dock icon is easy.

8. 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.

9. How to Clean up Mac OS X Mail's Auto-Complete List

Maybe it even makes Mac OS X Mail faster: here's how to rid the auto-complete list of previous recipients from old and stale entries you haven't used in years.

10. 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.
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