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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 Mac OS X Mail tips, tricks and secrets.

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(Updated February 2013)

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. How to Sync Your Mac OS X Mail Address Book with Google Gmail Contacts

Contacts in Mac OS X Mail and contacts in Gmail, updating each other? Here's how to set up Mac OS X Address Book and Google Gmail contact synchronization.

4. 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.

5. How to Find and Open the Folder Where Mac OS X Mail Stores Mail

Know where to look when you want to back up your Mac OS X Mail mailboxes. Here's (how to find out) where Mac OS X Mail stores your emails.

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 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.

8. 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.

9. How to Export Your Mac OS X Mail Address Book Contacts to a CSV File

Need your contacts from Mac OS X Mail in CSV format? Here's how to export all your Mac OS X Address Book data to a CSV contacts file.

10. How to Specify the Default Account in Mac OS X Mail

Make the account you use most often the default. It's easy as drag and drop in Mac OS X Mail.

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