Questions tagged [email]
Email is short for electronic mail. There are tags for popular mail clients including the mail tag in case your question is related to a specific program and not email in general.
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Mail.app refuses to send e-mail
I have just upgraded to Monterey (12.0.1 (21A559)), and cannot send e-mails. Mail.app tells me that the certificate is not valid.
We own our own domain and host the primary MX here, and this worked ...
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Searching base64-encoded email
I am using Apple Mail. Certain emails I routinely receive are base64 encoded. In particular, emails from PayPal, are encoded.
There are two problems with such emails:
Rules searching on a string do ...
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iPhone 13 mini missing mail
I got a new iPhone 13 mini a few days ago, and transferred data from my iPhone 5S.
This seemed to be OK (and more straightforward than I remember) BUT I just discovered my email accounts were not ...
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Organizing "Sent" mail
Operating system: macOS Monterey version 12.0.1.
In Apple Mail, I use Smart Mailboxes to organize incoming mail.
I'd like to better organize Sent mail.
Does any means exist within Apple Mail to ...
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Macbook spamming email with alert emails
I've just bought a new MacBook Pro 14" and since I configured it with my Google account I started receiving email notifications about my calendar events. Apparently, Macbook is adding extra ...
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Is there a risk that iCloud Private Relay interferes negatively with VPN service (for privacy)?
iCloud Private Relay is currently in beta, and available for Macs with MacOS Monterey.
I sometimes use a VPN service for privacy purposes. Private Relay looks interesting as a "basic privacy ...
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use an iCloud+ «hide my email» apple ID forward address as an alias to send mail
Hide my email is the neat feature introduced by apple earlier, and since then I have been trying to figure out how I can use those forward addresses as sender address when composing emails on the ...
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Automate Email process from macOS Terminal [closed]
I would like to find a way to automate the email sending process from Terminal. To be more specific, I would like to take a CSV file that has columns for people's names and their email addresses and ...
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iPhone swipe right inside an email in mail app marks it as unread?
I'm running iOS 15.0.1, and I remember upgrading some time last week during the weekdays, but this issue just started happening today, I think. When I go into my mail app and click on an email, I'm ...
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How to cancel "moving messages" in Mail.app
How can I stop Mail.app to move messages?
I accidentally moved a thousands of messages from a local folder to an IMAP folder.
This will take a long time and will reach max space quota on the IMAP ...
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Apple Mail: upgrade from V5 (running on HighSierra 10.13) to V8 (Big Sur 11) no local Mail folders
After a fresh install of macOS Big Sur (11), I tried to migrate my Apple Mail configuration and the mail messages stored locally.
First attempt was to copy the ~/Library/Mail/V5 content to the new ~/...
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What happens to Hide My Email emails if you cancel iCloud+?
I've started using the new Hide My Email feature in iCloud+. Though I've thought about canceling my iCloud+ subscription. Apple's website says the following: "If you downgrade to the free iCloud ...
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Is there a way to have the Apple Mail font always look bigger?
May be its me getting older, but it is really difficult to read the email in Apple Mail. The font size says 12 but it looks teeny-tiny to me. I need to bring it to at least 14-15 to avoid eye strain. ...
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Image not showing in email signature after iOS 15 upgrade [duplicate]
Before upgrading to iOS 15 an image appeared in my email signature. But after upgrading I’m just getting a blank white box. When I go into settings the image is still there. I've tried editing ...
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iCloud Mail Server Side Filtering Rules
I'm thinking about switching to using iCloud mail as my full time email. I setup an account with a bunch of rules (eg if from *@apple.com move to Apple folder) on my mail.app on my Mac, however I ...
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Image not showing in email signature after iOS 15 upgrade
Before upgrading to iOS 15 an image appeared in my email signature. But after upgrading I’m just getting a blank white box. When I go into settings the image is still there. I've tried editing ...
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How to make Gmail push notifications continuously sync on iPhone 8?
My push notifications do not continuously sync with my gmail inbox. On my computer, I delete emails but the notification remains on my phone. Is there a way to have the push notifications continuously ...
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Read Message Don't Show in the All Inboxes selections
On MacOS Big Sur, messages only show in the all inboxes selection when they are unread. Both read and un-read messages messages appear in the individual inboxes. I didn't have this problem before. It ...
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Mail.app on 10.14.6 shows email folders in different ways on two nearly identical computers
I have 2 Mac minis (2012) running Mojave 10.14.6. They are nearly identical in specification, but one has been running Mojave since 2019 and the other is a build from earlier this month (September ...
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How do I set a rescue email for my AppleID after I have set up 2-factor authentication?
I have set up two-factor authentication on my iPhone as a security setting, however, just to be safe (in case I ever lose access to this phone/number) I'd also like to set up a rescue email.
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Send email from alias by default, Mail app
In the Mail app, I would like to automatically send new emails from my alias.
I have the alias set up so that it appears as one of the options in the "From" menu when composing an email, but ...
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How do I set a catchall email address with iCloud Mail+?
I have added all the DNS records required for using the Apple's MX server but when I try to send an email to the address, it is rejected with the following message:
This is a system-generated message ...
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How do I delete autofill contacts in gmail app for iPhone
My wife's iPhone has a suggested email that keeps popping up every time she tries to email me from her gmail app on her phone. No matter what we do, we've been unable to stop gmail from suggesting ...
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Outgoing mail logs location?
I got a dead simple script for testing sending email from my local machine:
#!/usr/bin/env perl
print "Sending email to $ARGV[0]\n";
my $result = system qq(echo "Hello World" | ...
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Manually migrating locally-stored mail between machines; can I ignore certain folders?
I'm in the process of migrating locally stored email from one Mac to another (both running latest version of Big Sur, 11.5.2). The IMAP stuff on the server is no problem, of course, because… well, it’...
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Is the app "E-mail Client App - myMail" a part of ios 14?
I just upgraded my iPhone to ios 14.7 and I noticed something weird. When I checked my Screen Time usage, I see an app that I don't recognize nor remember installing. It's called "E-mail Client ...
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Email's being sent to @privaterelay.appleid.com - how do I access?
I bought a few concert tickets on stubhub, but I think because I created an account through apple my email is set to a long random string "@privaterelay.appleid.com", so all of my tickets ...
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AppleScript to download attachments from Mail.app
I'm trying to create an Apple Script that triggers from a Mail Rule that will download attachments from a message to my Downloads folder. I found this article from 2011 as a starting point.
I found ...
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Can't create Google internet account
I want Apple Mail to talk to a gmail account. In System Preferences, when I say I want a new Google account, I get a dialog that says
Google requires completing authentication in your web browser
So ...
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How to edit an email address in the 'to' field in the stock mail app (iOS14)?
Sometimes I have an email address in the 'to' field of a mail, that has perhaps been launched from safari, and I would like to edit it
e.g.
before: [email protected]
after: support@salesmonkeys....
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Can apple mail on iOS be used to configure server-side rules on exchange server
When using an Exchange mailbox, Exchange supports server-side rules to filter and sort mails automatically. This works on the server, so the client does not have to be online.
Those rules can be ...
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Mail is very slow to open, with fseventsd taking up significant CPU
My symptoms are very similar to those seen in Why does Mail.app take three minutes plus to open?. Mail takes over 2 minutes to open, and during that time fseventsd is taking up over 90% CPU. ...
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iCloud Mail isn’t filtering junk mail properly
I constantly get junk email into my main inbox, and it never actually seems to filter junk mail to the junk inbox. Even when I move the junk mail into the proper folder, more junk mail will turn up ...
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How can I set up Apple Mail on macOS to work with Gmail ActiveSync?
I'd like to receive push Gmail emails. My organisation offers Gmail ActiveSync, and I was able to configure this to work easily on my iPhone. However I cannot seem to get it to work on my Mac.
If I ...
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Where does Mail.app store the email addresses/aliases for your own accounts?
I'm trying to programatically access the email addresses configured in Mail.app. I looked through defaults read com.apple.mail but they don't appear there. I also had a look in sqlite3 ~/Library/...
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How to configure S/MIME on my iPhone 12
I'm trying to enable my S/MIME certificate but I can't. When I go to the Email Tab in settings, click accounts, click iCloud, then I go to the Account section in settings (Not the one in the iCloud ...
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Move messages from Junk to Inbox automatically
I've read plenty of people complaining about iCloud Mail's junk mail handling, with too many false positives. The only answers I've seen are "You can't turn it off" and "You have to use ...
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Apple Mail multiple chimes after mail arrives
I'm running Mail on High Sierra and there is an audible tone or chime when the mail arrives, then there is another chime a minute or so later, then more chimes when there is no new arrivals (perhaps ...
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Mac 11.4 makes "new mail" sound when receiving mail on iPhone
I installed the 11.4 update yesterday, and now my Mac plays a sound every time my phone receives a new email.
I don't use Apple Mail so it's not the mail client doing this, and my 3rd party mail ...
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I have MS Office 365 and use Outlook for email send and receive. Since June 20th, I can not retrieve email @ get "Server Unavailable. 21" Fixable?
I attempted to restore my profiles from time machine before Outlook stopped retrieving email, which seems to have been a huge waste of time. I turned on logging and all I get is:
Error - Server ...
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iOS Mail is incorrectly creating [Gmail]Bin and [Gmail]Spam labels for deleting mail or marking mail as spam
I'm using iOS Mail connected to a Gmail account on an iPhone 7+ running iOS 14.6.
Suddenly and without warning:
Deleting an email in iOS Mail doesn't place it in the Gmail bin but assigns it a label [...
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Is this subscription billing mail from Apple genuine?
Hello I purchased something on June 15 2021 7:27 AM I got email from apple they saying I purchased bike race free bike race plus 1 week help me
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Allowing all calls on Do Not Disturb
I have an iPhone for work and I want to set Do Not Disturb to block all notifications except calls. I do not prioritize reading emails and messages outside of normal working hours, but if the phone ...
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very specific emails stopped arriving to my me.com address
I have had an account with a specific financial institution for several years now. The email on file is a me.com address.
Any time I wish to do a financial transaction through their online service, ...
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SMTP other outgoing servers user names are not my email address?
On the iphone email client under account settings it shows a primary SMTP outgoing server and then underneath it has 5 other servers in case the primary is unsucessfull, my question is how are these ...
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Export a single mail folder to an archive file in Outlook 2016 and "mount" that back later?
In Outlook 2016, I have a folder labeled "2020" with my mails from that year, and want to export it to a single file. I then wish to move that file around (to an external archive HDD or ...
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"Invalid Email address" error when attempting to change account password on iPhond and iPad
I use Gmail. Recently I received an e-mail from Google informing me that my account may have been compromised. I verified this by logging into Google itself where I got the same message: that they had ...
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How can I clear all suggested contacts from email
I have hundreds of suggested contacts on my iPhone and iPad. Some of them are from over 10 years ago.
Is there a way to clear them all? Not turn it off (I know how to do that), just clear/empty it so ...
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Hiding Apple ID from Whatsapp
For privacy purposes I use different email accounts for different tiers of services and correspondence, including social media. My Apple ID address is NEVER used or given out and I use alias’es for my ...
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Create Email Hyperlink in Applescript
I'm trying to send e-mails using applescript
I can't seem to find a way to create a hyperlink for the e-mail content
Im on Big Sur 11.3.1
set NewMail to make new outgoing message with properties {...
