On Dec 1, 2014, at 03:11 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Dec 1, 2014, at 12:27 PM, Dan C <dantear...@gmail.com> wrote:
Sooo... I switched from Eudora to Apple Mail and am having a few
growing pains.
(QuickSilver 2002, Leopard)
[snip - my griping about the conversion process in general]
Well, to be honest, moving to a modern version of the OS will help a
great deal...the computer is 12 years old, the os is what, 7?
pffft. They'll pry my ppc macs out of my cold dead hands.
(not to be confused with my saying the same thing about Eudora a few
years ago).
With Snow Leopard (iirc) Apple moved from monolithic .mbox mail
files to .eml files in directories, which speeds up message
management by a gazillion times.
The transition from the standard unix mailbox to the proprietary index
with separate message files occurred in Leopard. That's why I now
gots an additional 100,000+ files on me drive.
I see now that Apple has changed their file format/set-up three times,
during the transitions to Leopard, Lion, and Mountain Lion. That's
got me thinking: The older versions of Mail do not run on newer
versions of the OS. So how are people and businesses (with a legal
requirement) handling this inability to read their backups and archives?
How do I tell Apple Mail to throw a message to my default browser?
Now and then, "friends" (peecee users) send me poorly formatted
html messages that get mangled by WebKit. I know by previous
experience that if I throw them at a non-webkit browser (eg:
TenFourFox), they display just fine. In Eudora, I did this by
selecting the message then hitting an "open in browser" button.
What is the equivalent for Apple Mail?
There really isn't one; because Mail is using (theoretically) the
same engine as the default web browser. Of course, since your system
Webkit version is ancient, you'll run into issues.
My default web browser, as selected in Safari's preferences, is either
a newer WebKit app, or TenFourFox. So Mail is *not* using the same
engine.
I think I'll try Cam's suggestion of relinking Mail. That will fix
the slow rendering issues.
Still need a way to outright throw the email...
How do I quickly grab in-line photos? Some people send me messages
that contain dozens of photos. They're in-line - dragged into the
message body, not "regular" attachments. In Eudora, they appeared
as files in Eudora's "Parts" folder - easy to grab from Finder.
Where does Apple Mail stash them?
I know that in current versions of mail there's a kind of pop-up
menu that will let me select any or all attachments to save.
Yea, it's there if the files are attachments. If they're in-line,
then it's AWOL.
I've discovered that I can drag individual images to a fold in Finder,
if I'm patient (Finder has to "see" each drag before you let go of the
mouse). I guess that will work on messages that contain only a few
files.
Any idea where Mail is stashing these?
Explore the toolbar customization menu, there's a bunch of useful
tools that aren't in the standard set.
Nothing pertaining to saving images tho.
How do I create a rule to move sent messages to their appropriate
mailbox? I'm accumulating mailing list replies and such in the
Sent mailbox. I'd like them to automagically move to the right
mailbox, to keep the threads intact.
I'm pretty sure if you add a rule to the Sent mailbox you should be
able to do what you want.
How do I add a rule to the Sent mailbox? I'm not seeing that the
rules are being applied to anything when sending.
Thx,
- Dan.
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