Mail (application)

Mail is an Apple is sold with an operating system OS X e- mail program. Because of the risk of confusion with the common name e- mail electronic mail, it is also called " Apple Mail " or " Mail.app " (. App is the file extensions for applications in OS X) called. The program is supplied with all Apple computers and mobile devices (Mac, iPod touch, iPhone and iPad). It can not be uninstalled on mobile devices.

It supports e- mail protocols POP3 and IMAP, allows multiple accounts and is characterized mainly by the seamless integration into the operating system. It shows the number of unread mails in the dock icon, use the addresses from the native address book and can access for sending images directly to the images libraries from iPhoto, Aperture, and Photo Booth. For figures of emails Mail offers a variety of templates that can be adapted without any HTML knowledge or additional programs.

Functions

Furthermore Mail has

  • A self-learning spam filter (LSA filter, Latent Semantic Analysis )
  • Settings (rules), what to do with received mail
  • A graphical tree view of folders and emails ( Threading)
  • Designed templates for birthdays, announcements, photos, etc.
  • Stickies
  • Task Management
  • Link to iCal, iChat, and Address Book

Revision history

Apple Mail has always been part of OS X and is updated with each new version of the operating system and expanded.

Version 1

Contains all versions up to the introduction of the operating system "Tiger". In this version E -mail has been stored in the widespread format Mbox. Other mail clients such as Mozilla Thunderbird use this format also, which simplified import from these programs.

Version 2

Was shipped with Mac OS X 10.4 " Tiger". Starting with this release e- mails are stored in emlx format. This format specifies for each e- mail to a separate file, which was necessary for the new search function ( Spotlight). A conversion from the new emlx format to mbox format is possible by means of the program emlxconvert.

Other new features included

  • "Smart" mailboxes: This enables automatic detection, sorting and classifying received e -mails. The Smart Mailboxes are constantly updated automatically, the actual memory location of the mail remains unchanged
  • Priorities can be assigned when composing a new email. This allows, for example, a selective staining by these same.

Version 3

Was shipped with Mac OS X 10.5 " Leopard". According to Apple, 15 new features have been added. These are, inter alia:

  • The establishment of a new e -mail profile by internal recognition of popular services such as Gmail or the in-house service MobileMe, so that the new user can save a lot of configuration steps.
  • Extensive design options of an email using optically elaborately designed templates. Several themes are here for the user to choose from, which then customize according to the theme an e -mail and in addition, complete with pictures via drag and drop on predefined fields.
  • Note Taking and Task Manager landscaped per mailbox. Sticky Notes can moreover also be conveniently sent as an e -mail. Furthermore, the function of the tasks laid with Apple's iCal is linked.
  • Integrated RSS reader.
  • Permanent status indicator on ongoing operations, such as active data transfer.

Version 4

Was shipped with Mac OS X 10.6 "Snow Leopard". One innovation was the support for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007.

Version 5

Was shipped with Mac OS X 10.7 "Lion". For this version, the interface has been revised and brought closer to the version used on the iPad. Support for Exchange 2010, chronological account of mail conversations, advanced search function.

Version 6

Was delivered along with OS X 10.8 " Lion Mountain " and published on 25 July 2012. Accounted RSS support.

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