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Removing Apple Mail Quotes

Joyce Aarsvold — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 22:06:22 +0000

For those who donâ€™t know, the vertical lines you see on the left margin of an Apple Mail message are called quote levels. The more lines you see, the more times that bit of text has been included in the email exchange. While Mail doesnâ€™t include a command to eliminate these quote levels in one fell swoop, you can remove them one level at a time.

If you want to remove the quote levels from a Mail message, hereâ€™s how you do it:

Just select the quoted text that you want to remove the quote levels from, hold down Command (Apple) and Option keys, and press the single quote key (’). With each press, one level of quote disappears.

Creating a Mailbox

Joyce Aarsvold — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 19:38:48 +0000

You can create as many mailboxes as you like to file or organize messages you want to keep.

If you are checking your mail via IMAP, you can create mailboxes to store received mail on your computer or on the mail server. You can also create a mailbox within an existing mailbox. A mailbox inside another mailbox is called a “subfolder.”

To Create a Mailbox:

Choose Mailbox > New Mailbox. (To create a mailbox within an existing mailbox, select the existing mailbox before you choose Mailbox > New Mailbox.)
Use the Location pop-up menu to choose the location for the mailbox on your computer or an IMAP account (to store the mailbox on an IMAP server).
Type a name for the mailbox.
Click OK.

To create a mailbox that contains another mailbox (or subfolder), type the name for the mailbox and the subfolder separated by a forward slash (”/”). For example, if you type “Homework/EDU101,” a mailbox named Homework will be created, with a mailbox named EDU101 inside it. (Note that if you create a mailbox this way, the enclosing mailbox can only contain other mailboxes, not messages. Such mailboxes appear white in the mailboxes list, instead of blue.)

Deleting Incorrect Mail Addresses in OS X’s Mail

Joyce Aarsvold — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 18:40:41 +0000

In Mac’s OS X’s Mail, when you create an e-mail message and type in an address, the program puts the address – whether right or wrong – in its cache. If you have typed in an incorrect address in Mail, here is how you can delete it.

If you are running OS 10.2.8’s version of Mail, to remove cached addresses go to the Window Menu> Address History and select the incorrect address in the resulting Address History window, and click on Remove From History.

If you are running OS 10.3.x or 10.4.x’s version of Mail, go to the Window Menu> Previous Recipients and do the same.