Information Technology Reference
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count the matching messages must be in; however, there's no direct way to
ex-
clude
a certain account from your search.
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iCloud account syncing:
If you have an iCloud account set up on your Mac,
with Documents & Data enabled in System Preferences > iCloud, the settings for
all your email accounts (not just your iCloud account) will sync automatically
with all your other Macs—as long as those other Macs are also signed in to the
same iCloud account, with that preference enabled. This means, for example,
that when you set up a new account on one Mac, you won't have to repeat the
procedure on your other Macs.
Although rules sync as part of this process, their enabled status doesn't sync, be-
cause you might not want the same rules enabled on each Mac. And, sorry, but
synced account settings don't sync with iOS devices.
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Where you configure accounts:
You can add, edit, and (sometimes) delete
accounts on the Accounts pane of Mail's Preferences window, as before. But
some settings can be changed only on the Internet Accounts pane of System
Preferences (called Mail, Contacts & Calendars prior to Mavericks). For ex-
ample, if you want to change your iCloud password (which affects more than just
Mail), you must do so either on the Internet Accounts preference pane or on the
iCloud pane. And deleting a Mail account that's being synced via iCloud (per the
previous bullet point), again, that requires a trip to Internet Accounts.
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Automatic new message checking:
On the General pane of Mail's preferen-
ces window, the Check for New Messages pop-up menu has a new option: Auto-
matically. According to Mail's Help, this setting means: “Mail varies how often it
gets messages, based on whether your Mac is plugged into an electrical outlet.”
This setting applies only to the frequency with which Mail
fetches
messages; it
does
not
, as you might suppose, have anything to do with push or IMAP IDLE
(see
Fetch, Push, and IMAP IDLE
,
later). In fact, IMAP IDLE applies regardless
of the frequency with which Mail checks for new messages. (And, because Mail
doesn't support push message delivery for Exchange accounts, using the Auto-
matic setting will likely make it take
longer
for you to get messages from an Ex-
change server.)
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Automatically download all attachments:
This new checkbox, in Mail >
Preferences > Accounts > Advanced and enabled by default, ensures that Mail
downloads all attachments when retrieving messages rather than waiting until
you request them.
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No more forcing plain-text incoming messages:
In previous versions of
Mail, a secret “defaults write” command in Terminal forced all incoming or
