Information Technology Reference
In-Depth Information
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Bcc and Reply-To:
As I said just previously in
Hidden Interface Elements
, you
can enable either of these normally hidden fields if you need them when address-
ing a message.
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Smart addresses:
If Mail knows an addressee's full name (for example, if it's
listed in Contacts), then by default, it shows
only
the name—not the email ad-
dress —in address fields. This is called a
smart address
, but I think it's dumb
because I have lots of contacts with multiple email addresses, and it's often im-
portant for me to know
which address
I'm sending mail to. But smart addresses
force me to click the little arrow next to each person's name to discover which
address it's using. To turn off smart addresses so Mail displays each person's full
name and email address, go to the Mail > Preferences > Viewing and deselect
Use Smart Addresses.
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From address:
If you have more than one account set up in Mail, you can
choose which one is used by default for outgoing messages, and you can override
that choice for any given message. To change the default, go to Mail > Prefer-
ences > Composing and choose the default from the Send New Messages From
pop-up menu. (You can also choose Account of Selected Mailbox, which sound
simple but in reality is often unpredictable—so I recommend against it.) To
change the From address for a given message, choose the account you want from
the From pop-up menu just above the message area.
Tip:
You can also configure Mail to use more than one From address for a single ac-
count, as I explained in
Configure Alternative From Addresses
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Archiving
Since 10.7 Lion, Mail has had an Archive command (Message > Archive) and an optional
Archive toolbar button. However, the behavior of this command has changed in Maver-
icks—it works differently depending on whether the message you're archiving is in a Gmail
account:
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Non-Gmail accounts:
Mail moves the selected messages to a mailbox at the
top level of that account called Archive—and if that mailbox isn't already present,
Mail creates it. (For POP accounts, the mailbox is local; otherwise, it's on the
server.)
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Gmail accounts:
Mail removes the Inbox label from the message, which
means it disappears from your Inbox and appears in the Archive (All Mail) mail-
