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box under Archive in your sidebar. On the Gmail Web site, the message appears
only in All Mail unless it also has another label.
Because the Archive mailbox is a unified “special” mailbox (refer back to
Special Mailboxes
)
,
you can view the archived messages from all your accounts in one place if you like, but only
non-Gmail accounts actually use a server-based mailbox called Archive.
I mentioned it in Mail Changes in Mavericks, but it bears repeating: pressing the Delete key
in Mail does not archive messages (in either Mail's sense or Gmail's sense). You can change
this behavior with the free
Delete2Archive plug-in
, but I recommend letting Delete mean “de-
lete,” because after all, even people who archive almost everything
sometimes
need to delete
messages.
Archive Messages Outside Mail
An older sense of “archive” is “put into long-term storage outside Mail.” I prefer to
keep old and new messages alike in Mail because that gives me just one place to
search for messages, but if you'd like to move older messages out of Mail for any
reason, I recommend
MailSteward
, which comes in three editions to cover just about
any email archiving need.
Notifications
With the system-wide Notifications feature in Mavericks, previews of incoming messages
can—at your option—appear as alerts (which stay on screen until you dismiss them) or ban-
ners (which disappear automatically after 5 seconds, but can be consulted later by clicking
the Notification Center icon in the upper-right corner of your screen), with or without
accompanying sounds and Dock icon badges.
Note:
To learn about Mail notifications in iOS 7, flip ahead to
Manage Notifications
.
Notifications are enabled by default, but you may want to adjust their behavior, both in Mail
and in System Preferences.
To determine which incoming messages will trigger Mail to send notifications, go to Mail >
Preferences > General and choose one of the following from the New Message Notifications
pop-up menu:
