Customize Mail - Take Control of Apple Mail (1.0) - page 42

To add a mailbox to the Favorites bar, drag it from Mail's sidebar. To remove a mailbox, drag
it off the bar. You can also drag mailboxes left or right in the bar to reorder them.
Each of the first ten favorites, starting from the left, gets an automatic keyboard shortcut with
a corresponding number—Command-1 for the first, Command-2 for the second, and so on up
to Command-0. So in the figure above, Junk, which is the sixth favorite from the left, would
be Command-6. Pressing a shortcut displays the contents of the corresponding mailbox in
the Viewer window.
VIPs
In Mail, a VIP is any sender you designate as being especially important. Mail can use your
list of VIPs in a variety of ways to call special attention to messages from those people. VIPs
you set up in the Mavericks version of Mail sync to the iOS version and vice-versa, as long
as both devices are configured to use the same iCloud account (with Mail enabled in System
Preferences > iCloud).
To put someone on your VIP list, open any message from that person. Move your pointer to
the area next to the sender's name in the header of the message ( Figure 8 ) and click the
star ☆ icon that appears there. Repeat as often as you like for other senders; or, to remove
someone from the VIP list, click that person's star ☆ again.
Figure 8: When you move your pointer here, a star appears; click it to
designate this sender as a VIP.
Tip: VIPs work best when you have relatively few people on your VIP list. Once it gets
beyond, say, a dozen or so, the list becomes unwieldy—and it begins to dilute the
meaning of “VIP.”
Once you have at least one VIP, Mail creates a new VIPs entry in your mailbox list along
with the other Special Mailboxes . You can select that mailbox to see messages from all your
VIPs, regardless of where their messages are filed; or, expand the list and select any particu-
lar VIP's name to see messages from just that person.