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Searching in iPhone Mail app

Another embarrasingly late and accidental discovery… I had no idea you could search all of your archived email from the iPhone Mail app! I use Gmail over IMAP so all of my email is stored in the cloud. Up until now when I needed to search for something I went to gmail.com in the browser and used the search function there. The other day I was scrolling through my mail in the Mail app and discovered that if you are at the top of a list of messages and scroll up, a search box will appear. And when you type in a search query it will give you an option to search on the server! I have a feeling I may be late to the party on this one but wow, very nifty.

Using email aliases in Mail.app

Impressive that after over 6 years of using Mac OS I’m still discovering useful new tricks. If you use Mail.app and want to easily send mail using different email “aliases” (from addresses) this link describes the simplest way to do it.

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AppleScript Email Announcer

For some reason I find this incredibly trick.. It’s old but I’ve just discovered it. It’s an AppleScript that reads the “from” field of incoming email messages using Mac OS text-to-speech. To use it, launch AppleScript Editor and paste in the code. Save it somewhere on your disk. Then create a rule in Mail.app (Preferences, Rules) and set the action to Run AppleScript, selecting the script file that you saved.

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Fixing “Copy Address” in Snow Leopard Mail.app

For some strange reason Apple changed the way Mail.app copies email addresses in 10.6. When you right-click a sender or recipient and select “Copy Address” it includes the Name field and puts the address in angled brackets. I don’t like it and I’m pretty sure they will fix it in 10.6.2. Until then you can use this pref change.

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WordPress Backup to Gmail

Going to try this, stat!

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WideMail

3rd column plugin for Mail.app – trying it out..

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Gmail goes IMAP!

w00t!! gmail client <=> mail.app <=> iphone mail === wawaweewa

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The Perfect iPhone Email Setup?

Need to take a look at this, it could be perfect for me.

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Missing attachment detector for Mail.app

Very clever! when you hit send it scans your message and if it mentions the word attachment but you didn’t attach anything it prompts you.

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G-Unit! er I mean G-Disk!

Using gmail for web storage ftp style.

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