If you will keep these 10 Mail.app shortcuts in your head you will become much faster at getting through your daily e-mails.

These are my ten most useful, the ones I do remember because I use them most often.

Command-N — Opens a new message
Command-1 — Opens the inbox (try also, Command-2, -3, -4 – neat!)
Command-Shift-M — Closes and opens the mailbox drawer on the left
Command-Option-F — Jumps the cursor up to the search field
Command-Shift-A — Attaches a file to …

Suppose you sent a message to a bunch of people and you realize you forgot someoneor someone tells you they did not get the message. Instead of opening the message in your Sent mailbox, copying its contents, and pasting it into a new message, just select the message, choose Message from the menu bar  -> Send Again (Command-Shift-D), and replace the existing recipients with the new one(s), or the person who did not get the message. The subject and message …

To save an entire e-mail exchange from Mail.app to a text file, select the messages you want to save. Then select File: Save As…, and save the messages as plain text or rich text wherever you want. That file will have all the selected messages ordered by date.

If you’d rather have save the messages as a PDF file, choose File: Print…, open the PDF drop-down menu and choose Save as PDF. This will save each message as a separate PDF. …

For longer than I care to admit I have been using my mouse, or track pad, to Quicklook Mail.app attachments. Well that stops today. If you have an e-mail with an attachment and want to Quicklook the item don’t reach for the mouse, instead type the Command + Y key. This will Quicklook the attachment just like hitting the space bar does in finder. I hope apple looks at this and changes the Mail.app Quicklook  in Snow leopard but for now this will help keep my …

Jumsoft has just released Stationery Pack for Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) Mail. With 50 new high-quality and exceptional design options for every occasion, the extended Stationery Pack also includes 50 themes from the previous version. Categorized stationery themes will save you time when looking for particular event. The Stationery comes with a installer, and conveniently displayed in Apple Mail New Message stationery menu.

Get New Mail: Cmd-Shift-N

If you’re waiting for a message, this can be really handy. Cmd-Tab to Mail, hit Cmd-Shift-N, then Cmd-Tab back to your previous app.

Reply: Cmd-R and Forward: Cmd-Shift-F

These pretty much go together. Cmd-R will reply to your message and Cmd-Shift-F will forward your message. Always handy if you have a lot of messages to reply to.

Mark as Junk Mail: Cmd-Shift-J

No matter how hard you try, you will probably never be completely free of Junk mail. However, if you …

If anyone has ever asked you to resend an e-mail for any reason her is how you can avoid having to retype the entire message.

Once you have opened Mail.app go to the sent items and select the e-mail you want to resend. Don’t open the message just select it. Now head up to the Message tab on the menu bar and select Send Again or if you are a big Keyboard Shortcut user hit “Shift + Command + D”. A …

I found this information over at Mac OSX hints. I started un=sing it over the week end and am loving it. There are some concerns on how it will impact Gmail’s Archiving but since I don’t use that feature it really does not impact me. Let me know if you use this and like it.

If you get e-mails that has several links embeded in them you can open the links in the background of the default web browser (Firefox for me). The process is the same as opening a new tab in Safari. Just command + click on the link and it will open a new tab in the web browser and not bring the web browser to the front. Give this a shot next time you are trying to get through your e-mails …

If you need to change the quote level in a message from Mail.app use the Command and Option keys. To lower the quote level press Option-Command-’ (thats the apostrophe). To raise the level just use Command – ‘ As Mac tips.org says a good way to remember this is to “remember that you are simply pressing Command and the button you use to signify quotes in general text.”