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.”

Did you know that you can use some keyboard shortcuts in Mail to navigate from Mailbox to Mailbox? The order you have them listed on the side bar is will correlate to which Command + number you need to use, for me the List is:

Command – 1: Inbox
Command – 2: Outbox
Command – 3: Drafts
Command – 4: Sent
Command – 5: Trash
Command – 6: Junk
Command – 7: Notes
Command – 8: To-Do

Give them a try and let me know how …

I received a question from a reader today asking me how to set up a distribution list like he had on his Windows machine with Outlook. My response to his was this:

Make sure that you have an Address card in Address Book for each of the people you want on the list.
Create a New Group by selecting the “+” button under the Group area.
Name the Group like you did in Outlook.
From your Address Book entries Drag and Drop the names …

Do you want to have your Mail.app to organize your conversations like gmail? If so its a very easy thing to toggle on and off. All you have to do is:

Right-click in the toolbar.
Choose “Customize Toolbar…”.
Add the “Threads” button.When you click on it, you inbox will automatically adjust, sorting everything by conversation.
Clicking on the blue arrow at the left of a message (a message that contains many more) will let you see every email in the thread.

What makes this even …

Winmail.dat are e-mails that have been sent to you from someone who is using Outlook on the Dark Windows side. Not only have they sent it from out look by they have used rich text format. There is only one major problem with using Outlook in conjunction with Rich Text, you must use outlook to read the message as well. If you use any other program to read the message you will see this attachment in your e-mail. Some e-mail …

Custom ringtones on our phones have been making it easy to tell who’s calling without looking at our phones for years now, so why aren’t we doing the same thing with our incoming email? Today I’ll show you how to set up custom alerts with your favorite desktop email client to minimize email distraction without missing important messages.

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Did you know that in leopard new Maill.app that if you put a link in the subject line it is clickable for the reader? As is stated on “The Apple Blog” they have never notice this themselves and I can say i have not either. Give it a try next time you are sending a friend and e-mail for a cool site you may have found.

I have been looking for a way to make my own stationery since I heard Leopard would allow us to put stationery in Mail.app. I found a really good tutorial over at iuseapple.com He goes to really good depth on his tutorial. Take a look at the article here.

UPDATE: It looks like this article is no longer online. The link is dead and forwarding to  a dead link.

I have added the text …

Over at Equinux.com is asking 24.95 euro. I am not sure if it is worth that to have over 100 choices but if it is to you then please tell them you heard it from us.

Our friends over at 11 Mystics.com have announced that they are looking into adding Mail.app Stationary to match the really nice iWeb themes that they sell. There was no announcement of price or release. If you ask me this is a really cool way to make sure that an e-mails you send out keep a constant look of your web site. Take a look at the full post here.