Get New Mail Faster by Changing Check Frequency
- From your Mail app, pull down the mail menu and click on “Preferences”, then click on “General”
- Now at the “Check For New message” tab you will be able to choose the time for checking new messages, the fastest settings is every one minute…
Checking for new email every minute is pretty aggressive and if you’re working with or relying on time-sensitive messages it can make a big difference. This trick also works on your iPhone/iPad and iPod Touch…
See More Mail Messages with Classic Layout
Why should you use the classic layout ? Well the classic layout allows you to see many more emails on screen without scrolling, and it also defaults to hiding any preview of the mail content, instead just providing a large list of senders, subject, and times, here’s how to enable it..
- From your Mail app Preferences, go to the “Viewing” tab
- And then mark the box which says “Classic Layout”
By doing this trick, you will notice a huge difference in your emails, as everything will be shown to you not like the default one…
Automatically Trash Old Junk/Spam Mail
The Mac Mail app defaults to holding onto all email that is deemed as “junkâ€, it will never delete itself. While that certainly airs on the safer side, particularly considering there are sometimes false-positives for spam and junk mail, if you get a lot of junk mail then you’ll discover that folder can become huge. A good alternative is to set the Junk folder to automatically trash itself after its contents are a month old. This gives you plenty of time to check through the folder for anything inappropriately flagged, while helping to keep the Mail app tidy.
- From your Mail app “Preferences” Go to “Account” tab.
- Select the Mail account to modify from the left side, then click the “Mailbox Behaviors†tab.
- Under “Junk†pull down the menu next to “Delete junk messages when:†and set this to “One month oldâ€
You can set automatic trashing of junk and spam to a faster setting, but a month provides a good amount of leniency, and if you’ve ever accidentally deleted a very important email then you’ll probably appreciate the less aggressive option.
Use VIP to Sort Important Mail
Using the VIP feature will provide you a better way to manage your mails, because it helpsyou flag mail sent from particular people or addresses to stand out. To mark someone as a VIP is easy:
- Simply open any mail from the sender you want to mark as a VIP, hover over their name, then click the Star icon that appears next to it
To remove someone from the VIP section, just click that star again and the sender will become normal again. Toggling VIP on and off for particular people for specific conversations is also a good strategy.
Preview Websites from Emails with Quick Look
- Hover over the URL in any mail message, then click the little downward pointing arrow to load the webpage into Preview.
Of course you can open the link using Google Chrome if it was installed on your Mac…
Send New eMails with Attachments Faster
Send an Email to Remotely Put a Mac to Sleep
Ever forgotten to sleep your Mac before you left home or took off from the office? It has happened to all of us, but take a few minutes to set up this awesome trick and you’ll never be worried about it again. How does it work? You set up an email rule in Mail app for OS X to monitor for a very specific phrase from your own email address, when it has been recognized it will launch a simple AppleScript that sleeps the Mac and locks it down, allowing you to instantly sleep the computer from anywhere just by sending it an email from your address (say, from the iPhone or another Mac) containing the magic phrase. It’s technical but easier to configure than you may think:
- Go to Mail app “Preference” then go to “Rules” and choose “Add a new rule”.
- Give the rule a name like for example: “Sleep your Mac via Mail app” and follow these instructions on this image.
Speed Up Mail by Turning Off Image Previews
defaults write com.apple.mail DisableInlineAttachmentViewing -bool true
