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Help, Guides, and News on making the Switch To Apple Macintosh Computers
What is Mail?
Mac OS X includes an application aptly named Mail to allow you to send and receive email messages. As a key application of Mac OS X, Mail is much more than a simple email client. Mail is able to leverage key features of the operating system and can integrate with numerous Mac OS X applications.
Industry standardsMail uses industry standard SMTP, POP3, and IMAP protocols. It also supports Apple's own MobileMe service and Microsoft Exchange (via IMAP). The iPhone and the iPod touch use a mobile version of Apple Mail.
Key Features
Mail is a versatile application that has a wide range of capabilities. A few of its key features include:
- Spotlight indexing
- Data detectors
- Smart mailboxes
- Stationary
- Multiple account support
- Notes
- To Do lists
- RSS feeds
- Rules
- Photo browser
- Signatures
- Spam filter
- Spelling checker
- Sync settings with other Macs
Mail can work with integrated with numerous Mac OS X applications including Address Book, iCal and iChat. If you use iPhoto to manage your photographs, you can easily send photos in an by using iPhoto's 'Share' menu.
Updates
- May 2, 2009 - content revision
By: switchtoamac
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