Sign in to iCloud to access your photos, videos, documents, notes, contacts, and more. Use your Apple ID or create a new account to start using Apple services. Pros: Good set of basic features, well-integrated with the OS, great for starters. Cons: Lacks advanced features, no customization options, often ignored by Apple. It’s nearly impossible to talk about the best email apps for Mac and not include Apple’s own Mail.app in the list.
Mac Mail The email program that comes with the Mac operating system. Mail is a full-featured email client that integrates to-do lists and notes as of OS X 10.5 and support for Microsoft Exchange as of OS X 10.6. Mail originally came from NeXTMail, the mail application in the NextStep operating system that evolved into Mac OS X. Bluemail is an email client that is capable of managing an unlimited number of mail accounts. It is one of the best free email client for Mac that allows for smart push notifications and group emailing. This tool enables you to personalize multiple email accounts.
bavarde wrote:
My junk mailbox and my trash mailbox have disappeared . Everything I had saved in my smart mailboxes is also gone. Suggestions?
Something happened with Mail's handling of Junk Mail on or about April 3, 2015 that is allowing Apple to scan incoming email prior to delivery. Then to determine if the email is delivered 'as is', delivered as 'Junk' or in some cases blocked entirely.
These actions seem to be independent of whether Junk mail is enabled in Preferences or not.
I have been using SpamSieve for the last 6 years and as of April 2015 Apple's iCloud operation has perfectly mimicked 6 years of training SpamSieve, all filtered mail that meet the SpamSieve criteria are now placed in a folder labeled Junk instead of SPAM. There is one exception, I have trained SpamSieve to filter all iTunes email as junk. Apple is not following that filtering criteria because now the only email that finds its way to SpanSieve's SPAM mailbox is the iTunes emails, all other trained actions result in that email being placed in the Junk mailbox.
Not sure how iCloud learned what I was doing on my computer. All choices to store information on the Cloud servers have been turned off and junk mail was turned off. At any rate Apple learned to mimic those SpanSieve actions in the Cloud with that one exception, iTunes stuff.
Apr 24, 2015 11:35 AM
Mac users attempt to backup Apple Mail to external hard drive for different reasons, for example, protect important messages from unexpected data loss disaster, transfer emails to external hard drive to save disk space, etc. Fortunately, there are many ways can help to manage this job. And each of these methods has its advantages and drawbacks. Next, we will introduce them in details one by one.
Method 1. Backup Apple mail using Time Machine
When it comes to Mac backup, Time Machine is always the first method to be mentioned. To backup Apple Mail emails, just right click Time Machine icon in the Dock and select 'Back Up Now' from the pop-up menu.
Drawbacks:
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- You should first install and enable Time Machine on your Mac computer.
- You might get the risk of data loss if Time Machine backup restore failed.
Method 2. Backup Apple mail using Export Mailbox feature
Mail's Export Mailbox option is a feature which is attractive for users who want to remove messages entirely from Mail while still holding onto copies. With it, you can easily archive email in Apple Mail. To backup Apple mail, you should:
First, create a mailbox. Just open Mail and go to Mailbox > New Mailbox, then drag and drop those messages you want to the newly-created mailbox.
Then, start to export a mailbox. Right-click on the mailbox in the sidebar and choose 'Export Mailbox'. Next, choose a destination for the .mbox file and click 'Choose'.
Drawbacks:
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There are users said that they have lost their emails while archiving apple mail emails as their emails got corrupted and sometimes some unknown errors occurred for no reason.
Method 3. Backup Apple mail using third-party Mac backup software
Due to the drawbacks mentioned above, it is inevitable that users may get some glitches while trying to backup apple mail emails and its mailboxes using Time Machine or Mail's Export Mailbox feature. In view of this, we think it is better to choose a safer alternative solution - EaseUS Mac backup software to manage the job.
Step 1. Launch EaseUS Mac backup software, click the first Backup tab > Click + button at the left corner of the left pane to create a backup project - name the backup project and click OK.
Step 2. Set up the backup destination where you want to store Mac Mail emails as backups, automatically backup frequency etc and click OK. Here, if you want to backup Apple mail to an external hard drive, please connect it to Mac before launching the backup software.
Step 3. Click File+ to selectively choose files and folders to backup and click the blue start button to backup your Mac mail emails now.