Questions tagged [apple-mail]
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How to Highlight Text in Yellow Using Apple Mail
Is it possible to highlight text in yellow (or another color) using OS X Apple Mail? There does not appear to be a simple way to do this.
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imap - get attached file
How do I get the attached file from this email?
This email is sent from an apple computer and the email struture is not like any other (surprise).. here the part with the disposition is one dimension deeper than else..
The script works with every…
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Does Mail.app support plugins (API)?
Does Mail.app (Mac) have an API where developers can create plugins for Mail?
I'm confused by an official Knowledge Base article Apple wrote that states:
Apple does not support the installation or use of third-party plugins with Mail.app.…
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Documentation on Apple Mail's .emlx data structure(s) (for conversion purposes)?
This appears to be a rare gem: where to find documentation on the structure of Apple Mail's .emlx files (and their partial variants, and the meaning of the directory structures). The docs do not appear to exist on Apple's site, nor can I find any…
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How to set the sender of the current Mail.app outgoing message via AppleScript?
I'd like to write an AppleScript to set the sender of the current outgoing message in Apple's Mail.app.
I've tried this:
tell application "Mail" to set sender of front outgoing message to ""
but I get the error message error "Mail…
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Swift Drag and Drop Mail on OS X 10.13
I have had dragging and dropping working for Mail working for a while now. That was until I upgraded to OSX 10.13.
Here is my code:
class DropView: NSView
{
var filePath: String?
required init?(coder: NSCoder) {
super.init(coder:…
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How does Apple Mail Privacy Protection actually work?
I am interested to understand how Apple's Mail Privacy Protection feature that seemingly won't allow Marketers to track email opens anymore actually works.
Apple announced Mail Privacy Protection in today's keynote and a blog article:
In the Mail…
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Import local Apple Mail.app messages (.emlx) into mutt
I am a mutt newbie, but am learning steadily, highly encouraged by its speed of searching and message display. I use mutt to read email from two Gmail IMAP accounts, and I cache the headers on my disk in ~/.mutt/cache/hcache and message bodies in…
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how to customize NSTokenField like in "To/ CC" fields in mac mail?
I am able to work with NSTokenField, it is easy to use.. but I want your suggestions on how can I customize it just like it is in "To/ CC" fields in mac mail ie. when no. of tokens in a token field increases height of "To" field gets increased to a…
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Strange behavior with embedded highDPI images in Apple Mail 7.0
I came across an issue where images get displayed in there native size even with width attribute:
Here's my test html
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How to debug plugin source code in Xcode?
I am new to creating plug-ins for the Apple Mail Application, and I want to create Apple Mail plugin for OSX.
I have created a project under "Installer Plug-in" (Application Plug-in -> Installer Plug-in) in Xcode, but I can't debug that project like…
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How to use a password from the keychain within an applescript running within Mail.app?
I'm trying to set up an applescript that performs (via python imaplib...) certain manipulations on my gmail account (which isn't configured with IMAP in Mail.app, only POP).
For that, the script needs to login using my password. If it weren't for…
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Developing HTML email newsletter, refreshing Apple Mail
I'm developing an HTML newsletter system using PHP & PEAR. It sends out the emails fine.
However I cannot force Apple Mail to reload images from the server. I have tried:
Restarting Mail
Clear ~/Library/MailDownloads
Clear…
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Apple Mail plist entry to load remote content
So I know how to have apple mail 9 always load remote content, but I need to set that preference programmatically. I'm looking through the apple mail plist file but can't seem to find the value. Does anyone have an idea where this setting might be?
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Force gmail to honour text color in nested tables for html signature
I am developing a html email signature for a client and I discovered what appears to be a bug with the way other mail clients render the text color when the text is within a nested table in a signature sent from gmail. Please see my example code…
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