10 Ways To Customize Mac Mail 

Never seen one video from you where I have not learned something important, that's why I watch them till the end. Thanks Gary.

Dude I just bought an M1 iMac I'm a 20 year long windows user. Your content as been absolutely god sent. If you are ever in South Africa, let me know , as I'd like tk buy you a beer and pizza .

I cannot imagine ANYONE who could do a better job of explaining everything Mac, than Gary!!! Gary, do you know how many lives you've touched and made better?! THANK YOU! 🤗

Thank you for the great content. You just keep helping me more and more every day. 🙂

Always superb tuition , thank you so much!

Did an update that screwed up my mail screen; listened to you and FIXED! Awesome. Thanks.

I have been using AirMail for years and just purchased a new MacBook Air. I couldn't get it set up properly so I "resorted" to Apple Mail. This video helped me enormously - thank you for making it!

Brilliant tutorial, really exploring Apple Mac mail. Love the colour options too. thanks Gary

Super helpful, I messed up my email and haven't been able to figure out how to fix it. Your video was exactly what I needed.

Liked the Bonus tip #10. It was something that I have seen in gmail, yet understood it better here! Keep up the great work.

Thank you, Gary! It’s easy when you know how. Now I do.👍🏻

Thanks, I am new to Apple, you make it a pleasure to use with your hints and help.

Great job!

so useful!! thanks for this video!!

Great video, thanks!

Great video!!

Thanks Gary!

I am obsessed with you! My new hobby is watching these videos

thank you SO much for your help

Great and thanks much!

Excellent!

Hi Gary, You're the best.. Thanks for your effort.

THANK YOU! You saved my life.

Great video! Thanks :)

Very good tutriual

thank you so much for the tips, given me an idea to explore my MAC

I would love to select a ‘Save to” mailbox as an option for emails I send. I have a mailbox for each client/customer I service. All my created emails end up in my sent folder, which I then copy to the appropriate client mailbox, if I remember at end of day - a real pain. It would be so much easier to have an option to select any mailbox, or none, before sending. I know there must be others out there that need to save sent mail. It would be fun to see which of your viewers have the most number of emails currently sitting in their sent folders!

Thanks Gary.

Thank you

Hello thank you for the videos its great to learn new stuff. Is there a way to organise emails off certain senders ie invoices from a. wholesaler tone all stored into a separate inbox. Thank you

Gary, in my opinion, in the authority of anything mac.

wow, awesome

You can also change the font in the inbox column or any of the favorites that you have selected.

thank you

This was worth watching just to learn about the split screen feature in full screen view!

Hey Gary, I'm on Catalina and I always wanted to use something native instead of downloading 3rd party. The thing about the native mail on Catalina is, instead of sorting emails based on accounts as shown in this video (I.E Each email account has their down inbox, drafts, sent folder etc), they are sorted based on categories (I.E Inbox dropdown shows 3 accounts, draft dropdown shows 3 accounts etc). How do I configure it to sort based on accounts basis?

U r great!

Quick question how to refresh to retrieve new mail. Great video

Hey Garry, great video, I learned a lot. Thanks and subbed. Can I ask, is there a way to stop apple mail from automatically flagging my mail? It seems to flag stuff I don't want flagged. Thanks kindly.

Gary-welcome to 2021. Looking forward to learning more from your videos. Shift/Command/M-genius. Since I converted to Mac Mail exclusively a few months ago I have been wondering how to get rid of the sidebar. Thank you! Customize toolbar is new to me and I need to use that more often. How did you get your sidebar to be a diff color from the rest of the Mac mail?

Hi Gary, before Big Sur when looking for a particular email there was an option to click From & it would alphabetize the emails to quickly find what I want. I have not been able to find it, Is it hidden? You are such a gem!

Gary... is there a way to control the order of suggested email addresses when composing a new email?

There was a really useful feature that Apple removed and I can't understand why. When you've replied to or forwarded a message and the message is still in your inbox for future reference, a little arrow appeared to the left in the message. When you clicked that arrow it took you to the message you sent. Now that no longer does that. There is another function that most mail apps have always had that Apple mail has never had and that is the ability to scroll through your unread messages with marking them as "Read." I get a fair amount of email every day. If I scroll down through 20 of them looking for something in particular, now all of the mail I have just scrolled past has been marked as read. I know you can "Page through" multiple emails quickly but the ability to scroll is much more useful. There used to be an app that fixed that but it hasn't been updated in years and doesn't work with the newer MacOSs.

Awesome Video can you do the same thing like this for Apple Mail on IOS, You ROCK great video. Big FAN.

Thanks Gary, great video, wife is asking, whats the main reason for the archive boxes ? She says it keeps all the mail anyways, so why save it twice ? Curious. Ron

Hi, which email client is good ? Apple Mail or Gmail ?

Thanks Gary - Learned a lot from this Video; Now if there was some way I could get emails I reply to to go into the Folder of the original Message rather then Sent (as per my old Windows Email Client) MacMail would be perfect.

Hey Gary ! Im loving your videos and im even addicted. I watched most of them everyday and I need more :) you explain things really in a good way and make Macos look really powerful. I would appreciate if you could also do videos on IPadOS as I have many issues with it. After viewing your videos I deleted most of the apps im using and started using the ones you recommend only (including antivirus removal and cleaning apps..etc). Ive moved from spark to Apple mail. However I have some issues and appreciate your reply on it. First its consuming load of CPU suddenly when I send an email or the screen splits (even when mailbutler is off). Second I tried creating on exchange web rules so my folders would be synced across my apple devices, however the folders were not syncing sometimes unless you go through them and second issue is that if I open an email inside a folder it doesnt reflect on the main mailbox if its a move or copy. Sometimes the rule is to move but i find it in two inboxes. I tried using the smart mailboxes which isnt useful for many apple devices, the issue that its not filtering emails right by subject contains and by Sender from is equal to. I tried so much. Im thinking of going back to spark somehow. I do receive thousand of emails per week.

i used to use paid apps to get mails and sort them now i fully use only apple stuff and apple mail is amazing !!

How do you customise incoming mail sounds ? I don't mean the sounds that come with the mail program, but something you download. I've downloaded a sound, converted it into AIIF, it appeared in itunes. How do I install it in Apple mail ?

Here is the main problem that I have with Fonts on the Mail app. I want to be able to see larger text without impacting the font that is sent back on the reply. Outlook for example allows you to change your view (smaller/larger) without having this effect. The mail app is so limited. If you are using a 4K display or better, its difficult to view. And if you change the display resolution, you of course impact every application that you view.

Hi Gary, how can I set a specific color so that every time I write a new email or I reply/forward one, Mail picks always that color? it works with the font, but not with the color unfortunately.. Thank you! Matteo

Is there a way to make the text in the preview section larger? I tried zooming in but it doesn’t change the setting

Hi. Thanks for your tutorials. I was wondering of you have a video or could let me know how to combine two inboxes (my wife's and mine) into an All Inboxes with a little arrow to the left of it as I see in your list of favourites. I had this function but it recently disappeared after upgrading the IOS. I cannot recall how it first came about so I do not know how to create it again. Thank you.

Invaluable resource! I have been racking my brain and the help tab in Mac mail. I have 6 separate emails and 5 of them have their own "all sent" box. How do I add a "all sent" for the last one? I would greatly appreciate your wisdom.

Thank you for the useful mail content. Im using Gmail as my private mailbox and when I try to use mail I don't see the different sections of Gmail like Primary, Social and Promotions. is this something that could be implemented in Mail?

Hello Gary! Love your channel. Just one question how can I disable the inline attachment from mail?

Great info. Thank you. How do I find all the email from one sender from over the last 2 years so that I can delete them all at once?

Thanks for all of your videos. As a new Mac user, I refer to them often. Is there a way to change the color of the MAIL.app? Not the fonts, the backgrounds or the sections? TY

It is possible to clean up/customise the sidebar so all you see is the favourites? Thanks!

Do you know how to change the colour of the background of the sidebar? that pink colour? Most appreciated.

For me this issue is all accounts email come in one folder, I don't like that, I want to spread them inbox and sent box-like windows, I have different emails ... Do you have a solution for that?

Hi Gary, I saw you also don't have the arrow to give you the drop-down menu next to your send button. I want to use the "Send Later" feature but I'm struggling to find it. Any ideas?

Might not be directly relevant to this video - but is there a way to get Mail to stop automatically downloading attachments? I'm using a 256 GB MacBook Air at the moment, and storage is always tight.

Hi Gary, I'm on Big Sur, and when I open Mail in full-Screen mode, and want to compose a new message, a new windows opens and it will NOT go to split view. So there must be just one other setting that triggers the split view, but I do not know which 🤷🏼‍♂️

I don’t like having a preview pane but I would like to know if I can add a calendar on the right of my mail.. like in outlook for Mac? How about a contacts button or widget? Is that an option?

How do you add stationary on the new Mac mail that used to be there?

Hello. Great videos. How do you move Favorites group to top of the sidebar if its below another group? Thanks,

Hi Gary, I'm on OS 12.2.1. For tracking purposes (using Mailbutler), I'd like to send each member of a mac mail group an individual identical email without everyone else's email in the To or Cc field. Bcc doesn't work for this purpose as it doesn't allow tracking. Is this possible without having to create a separate email for each recipient? Thank you!

Hi mate, I'm looking at getting a custom domain email. I'm wondering if I should go for Apple Mail (with iCloud+ subscription) or GMail (with Google Workspace subscription). Could you please cover this?

Hi Gary, can we create a table directly in a message?

cn we do split screen style without full screen mode

Is it possible to retain a draft email. I.e. create an email, save as draft but when used you keep the draft for future use.

How do I create an "All Inboxes" like yo you have? mine are all separated and I don't like that.

Another great video thanks. An email sent from Mac Mail ends up with a different font when viewed on recipient’s PC in Outlook. Try it if you don’t believe me folks. Anyone found a solution to this?

no dislike nice one

Hey Gary. How do I get the folders in mailbox to sort in alphabetical order?

great but I want to make the side toolbar where inbox and outbox and sent etc are, and make icons bigger there???

Just recently all my mail (gmail) started disappearing (deleting) from mac mail and of course being imap they dissappeared from gmail as well, after lots of googling I found a way to get them all back folders and all (phew) but I want a way to back up everyday everything in mac mail, folders, sub folders, mail etc to desktop not time machine, I know I can export folders but seeing as I have a lot of folders this would be extremely time consuming, I wish mac mail had a backup facility. Do you have any suggestions even third party apps would be better than nothing cheers even if you don't know could you let me know. thanks wendy love your tutorials

how do i change the default font for new messages ?? I cant find this setting

Do you have a way to stop marking email as read when using preview ?

Is there any way by which in Sent Items view I want to see in Column Lapyout whereas in Inbox I want a different view ? I am checking as in Outlook for Mac as well as in Windows this option is there ? When I checked in mail what I found was that once I change a view, it changes all across . The reason is in sent items I want Sent to in the column view whereas in Inbox I want from whom was the mail received. This is elementary as I am concerned however not able to see that option in Mac Mail

the one thing that stopped me from using this app instead of spark, is that mail doesn't have a widget in the iphone

Gary, I work with the most updated Mail. However my Archive is not active. How come? Please, advise. Regards, Paul

Hi Gary, can you tell me how to change the background colour in Mac Mail please? My background is black and I cannot find how to change the colour back to white.

Still trying to figure out how to keep Mail from automatically removing the blue dot (unread) from my mail when I'm just previewing it. Outlook gives you the option to turn that off, but I can't find it in Mail. I'd like to preview a message and know that I need to get back to it but not mark it as "read" yet by having the blue dot disappear. Yes, I know I can select it and mark it as unread again, but that's hugely inefficient. Anyone got a solution other than go back to Outlook?

the list of mailboxes in apple mail sucks! Its so complicated. 🤨 When I search for a sent email, I have to klick through al the inboxes-folders to find the mail. Is their a easier way?

Hello, I lost all incoming messages from the favorites bar by accident. How to restore incoming messages to the favorites bar? Thank you and best regards

I have Mac Mojave 10.14. In My pref/font/color : the message list font change bar is dim therefore I can't change email message size and its getting far too small to read. Can't find a way help to fix... help

Under mailbox menu erase junk mail. It does not get rid of the mail in junk, I must delete it and then remove trash all accounts?

Why do I have a sent box in favorites and a sent box under google?

How do I add a custom mailbox to my iCloud lis in mail?

I wish you would explain mail/contacts group list functions. I say this because I can’t get a group list to work. I’ve literally given up on Mac mail because of this, and use outlook instead.

the three finger touch does not work in mail , hwo to fix i tthanks

Can you do a video on how to delete unwanted email from google

how do i reset the mail settings to default? the system font is no longer available :(

Can you please help me as to why my Junk mailbox gets so many ad mails every day? It’s driving me mad, I’ve enabled some rules but to no avail. Thank you

Thank you I hated the shape of it sm 😅

How do I convert from Gmail to iCloud Mail?

When people get emails from my Apple mail it's label is user? I want it to have my name as the label.