Big feature missing in mail.app: click sort

One great feature of Eudora was option-click to highlight a group of messages, be it by date, author or subject. I would often let a thread build up in my mailbox for a week or so and when it seems to have petered out, I'll opt-click that last message and they all get highlighted and I file them. I was hoping mail.app would offer something similar but i can't find it. This is very important for those of us who don't use "View>Organize by conversation".
Any ideas? Does Apple actually read this forum for improvement ideas?

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Attachments missing in mail.app

I have noticed the following problem with an imap account:
I am looking at a message that has an attachment but the attachment is not shown in mail.app. In its place there is a generic graphic with a question mark. I right-click, choose "Download Image" but nothing happens. When I log onto may email account using a web browser and check the same message, the attachment is there (a bmp graphic, in this particular case). This doesn't happen with all messages that have attachments but I've noticed it at least twice in the past couple weeks (and perhaps more often, but I generally ignore attachments).
Themis

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"SEND" button is missing from MAIL app.

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you are probably looking in the wrong place. mail can't start without that file. you need to look inside library in her home directory, not at the top level of the hard drive. click on the home icon in the sidebar with her name next to it. then go to library->preferences.

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I have updated iPhone4 to IOS7 and now my mail accounts are in new order. I have several accounts but a few that need to be the most visible. Not sure how iPhone mail app is sorting them but it sorting it but definitely not alphabetically or by most used. Anyway, I finally figured out how to reorder them to suit me and, since help wasn't found on forum, thought I'd share:
Open Mail App, then use "Edit" from top right. You'll see a 3-bar icon to the right of each mail account. Use it to slide accounts up/down to where you want them. Works also for any Gmail accounts you might have.
Sometimes it's the simple things

cor-el, thanks for the tip. While I certainly scoured Adobe's preference settings to look for something relating to that exact thing, I never went to their help site until I got your post. I found out that the floating toolbar appears because the PDF opens in'' Read Mode'', which you can turn off for all future documents by doing this:
* Quit your internet browser
* Launch Acrobat (or Reader)
* Choose Edit>Preferences
* Click on the Internet category on the left
* Deselect “Display in Read Mode by default”
* Click the OK button.
* Relaunch Acrobat
Something important to note, if you have both Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader, you need to do the above in both programs (same steps).

Mail App in iOS 6.0.1

Hello,
I am interested in knowing how to locate the text edit features in the Mail App. I was composing an email last evening and could not even locate the text edit features, i.e., font style, size and even color like I have in my mail on mu iMac.
Thank you if you can assist.
Mohegan

Good Evening,
I have already posted two questions and received to helpful hints to help me, thank you both. Since apple has limited the text editing features available in the iOS Mail App, there must be a third party app the will allow some integration and with the many iOS users and developers on the planet, I respectfully have a difficult time wondering why I have not yet gotten a reply to assist.
If anyone who reads this can assist with the answer, please do and thank you for your help so far.
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My Mail App is gone !! HELP

I turned on my iPhone and connect it with my Mac and I was missing my Mail App in the dock Where did it go and how can I get it back!!!
Plse help me.

Ths for helping me, Lawrence. Where can I find the search screen on my iPhone? I do checked Restrictions and everything was turned ON. I'm glad that I found the Mail App but now I need to get it back to my Dock. Hope you can help.

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I've never heard of anything at all that would do this. you can do it by hand but there is nothing that will automate this.

Mail.app + Google IMAP. Locally stored messages being dropped.

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This is very annoying because Mail.app obviously figures out the discrepancy at some point and begins trying to cache the Gb's of messages that are missing, and this blows my tiny, expensive, Australian download quota.
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Same problem here today! Not good at all, i checked the settings of the account and even if i told mail to keep a local copy, all the messages disappeared.
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At first I thought it was a COS, College of the Sequoias, as in the college I'm going to, Hotmail situation BUT it turns out it's a Hotmail in general situation because my other Hotmail account doesn't show my inbox or sent mail at all. I sent up my Hotmail account properly, go to it on the mail app, click on it and the inbox is empty. So is the sent box. Go to hotmail on the browser..there's all my mail! Just not in my Hotmail account in the mail app! I tried to set my Hotmail account on Jennifer's iPhone 4S.. No luck. Same thing happened when I tried on mum's iPad!
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Same here. I, too, have tried everything, including removing and re-adding the Hotmail account and SMTP servers, rebooting, you name it. Some folders seem to sync sometimes, but some do not ever. The main inbox does not sync at all. In addition, the problem seems to be strictly with Apple Mail on my iMac and MacBook Pro. The issue does not occur on my iPhone 6 or iPad Mini. I was very pleased with Apple Mail until now.

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Hate to post another Gmail releated support query, but find myself without another avenue after digging through these forums and searching the web. Here's the situation.
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Anyone else experiencing this? Anyone know a way to get around it?

Yes, they are visible on both iPhone and iPad (iOS7). weird. I've just moved onto the web interface.
Apologies for the delayed response - notification email going to an abandoned address.

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In Leopard OS was a very useful feature in mail.ap spotligth.
When you drag'n'drop a letter to the spotlight window of the 10.5 mail.app all the letters from mail recipient were shown as a spotlight-find-result. It was a very useful feature in previous MacOS. Not it's lost.
Is this feature lost only in my OS?
English is not my native language, sorry for possible grammar mistakes.

Have you applied the latest Mail update from the Apple Downloads site: Mail Update for Mavericks. This Apple document describes the fixes: OS X: About Mail Update for Mavericks
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IPhone Mail.app does not sort mails by date

I've just copied about 3000 old mails from a POP3 account to my Gmail account (IMAP). This was done through OS X mail.app, which just works perfect both in the OS X Mail.app and in the Gmail web interface.
The problem is that the Mail.app on my iPhone seems to sort the mails by some kind of mail ID so all the copied mails appears first in the Mail.app. I can't find any way to sort the mails by their date, which I guess will solve the problem.
If there is missing importing information about the problem please let me know so I can supply with more information.

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"Messages uploaded or copied into Gmail using IMAP may display the wrong date in your inbox or other labels."
See http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=82365&topic=12922
Apparently "The correct dates should appear in conversation view." applies only to web browsers and not the iPhone Mail app.

TS2834 I've been using the mail app that came with my Mac for over a year. Out of the blue, it will not open and keeps saying "Mail cannot open because of a problem" and something about not being compatible ??? Help! I miss my mail

I've been using the mail app that came with my Mac for over a year. Out of the blue, it will not open and keeps giving me an error like "Mail cannot open because of an error and something about it not being compatible. Please help! I miss my mail

Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid.
Make sure the title of the Console window is All Messages. If it isn't, select All Messages from the SYSTEM LOG QUERIES menu on the left. If you don't see that menu, select
View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar.
Click the Clear Display icon in the toolbar. Then try the action that you're having trouble with again. Select any messages that appear in the Console window. Copy them to the Clipboard (command-C). Paste into a reply to this message (command-V).
When posting a log extract, be selective. In most cases, a few dozen lines are more than enough.
Please do not indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
Important: Some private information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting.

Missing IMAP Folder in Yosemite Mail.app?

Hi, folks —
Stopped using Mail.app a couple years (and a couple iMacs) ago, as I was getting terrible spinning beach balls. With the release of Yosemite, I thought I'd give it a go again. I'm using a new dreamhost-hosted IMAP mail account set up a couple weeks ago.
Initial setup had no errors. I was able to see all built-in folders "under" Inbox (Drafts, Sent, etc), as well as the two I created myself ("Action" and "Archive").
I used the "Use this mailbox for" command to get Drafts, Junk, Trash and Sent to work right.
At this point, I had the following at the top of the Mailboxes column:
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I could click on all three to view messages in that folder.
1. I selected "Archive"
2. I chose "Use This Mailbox For" --> "Archive folder"
3. BOTH "Action" and "Archive" subfolders disappeared, leaving just "Inbox" (with VIPs just below it )
At this point:
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• I can confirm that the Action folder still exists, by reviewing the webmail interface for this account.
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I've got my Archive folder visible by clicking Archive icon on one of mine inbox emails. It have appeared in side bar and shows me all of my messages now as suppose to. Maybe same thing will be with VIP, but I don't use this feature so I can't tell you

Mail app functions missing

Since the IOS 6.1.3 update, all the most useful Mail functions have gone missing. These include Compose a message, Reply to a message, Forward a message, Move messages to folders, Delete messages. It seems I can only read messages. The usual buttons are all gone except for Edit.
To compose a message, I have to go into the Contacts app and cluck on an email address.
Is this a feature or a bug? Or something else?

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then do a reset, no data loss. Hold down the home/sleep button together until you see the apple logo and then release, then wait for the phone to boot back up.
Then check your mail features.

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