Flaw in Apple Mail!

Apple Mail ... when I hit reply, compose a reply but don't send the message right away, save it as draft instead and send it later, the original message does not get marked as "replied" ... this is not helpful. Can this be changed?
thank you,
Stephan

It depends on what you want.
If you mark it solved, which it technically isn't, then most people will not read the thread, unless they want to see how it was solved.
By leaving it unsolved, maybe someone who might know a workaround may be more inclined to read it.
By marking it solved, the person who solved it is given some points, that, if enough are acquired, upon their death, they will achieve total consciousness and play golf with Bill Murray and the Dalai Lama

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I received a call from the Comcast security service yesterday. Comcast told me that my cable modem reflected more than 1TB of data streaming thru it last month. Comcast threatened to turn my service off if I had another month like that.
I have 4 macs sitting behind a wired router with a secure firewall - the macs have IP addresses assigned by the router. File sharing is turned off. Norton anti-virus software running. I figured Comcast was wrong, until I checked the lights on the router. Data was just flying on and off my Mac Pro Tower (running 10.5.2).
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I then added SurplusMeter, to see what was going on. Sure enough, huge amounts of data moving up and down. Surprisingly, more data was moving down than up. What the ****?
I then added Little Snitch. Firefox open, Safari open, Apple Mail open, and the data was flying. I didn't keep track, but I was downloading a GB of data as fast as my high speed cable modem would allow apparently, with lots of data moving up to.
The data stopped moving when I closed everything. That's odd. I opened up Firefox and Safari, and no data moved. I closed Firefox and Safari and then opened up Apple Mail, and the data started flying again. Little Snitch showed the connection to Apple Mail as the only existing network connection.
I use Apple Mail with a dotmac account. The only email program and provider I use. I had a ton of messages in my inbox on the dotmac side and the Apple Mail side, so I moved those to folders, archived or deleted them. The data was still flying. I deleted all plist and reindexed my messages on the Apple Mail side. No change.
I upgraded to 10.5.3 - no change.
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This is a SERIOUS problem. I found two other mentions of this problem in this forum. No response to either message. Apple Mail - dotmac generated more than 1TB of data streaming over a one month period. I gather this is an isolated problem. But there is nothing special about my email usage or storage. (Apple Mail had been acting odd for a while - the program would hang 90% of the time when I would close it. I would have to use Force Quit.)

I'm having the same problem, my inbox on my mail server is only 45MB, and I get about 100KB of email a day, but my mail app is somehow transferring 20TB a month to my mail server!!!! It all happens in the background so I don't even notice it going on.
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Greetings to All:
Sunday, March 24, 2013
I've been trying to get Apple Mail to work with Verizon email for some years without success. I read the boards and find that this is not an uncommon problem. I received the new server settings for Verizon email today and eagerly plugged them in thinking this would solve my problems with receiving Verizon email, but, alas, it did not. Microsoft Outlook does a dandy job of pulling in Verizon email, but Apple Mail cannot. It's ridiculous that I should have to jump over to another email app to open one email account. All of the settings have been checked and double checked and the machine rebooted as the instructions mandate.
I don't understand what the problem is with Apple Mail and Verizon email. Apple Mail pulls in just about every other email service without flaw. Does anybody out there have any insight into this?
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In using Apple Mail I have found one flaw in such an awesome program. While reading an email I will find a tracking number or information that I want to search for in google, so naturally I right click after highlighting and select "Search in Google", this is an awesome feature but... I use firefox as my default browser and Mail always opens the search in Safari. Yes I have Firefox as my default browser in Apple, Safari, and Firefox preferences. Is their any way to change this? I know its not a huge thing, but it could simplify things for me. Thanks!

Hi,
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I hate to break it to you but maybe your system for redacting content was flawed for all these years.
The comments box isn't intended for this & you may have been leaving them exposed in other PDF readers. Simply layering white comment boxes doesn't necessarily remove the underlying text, especially when the text is 'image based' on another layer. It's equivalent to using a post-it note to redact a physical document, the text still exists if you know how to lift the layer.
PDF Pen is another app that can redact sections if you want another tool. Acrobat should have an actual redaction tool, check it's help. Also look for updates as Eric suggested.
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This is getting old, my Apple Mail, cancels shut down everytime I close down my laptop, I am running Mavericks and
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HT2623 I forgot the password for my .mac account and cannot log into it from Apple Mail. I have an iCloud mail account but did not convert my .mac account to iCloud. How can I log into my .mac or .me email?

I set up .mac, including email, around 2006. I believe my .mac account became a .me account, but I continued to receive email sent to .mac until about March 2013.
I accessed my .mac account using Apple Mail on an iMac running OS X 4.11. I'm still using that machine.
In July 2013, I upgraded my MacBook Pro to OS X 8.5, bought an iPod Touch and set up an iCloud account.
I forgot my .mac password and I want to open an email message sent to my .mac email account.
When I attempt to log into my .mac account using Apple Mail, my password attempts are rejected by a .me mail server.
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How do I restore an Apple Mail account to a previous date?

I have three accounts in Apple Mail: my Exchange server account, and two IMAP accounts. I need to restore ONLY the Exchange server mailbox to where it was on April 1st and can't do so the normal way of having the Exchange mail stores restored.
Is there anything in Time Machine back on April 1st that will either let me restore this account to that date, or at least act as an archive of the folders and their content that was in this account on that date?
I see the folders names I need (corresponding to my Mail tree structure) under home/library/mail/exchange/ but when I open any of the folders they each have one .plist file in them...that's it...no messages.
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you still should be able to do it just like I said. When mail is active, start TM and go back to the time point where all those folders were still present. Highlight them and click restore.
That's how TM is intended to work in Mail. really!
If you don't believe me and are determined to do it in Finder you can do that too.
Quit Mail and go to the folder homedirectory/Library/Mail
select the folder for the mail account that used to contain all those folders.
Start TM and go back to the time when those folders were there. restore them.
Finally, move the file Envelope Index from homedirectory/Library/Mail to desktop and start Mail. Mail will say that it needs to import your data. say yes. It will reindex everything and you'll be back to where you want to be.
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Gmail no longer working with Apple Mail?

In the lasts 24 hours, without making changes to hardware or software, Mail has quit retrieving mail from my gmail accounts.
While I never receive any sort of warning about passwords or other issue, I simply get this:
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Anybody have a guess what to check? This is frustrating.

Michael Battenfield wrote:
Anybody have a guess what to check? This is frustrating.
Did you change any setting in Mail? Did you change your gmail account password? Did you activate 2-step verification on your gmail account?
If you haven't done anything from above, maybe problem is with your network... Did you try to turn off your router for few minutes and then turn ON again?
Did you install any 3rd party security apps on your Mac? Did you enable system firewall? Do you use any proxy servers? Do you use VPN?
There might be more questions...
Michael Battenfield wrote:
SOMETHING is funky with Apple Mail.
Works without any problems on my end...

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And thanks, really, to anyone that can suppress the urge to laugh at the quandry, and offer real help.
(remember, there are NO stupid questions......
only stupid people!)
And yes, that is a simple pun, aimed more or less at people like me. I'm foolish enough to believe that if I spend over $2500 on a Mac, instead of spending $1100 for a high end gaggledanger PC, with a free 4Gig external hard drive with every purchase until 3/1/2013, that I might get something that was mucho mas operator friendly.
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I called tech support and they said to save an attachment to the desk top - which is fine if it's 1 file and that works. I have one with 8 jpg files that goes with text and all I get are the blue boxes with the
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Thank you for your encouraging post. Since calling Apple Care and the whiz in Apple Mail could only tell me how to forward one attachment, mind sharing how to forward more than one with text?
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However, I awoke this morning to find downloaded emails in the same program, but when I go to "get mail," it says the same thing, and still won't allow me to send or receive.
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password: your password
outgoing mail server: smtp.comcast.net
Under Advanced
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Getting really disheartened after the thrill of getting a brand new iMac!
I cannot get my email to work on Apple Mail or Outlook (which I pay for) at all!
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Hello,
I am using a MacBook Pro. Bought in April 2011. Upgraded to Lion, OSX 10.7.3
I have an Apple mail account that synced with a gmail account in my Mail Program.
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