Importing from mail.app

When downloading jpg attachments from Apple Mail, there is an option to save to iphoto.
However, when I do that, the resulting photo is much smaller: about 30% of the original size. It has also lost its name, being renamed simply 'image'?
Why is this? Is there any way I can get it to directly import the original attachment as it is? Of course, I can download to desktop, then import, which works fine, but I thought I could save time by doing it directly.

The size of the files are smaller. If I download the photos to my desktop they are about 1.4Mb. If I save them directly to iphoto they are about 500Kb. I presume that means that something goes missing in the transfer.

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How can I export my messages from Entourage and then import into Mail.app?

I'd like to see this too. I got a new job and CAN NOT get MAIL to work, but the account settings work in ENTOURAGE. I ONLY NEED TO IMPORT THE EMAIL ACCOUNT - NOT the contacts, calendar, etc.
CAN I IMPORT AN EMAIL ACCOUNT - (NOT a "Mailbox")
HELP & THANKS!

10.6.7, hardware failure but the hard drive is intact. I can access the hard drive via Linux. Need to get mail from Mail.app and from Entourage 2004.

I need to know a couple of things, but y'all may not have all the answers I need.
First, I need to know how to retrieve the mail files from Mail.app and from Entourage 2004. I don't know if this is a valid asusmption, but in my experience with Windows, I know that Outlook keeps everything in a single monolithic .PST file. Is this the case with either Mail.app or with Entourage?
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Any advice on any of this problem will be extremely helpful. Thanks.

PastorLarry wrote:
I'm running Ubuntu Linux 11.04 on my Linux netbook. I wish there was some way I could get Snow Leopard on here.
Direct install MacBuntu (based upon Ubuntu 11.04)
http://www.oslike.se/
I have it running on one of my single core netbooks.
WIth your other problem, just borrow a Mac temporariy, drag a enclosure to a Apple Store and use one of theirs, they don't mind as they have Deep Freeze installed on all their machines so changes don't stick upon rebooting.

ICal.app doesn't grab events/invitations from Mail.app

Morning.
My colleagues are using MS Outlook and send me invitations. I receive their emails with ICS attachments. In iCal.app I've activated »Preferences > Advanced > Automatically request invitations from Mail.app«. (I use a German GUI, therefore I do not exactly the terminology on an English GUI.)
But iCal.app does not grab and display such invitations.
What's wrong? What can I do to solve this serious problem?
TIA and kind regards, Friedrich

In fact the feed is at http://bongqiuqiu.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
The oldest post in the feed is November 10, and Mail is showing back as far as that - a total of 25 posts.
There may be older posts on the website, but many blog creation services limit the number of entries shown in the feed, moving older ones to an archive page and out of the page once that limit is reached. I don't know about Blogger, but I would assume that this is the case with this feed. You can expect the November 10 entry to disappear once a new one is added.

Syncing To-Dos from Mail.app

Is anything special required to get the ToDos to synch from Mail.app with the iCal server?
For example, I can create ToDos, but they're not showing up on my iCal.app.
I have an entry in iCal that shows "IMAP" and under it, a calendar for my ToDos, but none of the actual ToDos show up in there.
It seems to me that there is some communication going on between my iCal.app, and my IMAP server because I can change the name of the calendar in iCal, and that also changes it in my Mail.app, so I'm not sure why the actual events (ToDos) are not showing up.

You need a third party app:
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My earlier topic had incorrect problem report so I've created a new topic.
The problem is i cannot forward one page PDF file from mail apps. I use imap set up for my work email.
Multi page PDFs, photos, docs, numbers, all forward OK for both windows and Mac formats.

Update: I hade had a reply from the Good Reader app developer saying this is a known issue even for them. However, they don't know if Apple will fix this or not.
Basically mail app treats all one page PDF as if it's an image and will forward it the same as it would an image. Any non-apple based mail programs will have issues viewing this file..

I inadvertently removed the junk mailbox from Mail.app in SL, how can I recreate / restore it ?

Hi,
Well, the title says it all : I inadvertently removed the junk mailbox from Mail.app in SL,
it still is spresent in my ~/library/mail folder, how can I recreate / restore it in mail.app ?
Since I have a fair number of email accounts, intelligent mailboxes, rules and archive folder, I really don't want to rebuild everything. And, no, I can't use time machine to restore it.
All help will be greatly appreciated.

Hi AdamKB, sorry for late follow-up.
What I lost is the "container" that groups all junk mailboxes in one place in Mail, like is done for all the inboxes.
The problem is that I lost visibility on all junk mailboxes. It is only a visibility problem because the junk mailboxes are still present locally for my POP accounts and remotely for may IMAP accounts, I justdon't see them anymore in Mail's interface.

Possible bug with HTML emails and attachments from Mail.app

I'm trying to send an attachment with an HTML email from Mail.app and getting unexpected results. I've been messing around with the order that things get added to the new e-mail and it seems that I can have either an attachment or I can have HTML email, not both.
The code... (of course simplified)
tell application "Mail"
set new_message to make new outgoing message with properties {subject:"A subject", sender:"[email protected]"}
tell new_message
set visible to true
make new to recipient at end of to recipients with properties {address:"[email protected]"}
tell content to make new attachment with properties {file name:alias "Path to your file as string"} at after the last paragraph
set html content to "<head><body>Some HTML here...</body></head>"
end tell
send new_message
end tell

etresoft wrote:
The problem is that there is no such thing as HTML email.
Well, I wonder what I have been generating for over three years now. RTF ? Because it sure looks like HTML. I must agree that HTML is not documented or even mentionned in the Mail AS dictionnary, but it does work, though you must specify visible to false so that it does. Here's my sub:
tell application "Mail"
set DMF to default message format
set default message format to plain text
set newMessage to make new outgoing message with properties {subject:theSubject}
tell newMessage
set visible to false
set sender to theSender
make new to recipient at end of to recipients with properties {name:Photographer, address:theAddress}
set html content to "<html><head><title>" & theSubject & "</title></head><body>" & "This is an automated response." & theSource & "Find your personnal planning on the web: " & thelink & "
</body></html>"
end tell
send newMessage
set default message format to DMF
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Why "Outlook Express" users can't read email from Mail.app ?

Why "Outlook Express" users can't read email from Mail.app ? Any explanation ? Select a good format,that's a good explanation,but i can't know each time if our recipients use "Outlook Express".

There are no completely bug free email clients including the Mail.app and Outlook has its share of bugs for such an old/mature email clients and some glaring ones that MS has been aware of for a long time but has chosen not to do anything about since these do not affect exchanging email with other Outlook users.
Outlook has always had problems with Mail's RTF and the degree depending on the Windows and Outlook versions used by the recipient.
Check this link.
http://homepage.mac.com/thgewecke/woutlook.html

Email replys missing their quote levels from Mail.app

When I get html-formatted email from Mail.app that is a reply to an earlier message, the html version of the email looks fine. However, the text version that is also attached does not include any of the email quote levels.
In other words, if the html version (as seen in Mail.app) looks like this:
On Feb 5, 2010, at 10:31 AM, John Smith:
| I confirmed with Jack that we will meet at 11
The text version will look like this:
On Feb 5, 2010, at 10:31 AM, John Smith:
I confirmed with Jack that we will meet at 11
I would exped the quoted text to start with "> ".
This does not appear to happen when Mail.app is configured to send messages as Plain text.
This seems like a bug. Is there a way to work around it until it gets fixed?
Message was edited by: scottij

Hello Greg.
The Mail.app uses open internet standards for the message header and since there is so much bulk spam, many ISPs have spam filters on the server in addition to antivirus scans for attachments. There are false positives with both just as sometimes occurs with the the built-in spam filter with the Mail.app.
The email client used by the recipient may also have a spam filter or a 3rd party spam filter which can also have false positives.
If this occurs at the incoming mail server for the recipient, messages incorrectly marked as junk are not deleted and moved to a junk mailbox at the server. The recipient should have a preference setting at the server or the ability to mark a message as not junk (along with it is OK to allow future messages to be recieved by the sender's email address) that was incorrectly marked as junk by the spam filter.

Missing attachements on iPhone when sending from mail.app

I am with 3 collegeas and we are missing attachements when mail is send from mail.app on the mac.
We use different mail all based on imap.
google apps (exchange mail)
dovecot imap server
both will sometimes not receive attachements.
this happens in 4.2.1 and in 4.3
it's helll!!

Sorry i forgot to tell the attachment is missing on the iphone4 4.2.1 or 4.3.
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Migrate FROM mail.app TO windows (thunderbird or outlook)

I'm moving back to a windows machine after using a mac (quite happily) for about a year. Please do not comment on my decision; that is not the point of this post, nor is it my wish to filter out all the criticism I will most likely receive.
What I need to do is export my considerably large Mail library (4 accounts and years worth of archived emails) from Mail.app to an XP-compatible format. I don't yet know which email program I'll use on the PC, but I can do either Thunderbird or Outlook. or something else, if there's a better one. I'll buy a shareware migration program, if that's the best idea. I can also migrate to Thunderbird on my mac first, and then from there to the windows machine.
thanks in advance, and I again request that replies stay on-topic.

for mail are your accounts imap? if so, then you just need to create the imap account(s) in either thunderbird or outlook and you should be in business. if you do not have an imap account, may i suggest you get one - gmail imap is free for example - then create it in mail.app, then move your emails/mailboxes to that new gmail imap account, then go to your pc and create that gmail imap account in either thunderbird or outlook...
for ab, may i suggest you look at plaxo: http://www.plaxo.com, and maybe set up an account with them - i think the basic one is free - once all your contacts are uploaded to plaxo, you can choose to sync them to your other client, i.e. outlook for example.
hope this helps

Need to import 20 email accounts from Mail.app to my iPhone 6.

HI,
At one time I would see a listing in iTunes of all the email accounts I could import into my iPhone 4.
I did that for a while but then was running low on space and deleted all the email accounts on the phone.
Now I have an iPhone 6 with more room and want to import the accounts.
But the listing is no longer shown in iTunes. (must have gone away in one of the updates).
I have iCloud linking my Safari tabs across my devises so I think iCloud is running properly.
Is there a quick way to get the accounts into my phone? Or do I have to add them one at a time?
Thanks for any tips/info.
DA./

It does sound like the index is corrupted - if the messages aren't in the index, then the fact that they're in the mbox still won't let mail see them.
Are there a lot of messages that are missing?
if it's not too many - then open each one from the mbox-messages - then click message-move to from the mail menu & "move " them to the folder they're already in - after that they'll be visible in the mail app. actually , choose "move to xxx again" - it saves time. It doesn't matter if you do this to a message that is already visible in mail.
I don't know a quick way to do this - but you can select multiple messages from the library & ctrl-click-open which at least opens a load at once.
moving them in finder, or trying to import from a copy of the folder doesn't help.
There's probably a much easier way - try some serious searching of these discussions.

Numbers crashes when importing .xls from Mail app

iPad w/iOS 4.2
Installed Numbers to view .xls files emailed to me
Numbers crashes while trying to import .xls from Mail attachment and Mail freezes when trying to view same .xls natively.
Here are the two processes I've tried:
Process 1:
1. Open Mail
2. Press attachment icon until 'Quick Look' and 'Open in Numbers' appears
3. Select 'Open in Numbers'
4. Numbers opens and the large .XLS icon displays while 'importing spreadsheet' process bar moves to about 50%
5. App crashes and returns to springboard
Process 2:
1. Open Mail
2. Press attachment icon until 'Quick Look' and 'Open in Numbers' appears
3. Select 'Quick Look'
4. Native view app tries to open and quickly changes to large attachment icon with no 'Back' button or any way to return to Mail
5. Push Home - returns to springboard
6. Select Mail - still shows large attachment icon with no 'Back' button
7. Reboot iPad to clear Mail freeze in order to view Mail again
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Note, the .xls is version Excel 97-2003.
thx

No pics in this .xls - just tabs with data. I bought Numbers specifically to view only and it crashes after soft reboot, hard reboot, delete/re-install of app, etc.
I'm also seeing several of these same issues on this topic w/o answers. Has anyone called or seen Apple in person to help? One 'solution' was to delete app from iPad/iTunes and reinstall with older backup version. In my case I don't have a backup as it's a new iPad...
Extremely frustrating.

Photos not being sent properly from mail.app

I wonder if anyone can help with this issue. I cannot send photos via mail.app using the "email" button from iphoto, or by attaching using the "attach" button in mail.app or by dragging the picture from it's folder into a mail message.
The picture does not import at the right size, and the image itself gets corrupted, with lots of pixelations and jaggies. This never happened before Leopard.
I've looked in preferences and so forth and have found nothing to address this. I've sent photos "windows friendly" and otherwise. It makes no difference.
Anyone have a solution for this?

open iPhoto, select a photo, click e-mail and select actual size and click compose - after mail opens and the new email window appears with the photo in it in the lower right hand corner of the window just to the left of the corner to grab to change the window size there is a "wee" (or small:) ) menu window that will allow you to make the photo small, medium, large or actual size (Same options as you had in iPhoto but now in mail)
This is what TD was referring to
If it is not there I would try deleting the iPhoto preferences and doing it again - and if it is still not there, deleting the mail preferences (I'm not sure if that requires re-entering account information or not so I'd probably move the mail preferences to the desktop rater than trashing them as a test)
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