Is it possible to skip Apple Mail setup assistant?

I've deployed Office 2011 to my compay's Mac users. However, after configuring Outlook, the default reader remains Apple Mail. Now, I know that you can change this setting in Mail's preferences and I'm currently doing so. My issue is that I've removed any and all email accounts from my Users' Apple Mail, meaning I have to deal with the Apple Mail setup assitant and create a bogus email account just to access Mail's preferences to change the default reader and pushing cancel in setup quits mail. Is there away to start Apple Mail without having to go through the setup assistant?

Bill Carter,
Also it would be so nice to have all the formatting and compositional tools in a toolbar just about the composition window, as in Entourage or Thunderbird.
If you have not already done so, in a New Message window, go to View Menu > Customize Toolbar. Some items can be added to the default set.
I have no experience with the toolbars available in Entourage or Thunderbird. If you would like to suggest additional toolbar items for Mail, you could submit feedback to Apple at this link:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/mail.html

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AND, when I just went back to that page to get the URL, I noticed it states 'Mountain Lion.' I am still running Snow Leopard, and hoping that it really might not make a difference re the mail app.
AND, since I just 'opened the door' re Mountain Lion, with my Snow Leopard running just fine (and it took a while to get there, but I kept at it, and finally have seen the 'apple bugs' fading to nil, and downloads from apple fixing any 'bugs' so I really don't want to go to Mountain Lion, unless I'm really missing the "Next Big Thing!" (thanks to Vince gill for the song title)!
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.
But......on the other hand, owning 4 macs by now, I DO know that I have learned enough through a local Mac/Apple tech, and online support such as here, that I can download and install programs that used to baffle me, which brings me full circle back to the "should I buy the Mountain Lion software, and is it still considered an El Cheapo upgrade (from Snow Leopard) and have all the glitches (considering that this IS ... an Apple product, and is probably immune to such clutter as any issues with names consistent with insects and other gangster type vermin which have been known to 'infect' the lesser standard PC machines?

That format was introduced with OS X 10.7, borrowing, I believe, from the iPhone. I just booted back to OS X 10.6, and couldn't find a way to get the mail column on the left with the message on the right. I can do that in OS X 10.7.
If you want to upgrade, OS X 10.7 is available by calling the online Apple store, which in the US is at 800-MY-APPLE. OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion is available from the App store. Note if you decide to upgrade to either, that you lose the ability to run PowerPC programs, as that support was dropped in OS X 10.7. People with Office 2004 found that out when it wouldn't run after the update. Later version of Office are OK.

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Hi everyone,
I've been trying my hardest to setup my designer's Mac on our Exchange 2003 Server with Apple Mail with little success. I was able to setup the Exchange account as the Outlook Web Access server is setup for IMAP. However, I seem to have trouble with the incoming and outgoing mail servers. Running through the Connection Doctor says that the account is connected, however the outgoing mail server is not responding. I am using the mail server info from my MIS guy. For examples:
I setup the Outlook Web Access Sever as: "OWA-XX/exchange"
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I setup the Outgoing Mail Server as: "mail-xxx2", with password enabled. This server address was provided to me by my MIS guy
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Any suggestions here? My buddy is running the latest 10.4 on a old PowerMac G4 QuickSilver.

My buddy upgraded to Office 2004 with Entourage which did the trick!

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GApps/Gmail to Apple Mail Setups: Part 1 "Types"

LITERATURE
http://eprints.rclis.org/14165/1/CHI_2004_lb172-gwizdka.pdf
http://inboxzero.com/articles/
ACTIONS
Do - Completes task associated with email
Defer - The email isn't best answered by you
Delete - Message is deleted
Delegate - Task assigned to other though any method
Respond - Reply!
TYPES
All three cases I'm laying out here will deal with the inbox zero approach.
Cleaner
"Delete-Centric"
deletes email as primary action
does not or rarely archives
may use basic stars or flags
"The Hybrid"
Cleaner-Keeper: "Archive-centric"
limited "just stars/flags" or no tagging of messages
could use archive instead of delete preferring to keep everything
Keeper
"Sort-centric"
messages are categorized in advance thru filters
or from the inbox and distributed to folders/labels
We're obviously excluding those users (and there are a lot of them) who keep all of their messages in the inbox and either rely on unread and read counts/ indicators and/or emails per view/page. What could we name these people? Feelers? Bleeders?
I'm very unfond of this method and the literature suggests that this choice is vastly inferior to the other approaches.
I'm very fond of the hybrid approach with the user adding filters in gmail to manage their wanted email subscriptions and removing themselves from lists they do not want.
Am I missing any types here?
Anyone got anything to add?
Part II A-C will deal with the actual setups for each type.

The outgoing mail saved as drafts issue, results when you are composing a message, Mail saves it to drafts folder on the server. It's supposed to removed the draft version when sending but often it does not, leaving you confused over whether the message has been sent.
You can select to save draft messages to On My Mac. You won't have access to your drafts on other devices with this option, but no more doubt over a left over message in drafts.
Gmail is not standard IMAP. Getting the settings correct is difficult.You need to log into your browser to make some of the selections.
Trash/delete are not the same thing. Trash really trashes where delete actually removes the label and moves the message to All Mail.
To make matters even more confusing, the setup for Apple Mail and Microsoft Outlook for Mac are different. For example, the settings for Sent mail.
When sending from Gmail’s server, your sent messages will be automatically copied to the [Gmail]/Sent folder. By default Outlook 2011 will set Sent to “Don’t store a copy of Sent Messages”, but Mail won't let me select this option.
Also confusing is setting Mail's folder for Sent, Drafts, Trash and Junk. If you see a [Gmail] folder list with folders, you need to select the folder to be used by Mail. Under Mailbox in the Menu bar, select Mailbox > Use this mailbox for
This article will help get you started with setting your Gmail account settings in your browser, but as I noted Mail and Outlook are not exactly alike. Connect Outlook for Mac 2011 to Gmail’s IMAP service http://www.officeformachelp.com/2012/12/connect-outlook-for-mac-2011-to-gmails-i map-service/
MailTab Pro for Gmail is on sale right now for 99¢. AirMail $1.99 is also very popular. Both on Mac App Store (MAS) and work great with Gmail.
Hope this helps!

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actually Nicole you are incorrect. the question was about the set up of the Lion operating sytem. iCloud is not part of the OS. it is a service. it is not mandetory for the OS to function and is up to the user to decide if they wish to utilitze the service. i for example, do not.

Is it possible to view apple mail and safari on the imac at the same time?

I am running 10.6 and would like to view mail and safari at the same time. When I open one the other goes away

Reader is what I meant. 8^(
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ISP to apple mail

I've recently replaced a hard drive, and as a result, re-installed OSX 10.4.11. Apple mail setup assistant New Account requests a userID and password, I have no idea of what it is asking for. I do understand the POP and SMTP things, but new Account won't let me into preferences. Can anyone help me, a Novice?

Old Coot
Welcome to the Apple user discussion forums
you must get those from your e-mail service - they are specific to your personal account there - if you use their web mail these would typically be the log in id and password you use there
LN

Squirrelmail, IMAP folders, and Apple Mail

Squirrelmail as included with Mac OS X Server lets you remotely access your Inbox via a web-browser. It also automatically creates sub-folders to store drafts, sent, and trashed emails as done during a Squirrelmail session.
These have a folder structure like this
Inbox
...Drafts
...Sent
...Trash
When you look at this in Apple mail you will see a triangle next to your Inbox and turning it down reveals the same sub-folders.
The purpose of this posting, is that I believe this structure is not the same as the default Apple Mail structure and as such Apple Mail and Squirrelmail will not automatically be using the same IMAP folders to store drafts, sent and trash.
It is possible in Apple Mail to select one of these Squirrelmail created folders, and go to the Mailbox menu and select the "Use This Mailbox For..." command to make it the folder to use for that purpose. It is also possible to edit the Squirrelmail config.php file to adjust its settings which as default will be
$defaultfolderprefix = 'INBOX/';
$trash_folder = 'Trash';
$sent_folder = 'Sent';
$draft_folder = 'Drafts';
My question is what if any, would be a better setting for Squirrelmail so that Squirrelmail puts the folders in the right place for Apple Mail and uses the right names for Apple Mail so that an Apple Mail user does not have to change anything?
The benefit would be that rather each and every user having to alter the Apple Mail setup, I could do one edit of the config file for Squirrelmail and this would then apply forever for all users.

Ok, I may have worked out the answer myself.
Apple Mail in the Apple Mail program uses the folder names
Drafts
Sent
Trash
However it appears to use +on the server+
Drafts
Sent Messages
Deleted Messages
So it appears that in order to get Squirrelmail to match the settings Apple Mail uses and therefore save the Apple Mail user the hassle at their end you need to do two things.
1. Change the IMAP folder path in Squirrelmail from the default 'INBOX/' to '' (nothing)
2. Change the special IMAP folder names in Squirrelmail from the default to match Apple Mail
Therefore in the the Squirrelmail config.php you will go from the default
$defaultfolderprefix = 'INBOX/';
$trash_folder = 'Trash';
$sent_folder = 'Sent';
$draft_folder = 'Drafts';
to
$defaultfolderprefix = '';
$trash_folder = 'Deleted Messages';
$sent_folder = 'Sent Messages';
$draft_folder = 'Drafts';
which matches what Apple Mail is using.

How do I set up Apple Mail?

How do I set up Apple Mail?

Here is the mail setup assistant:
http://www.apple.com/support/macosx/mailassistant/

GMail IMAP All Mail does not match Apple Mail

I have a GMail account that I also access via Apple Mail setup as IMAP. I've been trying to delete some emails from this GMail account. I first did the delete in Apple Mail (AM) but somehow the deleted emails would show up a few minutes later. So next I did the delete directly on the web based GMail account. After I got done, the emails seemed to have been deleted on my GMail account. At this time I had ~11,000 items in the GMail All Mail folder.
But when I looked at AM, the IMAP Gmail All Mail has over 21,000 items which includes all of the items I had deleted from GMail.
I tried deleting the IMAP account all together and made sure that the GMail IMAP folders in the Library was removed. Then I recreated the IMAP account in AM and within about 30 minutes, all of the 21,000 items including the emails that no longer exists in the web based GMail account came back.
I like the convenience of having access to All Mail in my AM but it seems I don't have control over the contents. Can anyone explain what is going on and how I might be able to actually delete the files within AM?

cymorrow wrote:
"what I mean is that you have two copies of everything in Apple Mail. everything that's in your gmail inbox in Mail or in any of the other mailboxes is duplicated in the All mail mailbox."
I don't keep them in both places, after I have read the message and have responded, I delete the message from my AM inbox because I know a backup already exists in All Mail.
this is up to you and you can do as you like but this is the long way to do it and you'll be fighting gmail as you are if you keep using it. it's much simpler IMO to keep messages you don't want to delete in your inbox. as it is you do download every message twice even if you delete one copy afterward.
I want to clean out all of the junk mail that gets kept by GMail in All Mail and that is why I am trying to delete these items.
that's just it. there is no easy way to do it. All Mail is the master mailbox for everything you ever received. gmail wants to keep all of them forever and they are hard to get rid of.
I seem to have deleted them from the web GMail but they keep showing back up in the AM All Mail. That must mean GMail is still keeping these "deleted" items somehow/somewhere so that when I create a new IMAP account, AM is downloading them again.
I suspect you haven't emptied trash in webmail gmail.

Need help with sending Emails... My AOL Account from Apple Mail

I have no problem receiving emails on this account through my apple mail setup but for some reason the sending mail continues to give me issues... it says that my "smtp.aol.com...." server is timed out. Why is it not able to send but is able to receive? what can i do to alleviate this situation?
Please advise!
Thank you!
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Alexisann, Welcome to the discussion area!
I'm not sure how you ended up in the "Discussions > AirPort > AirPort for Windows" discussion area. Your question has nothing to do with Apple's wireless base stations, wireless networking, nor Windows.
A much better place to put your question would be the "Discussions > Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard > Mail and Address Book" discussion area.

Apple mail won't close

hello,
I'm on a new imac using apple mail (setup with 3 imap accounts).
apple mail works fine when using it, but when I'm done with it and choose to quit the program, it gets stuck. It just sits there and won't quit.
I have to open a command line and do a kill -9 to kill apple mail.
What would cause this?
the same imap accounts work perfect on mozilla thunderbird.
Thanks,
Oskar

Hello Oskar.
Go to Apple Menu > System Preferences > Network, choose Network Port Configurations from the Show popup menu, and make sure that the configuration used to connect to Internet appears at the top of the list. Leave checked (enabled) only the port configuration needed to connect to Internet and Built-in Ethernet (in that order if not the same), uncheck (disable) the rest of network port configurations and see whether that helps — if it doesn’t, turn ON again the ones you want enabled.
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/Library/InputManagers/
/Library/Mail/Bundles/
~/Library/InputManagers/
~/Library/Mail/Bundles/
To make accurately reporting that information easier, open /Applications/Utilities/Terminal, type the following command (you can just copy it here and paste it in Terminal), and press <Return>. You can then copy the output of that command from Terminal and paste it in your reply to this post:
ls -1 /Library/InputManagers /Library/Mail/Bundles ~/Library/InputManagers ~/Library/Mail/Bundles
Note: For those not familiarized with the ~/ notation, it refers to the user’s home folder. You can easily locate any of the folders referred to in this post by copying the folder path here, doing Go > Go to Folder in the Finder, and pasting the folder path there.

Apple mail can send through gmail, but thunderbird cannot

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This can't be a network issue if apple mail works right? I did notice apple mail is set to default (25, 465, 587) and I am guessing it will try all three.
I followed the troubleshooting page, I cannot telnet to port 25 but I get responses from 465 (connection refused by smtp.gmail.com) and 587 (appears to log in or something).
So, what is wrong?
my system:
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.3.0
Application Build ID 20140131124303

Do you get any detailed error message information?
Google's online help page ([https://support.google.com/mail/troubleshooter/1668960]) lists these settings for the outgoing mail server:
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Use Authentication: Yes
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