Mail stationery in Lion

I had a letter that I wanted to save for future reuse and followed the instructions to save it as Stationery. It was done in Pages and it was saved as Stationery in Mail. I just went to reuse it = opened new message, found the email template and clicked on it = nothing happened other than the subject line was entered. No body. I clicked on other types of stationery and they all show up as a template. How do I get this email to become regular stationery? How do I get it to work?

nope = no answer yet == looks like 5 people so far have the same Q == will post if something comes in outside of this topic...

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I have some custom mail stationery items I created in Leopard and have since upgraded to Lion when it was released. Today I went to edit one of my custom ones and the folder was no longer present in the old location at
User folder/Library/Application Support/Mail/Stationery/Apple/Contents/Resources/Custom
I have searched everywhere looking for the 'custom' folder but can't find it.
Problem is that mail still is showing them as if they still exist (and can use them) but I can't find where they are. I decided to try creating a new template to see where it stored it but I can't find it anywhere and definitely not in the usual place.
Can someone please point me in the right direction .. I'm pulling my hair out!!!!

Binaut's answer is great. However, how I was able to successfully move and place my custom stationery packages so they would show up in the "CUSTOM" category in a new mail using stationery took a different path. I had to place it in the SYSTEM Library FIRST. Of course I made the changes to the Table of Contents.plist and all that. AFTER I placed the package in the System/Library/Application Support etc. (the traditional place for templates) Mavericks Magically created the CUSTOM folder automatically and everything worked.
If I'm off on this, please let me know.
Below is a link to a new discussion I've started.
Hope this works for you! There's also a link to a good tutorial on creating your custom stationery in the first place.
Best to you!
Daniel
https://discussions.apple.com/message/25301582#25301582

How can I change order of email accounts in Mail on Mountain Lion?

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It's a great flaming pain to try to remember each email I write to select the second account option, and yet I can find no way to change email account order---not in Mail and not in System Preferences. Dragging them certainly does not work.
Can Apple have really missed this? Is there any solution?

Comfortable with terminal...know how to edit using TextEdit:
Open up a Terminal and use the following commands to change your Mail.app preferences file to an XML format – the default format is binary, and you can't edit this.
cd ~/Library/Preferences
plutil -convert xml1 com.apple.mail.plist
Then, open this file com.apple.mail.plist with a text editor of your choice, preferably one that highlights XML syntax, but you can also use TextEdit:
open -a "TextEdit" com.apple.mail.plist
Now, look for the key called MailAccounts. It's value is an array, with dict children. Here, you'll find all your mail accounts in the order they were created in.
You can now manually move these dict children around. Save the XML file and reopen Mail. Now, your Mail account order will be changed.

What is happening with quote substitution in Mail since Mountain Lion?

What is happening with quote substitution in Mail since Mountain Lion? Now, whenever I type an apostrophe and it's replaced with a smart quote, it creates an unwanted space within my word and starts typing from there. It will also revert the font from my template style to helvetica. Annoying as heck! Any thoughts? Turning off smart quote substition in Mail elimates the error, but elimates the smart qoute, too. I'm stumped.

What is happening with quote substitution in Mail since Mountain Lion? Now, whenever I type an apostrophe and it's replaced with a smart quote, it creates an unwanted space within my word and starts typing from there. It will also revert the font from my template style to helvetica. Annoying as heck! Any thoughts? Turning off smart quote substition in Mail elimates the error, but elimates the smart qoute, too. I'm stumped.

Exporting OS X Mail from Mountain Lion to Snow Leopard

After upgrading to Mountain Lion, I partitioned my iMac HD to have two partitions: Macintosh HD has Mountain Lion; I reinstalled Snow Leopard on Macintosh HD 2. Best part: you can access your user-created files from EITHER disk partition. But not so OS X Mail. I wanted to revert to Snow Leopard, since I don't like the iOS-like Mountain Lion (swipe THIS!), but Mail was a problem since all my Snow Leopard Mail was successfully migrated over to Mountain Lion during upgrade. But I think I found a way to Export Mail from ML to (a clean install of) SL.
Try this:
1. Open Mail in ML. For each folder you wish to have back in SL, Export it to your ML Desktop as an .mbox file. Depending on the folder size, this can take from a few seconds to several minutes. You'll see an .mbox icon for the particular folder on your Desktop. If the word "partial" appears between the folder name and the .mbox suffix, wait a few moments for the Export to complete, at which time the word "partial" will disappear. E.g., for a folder named "Mary", if it's a huge one, the icon will first appear as "Mary.partial.mbox"; when the Export is done, you'll see "Mary.mbox".
2. When you've Exported all your desired folders as above, you can exit ML and re-start your Mac in SL. Open Mail in Snow Leopard, and once again, for each file you just Exported in ML to the Desktop there, select "Import Data From Apple Mail" and choose the folder from the Desktop in ML to which your mboxes were Exported. When the Import starts, you can see via a progress bar how far along it is. When done, you'll see a new folder in your SL Mail called "Import"; click on it to reveal the folder you just Imported!
3. Then drag the folder you just Imported out of the Import folder to "On My Mac" in SL Mail; you can then delete the Import folder.
4. Repeat until all your folders are where you want them (in SL).
5. When you have time, go back into ML and clear all those .mbox files from your Desktop.
There MAY be an easier way, but this is what worked for me.

The iOS view vs classic view in Mail is not the problem; I've already configured for classic view.
Mountain Lion itself is.
My short list (to date) of crappy Mountain Lion behavior; items marked with a double asterisk (**)represent the worst of Mountain Lion for me.
** No up/down arrows in scroll bar slider;
Expose` not as easy to navigate as in Snow Leopard;
Mail does not request passwords for either receive or send;
No "Save Draft" icon in Mail compose window (workaround: use command-s);
"Save As" selection missing in most app menus;
No separate Search window in Safari (workaround: use Firefox or Opera);
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Hi All,
I have been trying hard online to find some resource to configure google apps in Mail 5 of lion os x not as gmail but as exchange.
The reason is that I want to sync my contacts as well as calendar and email but if configured as gmail ot only takes email and may be calendar.
I use this over all my devices and need my calendars and contacts to be synced all over
I called the customer support in USA but they directed me to call a UK number.
Appreciate your guide line, or feedback with an online resource.
Best regards,
fawzy

think i set it up like exchange but calendars doesn't sync and AB no sure,you also can do it in system preferences in the mail,calendars pane ..

Mini calendar in mail missing after Lion installation

mini calendar in mail missing after Lion installation

>After installing Lion (intel I-Mac 2g ram). My Microsoft Office 2004 no longer runs.
Upgrade to a Universal compatible version of Office or equivalent. http://www.neooffice.org/ is the least expensive alternative, though importing Entourage into iCal, Mac OS X Mail, and Addressbook works best if the data was exported from Entourage while still in Snow Leopard.
>Also, when I select "printer friendly" pages in Safari or Firefox, I get a "missing plugin" message.
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Ironing the bugs out of a custom Mail Stationery

So I'm making a custom Mail Stationery for myself. It's pretty set up the way I want to look. It looks good when I'm sending it, and to someone else who uses the Mail client, it looks like it's supposed to as well.
In Gmail's web interface, it doesn't work. Basically, Gmail misinterprets the images I use for the template as attachments, and displays them as so, rather than using them for the interface.
Here's the source code I'm using:
Description.plist
<pre>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>Background Images</key>
<array>
<string>insignia.jpg</string>
<string>bottom_letter.png</string>
<string>bg_pattern.gif</string>
<string>top_letter.png</string>
<string>bg_letter.png</string>
</array>
<key>Folder Name</key>
<string>Audacitor.mailstationery</string>
<key>HTML File</key>
<string>content.html</string>
<key>Images</key>
<array/>
<key>Stationery ID</key>
<string>D292B188-CE8E-4D60-9E5A-5E0C979579B9</string>
<key>Thumbnail Image</key>
<string>thumbnail.png</string>
</dict>
</plist>
</pre>
Content.html (In order to prevent formatting issues, less/greater than signs have been turned into "(" and ")")
<pre>
(html)
(head)
(meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /)
(title)Message from Audacitor(/title)
(/head)
(body style="background-attachment: fixed;
background-color: #FFFFFF;
background-image: url(bg_pattern.gif);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
color: #0066FF;
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
text-shadow: #000000;")
(div style="width: 850px;
height: 29px;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
background-image: url(top_letter.png);")
(/div)
(div style="width: 850px;
height: auto;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
background-image: url(bg_letter.png);")
(div style="width: 100px;
height: 100px;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
background-image: url(insignia.jpg);")
(/div)
(div style="width: 300px;
height: auto;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
font-size: 18px;
text-align: center;")
(/div)
(div style="padding-left: 50px;
padding-right: 50px;")
(span contenteditable="true" apple-content-name="body")
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet...
(/span)
(/div)
(/div)
(div style="width: 850px;
height: 32px;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
background-image: url(bottom_letter.png);")
(/div)
(/body)
(/html)
</pre>

Never did get it working.

Mail Stationery Templates are in Latin? How do I get them to English?

I've searched and searched and finally reached the end of the internet with no answer! All my mail stationery templates default to Latin. How do I get them to default to English. HELP!

it's not Latin. It's Lorem Ipsum
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...No Mail "Bounce" in Lion?

Hellllllp please? I get so much junk mail from the same person repeatedly on a certain email account of mine. I thought "hey, why not add the account in Mail, and bounce the email so it'll show that it's not the right email or something...?"
So I merged it in, and was just about to bounce the email when I noticed... the "bounce" option was gone with OS Lion!
...Need I say more? I'm wondering how to get this dude off my back, and even moreso, just would love to know if there's still a feature like this in Mail. It would really come in handy right about now...

here is a bounce add on that works. I've been using it and it's great. Just be sure to restart Mail after you install it and the bounce icon will show up.
http://download.cnet.com/Restore-Bounce-Mail-Button-To-Lions-Mail-app/3000-20429 _4-75629050.html

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I'm having issues with delayed email delivery using the mail app in Lion. Specifically I have an IMAP account (AOL) that is working fine on other macs running snow leopard and on both an iPhone and an iPad. I receive an email that shows up on all other devices but does not get delivered on the Macbook Air. Clicking get new messages does not delivery the email, even if other emails have been delivered in the interim. The only way to get the email to show up is to exit Mail and restart it - and then the email shows up, in the correct date/time order and the correct read status (since I had already read it on another device).
This has happened twice now with my AOL account in the past 24 hours (I've only had the new Macbook Air since Monday). It might also be happening on my other IMAP email accounts but I have not noticed it yet. It's intermittant as I've received many other emails correctly and ontime.
Anyone else seeing something similar? I've never seen this with earlier versions of Mac OS X or on devices running iOS.
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I have the same problem, some photos are not loaded completely and partly grey. This occurs only in Mail.app but not in the web interface of the email provider. Did you find a solution, Florian? Does somebody else have a suggestion?
Greetings from Finland

Printed Text is Small with Mail.app in Lion

Has anyone been able to adjust the font size of the PRINT in Mail while using Lion? I swear I feel stupid, but I can't seem to adjust this all.
I have to print out an email and the text is soooo small. It's like 3pt. Adjusting the message view font in prefs doesn't change a thing, nor does changing the print options like "Scale to Fit", "Rewrap Message to Fit", "Keep the Same Apparent Font Size", etc.
I have the conversation view selected, but I opened a single email as well, and it ALWAYS prints like 3pt making the text unreadable.
I finally had to forward the email to gmail and print from gmail. Sad.
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Yes, I tried this as well.
If I increase the scale to let's say 400%, it does increase the font size, but makes the text no longer appdear on one page. It will change the flow of the text so that half a sentence on the right is cut off, and the remaining text is on the next page.
In other words, it doesn't work.
Just in case this helps, I'm printing to a HP 4240n, but I don't think that would be it.
Even saving to a PDF in the print dialog causes the same issue.
Does anyone print emails from Mail.app in Lion? Am I the only one?

Using Gmail through Mail in Mountain Lion - issue with inbox syncing across multiple machines

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Best
Jordan

Hi SB. Thanks for your advice. I checked and I am using the recommended settings. I'm still not sure how to fix this. It's very irritating! I will read an email on my ipad, then hit my imac and see that the email is sitting unread in my Mail inbox.

Can I reinstall Mail.app on Lion 10.7?

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Hello,
I had the same problem this morning. After ugrading to 10.7.4 Mail.app could not import the messages, and hence, never started.
The failure message stated "The import failed. An error occurred during the import. Make sure you have available space in your home folder and try again." There was no other option button but "Quit." So I quited, checked, and confirmed there were 414.19 GB available; and I used Finder and System Report for this purpose. Afterwards I tried again. The failure persisted.
Ironically I wan't able to neither read from Webmail, nor access Mail.app. So I confirmed with the Data Center the server's status. Everything was up and running. Still, they restarted the server for the sake of certainty. The problems persisted.
So I did as suggested here. And it worked smoothly.
Since I use IMAP on my settings I went for a fresh configuration with all my mail accounts. And it worked smoothly.
Thanks William for the tip.
Thanks Shaun for marking the reply as the solution.
Regards,

Custom mail stationery missing...

While I have the stationery in Mail, it does not appear to be where it should be. I read the following article: http://www.jdempsey.com/how-to-create-customized-osx-mail-stationery-in-leopard/
The thing is none of the stationery templates are anywhere to be found. I've searched for it with Spotlight but found nothing.
I created a template in Mail called "iantest" and it saved by default in
Mail>Stationery>Apple>Contents>Resources>Custom>Contents>Resources
Perhaps I can modify content.html in my "iantest" file, but then would the images be embedded and would there be any placeholders?
Do you know where the Mail stationery is?

mail stationery is located in yourharddrive/library/application support/apple/mail/stationery/apple/contents/resources/stationery/contents/reso urces.
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