Preferences in Mail

I'm trying to setup a rule in mail, but when I go to preferences, I don't have the tabs across the top for "general, fonts, rules...." The account is for a .mac account. Does that have something to do with it?

It looks like the window’s toolbar is hidden. With the Preferences window open, either do View > Show Toolbar or click on the gray oblong button at the top right corner of the window.

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In system preferences iCloud, mail contacts calendar crash

In system preferences icloud and mail, contacts, calendars crash, so I can't alter them.
Mail seems to freeze and only way to restart is force quit and then it is fine till I think it updates with iCloud again and then won't shut down again unless force quit.

Hi lynne168,
If System Preferences or Mail are quitting unexpectedly, there are a few ways to isolate and resolve the issue.
First, I'd recommend booting your computer into safe mode:
Mac OS X: What is Safe Boot, Safe Mode?
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1564
If the applications are working normally in safe mode, this usually means OS X is fine, and the issue is caused by conflicting software in your user account.
Next, see if your computer behaves normally in a new user accoun:
OS X Mountain Lion: Create a new user account
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH11468
If the issue persists in safe mode and a new user, I would recommend reinstalling OS X:
OS X Mountain Lion: Reinstall OS X
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH10763
Best Regards,
Jeremy

Lion, Mail, and Outlook. I can't get preferences in Mail to accept Outlook as the default mail program. Outlook works fine within the Office world but not with Preview or Lightroom (to choose two that I've tried today). Any ideas?

As per the heading, I can't get Lion to accept Outlook 2011 as the default mail program. When I go through the Preferences in Mail to set the detault mail program, I can see Outlook, I can select it, but it doesn't "stick." As soon as I reopen Mail, Mail is the defailt mail program again. It also doesn't work though the Outloook Preferences menu. I'm a recent transfer to Macs, and could use some help. Any ideas?
Thanks!

There is a forum specifically for MS Office for Macs, just click Office for Mac Product Forums and post there, they should know.
If for some reason you don't want to do that you have 90 days of free AppleCare telephone support, this might be a good time to use it. You can find the number in your owners manual.

I can not safe changes of preferences in Mail or Adressbook

Hello,
I am using Lion on a MB pro. All Software is up to date. There are two users installed - both with admin rights.
The one I am using everything is fine. Today my wife changed on her account some preferences in Mail, but she
wasn't able to safe those changes. There appeared an error messages that maybe the right at library/prefrendes are
not ok. When we try to change preferences in other programs it is equal. Never before we had a problem like this!
So first I looked up the rights via finder. No visible problem. Nevertheless I repaired all the rights after restart from the recovery volume,
even the rights of the user folders. BUT PROBLEM STILL REMAINS.
Is there anybody who has an idea or must I create a new user?
Thank you for your help.
M

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HT4864 How do I construct the preferences in mail for the incoming mail server?

I need help in setting up the preferences for mail, especially for the servers. I followed setting up an account and
when I encountered the incoming mail server box, it didn't allow keying anything into it. It is blocked; and with the outgoing server, the choices aren't
clear.
Then when I try using mail, it won't let me send or receive mail saying I can't leave the incoming box empty or that it can't contactr the outgoing server`so I should see iCloud preferences.

Not unless you know which file in the app sets the choices. I've been through it pretty thoroughly and can't find the one.

I want to set up an email alias but I keep being told I need to access "preferences" in mail. I don't seem to have that open when I go into mail it takes me straight to my inbox. Thanks for any help.

Hi. I am new to using an iPad. I have set up an icloud email address for use by all the family.. I want to set up my own as my pop email does not seem to work well on this apple platform. I have tried to self help but I'm being asked to access the icloud mail preferences. I can't seem to do that. When I go into my mail app it takes me straight to my in box. I can't find a way of accessing preferences. Can someone help please?

An Alias would be an email address that is delivered to a different account's inbox.
For instance if you have [email protected] and have [email protected] Then [email protected] would be an alias if mails from that address arrive at the icloud address.
If you want to add a completely different account, with a spearate inbox, like an account in hotmail and one in say yahoo mail. Then as has been pointed out, you need to go into the Settings Icon, Tap on Mail, Contacts, Calendars, and then on add account. The iPad has several services preconfigured, you can tap on one of those from the list to setup an email for that service. Such as Hotmail, Gmail etc...
Or you can tap on other to add a personal pop3 or imap type email like from your office, or your school.

I can't open my Spot Light preferences or Mail after wipe and restore from TM

I had to wipe my hard drive, re-install Lion (not ML [I couldn't post specifically for Lion]) and then I restore my documents from my Time Machine Backup. I had two users, a diag user and my normal user, only my diag user was "recovered" from time machine, when looking into the Accounts Preference Pane, only the diag user showed up, but my normal user documents were actually in my hard drive, so from the diag user I created my normal user and used the home folder that already existed. Anyways, everything works, my background picture stayed the same, my desktop icons stayed arranged the way they are and it's all handy dandy, but my Spot Light Preference Pane and my Mac Mail program won't open :S
I get the following lines in the console after clearing the console and trying to open the Spot Light Preference Pane:
3/28/13 6:52:42.787 PM System Preferences: contentsOfDirectoryAtPath returned:Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=260 "The folder “PreferencePanes” doesn’t exist." UserInfo=0x40085ea60 {NSFilePath=/Users/cesarenriquereyes-hernandez/Library/PreferencePanes, NSUserStringVariant=(
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), NSUnderlyingError=0x40085eaa0 "The operation couldn’t be completed. (OSStatus error -43.)"} for path:/Users/cesarenriquereyes-hernandez/Library/PreferencePanes
3/28/13 6:52:47.922 PM System Preferences: Error loading /System/Library/PreferencePanes/Spotlight.prefPane/Contents/MacOS/Spotlight: dlopen(/System/Library/PreferencePanes/Spotlight.prefPane/Contents/MacOS/Spotli ght, 265): Symbol not found: _OBJC_CLASS_$_PBOXRemoteMediaBrowserPanel
Referenced from: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/iLifeMediaBrowser.framework/Versions/A/iLifeM ediaBrowser
Expected in: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/RemoteViewServices.framework/Versions/A/Remot eViewServices
in /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/iLifeMediaBrowser.framework/Versions/A/iLifeM ediaBrowser
3/28/13 6:52:47.922 PM System Preferences: [NSPrefPaneBundle instantiatePrefPaneObject] (/System/Library/PreferencePanes/Spotlight.prefPane): principalClass is nil.
I went into /System/Library/PreferencePanes/ and Spotlight.prefPane IS there, so I dont' really know what's going on.
This is what I get after clearing the console and trying to open Mac Mail:
3/28/13 6:55:58.204 PM [0x0-0xd90d9].com.apple.mail: dyld: Symbol not found: _OBJC_CLASS_$_PBOXRemoteMediaBrowserPanel
3/28/13 6:55:58.204 PM [0x0-0xd90d9].com.apple.mail:   Referenced from: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/iLifeMediaBrowser.framework/Versions/A/iLifeM ediaBrowser
3/28/13 6:55:58.204 PM [0x0-0xd90d9].com.apple.mail:   Expected in: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/RemoteViewServices.framework/Versions/A/Remot eViewServices
3/28/13 6:55:58.204 PM [0x0-0xd90d9].com.apple.mail: in /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/iLifeMediaBrowser.framework/Versions/A/iLifeM ediaBrowser
3/28/13 6:56:00.442 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501: ([0x0-0xd90d9].com.apple.mail[24737]) Job appears to have crashed: Trace/BPT trap: 5
3/28/13 6:56:00.986 PM ReportCrash: Saved crash report for Mail[24737] version 5.3 (1283) to /Users/cesarenriquereyes-hernandez/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/Mail_2013-03- 28-185600_Diags-MacBook.crash
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Changing preferences in Mail triggers preferences error + certificates

I have recently (within the month) switched to a newer Mac Pro. I didn't use Migration Assistant, but do sync via MobileMe.
Anyway, this suddenly started happening today - As I modify my settings in Mail (Mail>Preferences) and switch panes the following error message pops up:
Writing your preferences to disk has failed. Your preferences may not have been saved. The permissions on ~/Library/Preferences may be wrong or your disk may be full.
I've been using Mail for weeks without any issues (other than the certificate one mentioned below) and I've run repair permissions (without any reported issues) & restarted but I still get the error. My disk has plenty of free space, although I should note that I have a Vista partition because this computer will be added as a render node for a 3D Studio Max machine on our network (my computer is primarily FCP editing/photo retouching).
Also, I'm persistently getting 'Expired Certificate' errors when fetching mail - what's up with that?
Thanks in advance....

These permissions bugs in Lion are pretty prevalent and I've had to reset a lot of application defaults since migrating between machines. Do the following and let me know if it works:
Copy your Mail and Mail Downloads folders in ~/Library/ ( where "~" is referring to your User). Paste these folders your copied into something on your desktop as a back up.
Then navigate to ~/Library/Preferences and find the two .plist files named, "com.apple.mail.plist" and "com.apple.mail.plist.lockedfile" and delete them.
Relaunch Mail.
Relaunching should cause a new .plist file to generate that reads as defualt and using the contents of your ~/Library/Mail folder your OS X Mail shoudl look like it did.
I have issues changing prefs in mail and seem to have a bigger bug at work since I continually have to trash my mail.plist once a week or else I can't connect to my SMTP server. But this always works and I get rid of the, "...writing preferences to your disk has failed..." message.

In MountainLion System Preferences, "iCloud", "Mail, Contacts, and Calenders", and "Software Update" all want to open in 32 bit mode. Security and Privacy won't open either.

As stated in the header,
iCloud
Mail, Contacts, and Calenders
Software Update
all want to open in 32 bit mode. Then when System Preferences quits and relaunches IN 32 bit mode, I get a dialog box saying "You can't open (pick one) preferences because it doesn't work on an Intel-based Mac." Moreover, Security and Privacy does the same thing only without the song and dance about quitting and reopening.
Whaaaaat???!!! I've never owned anything BUT an Intel Mac.
The "open in 32 bit mode" is not, and has never been checked in "Get Info"
I tried going to ~Library/Preferences and tossing all com.apple.system preferences files and rebooting. No joy.
It actually looks like some joker has included a bunch of PPC preference panes in my copy of MountainLion, except some of them are new to this OS.
My hardware is a mid 2010 13" MacBook Pro with4 gb of RAM, and a 500 gb hard drive, in three seperate partitions, running three Mac operating systems, one at a time. I have SnowLeopard in a small partition because I still have a few things that don't run in Lion/ML. Lion is still my main use machine in the largest partition, and when ML came out, I redistributed most of the unused space into a 3rd partition into which I did a clean install of ML in it's own partition so I could work through the growing pains without compromising my main computer. I'm glad I did it that way, but I DO want to get ML working properly, and I can't do that if I can't authorize third party software. Gatekeeper is currently in the way, and I can't get it to move.

I dunno, that doesn't make any sense to me.
I just shut down and rebooted into the SnowLeopard partition and took a peek at the preference panes. There are only 3 that run in 32 bit only. They are all 3rd party, and none of the prefpanes are non Intel. Like I said, I have never owned a PPC machine. Anyhow, SnowLeopard doesn't even have an iCloud prefpane, or a combined mail, contacts, and calenders prefpane, and the ML security and privacy prefpane is all new as well. The software update prefpane is Intel and 64 bit in both SnowLeopard and Lion.
As to the triple boot, unless I'm totally mistaken, what I have here is, in essence, 3 seperate descrete computers in one box. All using the same hardware. but one at a time. I wouldn't know how to get more than one running at the same time, without using a virtual machine, even if I wanted to. (Which I don't) I do sometimes transfer files from one to another using the shared folder, but other than that, they do not interact. How could ML system preferences be trying to launch prefpanes from a totally different machine?

I can't find the preferences for Mail 2.1.3

When I choose Preferences from under the Mail menu, all I get is the Junk mail info. I need to edit and/or delete an account.

Good news!
I had no idea what it was either until I went there and experimented a bunch!

Preferences in Mail Wont Close

Hi all,
10.4.5, with the latest (3/13/06?) security update; mail w/some 3rd party add ons: SpamSeive, Mail ActOn and MailTags. All was well until the latest security update (at least I think thats when this started).
Now when I open mail preferences, I cannot close the preference pane. I have to quit mail to make it go away. I can bounce back and forth between mail's main window and the preference pane.
Anyone else seeing this?
Thanks in advance,
Michael

That's great if you're using Mail Tags, but I'm not and I'm having the same problem.
As I mentioned, I tried a utility called MailUnreadStatusBar last week. As far as I can tell, it is just a simple app that adds a menu to the menu bar on the right side. It checks periodically to see if any new messages come in and puts a little red badge on its menu icon. I don't think it installs any plug-in into Mail. Here is the developer's page:
http://www.queuesoft.jp/MailUnreadStatusBar-e.html
I have not installed any Mail plug-ins that I know of.

Preferences in Mail only shows signature pane

When I go to Preferences in the Mail menu in OS 10.5, the only thing that appears is the signatures pane. There seems to be no way to see or adjust preferences for other things, like rules or filters. Can anyone tell me what's going on?

With this Preference panel open, click on View in the menubar, and choose Show Toolbar. The Toolbar has only become hidden.
Ernie

Opening Preferences Crashes Mail

Hi,
Every time I try opening the Preferences pane in Mail, the spinning beach ball appears and I have to force quit the program. (This is Mail 2.1.) The problem seems to be confined to my account. Other users on this computer don't have the same problem. Can anyone suggest a solution?
Thank you.
Michel Chaouli

Hi Michel.
Verify/repair the startup disk (not just permissions), as described here:
The Repair functions of Disk Utility: what's it all about?
Do you have any Mail plug-ins? In the Finder, go to each of the following folders (if they exist). What do you see there?
/Library/InputManagers/
/Library/Mail/Bundles/
~/Library/InputManagers/
~/Library/Mail/Bundles/
To make accurately reporting this information easier, you may 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.

Following = Impossible; no such option in mail preferences - iCloud Mail couldn't be enabled from the iCloud Preference Pane. Open Mail and add your iCloud account from Mail preferences.

iCloud Mail couldn't be enabled from the iCloud Preference Pane.
Open Mail and add your iCloud account from Mail preferences.

What is your question?

My Acount Settings & Preferences for Mail keep verting to previous settings

The references to my "Account Directory" show my previous e-mail settings-
/User/my name/Library/Mail/POP- old email address. When I try to change these settings to my new e-mail address it immediate activates an email but without a recipients name. When I deleted the reference to my previous
e-mail address settings it keeps returning the previous settings in the Library section. I have removed all references to my previous dial-up settings in the System Preferences-Network because I am now on broadband and have been for 2 years. When I deleted the POP references to my previous e-mail address I lost ALL my inbox and outbox e-mails that I had for the last two years. I am about to upgrade from Panther to Tiger shortly which means I will have new "Mail" software. Currently I have Mail 1.3.11
Is it better to remove this e-mail settings problem as above, first or hope the upgrade to Tiger will do it for me? I prefer to get rid of my previous e-mail settings first before upgrading to Tiger. Can somone help please?

As referenced when creating an account with Mail, an account named folder is created within the Mail folder at Home > Library > Mail that is named by the user name and incoming mail server for the account. The accounts' mailboxes are located within the account named folder which represent the account named mailboxes under In, Drafts, Sent, Trash and Junk in the mailboxes drawer.
When changing the account settings for an existing account - the account's incoming mail server or email address, the name of the account named folder within the Mail folder does not change which has or should not have any adverse effect.
Deleting an email account with Mail also deletes the account named folder and the accounts' mailboxes within and an error message is provided before doing so that indicates this.
> When I try to change these settings to my new e-mail address it immediate activates an email but without a recipients name.
I haven't experienced the same or heard of this but you can't enter any recipients or cancel this new message that is created automatically?
> When I deleted the reference to my previous e-mail address settings it keeps returning the previous settings in the Library section.
This was before deleting the old account associated with the dial-up internet provider or did this also occur after deleting the dial-up account and recreating the account associated with the broadband provider?
> Is it better to remove this e-mail settings problem as above, first or hope the upgrade to Tiger will do it for me? I prefer to get rid of my previous e-mail settings first before upgrading to Tiger.
Upgrading to Tiger will not do this automatically but besides the name of the account named folder within the Mail folder, are there any problems associated with this?

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