Red flags in Lion mail

Lion Mail.app is marking all incoming email with a red flag. How do I stop this?

Check the rules you have setup in mail.app. I wonder if somehow a rule was setup to mark you incoming messages as "Flagged".

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Is there a way to customize the names of labels in Lion mail, for example changing "Red" to "Urgent," etc.
Thanks in advance for any help!
-Robert

Select an email and flag it with the color of your choice.
Under the REMINDERS section in the left column, click on the FLAGGED.
Double Click on the word "Red".
Change to whatever you would like it to read.
I have included a screenshot for your reference. http://pix.am/GX0b/
I hope this helps!
Message was edited by: pollixx

How do I stop Lion Mail from "changing flags?"

I noticed that the new Lion Mail (5) gets hung up. When I check the activity pane, it always says "Changing Flags." Clicking the stop sign icon will stop this temporarily, but every few hours Mail gets hung up on this again.
Any idea what's going on?

Hi Douglass,
You will need to navigate to the following folder.
/Users/yourusername/Library/Mail/V2/MailData
and backup the following file... MessageRules.plist
Open the file in BBedit to confirm your rules are infact inside that particular plist file as Mail will also create backups occasionally.
Once you reinstall, do a compare/replace with the newly created MessageRules.plist and you should be able to bring your "old" rules into your fresh install.
as for mailboxes, those are contained within this folder
/Users/yourusername/Library/Mail/V2/Mailboxes
and it will be up to you to backup those files and File/Import Mailboxes them into the new install.

Mail is red flagging all sent messages

Hi,
This is my first time posting in the community as I am ALWAYS able to find a fix for any Apple issues by searching the web. However, I am completely stumped on this one.
Since upgrading to Mavericks, every single message I send in Apple Mail on my exchange account gets automatically tagged with a default red flag. No matter what I've done so far, I cannot stop mail from automatically flagging all sent mail.
This does not happen with my 3 Gmail accounts I have running in mail.
Additionally, when the messages are flagged, they are only flagged in Mail. When I look in Outlook 365 online, the messages are not flagged.
I have tried to rebuild mailbox, went into System Preferences and unclicked 'Mail' under my exchange account in Internet Accouts then re-checked it. I have no idea what else to do as I have not been able to find any semi-related topics anywhere like this.
Any suggestions?
Thank you!

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I'm assisting a user in transitioning from Eudora 6 to OS X Lion Mail. There are a few things she needs to do that were possible in Eudora, but don't seem to be in Mail, unless I'm missing something.
First, certain messages must be physically printed. When printing, we need the message header, and some, but not all of the body. Eudora used to have a "print selection" function which let you select any contiguous part of the message including the header, and print it. I've installed the "print selection" service that's available, but the problem with it is that you can't select the header and the body, it's one or the other, so it's useless. The other option is to print only page 1 of the message, which is better but clunky. I have a macro for it, which helps, but still is cumbersome. Any thoughts?
Next, the user has one email account. But she gets messages from an service which all have easy to recognize From fields and subjects. I've created a filter so those messages get grouped into their own mailbox. That function is identical to what Eudora used to do. But here's the difference: when Eudora displayed mailboxes, it also showed with an underline under the mailbox title that it had unread messages in it. Once read, the underline went away. It made checking for new filtered messages in that box easy. The mailbox list in Mail doesn't show anything but the number of messages in the box (a pretty much useless figure anyway). There's no way I can find to indicate there are new messages there.
I've thought of creating a smart mailbox, but all that does is clutter up the main inbox with messages that should be grouped in their own box. Any way to get Mail to indicate it's got new unread messages in a mailbox?
I'd have her back on Eudora, but V6 won't run above OS X 10.5, and their newest open-source version won't run at all without Rosetta, so not in Lion.
If you mail- masters have any ideas, I'm wide open!
Thanks!

I just noticed this:
1) Horizontally divide the "Drafts" window so can see titles, and below, the msgs.
2) In the "To" column, click on one of the undeletable msgs;
3) The full msg will show up under the bar (the bar with the small dot in the middle).
4) Move the mouse over the heading of the msg ("From":, for example).
5) A set of four gray icons will appear on the line between heading and body.
6) One of those gray icons is a trash bin.
7) Click that bin and the message will be deleted.
That's ok - keeps user from having to move the mouse up to the top of the window to click the trash bin (if it worked, and it does not). So Apple needs to fix this problem. And, I really liked having a red "delete" symbol that could be dragged into the toolbar (that's optional, of course -- just get the main delete icon working first.)

Lion mail 5.2 search function

I just switched to Lion and have been disappointed with the Mail app. I'm over 50 and find the new "grayed-out" icons throughout Lion's new graphic scheme really annoying... and Mail is no exception. Ditto the bouncing of lists, texts, etc., at the end of their scrolling range. What purpose is served by this? Why can't they just stop?
Anyway, the main issue I have with Mail is the search function, which seems nearly useless. I can't seem to find a way to search on Subject, Contents or Sender, all of which functions have been vital to my business. I'm not sure what to do about this, because I'm stuck with Lion now and can't go back to Snow.
Can anyone help?

Doesn't work for me. The drop down I get is only the following:
"All/Inbox/Drafts/Sent/Notes/Flagged
trying to search in each of those fields does not bring up the old "Entire Message/Subject/To/From/ etc...fields.
I'm using Lion and it seems that this came on all of the sudden when trying to search in Mail shows NO search box choices. NO Subject / No Entire Message / No From / No To Etc.....
I have multiple machines all running Snow Leopard and only this one machine running Lion but I do not think that Lion was always this way since I updated this machine. I could be wrong. Is this the Lion and Mountain Lion Mail app and I just have not used the Mail Search function on this machine until now?
Anybody know if this is Apple's idea of "slimming down" the existing apps to be more iOS like or is this a malfunction of the most recent security/java update? Either way I hate it and can't find anything without those options. I ordered a T-Shirt it came in the wrong size. Before I could always type in T-Shirt under "Entire Message" and find the right one almost immediately. Now when I try I get the whole inbox it seems. No filtering at all.
Issue? or "New and Improved" from Apple?
I hope this is not the normal behavior for Lion, I already not pleased at the "New and Improved" combination of Search and URL address in the new Safari......It's a joke. Talk about limiting our macs to be more like our phones, geezo before long we will have one search function to use and it will be so time consuming to go thru the results it won't be worth it. If I could remember enough detail to narrow down my results I would not be needing the search function. Of well, thats another feedback letter for Apple i guess.

Lion mail To Do?

Did Apple do away with To Do in Lion Mail? I can't find it and I rely on it!

Yes Apple seem to have removed to do functionality from mail, which, although it wasn't very elegant, at least had some integration with iCal so we could schedule tasks from within mails. The removeal of to dos has completely broken my simple scheduling workflow. So now we have to find another mail application that can schedule with a calendar app, or there's an inelegant workaround:
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I suppose you could do some thing with flags within the new mail but I can't see away to set alarms on them.
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I am getting a red flag on any email I enter when trying to submit a message. The same email address works on my iPhone.

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After upgrading to Mountain Lion from Lion, Mail, Safari and note need about five minutes to start.

After upgrading to Mountain Lion from Lion, Mail, Safari and Note need about five minutes to start.
After starting, Mail answers are very very slow. The same for Note. Instead of, sending mails is only a bit slower than before upgrading.
In Safari, I choose Goggle as starting page in Preferences, but at every restart misses that starting page and the search strip says "Seek Google or instert an address".

Well, I found the solution here in another thread.
i just want to mention that the samw thing was happening also for the notes and the reminders apps!! (they quit unexpectedly!!).
So I found the solution here.
Thank you graphicsluc!!!

How do I stop Mountain Lion Mail from downloading emails?

I create html newsletter emails for a church organization using a combination of Dreamweaver, Safari and Apple Mail. Since I moved to Mountain Lion, however, I have an Apple Mail problem.
Our organization uses an AOL email address. Under Lion and previous OS's, I was able to create the organization's account in Apple Mail, unclick "Include when automatically checking for new messages" in Mail Preferences, click "Enable this account" in Mail Preferences, and be able to send the finished email without routinely downloading all the emails from the organization's AOL inbox. Although I've followed this same procedure in Mountain Lion Mail, the app still insists on downloading their emails!! Is there any other switch to shut it off?
Any help would be much appreciated!

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All my pictures have a red flag instead of the actual picture?

I have tried to go on several sites and all the pictures or login bars are missing there is a small red flag in its place. It is fine in internet explorer just not firefox. How can I get the pictures back?

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How to change To address in Lion Mail message list pane

I quite like the new Lion Mail app although I return to "Classic Layout" whenever I need to sort and clean up my inbox, but for general use the two-column layout with the message list on the left and the selected message content on the right works nicely for me. I would however like very much to change the "To" line in the message list. Currently my list of received messages shows "To" on the first line to the right of a picture of the "To" person. On the far right of this line is the time or date of receipt in blue. Under this first line is a little icon with "To" or "Cc" - sometimes, and that is followed by the subject. On the right of this second line is the mailbox and account. I have set preview to no lines to keep the list as compact as possible.
What I would dearly like to change is the To address in the first line. I know who the To is - it's Me! Occasionally the To shows another name if that person precedes my name in the list of recipients. What would be VERY useful is if this data showed the From address!
In the Classic View I can move the email columns around, adding new columns and removing them. Either way, in my inbox I can have the From address right in front of me. Is there any way of changing the To address to the Originator address - the From address - in the message list in Lion mail?
Thanks - Lawrence

Thanks, but that controls the header detail shown for the message in the right pane. So if I select a message in the message list on the left pane, the method you describe controls what header detail I see in the right pane when the selected message is displayed. The piece of data I really want to change is the first line of the message information contained in the message list in the left pane. It currently shows the To address in this window, which is useless to me; the From address on that first line - next to a picture from my address book of whoever is sending the message - would be infinitely more useful.
Lawrence

How to not "read" Junk Messages In Lion Mail?

In the new setup in Lion Mail, the left column now has the subject line and first couple lines of the message.
To create any kind of action with the message, I have to select it. It then appears on the right and is seen as opened mail.
For most messages, this is okay, but for junk mailing (foreign entitities wanting money etc.), I don't want to open it but I do want to delete it.
Does anyone know how I can delete without "selecting" the message and automatically opening it or do I just have to use the alternate older view of Mail that is provided?

I second this... Some emails I don't want to see at all. (i.e. Prince SoNSo has left me a gazillion dollars, all I have to do is reply...) Is there and edit button in the new mail as similar to the one used on portables?

I bought my iphone from a goodwill and i tried to activate and it's red flagged or on some kind of hot sheet,but there's no information,so the sprint store service personnel said that i'm sol,so how do i remove red flag or activate my iphone,goodwill has

I BOUGHT MY IPHONE AT A GOODWILL STORE AND I CAN'T ACTIVATE OR RETURN IT HOW DO I REMOVE THE RED FLAG OR GET IT REMOVED FROM HOT SHEET OR GET A REWARD OR SOME THING EVERY BODY IS SAYING THAT WHO EVER OWNED IT GOT A NEW IPHONE ?????????

You can't.
If the phone has been blocked because it has been reported as stolen or lost you've wasted your money.
Why would you buy something without checking it worked?

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