Rules for Mail Accounts

Can different accounts in mail.app have rules that are specific to that account? It seems that when I create a rule it applies globally to all accounts.

One of the options in the "If" portion of the rules is Account, so yes, you can limit a rule a specific account.

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Need help with Rules for mail accounts

Today I deleted a rule for a mail account and now I cant receive mail in 4 of 8 accounts. I'm not experienced with Mac's Mail program. Id there something you have to do for multiple accounts to recieve all mail? I can send but not receive.
Help!
~ Tammy

It's hard to believe that deleting a rule could have a bearing on the ability to receive messages from any account... unless that rule did something that prevented subsequent rules to process the messages that you apparently can't receive now.
That is, either having deleted the rule has absolutely no bearing on your problem, or the problem is that those messages are now being processed in an unexpected way by some of your other rules.
What type of accounts are these (POP, IMAP, .Mac)? What does "I cant receive mail in 4 of 8 accounts" mean?

Can you have different passwords for mail account and ICloud?

Can you have different passwords for mail account and ICloud?

Yes - you want to go under Notifications, Mail. Set each acct the way you want.

Setting up folders for mail accounts.

Hello all. I am 3 day old mac owner (got a MacBook) and I need some help with Mail.app.
I have two pop accounts set up and all is well but I can't for the life of me figure out how to set up folders in each account for certain types of mail to be placed in. For instance I would like my wife's emails to automagically be placed in it's own folder for said account so I don't have to see or worry about them. Is this possible? I'd like to have folders for bills, family, friends, etc and any help with this would be greatly appreciated.

you would do this through creating folders, and then creating rules. however you have to have distinct attributes for the rules to pic up on.
if i understand correctly you have your pop account and your wifes. if you notice on inbox, there is an arrow next to it, you can drop it down and see each individual account so you dont view them all together.
i would also suggest that maybe you create an entirely different user for your wife, then neither of you would ever have to deal with sorting between each others emails.
to add a folder, there is a plus sign at the lower left hand corner of mail, click it and the location you want to create should be "on my mac," then to set up a rule you go to preferences and then rules, the rules should make sense, but if not just ask.
i realise this may not exactly solve all the issues, but will probably get you at least closer, and then just ask anything else.

Set rules for Mail !

I created a rule for all my incoming mail that filters all mail coming from any of my accounts (i.e. [email protected] or [email protected]) and it saves them into a folder called "me" . sometimes I send emails to my self for whatever reason and I want to keep those separate.
this rule works fine when I send my self an email, but when I reply to an email and copy my self on it it doesnt work.I get the email in the inbox folder.
any ideas?

I do not have any other rules setup and I made sure the rule does include the email addresses I want to filter.
the reason for sending all emails to myself is just because I dont trust the "sent email" folder 100%. I feel like having a backup is not a bad idea. I send emails to my self to a different address than what I send emails from.

Mail Account NO LONGER stores Passwords for Mail Accounts

Since my last restart my mac mail accounts (.mac, company, etc) no longer STORE passwords for either the send or smtp receive... Anyone experience this before? I'm going to try and toss the mail pref files and even delete my accounts, but since it's happening to ALL of my accounts (5) at the same time I'm concerned that I'll be wasting my time until I fix what's gotten broken...

Since these password are stored in your Keychain, try running Keychain First Aid on your Keychain via Keychain Access.

Password for Mail accounts.

Hello everyone. Does anyone know how or in which location e.g. Library, Prefrences, I can find the password or keychain for my Mail accounts?
Thank you.

You add them in Mail->Preferences->Accounts->Account Information->select the account and they're stored in /Users/username/Library/login.keychain

HT1338 how do i stop prompt for password for mail account that has been deleted?

I am repeatedly asked for the password for a mail account that I have deleted. How can I stop this?

Delete the smtp server entry.

Creating rules for Mail - yet visible on iPhone

I fully understand how to create rules for email so that when receiving them, they automatically go into folders. The problem is, if I receive an email that automatically gets sorted into a folder, I can not tell on my iPhone I have actually received a new email.
However, I need to know how to have rules to automatically sort/file emails into a folder, but still know I have received a new email on my iPhone mail.
Anyone got ideas?
Thanks

I can understand not wanting to put out money to gain a feature that you think should be standard.
Here is a link to some Applescripts that I had downloaded in the past. I actually forgot about these. There is a script which will allow you to apply some rules to outgoing messages, but the author of the scripts notes that it is not a perfect solution. Maybe it can help.
If all else fails, maybe you can use smart folders as a sort of go between. Instead of scanning through the sent mail folder and hand picking individual messages to drag to folders, why not set up a smart folder to aggregate all like mail. Then you could just drag the messages from a smart folder to a regular one. It might help speed things up.
I am just about out of ideas. I hope you can come up with a good solution.

Input rule for Calcuate account

Hello All,
Please help me in the below scenario
I have an account(A/c # 50001), Is Calculate is enabled for this account in metadata.
I would like to manually input data for this account only for 2012.
I have written the below script and try to test it, but it not working.
Sub Input()
HS.Input "A#50001.Y#2012"
End Sub
Your quick response greatly appreciated
Thanks & regards

"IsCalculate" prevents all manual data entry for an account. Sub NoInput() prevents manual data entry for specific intersections. I think Sub Input() only enables manual input for upper level entities (eg prior to an allocation rule)
Therefore to enable entry to an account for one year only you would need to clear the IsCalculate property for the account and write NoInput() rules for every year other than 2012. NoInput rules can be included in a conditional statement or Loop

Iphone 4 saves wrong password for mail accounts

Every time I put the right password in on my mail accounts and now my itunes acount in icloud the password changes to the same 8 letter password that is not the password.. it changes to this password for everything! as soon as I put the right one in and back out then go back in it changes the password back to the wrong 8 letter password.. what is causing this and how can I fix it? my mail won't send through sometimes and I cannot get icloud to to even work to back up files.. it has been like this for a long time, even before the new os 5.. I have done a complete reset, deleted the mail accounts and all that.. nothing has worked.. please help!

Hope you found an answer to this problem because I'm still having this problem!
..they ask to update your password and then it just reverts to this 8 digit mystery password?
What is the problem with these passwords?

Keychain Items Missing for Mail Accounts

Mac Mail keeps randomly prompting me for passwords for certain mail accounts. I keep hitting "OK" (without changing the pre-populated password) and eventually the account comes online.
I have noticed the the problem accounts do not have any corresponding keychain item for them. I have tried deleting accounts and then setting them back up, but no new Keychain item is created (older accounts have corresponding keychain items). The problem accounts are all POP accounts.
I have tried Keychain First Aid numerous times. No problems are identified.

Well what can tell you about Mail and Entourage,... Mail seems to be better integrated with OS X, and other Mac programs and since it is included with OS X - It Is Free!
To me Entourage has more the feel of MS Outlook so if you were a Win.. user you would most likely prefer it more. Entourage does have some sync services, ie: contact, iCal events, and notes with .mac, so I guess .me would also work, I don't use .mac/.me so someone else would have to fill you in there... this is my .02 worth.

No Advance option for Mail account setup...

I'm trying to setup an "Other" mail account and don't have the Advanced section. What should I do???

If you have more than two accounts on your ipod touch, the account which you are syncing your mail, contacts, calendars with will be the account that will push the mail. All other accounts are fetch.

Some emails are there when searching, but do not show up in inbox for mail account. How do we permanently fix that? This is dangerous for businesses that rely

Hi, and thanks,
I noticed that many dozens of others have expressed the same problem with Thunderbird, but it still continues.
For no apparent reason, sporadically, some emails don't show up in the inbox list of an account, but are actually there. If we're told later that someone sent one, and if we do a search at that time, it does come up!
We rely on this for business, and wouldn't know to search if we are unaware that an email has come in but simply doesn't appear in the list. We have actually lost significant business $ on 3 separate occasions, from clients who have said they emailed us, but we never responded! (That's really bad, and even worse because they also won't use us any more.)
Obviously, we of course would not want to have to check with the webmail host when we have Thunderbird. So...., how can we permanently fix this problem so it never, ever occurs??? We used to use Eudora before switching, and this never happened.
Some blogs say to delete one of the files in the system to re-index the inboxes, but again, that would not be the answer, because we wouldn't know to do that, nor when to do that, since some emails, without a warning or clue, occasionally simply don't show up in the list at all.
Please let us know the permanent and complete fix for this ASAP.
Thanks so much,
Les Pock

Lers, I have used Thunderbird for the best part of a decade and have only once experienced something similar to what you describe and it was a corrupt database.
So lets just back up a bit.
If you want mail to flow without issue the first bullet to bite is anti virus.
* Scanning of outgoing mail is a total waste of time and an added risk for no return. You anti virus already certifies your machine clean.
* Scanning of incoming mail is of extremely limited value. Thunderbird does not allow scripts in email, so there is no bug that will junmp out and start running even if your mail is not scanned and it contains a virus. The exception to that is attachments. But they are not dangerous either, unless you try and open them. Even then your anti virus should be monitoring the temporary folder on your computer and blocking any attempt to write the infected file, let alone execute the contents.
* Scanning of your mail folder likewise is of limited value, but is more than often the cause of mail indexes not being updated. These days anti virus program appear to scan everything. Every file as it is accessed and opened. Thunderbird often has quite large files to store mail, up to 4Gb is not all that uncommon. Anti virus program take about 2 minuted per Gigabyte to scan files. So it can be the case that the anti virus is scanning while Thunderbird is timing out waiting for access to the appropriate files.
To make things more efficient exclude your Thunderbird mail profile folders from on access scanning by your anti virus program. The folders contain NO executable programs, and a weekly scan along with the rest of your computer with Thunderbird closed should be more than adequate. Perhaps scheduled for1am Friday. Gives Friday to deal with anything found and does not interrupt your use of the device.
A similar exclusion can also be beneficial for other data storage areas (databases especially)
Finally look at what processes run on your computer. there aerew by default about 40 when it is new and over time this grows with almost every security, office or game you install until your computer is so busy running background processes to check if the latest versions of XXXX has been released that it becomes sluggish and performance on most things is degraded (That common nugget of Windows computers getting slower over time is TRUE, but a large part of that is added processes and security software which is actually reducing performance quite extensively.)
BTW right clicking a folder, selecting properties and the repair button rebuilds the index non destructively as deleting the files as you mention also looses tags.

Multiple users for Mail account

I'm a new Mac convert but I am having problems with getting mail set-up. I think this is really because I need the mail software from OS X Server (but I'm not keen on purchasing the whole of OS X Server just for that).
The problem is that mail for several users is delivered to one mailbox at our ISP (and we don't want to change this). Downloading from this downloads everything. On windoze we used to share a single pst file with a lot of rules to put mail in several sub-folders. It wasn't ideal and it wasn't private. I would prefer to have the mail going to separate private mailboxes. I've downloaded the cyrus software used in OS X Server from the Carnegie Mellon website but it seems over-kill for what I want to do and since I'm not an expert on IMAP or POP protocols I'm concerned that it may take me a long time to get it set up.
Does anyone have any advice for me? Is there a simpler solution? Can I get just the mail software for OS X Server from anywhere?
Any advice would be much appreciated.
MacBook Pro 15" Mac OS X (10.4.8)

If you already have your webserver internally on that static ip, then you could technically run your own email server on the same machine.
I don't actually see why I have to have a webserver to allow me to run an email server (but let's not get into another discussion). I do run web services and I do have a static ip.
What I have is all mail for my domain arriving at one mailbox on the isp. This is forwarded from the company that I get my domain hosting from. So mail for me@mydomain and mail for other@mydomain is all in the same mailbox. Any download from that mailbox downloads everything. The isp is the only isp in the north of Scotland and I'm glad to have them, but they are small and they don't provide lots of fancy options.
The problem with using separate folders under one user name comes when you reply to the message - it then doesn't come from the correct name. I also don't really want other people using my login. If there is any way round that please let me know.
The problem really comes from my not understanding how much less comes with OS X compared to OS X server. I'm used to unixes coming with most of what you want and I didn't realise that apple were following the microsoft model. I was intending to get familiar with OS X before buying a server. Now it looks as though I'll have to go and buy it anyway. Does anyone know if it is possible/easy to install parts of OS X server?
Thanks for the advice so far.
MacBook Pro 15" Mac OS X (10.4.8)

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