Where is separator bar in Mac Mail?

What is the separator bar on Mac Mail? I've suddenly lost the message preview pane and can't figure out how to get it back. In Help it says to double click on the separator bar. What is that?

Check the very bottom of the mail window, there should be a small dot in the middle of the bottom bar. You can grab it and drag it back towards the top of the screen.

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Where are the emoticons in Mac Mail?

Where are the emoticons in Mac Mail 5.2 on OS 10.7.3?

I used colon parentheses with the smiley emoticon which is the normal code for a smiley. It works on this forum. I used to type these in all the time on Eudora so I'm familiar with the different combinations.
I added a space after it in the system preferences/language popup and sent myself another letter with it included and it still doesn't work in Mac mail (I added a space before and after it in MacMail). but it does work in TextEdit now.
Yes, "use symbol and text substution" is clicked.
The checkbox is ticked in the replace box; in the next box is the colon/parentheses with a space, and then the smiley in the next box.
Thanks for trying to help.

Where's the conversation in mac mail?

Where's the conversation in mac mail? Like in Gmail. Mac Mail in conversation mode only shows one side of the 'conversation'. You have to go to the sent folder to the see the other side. Anyone know of way to change the view? Sparrow mail even has both sides of the conversation in the in box. Surprised mail is lacking this.

Go to Preferences > Viewing and check "Include Related Messages". Mail randomly turned this off for me recently and I had to find it and turn back on.

Where is the discussion for mac mail

They list virtually all other apps, itunes, safari etc. but there is no forum for the mail application. I see people have all kinds of problems with it but those don['t seem to be gathered under any specific heading where you can look for them or where it would be logical to post a question.
I have a macbook air, so that is why I'm here. I could also be in Snow Leopard because I'm running 10.6.8.
I'm running Mail 4.5 (eer I was running)
this is the second time in a few months that mail had trouble shuting down - I chose quit and it ground away for a while but never quit and I had to force quit it and now it can't find its mailboxes and when I launch it it wants to walk me through the setup app. the last time I did this it made all new mailboxes and I never got things right again even when I told it where the old mailboxes were.
How can I just skip the setup nonsense and launch the program and relink it to the mailboxes which are in the library folder for my user identity?
thanks,
brian
and PS - what is up with this forum. I click on "forgot my apple ID" (which I always have) and it keeps offering as a result to reset my password instead of telling me what my applie ID is. I don't want to reset my password, I know that, I forgot my friggin ID. Then I have to spend untold tries trying to remember what it is.

From the main page, click on the link with the title of the OS version you're using, such as Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard.
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Where are the "on my mac" mail folders stored, on my mac?

I can't find the folders located under the "on my mac" label in Mail. Can anyone help?
I want to ensure I have the files stored.

Ah - I see them now and inside Finder. They are in the V2. My local folder structure looks like this:
Folder1
Folder2
Folder3
--SubFolder1
--SubFolder2
----SubFolder1
----SubFolder2
--SubFolder3
--SubFolder4
and even more nested than that. In V2/Mailboxes/Mail Archive.mbox, I did see the three root folders earlier when you first posted that path. I thought maybe Mail stopped archiving the folders and they were moved, since none of the sub folders were there. Then I clicked Folder3 and all of the sub folders are there. I wasn't expecting them to be nested in the file system.

Where do I find the Mac Mail alert sound files on the computer?

I want to find the sound files because I want to convert them to wav to use as mail alert sounds for Thunderbird which I use instead of Mail, and don't know where to find the files.
Thanks.

I found the solution here:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/3935483#3935483

On My Mac mail; where did it go?

I had to do a total reinstall to reset some software problems. I used a G-drive back up to reinstall all of my info and applications, docs, pics, music etc. When I opened Apple Mail...my iCloud account was there...but where did my ON MY Mac mail go? I had seaved impportant mail there!

If you are lucky, you might be able to restore individual messages. To do it, open Mail and then, open the Time Machine application (in /Applications/Utilities). Then, choose the backup you want at the right and you will be able to select messages and restore them.
After restoring them, they will appear in "Recovered Messages" in the Mail sidebar, under "On my Mac"

Cannot open Mac Mail messages.

Hi
I have a G5 pre Intel OS 10.5.8, with Mac Mail v 3.6. I cannot open my messages. I still can receive and send messages. I checked with my ISP and my settings are correct. Mac Mail's Connection Doctor says connection with the internet and my ISP are good.
I believe I will have to reinstall Mac Mail. I first want to make sure my messages are saved.
Does anyone know where on my computer the messages reside?
Where can I get just Mac Mail to reinstall or must I reinstall the OS?
Thanks

What exactly happens when you try to open them?
On Mail...
First Quit Mail, then I'd backup these two Mail folders, by right clicking on them in the Finder, then choose Archive/Compress.
Users/YourUserName/Library/Mail
Users/YourUserName/Library/Mail Downloads
(Could be a different folder here if you chose such in Mail Prefs)
Right click on that Mail folder, choose archive, you'll get everything in the folder, and the folder itself in a file called Mail.zip, move it to a safe place, same for the Mail Downloads folder... only the plist is separate.
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist
Not certain, but this can fix myriad Mail problems...
Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at bootup), it will try to repair your Disk Directory while the spinning radian is happening, so let it go, run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, then move this folder & file to the Desktop.
Move this Folder to the Desktop...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Caches/Mail/
Move this file to the Desktop...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Mail/Envelope Index
Reboot.
If that doesn't do it and you can afford to redo all your Rules, try these & reboot...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Mail/MessageRules.plist
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Mail/MessageRules.plist.backup
Note, in 10.5 & up /Users/YourUserName/Library/Caches/Mail/ may not exist.
Get Pacifist...
http://www.charlessoft.com/
then extract/install what you need from your Install Disc.

Subscription for .Mac mail?

I cannot see where to re-subscribe to Mac Mail. Used it previously and it is set up but subscription has ended. Is there a number I need to call to re-subscribe? How much is Mac Mail these days anyway?

I cannot see where to re-subscribe to Mac Mail.
If you mean .Mac or MobileMe, click here and supply an activation code, or try signing up for a trial. To get an activation code, purchase the MobileMe package from a retail store or online.
How much is Mac Mail these days anyway?
The MobileMe package costs $99 per year in the United States. The bundled Mail application will work with any email service that supports POP or IMAP access and doesn't require MobileMe.
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Setting up a mac mail account ?

Thank you Probe-Droid for your reply regarding my mac G4 running 10.3.9. where you suggest I try mac mail. Clicked on the icon and up came a panel, so I read my panther book for Dummies(as I am one) this did not help. I list below the questions in hopes that you or someone can help.
            Welcome to mail
Full Name                              Mervyn Weston
email address                        *********
Incoming mail server               ??
Accountt type                         POP
User name                             ??
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Mervyn Weston, Brittany, France
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How do I hide the "preview panel" in Mail. Double clicking the "separator bar" hasn't worked ( I think I know where that bar is.)

How can I hide the "preview panel" in Mail? Double clicking on the "separator bar" , as directed by Mail Help, does nothing. ( I am not certain where that bar is, but believe it to be the zone where the preview panel and the message space meet.) This issue only arose after I upgraded to Mavericks.

Maggie 6 wrote:
How can I hide the "preview panel" in Mail? Double clicking on the "separator bar" , as directed by Mail Help, does nothing. ( I am not certain where that bar is, but believe it to be the zone where the preview panel and the message space meet.) This issue only arose after I upgraded to Mavericks.
The only way I found to hide the "preview panel" is to drag the separator to the edge of the window. It shrinks the panel down to perhaps 1/2 inch in height and then disappears only when you drag it to the bottom (classic layout) or perhaps a couple inches wide (in the new layout). It is also annoying to me that you can double click to open the preview panel but you cannot repeat that to hide it. [sigh]
I submitted feedback about the help file as well - you may want to do the same. I could not find the double click mentioned in the new "Mail Help" - I know it was in the old version.

Mac Mail and the Elusive Horizontal Bar / Separator Line

LIke so many people, I tried to devise the best way to insert a horizontal separator bar between messages in a multi-message thread. I refuse to insert a long string of dashes -- I want a solid black separator bar -- and I don't want to use a plugin either. So here's the best I can do at this point:
First, to set it up, open a blank Word document, type three dashes ("---"), hit the Return key (the dashes turn into a horizontal bar), copy the line above and below the resulting horizontal line (ie., to be sure you encapsulate the line within your selection), and then paste it into a new (empty) email.
If you do the same thing with the equal sign ("===") you end up with a DOUBLE line separator. You might as well copy that into your blank email too.
Then, simply save that new email in your DRAFT folder so you can easily access those lines quickly to copy/paste them in any other email.
This only seems to work when the horizontal line is black. You can change the line in Word to any color (using the Borders and Shading tab in the Format Pallette) but then when you paste it into a Mail, the line is invisible, so just use a black line.
Just fyi.

Simple solution--very simple
Open up MS word (or Pages alternative) and create a horizontal line by holding down the "shift" key and then holding down the "_" key to make the line as long as you want
Copy this line into your clipboard
Open Automator
Go to Automator | Services | Services Preferences | and click the "Text" button across the top
Type the two letters "ln" in the "Replace" column and the paste the _______________________________ you created and copied in the "With" Column
Every time you type the letters ln into your email, it gives you the option of replacing the letters ln with a line if you simply hit return
Hope that helps--I was Googling the solution--and came up with that....

Mac Mail Tool bar

My .mac mail account has the usual tool bar items - reply, reply all, forward" but the chooise "move to folder" has moved on top of my first received email. Ho9w can I move it back to where it was before?
Thanks for the help.
PEACE and JOY! Paul

Hello Paul.
Are you referring to webmail access for your .Mac
account using a browser?
If so, this is the Mail & Address Book - Tiger
discussions for Apple's Mail and Address Book
applications.
If for webmail access, the "Move To Folder" option
for a selected message if part of the "Actions"
button and associated menu. Where was the "Actions"
button before and when did this change?
Allan,
Consistently I use Safari, home page is .mac and then click on Mail.
This took place about two months ago and the "New, Get Mail" and "Move To" bars just moved to the left, under the reply bar and on top of the first message.
Hope this helps.
PEACE and JOY! Paul

Where can I see how much space mac mail is taking on my hard drive?

I have a gmail, yahoo mail and icloud mail that I access on Mac Mail. Does it take up much space on the HD? I'm assuming they are all stored on the web servers but where do I look on the Mac to find what space they are taking up on my Mac?

In the Finder, hold the Option key and then choose Library from the Go menu. Then locate the folder called "Mail," and get information on it and note the calculated size. In addition, do the same for the Mail Downloads folder, and these two should constitue the majority of the space used by Mail and its configured accounts.

When using Time Machine to restore some Mac Mails, after clicking restore, a message shows "restoring 480 mesages. They are supposed to appear on Mac Mail sidebar in a special folder. They are not there and I have no idea where they are? Would apprecia

I am having a problem with the Time Machine in restoring Mac Mail back to a certain date. Everything works fine, with Mac Mail the active application and entering Time Machine, and I have found the mail file after the location process is done, then I hit Restore and there is a messages "restoring 480 messages", but I cannot locate them anywhere. What is suppose to happen is that a special file should appear in the sidebar of Mac Mail in the section On My Mac. Any suggestion would be appreciated.
I use Mountain Lion.

Although you can restore messages from a Time Machine snapshot within the Mail application, it generally won't work with messages that were saved by an older version of Mail. In that case, you have to use an alternative method.
Triple-click the line below to select it:
~/Library/Mail/V2
Right-click or control-click the highlighted line and select
Services ▹ Reveal
from the contextual menu. A Finder window should open with a folder selected. Inside that folder are subfolders representing your Mail accounts. The names refer to the email addresses you use. Decide which ones you want to restore messages from.
Enter Time Machine and scroll back to the snapshot you want. Select the account folders you want and then selectRestore ... to... from the action menu (gear icon) in the toolbar of the snapshot window. Restore the folders to the Desktop, not to their original location.
From the Mail menu bar, select
File ▹ Import Mailboxes...
Import from the mailboxes in the folders you restored to the Desktop. The imported messages will appear in a new mailbox. Move the ones you want to keep wherever you like and delete the rest. Then delete the folders on the Desktop.

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