some mac mail questions

[saladiro]

hi....few mac mail questions...(decided to move over from entourage)

1) I have a rule set up, that when messages arrive from mac forum, the go to my mac forum folder (all good), but a copy also remains in the inbox...
how do I avoid this....

2 how do i set mac mail to delete messages..lets say greater than 30days..
is this possible

 

[kprf]

hi....few mac mail questions...(decided to move over from entourage)

1) I have a rule set up, that when messages arrive from mac forum, the go to my mac forum folder (all good), but a copy also remains in the inbox...
how do I avoid this....

2 how do i set mac mail to delete messages..lets say greater than 30days..
is this possible

Here is for the No. 2:

http://email.about.com/od/macosxmailtips/qt/et050403.htm

 

[saladiro]

Here is for the No. 2:

http://email.about.com/od/macosxmailtips/qt/et050403.htm

tks

 

[jplan2008]

move message

You probably have the rule set up to "copy" message to X folder. Change it to MOVE the message instead.

 

[saladiro]

tks

tks....that was it....

one other question, i have rules set to delete mail greater than 90 days. Mu problem is that i want it to apple to all accounts EXCEPT my folder labeled important. is there a way to write this rule?
i like to keep important emails in here that do not get deleted

 

[silentk knight]

my mail question is:
is there a way to fwd your yahho, aol, or gmail to mac mail? basiclly i want to route all my accounts thru mac mail...in and out going

 

[agentphish]

my mail question is:
is there a way to fwd your yahho, aol, or gmail to mac mail? basiclly i want to route all my accounts thru mac mail...in and out going

Do you mean you want to use Mail.app to check and manage all of those accounts, or do you mean that you have a .mac email address that you pay 99 bucks a year for (when the others are free) and you want to forward all three of those accounts to your .mac account?

 

[silentk knight]

id like for the mail app to manage the accts.

speaking of, what are the pluses of minuses of a .mac account?

 

[agentphish]

I'm not personally a .mac fan, but some people swear by it. to find out more, go here: http://www.apple.com/dotmac/

On to the other question:
Yes, it's easily possible to use mail.app to manage and all of those.
Yahoo and gmail and AOL all allow POP3 access to your email so you don't need to use their web interfaces.

All of the instructions you need can be found on those various providers sites under their help sections. I can't link you because I'm at work and I can't check personal mail here so I can't help further there.

gMail also offers IMAP, which is better because it essentially syncs your entire account with whats online at gmail.com

I don't know if yahoo and AOL offer this or not.

I manage 3 gmail accounts and a comcast account in my Mail.app.

Good luck.