Comments on: Mail

By: Al Norbryhn

Al Norbryhn — Mon, 19 May 2008 05:28:15 +0000

In response to John on Feb 6, 2008. I have similar, if not same issue. Comments on Apple support pages inconclusive, at best. Anyone have suggestions?

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By: John

John — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 03:12:01 +0000

I can’t seem to make my notes and to-dos appear in .mac. In fact apple’s support pages include the following quotes:

“With Mail in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, you can create To Do items. However, if you are using a .Mac account in Mail, you will not see To Do items in a Web browser via .Mac Webmail. Use Mail to see and edit To Do items.”
“If you create a Note with Mail in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard … the notes cannot be edited in .Mac webmail, and may appear to be from an “unspecified-domain” with no “To” address.”
“This is expected behavior. For the best experience with Notes, use Mac OS X Mail only.”

What gives? Does .mac really not support syncing notes and to-dos? This seems like a huge oversight.

Thanks

By: Glenn Wolsey

Glenn Wolsey — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 08:17:14 +0000

Thanks for that excellent tip Richard! Will be trying that this evening.

By: Richard Saunders

Richard Saunders — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 18:23:37 +0000

Hi Glenn, a solution to your notes problem.

@ Aaron, your right about the background but if you want a plain white background for notes you need to make two changes.

Show Package Contents for the Mail APP

Navigate to Resources

Edit the note.css file and replace the values RGB 254,248,189 to 255,255,255 for the background color to change from yellow to white.

This will make the note background white but you will still have a yellow gradient over the top.

Then you need to replace the note-background-gradient.tiff file with one without a gradient, i just copied the original edited it in photoshop and deleted the gradient resaved and replaced the original in the resources folder.

I now have a nice clean notes, if you find the lines are not clear enough edit the not-rule-horizontal.png and replace it in the resources folder.

Notes are now nice and clean, lol except for all my notes!

By: Grant

Grant — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 00:13:17 +0000

I love that, “.mac is perfect” part, you .mac went down, so what note book are you getting, i think you should sponsor me instead of buying the basic macbook to get the black one, Ill pay the basic prove ad you add the rest to buy the black, free advertising for 2 months on my site or more or hey a year even i would do if you done this! I will be starting video casts with an American friend using iChat aswell as that i would have a image or you sponsor for that, come on glenn tempting aint it!

By: Elliott Cost

Elliott Cost — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 22:58:53 +0000

Nice Review. What notebook are you going to be getting?

By: Aaron

Aaron — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 22:23:30 +0000

The yellow background might be in the resources folder of the new mail.app. If it is you could probably just replace it with a solid white image of the same name.

By: Grant

Grant — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 21:24:19 +0000

What problems have you encountered with leopard, i was having this debate with Jamie Knight about if he thought leopard was undercooked and rushed he didn’t feel it did and the programs that didn’t work with leopard where the programs fault, do you think this is so?

I think it may be undercooked but not by enough to stir up Sh**T

cheers G

By: Shawn Blanc

Shawn Blanc — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 19:02:18 +0000

I’m out of the country so haven’t had a chance to upgrade yet. But the new mail and the sync are both something I’m looking forward to as well. Nice write-up Glenn.

By: Angel

Angel — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 18:23:50 +0000

I like the changes in Mail 3.0 but it’s so buggy it’s almost unusable. I’m seriously thinking about downloading Thunderbird until the problems are fixed. I’m having problems with the To-Dos duplicating and the fact that zero messages show up in my various IMAP folders. Plus it crashes frequently. iCal is even buggier than Mail (I can only make about two entries before it completely crashes). Looking at the Apple forums, I’m clearly not the only one having issues.

By: jayp80

jayp80 — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 17:11:22 +0000

I’ve been using mail since I got my imac, a little over a year ago. And the new mail is a definite improvement. Being a Windows user for so many years I got used to a email client, and so none of the web based systems have been up to par. I love that they added notes and to-do’s to mail. It’s so much better then in ical. One minor grip is that so far i haven’t found a way of editing the repetition of tasks in mail. I have to open ical and edit it there. If someone has figured out how, please let me know.

By: Grant

Grant — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 16:11:25 +0000

Woo, my email is in his inbox :D, £rd down.

Good Article, as always!

By: Chris Thomson

Chris Thomson — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 12:44:41 +0000

I really like Mail’s Data Handlers for Signatures. I changed my signature to include a bunch of useful information now, and a link to my vCard. Notes and To-dos is nice, but I really don’t find a huge use for them, I’ve never really liked the “To-do” idea. I really hate it when I open Mail, or open Mail > Preferences, it says Certificate Invalid. I switched off SSL, because I use mail.mydomain as my server, but the SSL certificate is registered to *.gridserver.com. Even with SSL turned off, it prompts me, really annoying.

Other than that, I love the new Mail!

By: Jorge Quinteros

Jorge Quinteros — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 11:34:01 +0000

I’ve been a fan of the application since its release so its been great to see the minor evolution of the program upon each OS release. So far so good. The RSS feature is neat but not as robust as a Netnewswire for example.

By: Julian Schrader

Julian Schrader — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 10:42:57 +0000

@Andy: You should be, yes. I’m using Mail 3.0 with an IMAP account on my MediaTemple server, so this is not a special .Mac functionality but ordinary IMAP support.

@Glenn: Maybe you could include IMAP in your post so people don’t think they have to use .Mac — GMail also offers free IMAP now.

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 08:00:33 +0000

Am I able to sync mail with my Yahoo account with IMAP?

By: Julian Schrader

Julian Schrader — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 06:38:19 +0000

I just switched to IMAP mail a few days before Leopard. Still had to clean some things up though, but now everything just works fine and is perfectly in sync — even mails I’m currently writing get uploaded to the drafts folder on the server constantly.

I’m looking to getting an iPhone next week — mail is prepared!

By: alej744

alej744 — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 05:00:46 +0000

The new mail looks great in functionality, but the new toolbar is a joke.
Those shiny graphite buttons shouldn’t be mixed with a unified shaded toolbar, and it’s not easy to see what’s dimmed or not at a glance.

By: Brad

Brad — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 04:58:51 +0000

I too have been looking forward to the changes in Mail for quite a while now.

Having finally gotten my copy of Leopard and installed it tonight, one of the first things I went to play with was Mail, and I’m quite impressed. Apple really has seemed to follow through on what they said they were going to do, and I think it’s a much stronger program than it was before.