Questions tagged [email]
Email is short for electronic mail. There are tags for popular mail clients including the mail tag in case your question is related to a specific program and not email in general.
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Why can’t I verify an email when setting up Apple account for child?
I'm setting up an iPad for my child. I created an email address for them on Gmail. When I'm going through the setup screens on the iPad, it needs to send a verification to the child’s Gmail account, ...
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Apple Mail messages disappeared after IMAP deletion + local move failure (no disk space) – emlx files still exist but appear empty
I am trying to recover my Apple Mail inbox on macOS Yosemite (Mail v8) after a series of events caused all messages to disappear from the application, even though the raw files are still present on ...
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Which software for GPG/PGP email encryption on pretty recent macOS?
Since GPG Suite from gpgtools only supports macOS 13.x, but since weeks the successor of macOS 15 is out, I would like to know which alternative I can use to de- and encrypt emails on a recent os ...
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Mailto: links in emails stopped working after updating to iOS 26 and iPad OS
Our internal system uses mailto: links to approve or reject some requests. After updating to iOS 26.1 nothing happens when I click such link. I need to hold and select Mail from the menu that appears.
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Mail.app does not support my 2FA authentication on Macbook Pro
Context: My university requires me to use DUO, a 2FA provider, to login to my emails and other stuff. This is a struggle for me, as I do not have a smartphone. To overcome these challenges posed by ...
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Email synced from Gmail appeared in Outlook yesterday but disappeared today, nowhere to be found (but is still in Gmail)
Yesterday, I received an email in my Outlook inbox (for work). This was an email synced from my Gmail account. Today, it disappeared from Outlook completely, but is still in my Gmail account. The ...
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Need to search Dovecot mail database for keyword
A Subject Access Request has come to my department and because of this I will need search our email database for a keyword, in this case the SAR requestee's name.
We (still) use Dovecot/Postfix on Mac ...
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Syncing mail between Mac and iPhone [closed]
iPhone mail only shows inbox from Mac mail. How to configure to show other mailboxes on Mac?
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I am having problems getting an apple script to access exchange mailboxes
macos 15.5 (24F74)
set destinationMailbox to "personal" of account "Exchange"
give a message Can’t get "personal" of account "Exchange". Access not allowed.
I ...
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Automatically copy a message in Mail.app to a directory
If I drag an e-mail to a directory, Finder makes a copy, so that the message also remains in Mail.app.
I would like to make this happen automagically when the mail matches certain criteria (for ...
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Apple Mail is hijacking my forwarded emails when using Gmail SMTP - how to stop it from happening?
Mail program 16.0, on Sequoia 15.5, 16" Mac Book Pro Apple chip M3 Max
I have emails that come to my Mac Mail program via @iCloud.com email account. I also have in the same mail app a few Gmail ...
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Can You Change Your @icloud and @me Email Address?
So I accidentally came across some news today saying that starting from iOS 18.1, Apple now lets you change your actual iCloud email address. I’m already on iOS 18.4 and somehow totally missed this.
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How can I change the port used by a Mac Mail account?
I've added a new account via Mac Mail. The host uses port 993 for IMAP, and 543 for SMTP, with the same username and account for each. I unchecked "Automatically manage connection settings"...
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Spell checker in Mail has changed [closed]
Since a recent update of my Mac OS operating system, I have issues with my spell checker on Mail from MacOs.
I use the spell checker automatically when I send an email. But very often, I want to stop ...
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Outlook client fails to sync Gmail
I'm using the outlook email client on my MacBook to access my Gmail inbox.
I've already set it up as an IMAP account.
However, when I delete or move an email on my Mac it doesn't automatically sync ...