- An overview of settings and preferences in Apple Mail
- In this demonstration, we’ll see where to find the different preferences and settings in Apple Mail.
- Go to Mail.
- Click Preferences.
- The tab that opens by default is the Accounts tab where you can manage the options related to your mail accounts.
- Go to Mailbox Behaviors.
- This is where you can set how the program treats sent, junk and deleted messages.
- The advanced tab shows additional options for the selected mail account. You can also manage the SSL settings here.
- Let’s look at General options.
- This option sets how often Apple Mail will check for new messages on the server.
- The RSS tab is where you can change settings related to your RSS feeds.
- Set your default RSS reader, how often to check for updates to the feeds you have added and choose when to remove the articles.
- The Junk Mail tab is where you enable or disable junk mail filtering and set how the program reacts when you receive junk mail.
- On the Fonts and Colors tab, you can set what the font will look like for mailboxes, messages, notes, etc.
- The Viewing options let you change settings related to viewing messages including the header detail and message threading.
- The settings on this tab affect message composition. For example, you can change the spell checker, automatically send copies of sent messages to yourself, configure address options, etc.
- These last two tabs, Signatures and Rules, will be covered in more detail in other videos in this series.
- Rules are basically filters you can set up to sort your mail into folders.
- That’s it! Now you have seen an overview of the preferences in Apple Mail.