Beaminster — Jun 17th 2025
Mick gave us an in-depth look at Apple’s Mail app, which most of us use but are unaware of many features. Having explained the differences between POP and IMAP accounts, the latter being the default for most new users, he showed the relatively recent added Privacy setting. On the Mac, you can change the way the emails browser window looks by selecting Column Layout. By double-clicking on an email in the list, it opens in a separate window, which can be very convenient when using a large screen. You can select to only have unread emails displayed, with a small round icon with three lines diminishing in width, blue if selected. The very latest version of Mail now allows the inbox to be displayed in categories. This can be selected in the View menu on the Mac and on iOS by touching the round icon with three dots top right of the screen. In the settings, you can choose which email address you wish new mail to be sent from, assuming you have more than one account. Again, on the more recent version, there is an undo send option in Settings, the Composing Tab on the Mac. Mick showed various other options in composing. The Mac has very flexible options for setting up Signatures under the Settings Signature tab, which can even be a lengthy document. You can have multiple signatures for any account. IOS is much more basic, allowing one signature per email account or sharing the same signature from all accounts. Finally, Mick showed us the most sophisticated Mac-only feature, Rules, which allows you to sort incoming emails , sending them to different folders or whatever. The last item of each set of rules is Stop Evaluating (Plagiarised from David M's note!)
We then discussed the work Jenny had done researching alternative venues and the desire to secure new members. We settled on further assessing the alternative venues with a view to a relaunch on 1st Tuesday in October.
