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How to Search Inside a Message with Mac OS X Mail
The drum and the hare are, it seems, as old at least as the needle and the hay.
For we, well, find in Robert Greene's A Quip for an Upstart Courtier from 1592, for instance, both: "The poor man that gives but his bare fee, or perhaps pleads in formâ paupers, he hunteth for hares with a tabor, and growth in the darke to find a needle in a bottle of hay."
Now, if a word, number, phrase, character or string seems like that hare and your eying over the long (and broad) email like hitting a tabor, OS X Mail can help you look:
›› Looking to search inside an email? Here's how to find words and letters swiftly in an email's text with Mac OS X Mail.
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If three is good — ask, say, the Pythagoreans —, nine, one fathoms, is three times so.
So, it was three times three who typically came together for a symposium in Ancient Greece (if at least one source is to be believed) and, by default, they met at the ninth hour.
Whether you're about to invite to a symposium or mail for another reason, you can have Gmail pick a good email address for sending — by default:
›› Make the email address you use most often for sending (or whichever one you prefer) the default address for new emails in Gmail.
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In 1933, one of Gramophone magazine's founders (and its first editor as well as an overall prolific writer) had a book published. A satire of Great Britain's secret service, Sir Compton Mackenzie's Water on the Brain shall interest us here for another reason than its story, though: in it appears, possibly for the firs time in print, the phrase "very important personage" or — V.I.P.
(Mackenzie had served in the secret service during the First World War, and his memoirs had been banned by the MI1(c) for revealing some of their secrets.)
Now, onward to very important email personages:
›› Key contacts send important emails. In Mac OS X Mail, you can mark senders as such VIPs easily and have their messages given particular treatment.
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Mistype an address once, and Internet Explorer will happily suggest it forevermore as you start typing the correct address.
You could try to ignore it. You could "clear" your "private" data and hope the address is among it. Or you elegantly dive into the registry and snip just the offending from your TypedURLs.
While we're at preventing Windows machines from doing things we do not like:
›› You don't want email senders to know when you open their messages, and you don't want Outlook to ask you to return read receipts either? Here's how to make Outlook ignore requests for read receipts.
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