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How to Add or Remove VIP Senders in iOS Mail

The sun sends early rays across the Acropolis in Athens.
They pass a few columns and immerse the ancient statue of Athena Polias, for a brief while, in glowing colors. For most temples in Ancient Greece (like, for instance, Athena's so-called "Old" Temple and the Erechtheum she would later call home) pointed East — perhaps so the important statues would be greeted by some of the day's most important and beautiful light, the day's first.
Now, on the Acropolis and just about any place, iOS Mail, too, can shine a kind of special light on important senders. The time matters not, and you get to pick who's important:
›› Important senders' emails first: add to (and remove from) the list of VIP senders in iPhone Mail and iPad Mail to have key incoming messages collected automatically in a separate view.

How to Make Outlook Your Default Email Program

Though he does not reveal it, John Aubrey does, of course, have the measurement of his friend Thomas Hobbes's "very bald" head. About the philosopher's other end, Aubrey jotted curiously that, at least in his youth, Thomas "trod both his shoes the same way".
In any event, you can make Windows treat all email actions the same way no matter their kind and measure:
›› Use Outlook for all your email tasks automatically.

Add an Alternative Email Address to a VIP in OS X Mail

"Status" is a Latin word. Its plural is "status".
English has added two alternative plural forms to it: "statuses" and, with a specific usage in mind, "stati".
Back at OS X Mail, you can add alternative email addresses to your V.I.P. senders' status:
›› That sender is just as important (very) when she uses a different email address? To add an alternative email address for a VIP sender in Mac OS X Mail, you can use the address book or take more direct action.

From the Archives: Import Outlook Contacts to OS X

It may not be every day that you learn lists of words under water; but if you do, you'll more easily recall the words under water.
Recall depends on context, Alan Baddeley has shown with divers (learning word lists) in the 1970s. This is good to know: place — or imagine! — yourself in the situation in which you need to recall what you learn and you will more readily have your memories available when and where you need them.
Now, address books suffer from severe context dependency, of course. Mac OS X Mail cannot easily recall the contacts you added to Outlook. Neither Outlook nor you need imagine the OS X Address Book, though; all it takes is some clever migration and importing:
›› The OS X Address Book application can import Outlook contacts for use in Mac OS X Mail.

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