Brief Introduction of Apple Mail

Emails are the most secure way of communication. Every email client has their own specifications and compatibility factor. In Mac system default email application client is Apple Mail. Let’s have a complete overview of Apple Mail. In previous time, Apple Mail is known as ‘Mail.app’. Firstly ‘Mail.app’ email application is launched by NeXT as ‘Next Mail’ later on it was adapted by OS’X Mail application.

Introduction of Apple Mail

    Apple Mail provides supports for all basic protocol like SMTP, POP3 and IMAP and can easily work with all popular email client i.e. Yahoo mail, Gmail, AOL Mail, Mobile Me , ioS and Exchange. Additional benefits of using Apple Mail are its Active Sync support and its icloud account connectivity that makes it more flexible for users. Latest version of Apple Mail is Version5 introduced with Mac OS Xv10.7.

 

File Structure of Apple Mail:

Email applications has their own procedure to save emails as well as respective folders associated with user’s profile like sent items, Notes and inbox. Apple Mail supports for MBOX file format in their old versions (before 10.4) but in new versions (10.7), Apple Mail follow .emlx file format. The basic difference that lies between MBOX file format and .emlx file format is their storage structure. Let’s have a look on these file formats.

Introduction of MBOX files:

MBOX files store all messages in a single file. MBOX is abbreviated as Mailboxes. In MBOX file structure, all messages are concatenated in a single plain text file. 

Default files location of MBOX file:

 “/User/Library/Mail/Mailboxes/ directory”

NOTE: Location of MBOX file differs from client to client.

Introduction of EMLX files

In new versions of Apple Mail, .emlx file format is supported. EMLX files are abbreviated as Mail messages. EMLX file format messages can be separated in to single files and thus become easily available on searching. User can easily view their .emlx files in text editor.

Default files location of .EMLX file:

"~user/Library/Mail/Mailboxes/[mailbox]/Messages/"folder."~user/Library/Mail/[account]/INBOX. Mbox/Messages/" folder. 

Remarkable Features of Apple Mail

Multimedia Support: Apple mail provides support to multimedia messages. User can easily send video clips and photos to receiver. Additionally user can easily apply drag and drop option to attach multimedia file to the emails. It saves user time. Additionally user can use inbuilt tools to adjust the settings of image.

Manageable Inbox: Apple Mail has manageable inbox. User can adjust the settings of their mailboxes. They can easily change their font settings, color choice and text size and many other settings. User can also set the priority of emails according to their use.

Advance Calendars: Apple Mail has advance calendars settings options. User can see multiple calendars in a single window. Moreover user can also get time to time update (change in meeting schedule etc) via emails. User can also create invitations and can invite their other friends via emails.

Support Multiple Mail Account: Apple Mail supports for multiple mail accounts .User can also configure their multiple mail accounts with Apple Mail and (list is mentioned above) avail benefits.

Mail Connection: Mail connection feature is present in Apple Mail. Sometime user is not able to send mail to their respective client. User doesn’t need to get resolve the problem as Apple mail is automatically enriched with features of “Connection doctor”. User must click on “Connection doctor” button to resolve this error.

 I hope all above information is quite helpful to know about Apple Mail.