This post is intended for a friend in particular that didn’t knew that it is possible to collect AOL account via an application like Apple Mail or Thunderbird for free.
What is IMAP?
IMAP is an email protocol that stores email on the remote mail server. You can download these mails of course.
First, here is the how to configure an IMAP account:
- Go to Mail Preferences
- On the Accounts tab, click the [+] at the bottom left to start the account setup process
- Change the Account Type to IMAP and fill in your details
- Set the Incoming Mail Server and Outgoing Mail Server detail
How to configure an AOL account after the jump 
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A brilliant and easy to follow tutorial on how to fight against spam invasion in your Apple Mail’s inbox written by Matthew Cone for Mac Instruct.
After introducing a few basic settings you can do directly on Mail.app he introduces a Spam Filtering Software (SpamSieve) with a “How to use it”.
Very interesting: read it here.
As everyone knows, it is possible to get quite a speed boost out of Mail.app by stripping all the bloat out of its Envelope index, an SQLite database Mail uses to store senders, recipients, subjects and so on.
Here is the tutorial from Hawk Wings the ultimate website for all Apple Mail users.
It worked for me and it increased dramatically the speed of Mail.app.
“Sometimes sensitive data needs to be sent via email and as it travels to its destination it can be intercepted by hackers, isps, the office i.t. geek or even a nosy government.” - Melvin Rivera
Here is the full tutorial made by Melvin Rivera, it’s a bit tricky but just follow the steps… and it will work.FULL TUTORIAL!digg story
If you have a .mac account and you enable encryption in iChat, you’ll get an autogenerated certificate in your Keychain.
Go to your Keychain to check if you do have it.
If you found it, you will be able to use it to encrypt your mails…
Just go to your Keychain preferences and check “Search .Mac for Certificates”.
Then you’ll see this little icon when composing a Mail in Mail.app from your .mac account.
PS: you must have the other person’s certificate to encrypt mail to it.
