Mail

Mail 2 under Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger
Maintainer:	Apple Computer
Latest release:	2.0.5 / October 31, 2005
OS:	Mac OS X
Genre:	Email client
License:	Proprietary
Licence:
Website:	www.apple.com/macosx/features/mail

Mail (aka Mail.app) is an email program made by Apple Computer included in Mac OS X. Mail in its current form does not run on any operating system other than Mac OS X, however previous versions were included in NeXTSTEP and OPENSTEP. Mail uses the SMTP, POP3, and IMAP protocols, and supports .Mac and Exchange via IMAP. Image File history File links Apple_Mail_Icon. ... Apple Computers Mail email client (version 2. ... Software maintenance is one of the activities in software engineering, and is the process of enhancing and optimizing deployed software (software release), as well as remedying defects. ... The Apple II was introduced on April 16, 1977 at the first West Coast Computer Faire. ... A software release is to create a new version of the system or program and release it to the user community. ... October 31 is the 304th day of the year (305th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 61 days remaining, as the final day of October. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... In computing, an operating system ( aka, OS) is the system software responsible for the direct control and management of hardware and basic system operations. ... Mac OS X is the operating system which is included with all shipping Apple Macintosh computers in the consumer and professional markets. ... A software genre is a classification of software by its common function, type or topic. ... An email client (or mail user agent [MUA]) is a computer program that is used to read and send e-mail. ... A software license is a type of proprietary or gratuitous license as well as a memorandum of contract between a producer and a user of computer software — sometimes called an End User License Agreement (EULA) — that specifies the perimeters of the permission granted by the owner to the user. ... Proprietary indicates that a party exercises private ownership, control or use over an item of property, usually to the exclusion of other parties. ... A software license is a type of proprietary or gratiuitious license as well as a memorandum of contract between a producer and a user of computer software — sometimes called an End User License Agreement (EULA) — that specifies the perimeters of the permission granted by the owner to the user. ... The front page of the English Wikipedia Website. ... An email client (or mail user agent [MUA]) is a computer program that is used to read and send email. ... The Apple II was introduced on April 16, 1977 at the first West Coast Computer Faire. ... Mac OS X is the operating system which is included with all shipping Apple Macintosh computers in the consumer and professional markets. ... NeXTSTEP Desktop NEXTSTEP is the original object-oriented, multitasking operating system that NeXT Computer, Inc. ... OpenStep is an open object-oriented API specification for an object-oriented operating system that uses any modern operating system as its core, principally developed by NeXT. It is important to recognize that while OpenStep is an API specification, OPENSTEP (all capitalized) is a specific implementation of this OpenStep developed... Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) is the de facto standard for email transmission across the Internet. ... Post Office Protocol version 3 (POP3) is an application layer Internet standard protocol used to retrieve email from a remote server to a local client over a TCP/IP connection. ... The Internet Message Access Protocol (commonly known as IMAP, and previously called Interactive Mail Access Protocol) is an application layer Internet protocol used for accessing email on a remote server from a local client. ... The main page of . ... Microsoft Exchange Server is a collaborative software server from Microsoft, positioned as a rival to the Lotus Notes / Domino server from IBM and recently challenged by a number of Linux-based competitors such as Scalix. ...

Mail integrates with other Apple applications such as Address Book and iCal. Some of its features include rules for mailboxes, junk mail filtering and multiple account management. Messages are stored in the Mbox mail format in this release (the requirements of Spotlight mean Mail.app for Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger uses a proprietary message storage system). An address book or a name and address book (NAB) is a book or a collection of data storing contact details (for example: address, telephone number, e-mail address, fax number, mobile phone number). ... The correct title of this article is iCal. ... Mbox is the name for several different things, including an electronic mail file format. ...

Version 2 of Mail was released with Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" on April 29, 2005. Some of the new features include: Mac OS X version 10. ... April 29 is the 119th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (120th in leap years). ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

• "Smart mailboxes" using Spotlight technology to sort mail into folders.
• The ability to flag messages with a low, normal or high priority and to use these priorities in mail rules and smart mailboxes.
• Tools for resizing photos before they are sent (to avoid too-big e-mail attachments).
• The ability to view e-mailed pictures as a full-screen slideshow.
• Parental controls to specify who is allowed to send e-mail to children.
• HTML message composition.

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See also

• List of email clients
• Comparison of email clients

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External links

• Apple: Mail