Geeky Info

As I am switching (as part of my living with google attempt), from mail to gmail, this little trick of using mail tags and the redirect function in apple mail to get my emails into gmail.

“One nice thing about Mail is the Redirect feature, which lets you forward mail to a particular address so that it does not appear to have been forwarded from you. The final recipient sees the message just as you did when it arrived in your inbox.

One annoying thing about Mail’s Redirect feature is that it cannot be used on more than one message at a time. You can’t select, say, the entire contents of one mailbox and tell Mail to redirect all those messages to your Gmail account. If you select more than one message, the Redirect menu item is unusable.

For people with the urge to adopt Gmail as their main email client, and shift their mail archives from Mail to Gmail in one fell swoop, this could be more than just annoying; it could be the deal-breaker that prevents them moving at all.

So be thankful for Mail Act-On, because this handy little Mail utility lets you do perform a simple redirect command for as many messages as you wish, with just a few keystrokes. I recently used it to move several months’ worth of email over to my Gmail account, and it worked like a charm. ”

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