What is Apple Mail?

Apple Mail officially known as Mail is an email client provided by Apple Inc. for Mac operating system. It is also referred as Mac Mail. It comes with every Mac OS, iOS, and watch OS. The application is very simple to use with its simplified interface and free to use.

Apple Mail originally developed as NeXTMail by NeXT as a part of its NeXTSTEP operating system. It was acquired by Apple in 1997.

File format used by Apple Mail

Apple Mail or Mail.app stores its data files in MBOXand EMLfile formats.

Common issues with Apple Mail

1. Stop receiving new emails

Apple Mail sometimes stops receiving new emails. This happens because users have not verified that they are receiving new mail via email client, webmail or via phone. To resolve this issue, below are the steps –

Go to mailbox section in Apple Mail
Choose all accounts offline and wait for 10 seconds.
Then select Choose all accounts online and refresh your mail application

2. Not sending or receiving emails

The mailbox is continuously spinning and the emails are not coming or going. This means IMAP setting is not synchronized properly. To resolve this issue, follow the steps –

Close Mail.app
Go to /Users/your profile/Library/Mail/IMAP-account_concerned
Delete hidden folder. Offline cache
Restart Mail.app

3. Sent messages not saved

This type of error occurs when using IMAP configuration. For resolving this issue, please ensure that the user account is configured properly in Mail.app

Generally Asked Questions

Q – How to assure my emails in Mail are backed up?

A – Mac OS X comes with an inbuilt feature Time machine that will backup the entire machine including emails in Mail.

Q – Apple Mail is repeatedly asking for the password. How to stop it?

A – Various issues arise the problem. For this, verify your settings and if still, the issue exists, then you need to reset the password of your email address within (mt) AccountCenter, and provide a new Mail password.

Q – Mail states it can’t “verify certificate”. What is the meaning of it?

A – This occurs because you are set to use a secure SSL connection, which is a good thing. In order to use a SSL connection, you must set Incoming and Outgoing Mail Server to be your access domain.

Q – Sent emails are not appearing in Sent Folder. What is the reason behind it?

A – When using IMAP, we recommend for the Grid, Mail requires to provide a specific folder for saving sent messages. For this, configure sent folder in Mail app using the below-mentioned steps –

Click and highlight Sent folder for your account
Go to Mailbox menu
Choose “Use this mailbox for”
Choose “Sent”

This will help users to configure Apple Mail to save new outgoing emails to the sent folder for your account. If you want to see already sent emails in this folder, just drag them to the Sent Folder listed under your account.

Summary

All the basic information about Apple Mail client is provided to users with the help of this useful blog including what is Apple Mail, file formats used by it, and the main problems which users face with Apple Mail client.