Like most tricks, I stumbled upon this by accident. If you just want to reply or forward a selected portion of an email in Mail, just drag to highlight the portion of the email and click reply or forward. Comes in handy for those long threads.
Watch the video demo
If you create a new message in Mail, and do Alt (options) + Command + I, then whatever message is selected in mail box list will appear in your compose window as if you are forwarding it.
If you are using Safari, and a webpage has an RSS feed, you can click on the little icon in the address bar, right before the URL, and drag it to the sidebar in Mail, under the RSS locations. Mail will capture the feed for you and do all the syncing.
Ethan
If you haven’t tried the new “stationary” features of mail.app then you could be living in a cave (a cave that has no Mac with Leopard installed, hehe).
Here’s a neat stationary add-on called “Photo Cluster”. Here’s the “about” info as taken from the authors site:”
Photo Cluster is a Mail stationary I designed as a test of the drag-and-drop image wells embedded into some of the included stationaries.”
Get the info and the download at Pete’s site - http://pz2.ucls.uchicago.edu/photoCluster/
Not sure if this is obvious or not (or if it was already possible in 10.4 for that matter)…
To manually mark a message with any colour in your inbox or other mailbox, just select it, press shift+command+c to bring up the colour menu and select the colour of your choice!
Very convenient to visually group messages in different categories!
I wrote about Stationary in Mail here which discusses the new stationary feature in mail, and today ran into something interesting by mistake. If you click on the stationary template icon, the template in the compose window will change background colour. I don’t think it works for all stationary/themes however.
While the new data mining in Leopard is very very cool, many have overlooked a feature that I have been using for ages. “Add to Address Book” has been a very handy feature that has been improved in Leopard. It used to be that if you used this feature it would happen in the background and if you wanted to add any further details you had to open Address Book and search for your contact to add more details. Now this is the very first thing that Leopard does for you when you choose ‘Add to Address Book’. The birthday field has also been improved. It is the little things in Leopard that make it so great.
