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After almost two years using the Apple Mail on regular basis (I got it running the whole time), I have some tips for everyone to make this Mac OS's built-in email client more fun, effective and productive to use.

Thread View

If you don't like to delete any email (I'm with you, I love to keep it all for the future reference), than most likely you will have the cumbersome long list of emails. It's beginning to be very difficult to track the conversation from the correspondence each and every day.
Then you beginning to love GMail's "thread view" and wondering "Why my Apple Mail can't be like this?". Be strong brothers & sisters, Mail won't disappoint you! You can have the GMail way in your Mail. It's a bit hidden and waits you to enable it. Here you go:

Multi Column

Even if you already have the thread view, those emails are still difficult to navigate. If you felt so and if you're lucky enough to have the recent Macs that comes with the widescreen LCD, it's a good idea to have Aaron Harnly's Letterbox or Dane Harnett's WideMail Mail plugin (I'm using Aaron's). It will make your Mail go 3 columns and it's definitely easier to navigate. Here's the before & after shots:

Multi Sender

You can have multi email address profile in just 1 Mail account. It's not existed in the Help manual yet, I found this last year while Googling for the good solution and surprised that it's very simple actually.
Since Apple Mail is not good with the SPAM filtering (damn those SPAM emails!), I pool all of my email accounts to GMail to use its tough SPAM filter. Then, I just retrieve it using Mail. Since GMail's disk limit is huge, it's also a very good idea to not delete those retrieved emails for future reference. (pros always back things up) :o

So, Basically you just have to put the email addresses separated with the coma. Here's how:

That's all for now. Feel free to share any other Mail power tweak tips you might have.

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