
What's New in Signal
This page tells you about some of the many new features in Mail. To learn more about how to set up, send and receive email, and solve problems, click the Home button above to take you to the main access page for Signal Help.
Dramatically improved searching |
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Mail incorporates Spotlight, the new search technology in Mac OS X Tiger. Spotlight is fast, simple, and easy to use. Searches begin as soon as you begin to type, and options for refining your search appear automatically. Spotlight is also integrated with Mail's new Smart Mailboxes, so you can save your most frequent searches for instant access. |
Smart Mailboxes |
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Smart Mailboxes work with Spotlight to provide instant and up-to-date results of searches you've previously defined. You create a Smart Mailbox by saving a useful search of your mailboxes. Later, when you click the Smart Mailbox, Mail displays the results of your previous search, but updated to include any new messages that fit the search criteria. Smart Mailboxes provide a powerful way to help you organize your mail by allowing you to "arrange" your messages by sender, subject, date, and content—all at the same time. |
Photo slideshow |
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When you receive pictures in a message, instead of scrolling through the pictures in your message, click the Slideshow button to have Mail display the photos full screen, one at a time. Use the slidehow controls to display all the pictures at once—à la Exposé—and click another button to send your favorites directly to iPhoto. |
Parental controls |
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Use Parental Controls in the Accounts pane of System Preferences to control who users correspond with. Set up a list of approved addresses. Mail alerts you if the user receives a message or tries to send a message to anyone not on the list. |
.Mac synchronization |
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With a .Mac membership, you can synchronize your accounts, and rules, signatures, and Smart Mailboxes across all of your Mac OS X Tiger computers. |
Additional new features |
Mail has a new clean look, and the mail viewer window now has an integrated mailboxes list. There are lots more new features. Here are just some of them:
Click the links below to learn how to use these new features.
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