All,

I am somewhat unfamiliar with using the eMail client that came with my
G5. Here are some questions where I could use your help.

I am most familiar with using the Microsoft Outlook client. With this
client I can easily move eMail messages into and out of Microsoft
Outlook. For example, I can easily take an eMail and move it out of
Outlook and store it in other locations such as MyDirectory, PST files,
discs, etc. I do not appear to be able to do similar things with
eMails contained within the Macintosh eMail client. For example, I am
not able to drag an eMail out of the Mac eMail and into one of the
folders located in the Finder.

Question: Is it possible to move by dragging (or otherwise) eMails
into or out of the Mac eMail client. Or, are all eMails basically
"stuck" there.

Many thanks for your help.

PLB wrote:

> All,
>
> I am somewhat unfamiliar with using the eMail client that came with my
> G5. Here are some questions where I could use your help.
>
> I am most familiar with using the Microsoft Outlook client. With this
> client I can easily move eMail messages into and out of Microsoft
> Outlook. For example, I can easily take an eMail and move it out of
> Outlook and store it in other locations such as MyDirectory, PST files,
> discs, etc. I do not appear to be able to do similar things with
> eMails contained within the Macintosh eMail client. For example, I am
> not able to drag an eMail out of the Mac eMail and into one of the
> folders located in the Finder.
>
> Question: Is it possible to move by dragging (or otherwise) eMails
> into or out of the Mac eMail client. Or, are all eMails basically
> "stuck" there.
>
> Many thanks for your help.
>
Double-click the message so it opens in it's own window, then select
file/save-as from the top menubar and save it wherever you want and
choose the format (text, rtf,).
I never use that client, btw. It's lame.
Mozilla (www.mozilla.org) is my choice.
GW

In article <1111631583.495029.96290@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups. com>,
"PLB" <sbrizz@cox.net> wrote:

> All,
>
> I am somewhat unfamiliar with using the eMail client that came with my
> G5. Here are some questions where I could use your help.
>
> I am most familiar with using the Microsoft Outlook client. With this
> client I can easily move eMail messages into and out of Microsoft
> Outlook. For example, I can easily take an eMail and move it out of
> Outlook and store it in other locations such as MyDirectory, PST files,
> discs, etc. I do not appear to be able to do similar things with
> eMails contained within the Macintosh eMail client. For example, I am
> not able to drag an eMail out of the Mac eMail and into one of the
> folders located in the Finder.
>
> Question: Is it possible to move by dragging (or otherwise) eMails
> into or out of the Mac eMail client. Or, are all eMails basically
> "stuck" there.
>
> Many thanks for your help.

You can just highlight the message, and do File>>Save As, then select
the place and file format where you want it saved.

You can also cut and paste text between Mail and other applications.

Bill

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To send e-mail, remove .invalid

Many thanks for the advice - it works. One associated question.
Sometimes I like to do the opposite; by that I mean moving other files
INTO the eMail client. That is, I take data from non-eMail files and
move them into the eMail client's database. For example, in the
Microsoft world I take files out of MyDirectory and move them into
Outlook.

Can I do something similar in my G5. For example, move something our
of the Finder and into the eMail?

Thanks,


B Collins wrote:
> In article <1111631583.495029.96290@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups. com>,
> "PLB" <sbrizz@cox.net> wrote:
>
> > All,
> >
> > I am somewhat unfamiliar with using the eMail client that came with
my
> > G5. Here are some questions where I could use your help.
> >
> > I am most familiar with using the Microsoft Outlook client. With
this
> > client I can easily move eMail messages into and out of Microsoft
> > Outlook. For example, I can easily take an eMail and move it out
of
> > Outlook and store it in other locations such as MyDirectory, PST
files,
> > discs, etc. I do not appear to be able to do similar things with
> > eMails contained within the Macintosh eMail client. For example, I
am
> > not able to drag an eMail out of the Mac eMail and into one of the
> > folders located in the Finder.
> >
> > Question: Is it possible to move by dragging (or otherwise) eMails
> > into or out of the Mac eMail client. Or, are all eMails basically
> > "stuck" there.
> >
> > Many thanks for your help.
>
> You can just highlight the message, and do File>>Save As, then select

> the place and file format where you want it saved.
>
> You can also cut and paste text between Mail and other applications.
>
> Bill
>
> --
> To send e-mail, remove .invalid

I don't think you can to that directly. You can of course attach any
file from the Finder onto an email message, and then file that in the
email database.

You can also copy and paste text from another file to the body of an
email message.

Bill

In article <1111713987.460245.279830@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups .com>,
"PLB" <sbrizz@cox.net> wrote:

> Many thanks for the advice - it works. One associated question.
> Sometimes I like to do the opposite; by that I mean moving other files
> INTO the eMail client. That is, I take data from non-eMail files and
> move them into the eMail client's database. For example, in the
> Microsoft world I take files out of MyDirectory and move them into
> Outlook.
>
> Can I do something similar in my G5. For example, move something our
> of the Finder and into the eMail?
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> B Collins wrote:
> > In article <1111631583.495029.96290@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups. com>,
> > "PLB" <sbrizz@cox.net> wrote:
> >
> > > All,
> > >
> > > I am somewhat unfamiliar with using the eMail client that came with
> my
> > > G5. Here are some questions where I could use your help.
> > >
> > > I am most familiar with using the Microsoft Outlook client. With
> this
> > > client I can easily move eMail messages into and out of Microsoft
> > > Outlook. For example, I can easily take an eMail and move it out
> of
> > > Outlook and store it in other locations such as MyDirectory, PST
> files,
> > > discs, etc. I do not appear to be able to do similar things with
> > > eMails contained within the Macintosh eMail client. For example, I
> am
> > > not able to drag an eMail out of the Mac eMail and into one of the
> > > folders located in the Finder.
> > >
> > > Question: Is it possible to move by dragging (or otherwise) eMails
> > > into or out of the Mac eMail client. Or, are all eMails basically
> > > "stuck" there.
> > >
> > > Many thanks for your help.
> >
> > You can just highlight the message, and do File>>Save As, then select
>
> > the place and file format where you want it saved.
> >
> > You can also cut and paste text between Mail and other applications.
> >
> > Bill
> >
> > --
> > To send e-mail, remove .invalid

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To send e-mail, remove .invalid

In article <1Oq0e.53458$xX3.8240@twister.socal.rr.com>,
Geoff Welsh <geoffdubya@some.rr.com> wrote:

> Double-click the message so it opens in it's own window, then select
> file/save-as from the top menubar and save it wherever you want and
> choose the format (text, rtf,).
> I never use that client, btw. It's lame.
> Mozilla (www.mozilla.org) is my choice.
> GW

I think Mail is far and away the best email client for mac. In fact, I
like it better than any other client on any other platform that I've
used. It leaves a lot to be desired, but its also relatively young. I
most like the fact that its fully Cocoa, which makes it real fast and
allows it to integrate well with other features like Address Book and
Safari. All of the Mozilla stuff that I have tried is good, but its
always real slow on the Mac. On windows, however, that stuff can't be
beat.

Not to be argumentative, I just think alternative viewpoints are a good
thing.

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