Simply select the mailbox or folder, control(right)-click it and choose “Archive Mailbox…” Mail will make a quick backup copy of your messages to a location of your choice.
Looks like Mail is finally shaping up into a slick tool.
Pop open the Utilities folder and you’ll find Address Book’s new kid brother, an Apple application called Directory that was slipped into Leopard.
When you’re running your computer on a network that has an Apple OS X server, this little app automatically pulls up a list of all the Users and Groups in the Open Directory tree. It’s the new front end for shared contacts and resources on the network. Why this wasn’t simply integrated into Address Book is puzzling.
Here’s Apple’s description of its functions (most of which sound suspiciously things that Address Book should be doing):
Users whose computers have Mac OS X v10.5 and are bound to a Mac OS X server can use Directory to view shared information about people, groups, locations, and resources. They can use Directory to share contacts, set up group services, and manage their own contact information in a server’s directory.
Seems like Apple might have had competing product teams working on Directory and Address Book and as usual the business-focused product looks unfinished.
Directory is a basic front-end to Open Directory: of two preferences available in the application one is whether you want to display a person’s name as First Last, Last First or Last, First; and the other is what type of authentication you want to use.
Perhaps Directory will grow up into a beautiful swan of an application and replace the tired Address Book. It does have a nice Kinko’s meets Facebook icon and that’s a good start.
Have you ever stared at Apple’s Mail program and wondered whether your email was actually sending or stuck in the outbox? Or wondered if the downloading of a huge attachment was causing your incoming mail just slowing to a crawl?
Arriving about three years late, with the Leopard 10.5 release Apple has finally included an always-visible progress bar in it’s Mail program. It’s time to say good riddance to the stupid Activity Viewer window (and its stop sign-shaped cancel buttons) that would always seem to be hidden when you wanted to see what was happening with your mail.