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Enjoying Your Mac’s Email AgainĪfter your Mac boots back up and you get logged in, open Mail.app. Close Mail.app completely one final time. Once again, hold Shift and click on Mail.app. Once it’s fully launched, close Mail.app completely again. Now, hold the Shift key (either one will do) and click on Mail. What you’re going to do is completely reset Mail.app to its defaults. Nevertheless, when you’re dealing with broken email search, this could be your last resort. This next method is a bit more destructive to how you have Mail.app set up, but it might be your only hope if reindexing Spotlight didn’t do the trick.
Hopefully, this will have solved your issue with searching Mail. Now, restart your Mac and then reopen Mail.app. You’ll see some Envelope Index files drag them to the Trash, then empty the Trash. From Finder > Go to folder, enter ~Library/Mail/V7/MailData or ~/Library/Mail/V8/MailData. On macOS Big Sur, it will be ~/Library/Mail/V8/MailData. Next, you need to clear the Mail.app indexes in ~/Library/Mail/V7/MailDatafor macOS Catalina. To verify indexing is turned on again, just do sudo mdutil -s a second time. We’ll restart Spotlight indexing like this: To stop and flush the indexes, enter the command sudo mdutil -i off -E. When you open a PM task and open the associated email message, it will open in Outlook and not Apple Mail.Quit Mail.app, then open Terminal.app. msg files, without asking every time.Īt this point, Microsoft Outlook should be your default email provider for composing new emails, and also for opening preexisting messages. Also, if you’re using Google Chrome as your default web browser, you can tell it to automatically open your. msg extension, which is proprietary to Microsoft Outlook. eml files, are opened via Outlookĭepending on your system, you may want to also repeat the steps above for the.
Download the email message, so it appears on your Desktop or Downloads folder.
So, you understand how to drag and drop emails from Outlook, and even create them as Priority Matrix tasks. Setting Outlook as the default app to open email files Once you do that, the next time you open a mailto link like the one above, it should open Outlook automatically.
For Mac and Windows, Postbox works with any IMAP or POP account, including Gmail, iCloud, Office 365, and more. If you want to use Outlook as the email app on your macOS computer, so that when you click on an email address like it opens Outlook automatically, you need to configure it first. This well-received email app has been designed for professionals, but anyone with more than one email account should consider using it.