- Quit Mail
- Open Terminal
- Type or paste this text into Terminal: defaults write com.apple.mail UserHeaders '{"X-Priority"="3";}', and then hit Return
- Quit Terminal
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It seems that emails sent from Mail.app are not being received by Hotmail/MSN accounts, ostensibly due to the way headers are formatted in Mail. There are workarounds (CC'ing yourself, or setting the Priority of the message to Low or High), but the easiest solution seems to be this one (from this thread in Apple Discussions)
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Tweak Mail to always send to Hotmail/MSN accounts
Or, just send them a Gmail invite.
Tweak Mail to always send to Hotmail/MSN accounts
Testing indicates Hotmail may have fixed this, or that Apple have with 10.4.3 and that this is no longer an issue. Still worth using the hint if you have important mail to send however.
Tweak Mail to always send to Hotmail/MSN accounts
Testing indicates Hotmail may have fixed this, or that Apple have with 10.4.3I made my tests with 10.4.3 and the problem exists.
Tweak Mail to always send to Hotmail/MSN accounts
This seems like a common sense fix that everyone should make.
Tweak Mail to always send to Hotmail/MSN accounts
why on earth can't the standard five years old mail app from the worlds second biggest os developer not speak with the world leading webmail service from the worlds biggest software company? how come that it should be any problems at all? when was email invented? the seventies?
Tweak Mail to always send to Hotmail/MSN accounts
To be fair, lots of email programs don't set the Priority Level.
Tweak Mail to always send to Hotmail/MSN accounts
This problem is news to me.... I send myself several messages everyday from my max using Mail.app to my msn account (and have been since i bought my PB in May), and I never had any problems at all.
Tweak Mail to always send to Hotmail/MSN accounts
I have also send email to hotmail without problems (that I know of) and has newer use priority in Mail (strange enough as I sometimes uses priority in Entourage :) )
Tweak Mail to always send to Hotmail/MSN accounts
Hummm weird....
Appreciation
I want to give public thanks to you, gxw, for posting this solution. I am a computer consultant and I have a client who has been having this exact problem for a while. It's been killing me (and driving her NUTS). I had tried fixing permissions, we thought it might be a problem with her email server (the system admin was having trouble believing it, though). I just sent an email having run this fix so we'll see if this does it. Thank you! |
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