Tweak Mail to always send to Hotmail/MSN accounts

Nov 02, '05 05:27:00AM

Contributed by: windrag

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)

  1. Quit Mail
  2. Open Terminal
  3. Type or paste this text into Terminal: defaults write com.apple.mail UserHeaders '{"X-Priority"="3";}', and then hit Return
  4. Quit Terminal
When you relaunch Mail, you should be able to send away to your friends on Hotmail/MSN.

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