10.7: Mac Mail - Get the Outbox back

Nov 18, '11 07:30:00AM

Contributed by: Anonymous

Newer versions of Mail, by default, don't show your Outbox in your folder list. Even if you go offline and then compose a new email and hit Send, you will still not see an Outbox (some users note that their Outbox will show up temporarily, but will be gone after restarting Mail). Many of us are very particular about email delivery and want to know if we have messages waiting to go out.

Searching around reveals a few articles and such, but most are very old (circa 2007) and not relevant to the newer version(s) of Mail in OS X Lion. The trick to getting the Outbox to stay permanently is to add it to your Favorites bar. But before you do that, you have to be able to see it. Here's how:

To clean up afterwards, first go your Outbox and delete the test email sitting in your Outbox
[crarko adds: I tested this (in 10.7.2), and it works as described.]

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