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CHAPTER 15 .MAC
NOTE You can also view your account details, and even upgrade or renew your .Mac account,
from the Account tab in the .Mac panel of System Preferences.
.Mac E-mail
In its humble beginnings, .Mac was thought of primarily as an e-mail service, and today it’s still
known for this. What’s particularly nice about .Mac’s e-mail is that it’s convenient and easy to
use from any computer with Internet access and a web browser.
Obviously, from your computer you can access .Mac mail in Mail (in fact when you enter
your .Mac information into your account information, it gets added and set up automatically).
If, however, you don’t have access to your computer, you can view all your messages in a web
browser in an interface similar to the Mail application (Figure 15-1).
Figure 15-1. .Mac web mail looks and acts very much like the Mail app on your computer.
Besides making your .Mac mail available from a web interface, .Mac mail provides lots of
options when you click the Preferences link at the top right of the web mail interface (Figure 15-2).
The General, Viewing, and Composing tabs in the .Mac web mail preferences generally
allow you to set options that affect how the web mail interface looks and operates. The Aliases
and Other tabs, however, provide some nice extra features.
NOTE If you access your .Mac account from the Mail app and enable junk mail filtering in the
.Mac web mail preferences, then you should also select the “Store junk mail messages on the
server” option under the .Mac mail account options in the Mail app. This will ensure that your
junk mail is in sync between your web mail and the Mail application.