Take Control of MailMaven

Learn to love email again!
Version 1.0, published October 19, 2025

Discover MailMaven, a powerful new email app for Mac. This book shows you the app's inner workings and how you can use its unique tools to manage your email more quickly and efficiently. You'll improve your organization, automate numerous email actions, find messages quickly, and express yourself more clearly. Any Mac user who relies heavily on email but feels limited by other email apps will benefit from MailMaven and this book!

MailMaven from SmallCubed is the email app many Mac users have been waiting for. It does all the things you expect of a full-featured email client but goes way beyond simple tools like Apple Mail, Microsoft Outlook, and Thunderbird (to say nothing of web-based email apps). With MailMaven, you once again have complete control over your email, with a deeply customizable interface and a long list of power-user features wrapped up in a friendly, easy-to-understand interface. (Plus, it's powered by human intelligence—no AI here!)

Take Control publisher Joe Kissell, who previously wrote several books about Apple Mail but has felt increasingly frustrated by its deficiencies, has been working with the SmallCubed team for several years as they developed MailMaven—offering design input, feedback, and countless hours of testing to help turn it in to the email app of his dreams. This task-oriented book reflects both his affection for the app and his deep understanding of its inner workings.

MailMaven isn't free, but thanks to the generous sponsorship of SmallCubed, this book is! It picks up where the app's own documentation (which Joe also wrote) leaves off, helping you make the most of the app's seemingly endless array of options. You'll learn about things like:

• Finding your way around the app and learning its user interface
• Using extensive tagging tools (including keywords, review dates, projects, background colors, and more) to mark and later locate messages
• Syncing tags across multiple Macs
• Creating and using smart mailboxes
• Incorporating rules into your workflow for both incoming and outgoing messages, plus on-demand keystroke rules
• Working with templates to provide boilerplate text, automatically updating variables, and more
• Customizing your signature in ways you never imagined
• How to migrate from Apple Mail
• Connecting MailMaven to your IMAP, iCloud, Gmail, Exchange/Outlook, Yahoo, and AOL accounts
• Importing and exporting messages and mailboxes
• Keeping junk mail out of your inbox
• Using delivery options to specify exactly when messages should be sent
• Customizing MailMaven in dozens of different ways
• Using advanced search tools to locate messages quickly

If you've been searching for a great alternative to your current Mac email app, MailMaven may be just what you need. This book helps you get up to speed quickly.