Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Tiger Edition

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Tip: If you highlight some text before clicking Reply, Mail pastes only that portion of the original message

into your reply. That’s a great convenience to your correspondent, who now knows exactly which part of the

message you’re responding to.

At this point, you can add or delete recipients, edit the Subject line or the original

message, attach a file, and so on.

When you’re finished, click Send. (If you click Reply to All in the message window’s

toolbar, your message goes to everyone who received the original note, even if you

began the reply process by clicking Reply. Mac OS X, in other words, gives you a

second chance to address your reply to everyone.)

Forwarding Messages

To pass the note on to a third person, click the Forward toolbar button (or choose

MessageÆForward, or press Shift-c-F). A new message opens, looking a lot like the

one that appears when you reply. You may wish to precede the original message with

a comment of your own, along the lines of, “Frank: I thought you’d be interested in

this joke about Congress.”

Finally, address it as you would any outgoing piece of mail.

Redirecting Messages

Here’s a handy feature you probably never encountered in Windows: redirecting a

message.

It’s similar to forwarding a message, with one extremely useful difference. When you

forward a message, your recipient sees that it came from you. ...