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| Developer(s) | Apple Inc. |
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| Engines | WebKit, Nitro |
| Included with | macOS, iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, and visionOS |
| Available in | 33 languages[1] |
List of languages English, Arabic, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese | |
| Type | Email client |
| License | Proprietary software |
| Website | support |
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Mail is an email client included by Apple Inc. with its operating systems macOS, iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, and visionOS. Mail grew out of NeXTMail, which was originally developed by NeXT as part of its NeXTSTEP operating system, after Apple's acquisition of NeXT in 1997.
The current version of Mail utilizes SMTP for message sending, POP3, Exchange and IMAP for message retrieval and S/MIME for end-to-end message encryption.[2][3] It is also preconfigured to work with popular email providers, such as Yahoo! Mail, AOL Mail, Gmail, Outlook and iCloud (formerly MobileMe) and it supports Exchange.[4] iOS features a mobile version of Mail with added Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) support, though it notoriously missed the functionality of attaching files to reply emails until the release of iOS 9.[5] EAS is not supported in the macOS version of Apple's Mail app, the main issue being that sent messages will incorrectly be duplicated in the sent messages folder, which then propagates via sync to all other devices including iOS.
Features of Mail include the ability to configure the software to receive all of a user's email accounts in the one list, ability to file emails into folders, ability to search for emails, and ability to automatically append signatures to outgoing emails. It also integrates with the Contacts list, Calendar, Maps and other apps.
- ^ "Mail". App Store. 9 December 2022. Archived from the original on 28 March 2023. Retrieved 24 April 2023.
- ^ "Mac OS X 10.3: Mail - How to Use a Secure Email Signing Certificate (Digital ID)". support.apple.com. Archived from the original on January 28, 2015. Retrieved March 17, 2018.
- ^ "Use S/MIME to send encrypted messages in an Exchange environment in iOS". apple.com. Retrieved March 17, 2018.
- ^ "Use your Internet accounts on Mac". Apple Support. Archived from the original on 2023-03-26. Retrieved 2023-03-26.
- ^ Clover, Juli (June 8, 2015). "iOS 9 Tidbits: Battery Saving Features, Search for Settings, Keyboard Changes, Email Attachments, and More". MacRumors. Archived from the original on June 20, 2015. Retrieved June 19, 2015.