 The Mac Observers' Mac Geekab, episode 755 for Monday, April 1st, 2019. These folks, and welcome to the Mac Observers' Mac Geekab, the show where we take all your questions, all your tips, all your cool stuff found. We sort through it. We pick the best. We pick the ones that are going to fit, and then we put them all together into an agenda. And then we answer your questions. We answer your tips. We answer your cool stuff. It's like car talk for Apple users, if that makes sense. And really, the goal is that each and every one of us learns at least how many? You right. That's right. Five new things every single time we get together. No fooling. That's right. Five new things. Sponsors for this episode include PDFPenetSmileSoftware.com slash podcast keeps at Keeps.com slash MGG, Eero at Eero.com slash MGG, check out coupon code MGG2, and LinkedIn.com slash MGG. We'll talk about all those in a moment here. Here in Durham, New Hampshire, springy, warm, 60-degree Durham, New Hampshire, at least while we're recording this, I'm Dave Hamilton. And here in equally almost springy, though it's only in the 50s, though I think it will move to the 60s soon. Here in Fairfield, Connecticut, this is John F. Braun. How goes it today, Mr. John F. Braun? That was a rough week, man, especially if you use email. It's true. It's true. I want to talk about that. I just want to let everybody know. I have a spring speaking fling going on here. Let's see. I have three speaking events coming up in the next, let's say 15 days. So on Wednesday of this week, when the show comes out, Wednesday, April 3rd, I'm speaking about Wi-Fi at Mac Tech Pro in Boston. That is a for-pay event, but we have a deal for you because I told you we would have deals for you. You get $20 off the lowest price that they would offer so you can get any Mac Tech Pro, not just this week's Boston event, but any Mac Tech Pro event with our special link that will be on macgeekiep.com and the show notes for just $279. So that'll be fun. And then two freebies, a week from Tuesday. So Tuesday the 9th, I'm speaking in Princeton, New Jersey at PMUG for their Apple user group. And then that's in the evening. And then on Saturday the 13th of April, I will be speaking, Skyping in, but speaking at the suburban Chicago Mac users group, talking about mesh Wi-Fi there. I'm actually not sure what I'm talking about in Princeton yet. I think I'm going to do backups though. I think that's going to be a good one. So there you go. My spring speaking fling if there's, you know, there you go. But yes, John, you certainly hit the nail on the head. It was interesting, right? Because as listeners, at least in the last few weeks, no, we were planning on talking about email workflows today and then on Monday, Apple released macOS Mojave 10.14.4 and everything on Monday was pretty hunky-dory for all of us. And then on Tuesday, things went sideways. If you were using a Google suite, like a custom domain email account with Gmail, and for some people, some Gmail accounts, but I think mostly this impacted Google suite accounts, but not all of them. And the issue was that macOS Mojave 10.14.4 with mail uses a different authentication method for these, it does not just log in with username and password like it used to. It does a whole Google OAuth thing, or at least it didn't used to do this for me. Maybe it did it for some of you, but where you're brought to a web page, you sign into your Google account and then it passes a token back to mail and mail says, cool, I can log in and now get your email again, except that token never got passed back. And so mail kept saying, I can't log in. Sure enough, you couldn't get email if you had to use the web. And so things sort of blew up. People talked, we all kind of came up with some solutions. One of them that worked for me was creating a new email account and using just IMAP. So essentially doing it the old way where you are logging in with username and password, right? And then someone else on Thursday or Friday came up with a solution that got really interesting because it used a piece of software called Charles. And Charles is a proxy that the best way I can explain it is it's you, when you install it and run it on your Mac and give it permission. So it's not doing any of this stuff without, you know, without your permission, but it sits in the middle of your connections, including encrypted connections because you give it a certificate and you approve this certificate. It's sort of a fake certificate, but it allows you to see the contents of these and even manipulate and alter the results that come back from these. And so someone very savvy took Charles and watched what was happening with this Google connection, saw that there was a piece of information. I think it was the email address itself wasn't coming back. And they used, they came up with a simple little script to put into Charles to insert that back into the response. And then everything worked. So it essentially spoofed this by creating what I'll call an intentional man in the middle attack, right? A helpful man in the middle attack. And then and so folks started using that and that worked great. And then late on Friday night or early Saturday morning, depending on how you how you keep time, the problem just went away. And I did some research into this and found that on Tuesday, the G Suite team had published an announcement saying they were making some changes to the way their two factor authentication worked. But timing wise, that sure seems awfully coincidental. And then the fact that everyone just like it all started working magically Friday night, this tells me that this was this was a Gmail bug. Yeah, bug maybe. Yeah, I guess that's the right word or Google suite bug. It did creep up early, early in the betas of 10.14.4 back in January, but then got then got fixed. So everyone was sort of surprised to see this, you know, see this appear back again, but I think it was a perfect storm of timing. And so if you have not yet upgraded to 10.14.4, it is safe now from well, I was going to say it's safe from an email standpoint. That's certainly true, but I think it's it's safe anyway. And and there's some good reasons to update to 10.14.4. In addition to supporting news, plus it adds dark mode support to Safari, like automatic dark mode support to Safari. If a website like MacObserver.com, which was ready on release day. Has an alternate color scheme for people that are running dark mode. Safari will now employ that color scheme. So if you're visiting the web in dark mode, you don't just get these, you know, you'll still get some like bright white background pages, but for sites that that comply, you won't. And it's kind of nice. So that so that's there. It adds support for the new AirPods. So that's kind of important. It supports various other things. But, you know, includes the quality improves the quality of audio recordings and messages. And there was a, um, the USB audio issue that was happening with the MacBook Air, the MacBook Pro and the Mac mini models that were introduced, you know, in 2018, that USB audio problem is now fixed in there. So, so there's a lot of good things that there was also some email tweaks. And that's why initially I was shaking my fist at Apple. Cause they mentioned, I think they had something like, I forget what it was. It was, uh, it was an AOL password issue. Yes. Successive requests for, uh, for a password when it's like, well, you ready have it. Why do you need it again? Right. So initially I was ready to shake my fist at Apple that they screwed something up because now fortunately, Dave, and maybe they did. I mean, it's possible that the Google thing was coincidental. We have no, no, you know, behind the scenes confirmation on this, although again, you know, I'm pretty confident based on the evidence and the timeline that it is what we just explained, but yeah, yeah. I mean, the nice thing, here's why I think you were talking about backups. Here's the nice thing about making a backup because the, the initially, you know, I couldn't access. So, you know, both my TMO and Mac e-cab emails are through Gmail. Right. I couldn't access them on my updated system. But I had a 10.14.3 backup that I do every week. And so I was able to boot into that and everything was working great because as you pointed out, the, uh, authentic, they use a different okay, authentication method in the prior OS. That's right. That's right. Yeah. Yeah. So that's how I got around it. But then I also did the, you know, I created a generic IMAP account. That, that also worked for the most part. The only problem with doing the additional account, uh, it certainly worked as a workaround and I did it too, but it's a completely new account. As far as your Mac is concerned, if you sync your passwords with, uh, iCloud key chain, it will then sync that account to all your other Macs. It won't turn it on, uh, but it will be there. You can't delete the, uh, old account from what you could delete the old account from, from mail, but better to disable it because again, with iCloud key chain, that change propagates to all of your Macs. And sometimes iOS devices, that's one of those things where it's like, yes, sometimes, but not always. Uh, so, and, and then, you know, you're duplicating data, right? If you've got a, if you've got, you know, gigabytes of email on the, on an IMAP server, then when you add this new account, you have all the email that was already there on your Mac and then it's going to download a fresh copy of everything. The good news is that once, you know, once I got through all this and realized, oh, it's working the old way, great. And I deleted the new one. I watched it in the home library mail folder. I watched it delete all the old stuff or all the, you know, all the temporary stuff that I had added. So mail does tend to keep that folder cleaned up, although I found some old things in there on one of my machines. So that's another one of those folders, home library mail to go in and, and, uh, you know, check out. So anyway, the weird thing is that I didn't, I didn't get a notification in software update about the update. The reason I actually learned about the update Dave is that, um, when I tried to download server, so new version of server came out. Yep. It was like, uh, you're not on the latest OS. So, um, you can't do it. Yeah. What are you doing? And I'm like, huh, okay. So I manually downloaded the update. And that was, that was kind of weird to me is that on neither of my machines, did it show up in software update the 10.14.4? It doesn't show up there right away. Um, I've certainly seen that. And I, I don't know if that's like intentional, like, which it could be right that Apple wants to roll it out, you know, slowly for people. Because if you have automatic updates turned on, it's just going to go ahead and do it like overnight for you. So with, with the possibility of bugs like this, you know, it, it makes sense to do sort of a staged rollout, but, but yeah, I didn't, I didn't see it on mine until I launched, um, system preferences, software update. And, and then it went and looked and found it. And it was like, okay, yeah, you can have this now. So yeah, but I didn't get the notification either. I had to just go into software update and give it a minute and let it do that process where it, it, you know, it goes and looks. Oh, let's see what. So my mini, I downloaded, uh, I haven't updated my mini yet. I update my Mac pro. Yep. See, it does checking for updates and give it a minute and then usually it'll take in a while. Yep. Yep. Yep. Cause it's got to go through all the receipts and sort through it. Nope. It says, oh, no. Oh, that's weird. Okay. So first it said your machine is up to date and then the screen updated and it says, Oh, by the way, there's 10.14.4. Right. Were you? Yep. Yep. All right. Craziness. Craziness, craziness. Yeah. Yeah, you're right. And then there's a little checkbox here automatically, which yeah, I don't want to do that. Right. Right. I have it on my area of automatic software updates. Same. Any of my devices. I like to see what you guys are doing before I update. Same. Yeah. Yeah. I'm with you on that. All right. Uh, let's see. Let's see. So, but we, we, as promised, you know, we have been collecting and sifting through all of your email workflows that you've sent in. So I want to, I want to go ahead and talk through all of those to actually, because I think there's a, there's a great little story to tell here, but John, if I may first, I would love to tell everybody about our first two sponsors for today. Fantastic. All right. We'd like to thank PDF pen from smile. It's smile software.com slash podcast for sponsoring today's episode. PDF pen. Well, I mean, it's the ultimate tool for editing PDFs on your Mac, your iPhone and your iPad. 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First, I want to start and go through all of a few of the responses that just talk about sort of different workflows and different apps that people are using or different extensions that people are using and how that all works. And then, well, you know, then we've got some other stuff to share. So first we'll go with Ron. Ron says, I use mail exclusively personally, though I have outlook at my work. I do not keep all my emails, but what I keep, I store in iCloud mailboxes. He says, I use Mail Acton to help me organize my mailboxes. And I use SaneBox to make Sane Later and Sane News. He says, I have used Mail Steward for archiving, but I found the interface arcane and I rarely accessed it. So I stopped. He says, I have iCloud mailboxes for many things, but very important numbers and serial numbers, et cetera, are emailed then to Evernote as a second backup. So the things I want to focus on here are two things that are near and dear to my heart and probably not uncommon to anyone listening. And that's Mail Acton and SaneBox. So Mail Acton is a way to invoke rules with keystrokes. That's really the best way I can. It does more than that, but that's its main function in life. So let's say you want to you have several different archive mailboxes, like Ron talks about here with his iCloud things. He can create a rule that says take the highlighted message and send it to the receipts archive and another one that says take the highlighted message and send it to my medical archive or whatever, right? Or my car archive, whatever it's going to be. And then Mail Acton lets you assign those rules to keystrokes. So you can very quickly archive your mail or do things with your mail just by invoking something with the keyboard, you know, a quick little like, you know, control M for medical and boom, it's the archives that it puts it there. You can have because it's rules. You can have it marked as red or unread or flagged or not flagged or anything like that. So so that's Mail Acton. I also use Mail Acton to to do that, but also to delay my sends. So every email I send is on a two minute delay. Let me tell you how much that saves time and not time. Obviously it adds time, but saves my bacon often because I'll hit send and it'll be like, oh, I wanted to or oh, I shouldn't have or any of those things that two minute buffer, man, so nice. Sanebox watches your email as it comes in. Really, it watches your email all the time and it filters things. So he talked about Sane later and Sane News. These are automatic mailboxes that Sanebox creates on your iMap server and it works with Gmail. It's worked this week with Gmail too. So whatever happened there didn't mess with Sanebox because they didn't change their authentication path. Sanebox automatically notices things that are like newsletters and mailing lists and stuff and will put them in Sane News. It also finds things that are maybe things you're, you know, see seed on or other not super important things and moves those to Sane later so you can go through this stuff. But the good part is if you're going through Sane later or Sane News and you say, ooh, I want one of those that message. I always want these to come to my inbox. You just move it to your inbox. It notices you did that and it retrains itself for that specific message for you. So it starts with some group heuristics, but immediately you can train it to be very personalized to you and man, Sanebox is awesome. So it's one of those couldn't live without things for me. So any thoughts on that before I share Lauren's thing here, John? Well, toss in one. Yeah, program that I use to also solve this email thing. And that's spark. It's like, huh, OK. Never really used it before. I have it on one of my machines. I never really used it that much. But once this issue. Google issue came up, I'm like, huh, let me give it a try. And that was another way I tried to solve the problem was to use a different email client, sure, because it didn't have any issue with. Logging in for whatever reason. Right, it's still what it wasn't totally smooth, though, because, you know, for example, we have aliases. You know, my login is is not the address. That I use for one of our accounts and the signatures and stuff, you know, wasn't it that those didn't come over and stuff like that. So but at least I was able to see the emails. I was able to retrieve them. Sure. But I'd. I'd say, hey, you know, look at other email clients and then that's the way a lot of other people saw the email issue was was doing that spark is the one that that I have. Installed on one of my machines. Cool. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, that makes this issue may have encouraged people to explore alternate email clients. Seems like it wasn't although it wasn't Apple's fault. Probably not Apple's fault. I mean, you know, I don't think it was. I'll put an asterisk on that. But yeah, yeah. OK, so moving on to Lauren, who has sort of a different strategy. He says, greetings geeks. My dearly departed wife used to fastidiously work to keep her inbox empty. This seems a little bit retentive to me, says my gate swings the other way. Gmail taught me that I don't need to delete anything. I learned the benefits of Google remembers everything and searching to find what I need. He says, I now have more than half a dozen email addresses and they are all handled through Apple Mail. Keeping this wild collection in my inbox makes it very easy to find out if I ever received that email or to search for something in the past. So this is sort of the exact opposite of what Ron was just talking about with filtering and, you know, all of that stuff. He says, I have fit searching my previous orders on Amazon specifically because they have them categorized by year. I don't remember what year I ordered it. I just want to see it. The only problem I ever have is that mail can be sluggish presenting an email message after I select it. I assume at least part of the problem is the spinning hard drive in my mid 2012 MacBook Pro. Coincidentally, I have also been notified of deteriorating battery. But but there you go. So yeah, Lauren's inbox forever thing. He pointed out that he's got 178,000 messages in his inbox. And yeah, but there you go like that. He's he's not wrong that, you know, I used to be crazy anal. When we used you Dora back in the day, John, I had filed I had like a, you know, an archive for you, an archive for my wife, an archive for almost every person, certainly every client that I dealt with all of that stuff because I needed to be able to find those emails. And if I didn't pre sort them, the search functionality was very, very limited and wouldn't really, you know, find me what I needed and certainly not quickly. Obviously that's now changed. We've gotten much better with sorting sorting and searching. So so this one, the concept of one, I was going to say one archive, but but with Lauren, it's less than that. It's one email box. Like that's it. The email is all right there. So it's an interesting concept. Thoughts, John, hmm, yeah, it's one way to do it. It is. Yep. All right. Dan says, I'll describe my process, but I don't like it. So I'm eager to hear from other people. He says, I have three basic accounts that I managed. Two personal and one for a non-profit that he works with says, I have folders set up for various activities with an each account. My combined inbox usually contains many emails as I want quick access or as a reminder for me to do something when the inbox gets too big. I will move email from the inbox for that account to a folder called action needed iCloud or action needed Gmail. All this does is basically empty the inbox. Those those folders are still high on my priority list. I then use mail steward to archive emails for the past four years. I have a different archive for each year. I archive them to my local SSD. I then use carbon copy cloner to copy that archive to my drobo as a backup. At the end of the year, I create a new mail steward archive. I delete a lot of emails, especially in my sent folder for that year. I do this knowing that I can find them in a mail steward if I need to. I've also turned off the thread feature in mail because I found that some emails with the same subject but unrelated content would sometimes get put into a thread where it didn't belong. This caused confusion, which is why I have disabled it. I've been struggling with email management for a long time. I want the ability to find emails quickly without using up lots of gigabytes on my local SSD. So that's interesting, right? Because that's a that's a concern with email is it can take up a lot of space on your local drive. And and so using something like mail steward or perhaps some of the other methods that we're going to get into shortly here, you know, can alleviate that and off off load mail because you can't really point mail at, you know, two different places like you can say with photos or or whatever. So I kind of I like Dan's process, but I can see where it can be a little cumbersome. So maybe something else we'll talk about here will spark no pun intended, a change for Dan. So thoughts on any of that, Mr. Mr. Braun, before we share share, Mike here. Not at the moment. OK, all right. So Mike says I use Apple Mail and he says on my on my Mac, I have a few rules to set flags to email flag anything red that's related to billing or finance stuff. I use the yellow flag to highlight anything for my daughter's school or activities, and I flag orange. Anything that I need to keep track of for easy reference, usually for about a month. And then I flag gray in emails related to upcoming vacations or travel. Says I have mail up on the Mac set up with several smart mailboxes, one for each of the flagged emails. So this is an interesting thing, right? You can use smart mailboxes to find and and collate together emails that might not be in the same box, just because they have the same flag. And he says, as I pay bills, I or deal with my daughter's school or swim stuff or whatever. He says, I just unflagged the email and boom, it's gone from the smart mailbox. So this is an interesting. I've started using flags just in the last couple of months in a similar way. And this can be a handy thing. Says this works pretty well, except that mail sometimes gets confused and shows an email in the smart mailbox, even though it's no longer flagged. This can sometimes be challenging to straighten out, but mail seems to be getting better in this regard and usually fixes itself. I've seen that too. Smart mailboxes in general don't necessarily update in real time, but it's hard to hard to say what what it's doing. He says, as I received an email on my phone, I may flag it here, but here I wish that I could select which flag iOS only has flag or not flagged. You can't set colors of flags so it doesn't match. He says, it works. He says, these fall into my red group, which is a good thing, is this is the one group that gets most of my attention and I can then just re-categorize when I'm sitting on my Mac. And then once per year, he says, usually at the end of January, I'll create or update some of the smart mailboxes that filter all my unflagged email prior to January 1st of the new year. I'll export these to a new on my Mac mailbox with an encrypted sparse bundle. I'll verify that all the old received sent email was archived and then delete those to keep my active email boxes clean. So this is interesting. He exports it to a mail compatible mailbox and saves it into a sparse bundle. But then that could that sparse bundle could be saved on an external drive or, you know, if you have a network storage drive or something. So that's another way to kind of prune down your local mail library, which is interesting. So what do you think, Mr. Mr. John? Yeah, I use flags. OK, I bet I'm looking here and I actually have. So of course, an Apple mail in mailboxes, there will be one called flagged. And right now I see I have 118 things flagged for various reasons. And I use different colors and I'm sure my strategy of the colors makes sense right now. But I flag things of the reason being rather than searching, you know, far and wide. Sure. That email, it's just, you know, it's like, this is something I should pay attention to and, you know, not lose track of. Right. The interesting thing is that on iOS, I just looked at my phone here, is that flagged is not turned on by default, as far as I can tell, or at least not on my iPhone. So if you go to mail on iOS, here's a quick tip here, you're going to see your mailboxes. And, you know, I see all inboxes, Mac, e-cab, so on and so forth. But there's an edit button in the upper or an edit selection in the upper right hand corner. If you click on that, you're then going to see some additional categories that you can use. And oh, yeah, there's a lot of stuff here. But one of them is flagged. So by default on iOS, as far as I can tell, that is not enabled. So, right, if you want more options on iOS, hit that edit button when you're looking at mailboxes. Yeah, some of this looks useful. I'm glad you brought that up, man. Attachments flagged on red, two were seized. Yeah, that's a handy little thing, man. I like that. I had forgotten all about sort of customizing the way customizing the way and the order in which things appear. Because when you hit that edit button, well, there it is. OK. Yeah, when you hit that edit button, as John said, you can, you know, check or uncheck the boxes that you want. But then you also on the right side of that list, you can drag up and down to change the order in which they appear for you in mail. So if you've got stuff that you want to float to the top, well, float it to the top. That's pretty good, man. I'm thanks for bringing that up. That's great. Thomas, this is one of the I love these moments. It's like it's like we had the John F. Braun moment from John F. Braun. Thomas has like what I call the John F. Braun moment where you like you. You, my friend, have this knack for looking at things from a completely different perspective than than I ever would. And no, and like like with this, like I totally forgot about that thing in an iOS mail, like it happens all the time. It's great. Thomas has one of these things, I think. He says, like archive strategy, maybe is a little special, but it works for me. He says, first, I don't sort my mails anymore. I did this in the old days of Eudora. We all did says, which I used until about 2005. Now I just read them and mark them in one of my colors. If I have to do or don't forget them after a year, mostly in February, March, it seems like February, March. It's the time to archive the prior years, prior calendar years, email. I delete all irrelevant mails like newsletters and then create a new folder for each in and out box and move all the messages to this folder and close mail. Now I go to my library, my home folder, library folder, mail. Then you go into in Mojave V six and I see our V five, but you get a home library, mail V six. And then you've got to go into the folder for your mailbox and you might just have to check some of these arcanely named folders to find the the one for that particular, you know, on my Mac archive says, I then copy the newly created mailbox, which is just a folder here to another folder outside of the library. Then I open mail and I delete that mailbox. Mail is now much thinner. It does not contain the messages anymore. But if I search for a message, all I have to do is go to this archive folder and search it in the finder. And it'll show me the message. And if I want to, I just double click the message and it shows it to me in mail so I can reply or forward it to someone or something, but it's not living inside his mail archive. This is the brilliant part, right? So he's created a mail mailbox. It is totally compatible with mail, right? There's no worries about the developer, you know, going out of business or anything like that. I mean, I guess there is a worry about Apple going out of business, but, you know, slightly less so with them than than some, you know, indie developer that, you know, might or might not be in business in a year. And who knows? And it's just in the finder, they're all individual files because years ago, Apple moved mail from being in the the all like every mailbox with as one file, it moved it into this folder with with messages as as files format because that makes spotlight work better inside mail, but it also makes spotlight work better outside mail. So these are just individual files. You can see them. They're text files and, you know, you'd be able to read them on pretty much any Mac. It's brilliant. I really like this idea. And as I've been thinking about it all week, I can't really poke any holes in the in the, you know, the what's the right word? Easy for me to say just the the the reliability of this. So I'm excited about this one. So thank you, Thomas. It's that's an interesting little little thing. What do you think about that, John? Hmm. Yeah, I don't really. Hmm. You know, I think I yeah, not really. It's it's it's all there. I mean, I got some. Folders or mailboxes that have that's my strategy. Same. I just store it all in the on mail. I mean, sometimes I mean, sometimes I'll archive. I will use the archive feature. No, no, I'll take that back. I will use the archive feature, at least for like for some of our some of the stuff. Yeah. Like Meki Gavola. Sure. You know, I try I try to. I mean, how do you archive? You may ask, I think you just yeah, you just right click on it. And there's an archive choice that's at somewhere else. Yeah. Yeah, right, right. Yeah, I like it. I mean, every now and then I'll clear out like, you know, Meki Gavola archive. I'll keep usually like a year, year's worth of stuff in the primary box. And then I'll, you know, purge that just because at least in my imagination, it makes it it makes it more responsive. OK, yeah. And it might you might be right about that. Yeah. Yeah. I wonder if using mail's archive function would create something identical to what Thomas is describing. Like is he I mean, what he's doing isn't isn't bad. But, you know, it takes the extra step of copy the folder, then go back and then delete the folder from mail. Like I wonder I have to I have to play with this. This is this is interesting. Speaking of archives, Robert shares that he says, I solved my mail archive problem and my desire to have a copy of all my mail stored locally in a format that is universal. OK, right. So same thing we're talking about here with your archive solution or Thomas's John, he says, by using the utility mail archiver X or mail archiver 10 at mothsoftware.com, although it does have the ability to collect all your email from multiple accounts into its own internal SQLite database, it can simply directly archive all the email to a folder structure with each email rendered in PDF format and the email attachments collected in that folder. It works like a charm and the PDFs are easily searchable and viewable with whatever your favorite tools are. Previously, says I was using email archiver Pro to do a similar thing, but I found the software to be buggy and unreliable and it hasn't been updated in a long time. I'm glad I found Mail Archiver X. It's a much better solution. I like this. This is that's fascinating to me. The whole PDF thing that because that's going to I can't imagine a world where PDFs are not going to be readable. So I like it. That's pretty good, Robert. Pretty good. Ian has has kind of a different way of doing this all together. He says I use post box as my email client and mail backup X as my mail backup program. It backs up everything to my QNAP raid in pretty much real time with attachments. Folder structure is retained. It has allowed me to keep the amount of email I retain in post box to a minimum. And for me, it's absolutely ideal. So thank you for that. That's great. Yeah, post box is another, you know, third party email client that that a lot of people seem to like. Yeah, I'm I, you know, I obviously started, you know, life with a third party email client because I was using Eudora. Then I think from Eudora, I went maybe Apple Mail was a thing at that point. I can't remember. And then for a while, I was with Mail Smith, which was an email client created. I think I might have gone right from Eudora to Mail Smith. But Mail Smith was an email client created by Rich Siegel of Barebone Software. And I really liked it for a while. But again, you know, it became this thing where it was like, oh, I want different features than Rich wants, and Rich made Mail Smith essentially and primarily for himself. In fact, I think he still does. But it got to the point where where Mail Smith wasn't wasn't able to handle my my size of my archives. And although Rich fixed that, it just I needed to move. And I moved to mail. And since then, I've been really happy because I know that my mail client is going to work with the next version of Mac OS. And that's always a nice thing. Now, I do rely on a couple of plugins, specifically the, you know, small cube mail suite, which has Mail Act on it that we mentioned before. And that, as we've seen, doesn't always get updated in time for new OS releases. So that that, you know, maybe I maybe I haven't quite solved my problem. But I know I can get to my email and future versions of Mac OS. And that's, you know, important. Although this week, that wasn't entirely the case. But but yeah, there you go. Fixed. Speaking of third party email clients, Andrew suggests one from from. Mozilla, right, the people that make Firefox and that is Thunderbird. He says that he that that's what he uses. And he he likes Thunderbird. And I'll be honest, I have I have used Thunderbird. I use Thunderbird for for a couple of things that I do here. And, you know, if I have to archive like mail from an old staff member, whatever Thunderbird makes it does make it really easy to have different profiles and you can choose to store your mail wherever you want. And it's not a terrible client. It's not fantastic, but it's not terrible. So as Andrew says, he says, I'm a firm believer in Thunderbird. It's ugly and the interface is a bit of an unholy mess. But it works and it works well. Important stuff. He says, I stick in local folders and he's right. It, you know, it's it it supports all the functionality of I map and mail doesn't quite do some of those things. So so it, you know, in terms of third party email clients, I tend to trust Thunderbird because it's multi platform. And it it's made by a company that that doesn't seem to be going anywhere. So so there you go, Thunderbird. Yeah, it's fast. It's just I like his description about the interface being an unholy mess. That's that's accurate. So have you ever messed with Thunderbird, John? Yeah, I dabbled with it for a while. Yeah. But no, one thing I was I was messing around with here. So I mentioned Spark, which looks to be a basic functionality. But the one thing that I don't see in there is support. So if you're looking at another email client, one thing you may want to consider is how does it handle encryption and signing? And I don't know when I was when I was listing my when I was looking at some of the stuff in my TMO box. I think I actually saw some or MGG, I think it was the MGG box. But I saw some messages from you and it showed a what's just an attachment, probably an S mine. Yeah, so an attachment I can't and I'm trying to search for this and I can't seem to I don't think it's able to do signing or encryption could be wrong. I'll do some more research here. But yeah, we just show a you know, I forget the name of the file S mine, something sure piece. But I'll show it was an attachment and no text. So I'm like, huh, how do you? Yeah, so if you're moving to a new email client, definitely look at how they handle signing and encryption. It appears to me and I can could be wrong and let us know or I'll I'll ask. Yeah, cool. I mean, they should. I mean, it should be able to go into the key chain like mail and, you know, see your certificates and be aware of signing and encryption. Right. Maybe not. I don't know. Right. Right. Cool. A couple of or a tip from listener Ben, who chimed in on on some of this and talked about how he organizes mail's favorites bar. So you can it auto populates when you start mail with some your favorites bar being the thing sort of between the toolbar and your message viewer window that lists some mailboxes. And I think inbox is there and maybe sent is there. You can drag any mailbox you want to this and you can reorder the ones that are there. And if you want to take one off, just drag it off the bar and it'll poof doesn't delete the mailbox. It just deletes it from being in the favorites bar similar to Safari or anything like that and similar to Safari. So here's a tip for those two apps. If you've forgotten because like me, because I forgot, the command key combined with the numbers across the top of your keyboard map exactly to those things in the favorites bar. So if your inbox is the first thing in the favorites bar and you hit or in mail and hit command one, you will be brought to your inbox. And the same is true for, you know, the sixth thing on the list in the seventh. I think I think you're finished at 10 things. But but there you go. So if you want to put some favorites up there, I use favorites all the time. I have our Mac e-cab email boxes up there and all that stuff. But it's it's a great way to sort of bounce back and forth again, without having to leave the keyboard. So thank you for that that tip. And that's that's just one of those things I had completely forgotten about. So good stuff. Mr. Braun, we have some cool stuff found to go through and all of that. But but that that wraps up our our our mail segment for this for this episode. What about you? We'll get to it. We've got some questions about mail that we may get to later in the episode. I think I had a brilliant solution. OK, well, then we'll definitely get to Johnny's mail question when we get to the well, I'll put that at the top of the questions list. And and and then we've got some cool stuff found and other things that we want to get to. But if you have things about mail that you want to send to us, of course, questions, tips, anything to add to this conversation. You know how things go. We do a deep dive and then it lingers for a while and perhaps forever because it's mail. It's something I think all of us deal with at some level. So send them to us feedback at Mac e-cab dot com. I think I heard you right in that you said feedback at Mac e-cab dot com. I did. I said feedback at Mac e-cab dot com for sure. So yeah. All right. But so cool stuff found and boy, I'm really excited to talk about a couple of these things and cool stuff found. But first, John, I'm really excited to tell everybody about our next two sponsors if that's OK with you. OK. All right. I am super happy to have Eero not only as a sponsor, but I'm super happy to have Eero in our lives and in our world. You know, we've talked a lot about mesh networks here on Mac e-cab. And Eero really does sit at the very top of our recommendation list here. 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But, you know, it's got like a little like a little magnetic door on it and stuff. It doesn't it's similar to AirPods in that sense. I mean, it's slightly different form factor and stuff fits in your pocket really nicely. Like I said, it sounds good. You can use the there's the like the ear earpieces themselves have kind of a button integrated into them so you can change the volume. Yes, you can skip tracks, all of that stuff. They're waterproof IPX seven and Bluetooth five, right? All of that good stuff. Here's my favorite part. As of this moment, at least in time, they are available on Amazon for twenty nine dollars and ninety nine cents. You got it. Yep. Twenty nine ninety nine. I know it's frigging amazing. That I was shocked when I tested them and it's like I couldn't find anything that I didn't like about them. It's crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy. Sounds like they could probably charge a little more. Yeah, I think so. Yeah. And that's a I mean, what would have AirPods retail for these days? One sixty nine. Oh, yeah. OK. Yeah. So twenty nine ninety nine. That's pretty good. Yep. I think one sixty nine is that's got to be right. I'm just pulling that off like it's that's what's in my head. It's either one sixty nine or one seventy nine, but it's it's in there. Hang on. I can I can find AirPods. Let's go. Apple Apple's going to help me on this. I don't want to be I don't want to be wrong about this. Click buy one fifty nine. All right. So there you go. So one fifty nine. So so the the Airmoo B threes are only one hundred thirty dollars cheaper than the AirPods. So there you go. Yeah, crazy. Really cool. So I I recommend these. My wife quickly stole them from me and is using them happily. So it's fine. I have other things that I can use, but these these fit her ears and they come with with like a couple of different tips and stuff. They do seal in the ear and all that stuff. But she has she always seems to have difficulty finding like things that will fit comfortably for her. So when she found it was like, OK, I take these, it's fine. So yeah, well, while it's CES, John, I think you noticed the new bag that I had for both CES and for South by Southwest. It's for years. I had been using the freebie gimme bags that CES gave us. But a couple of years ago, they started turning those into clear bags. And I'm not really into the clear bag thing. Most of the time. So I started using a backpack from a company called Solo New York at solo hyphen and why dot com. I'm using one called the Unbound backpack. And it's actually pretty cool. The your it's got a laptop compartment. It's got it's just the right size. It's not bulky and too big and it actually can expand quite a bit. But, you know, when it's sort of cinched up and all that, it's got plenty of room in there, but it's not this big unwieldy thing. It's really kind of comfortable and nice and and it has the the the this feature where you put your laptop in the sort of the back most pocket. If you're thinking of it that way, you can unzip that entire pocket on three sides so it can fold open and you don't have to take your laptop out if you're going through normal, you know, TSA screening. If you're going through precheck, you don't have to take it out anyway. But if you're going through normal TSA, you just sort of unfold the whole thing open and they're able to scan your backpack because it doesn't have anything else other than padding around your laptop. So pretty cool thing. It's it's showing is sold out on on their website at the moment. I'll put a link to it, but but maybe maybe Amazon or somebody has has some of them still in stock. No, they don't. But I'll put a link to it. It's it's definitely worth checking out. So throw that one out there. Anything to add to either of these two things, the air movie threes or the solo on Bound, John, speaking of Amazon, have you ever used Amazon locker? I have not. I've I'm aware of it. But for those people that aren't explain. I just used it the other day. So I was ordering a gift for for a family member and. It's basically a secure delivery option. If you want to for things of a certain size. And they have one at Whole Foods, because, you know, Amazon bought Whole Foods. Right. So they actually have one a few minutes away from me. And I decided down, let me check it out. And it's it's pretty neat. So rather than shipping to your home, you can say, well, ship to the Amazon to my nearest Amazon locker. And then what happens is once you once it's put in the box, you get an email and it says, all right. You know, either here's your code, or they actually email you a barcode so it can scan the barcode or you can type it in manually. And it was funny because actually when I was there, there was a guy ahead of me and he actually punched it in manly, like like a caveman. Whereas I did the barcode, but it scans the barcode and then a door pops open and it's like, well, here, take your stuff. It's a and it uses it was interesting. It uses I think this one was actually delivered by UPS. OK. I think yes. Yep. But it's just kind of a neat option. It's cool. You know, especially if you're not if you're not home, I mean, in my case and probably your case, I mean, you know, rarely do I get things that require a signature for me to be there. But it's a but it's an interesting option. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I've thought about using it like for if I'm traveling somewhere because it's it's actually seems to be more and more frequent that I'll have something shipped to my hotel from Amazon. Usually consumables of some sort. Like I like to, you know, if I'm going to visit like an ad agency or something, I'll bring like some some treats or candies or something to them, you know, and it's like, oh, just have them shipped to my hotel that way. I don't have to put them in my suitcase or whatever. And and so I've thought about using Amazon Locker to do that. So yeah, that's pretty cool. That's pretty cool. All right. Ben has a question. All right. Ben has. I says a client of mine has several hundred MP4 videos captured by an old Android phone. They are in an arcane format with an AVCHD container that quick time player and photos can't natively read or import, but they are just H264 videos. So the video content should be fine. He says it's just a container. I needed a way to convert them from where they are to a much more standard MP4 format container, I should say. Among the multitude of video converter converter apps, I found any MP4 is Mac video converter ultimate. I was able to select any or all of the videos, indicate a destination and easily convert them into readable containers. He says I paid 33 bucks for a one year license and only ran into one glitch. If you select the destination folder as the same folder as the source, the app offers to replace the original video with the converted one for me says it failed to complete these conversions and left me with two second clips instead. So point it somewhere else. But thanks, Ben. I'm glad that's great. I'm glad that worked pretty cool. Graham, do you have anything to add to that jump before I bring us to Graham CSF? All right. Graham says, where's Graham here says for quite a few years I have used ECAM networks phone view application for archiving my messages and voicemails back to that conversation from iPhone to Mac says note that it is especially a continually growing archive, not a backup of a single point in time, but it doesn't remove any data from the phone. So we'll put a link to phone view. He says the primary purpose for me was to have an archive of my voice messages stored in the visual voicemail which disappear when you change SIM cards. It made their $30 lifetime purchase price very, very, very much worthwhile as you would hope when it displays the archive it matches the numbers to contact names. Of course it does, which are not innately stored within the archive itself, but it cross references them for you. So that's pretty cool. I hadn't thought about that, but which is why we do the show because we all get to learn. So thanks, Graham. Yeah, I've used phone view for other things, but never thought about it from that standpoint. So that's pretty good. Thoughts on that before we go to our last cool stuff found here, John? Continue. Okay. Lawyer Jeff posted colorize.sg. It spelled the what I would call the British way, C-O-L-O-U-R-I-S-E.sg. And it does something that some of you may love and some of you may hate probably simultaneously depending on where you're applying it. It takes black and white photos and colorizes them. And it actually does a pretty good job of not making them look like, you know, pastels or something or, you know, fluorescent colors sometimes. Like it's a, they look pretty tasteful, at least in the, in the, you know, the things I've tried. So it's at colorize.sg. Yeah, colorize.sg. And you can just upload a photo and it does it right there on the website. It's a pretty cool stuff. Thanks, Jeff. Good stuff. Fun, fun. Yeah, it's good it doesn't. I've noticed you probably know about HDR. Of course. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Sometimes people get a bit carried away when they do HDR on some images and that you look at it and it's just like, that's not real. Right. Right. Right. So it's good that they take that into account because yeah, I'm with you is that sometimes colorizing can, some people consider colorizing a photo crop. Yeah. Well, I mean, sure. Yeah. But that's, that's the thing, right? It's, I mean, it's art. So, you know, you do you and if you like it, then there you go. You're good to go. One note about from the chat room at macgeekup.com slash stream, Brian Monroe there noted when we were talking about the air movie threes that he has both the version one and version two of the air pods. So I wanted to share with you experientially what what he's finding with those. He says the best two things are the faster connection times and wireless charging. He says, now I just wish I had that the Apple TV remote had she charging because that would actually be a handy thing. That's that's a good point. That would be a nice another nice place to have wireless charging is in a in a remote like that. That way you're not having to think about plug it in. We mostly use our Logitech Harmony one remote that has a charging base. So it, you know, it sits there. But yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. My remotes are all on rechargeable batteries. Everything's on rechargeable batteries. The question is what's it take to recharge it? Right. Our Harmony one remote probably would need to be recharged once maybe twice a week. Given the way that it works because it works over Wi-Fi. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Wi-Fi remotes with the Apple TV remote also is in that category are going to use a lot more power. It's of course a lot more functional. Right. But you don't have to worry about aiming at the TV and in all of that crazy stuff. So yeah. No, the Harmony one is fantastic. We're very, very happy with that remote. We've had, we've had that. God, I mean, we probably had that 10 years now. I mean, it's, which is crazy to have a remote for us to have a remote that long. Yeah. Yeah. I think my TV remote uses RF. I think it's an option with the latest. I think it uses Bluetooth. Is specifically with the TV remote. Yes. Correct. Correct. Yeah. Yeah. I think I had to actually enable it. Right. Right. Yeah. RF is, you know, better than IR, I would say. Yeah. You don't have to aim it. Yeah. Yep. Cool. Yes. Yes. Yes. Cool. All right. All right, John. Take us to, take us to Johnny or I'll take us to Johnny and you can, you can, you can deliver the answer. Johnny says, let's say I recently had an issue where there may be no answer, but I thought I would ask. Anyway, I was reading email in the car while my wife was driving while reading an important email. I accidentally tapped the trash icon at the bottom. It's annoying that it's in the middle where I tend to hold my thumb. He says, but I tapped it when the car went over a bump. No problem. I thought I can just go to the trash folder and move the message back to the inbox. Okay. Unfortunately says when I opened the message, the car went over another bump and I hit the trash icon again. It seems that this permanently deletes the email from the phone. At least I was not able to find a way to restore it. I also discovered that I had forgotten that I could shake the phone to untrash the email rather than go to the trash and move the message. But hopefully I will remember that the next time and not delete an important email. So my thoughts on this were. Well, twofold. Number one, if it's an IMAP email, you might be able to log into your email provider's site and find it there, maybe, but no guarantees it's possible that hitting the delete from the trash folder truly expunged it. The other thing is you can change the functionality of that button in mail. If you go into your iOS settings, go to it's weird now where they buried all this stuff. So going to the settings app on your iPhone, go to passwords and accounts, which is like a page and a half down and you'll see your email account there. You have to do this and you can control it individually for each email account, which I suppose is handy, but go to tap on the accounts there, tap on the account name, which you have to do twice. Then you get to the screen with your like your password and server names or whatever hit advanced. And on the advanced screen, you have an option move discarded messages into and you can choose between the deleted mailbox and the archive mailbox. I set mine to archive because I archive far more frequently than I delete. If I want to delete, of course, I can swipe the message to the left and get that there or I hold on the archive button and it shows me two options, archive or trash, so I can get to trash, but I wouldn't do it accidentally. So those were my thoughts on this, John, but I am now going to sit back and get some popcorn and learn from the master. Well, I had one thought. Yeah. Well, I had two thoughts, but the second thought didn't pan out here. My first thought, if you have a time machine backup, you may not know this, but time machine will let you go back in time and retrieve emails from the past. So if you have a recent time machine backup, you may be able to, that includes that email, you may be able to retrieve it. Right. So if he also has a Mac and that Mac happened to get that email, yeah, that's true. Yeah. His Mac would have had to be on at home or unless it was an email that came in much earlier or whatever. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I like that idea. That's right. Right. It's not just the email server that might have a copy. Your Macs, all of your Macs might have a copy of this. Yeah. That's a really nice feature that I think a lot of people don't know about time machine is that if you activate it while you're running mail, it's going to give you a time machine view into your mail world. Right. Right. Which, hey, speaking of email workflows, that's something you may want to keep in mind. Yeah, man. It's not gone forever as long as you maintain your time machine backups. The other thing I was thinking is, huh, I wonder, I was thinking that it may also be stored in a iOS backup, but I don't see mail as a category in iMazing. I was going to say, maybe you can use iMazing to go to old backup. Sure. It's stored in there, but I don't see mail as an option here. Huh. Right, right, right. I want to see a files category. I'm wondering if the thing, I don't, do you know? I mean, I don't know if an iOS backup contains your email. It looks like it may not. Oh, that's a good question. It might. It has to be. I think it does. I can see emails. I think it has some and it'll download more if it needs it, but I think some of it is stored locally, but I just don't, I mean, I see the files category. Yeah. Yeah. I'll have to think about that a bit more. I'm wondering if an iOS backup may also contain that last email. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You might be right about that. Huh. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's far more difficult to get granular with restoring things. I would think if anything could do it, of course, iMazing would because that's, you know, the granular backup and restore utility for iOS, but I've never tried to do it with mail. So yeah, good thinking, man. I like that. That's good. That's good. It's good. As usual, we have lots of other things to go through. I want to, I think we have time for this one. Listener Craig had had an interesting question, but it it's one of these things that it's about Thunderbolt and I think perhaps we can, we can use this to just make sure we're all always thinking about Thunderbolt for what it actually is. And Craig, right. So thank you, Craig, for for setting this up for us and in a great way. Since I have an original 27 inch retina iMac equipped with Thunderbolt 2 ports, I want to connect a single SSD drive for backup and file storage. Encountering a huge challenge, though, in figuring out how best to make the connection and get maximum throughput from the SSD. If I use something simple like a USB-A to USB-C cable on a USB-C based, you know, SSD enclosure, then I'm limited by the speeds of USB, which on this Mac are USB-3. He says, but some Macs might have USB-2 only, right. Like the one that I'm sitting in front of here has USB-2 speeds. This is more expensive solutions like an OWC dock involved, you know, large docks and are like $150 and up. What's the answer? So as I said in setting this up, this is one of those things where Thunderbolt can save the day because it offers near limitless expandability of your Mac. Thunderbolt isn't just a transfer bus like USB is. It is an expansion bus like PCI slots in a desktop computer, an old desktop computer. IMAX the desktop computer doesn't have slots, but it is like slots, right. That's the way we need to think about Thunderbolt. And, you know, for a Mac that say doesn't have USB-2 like this one here, but I want to connect to USB or it doesn't have USB-3, it has USB-2, but I want to connect to USB-3 drive. The good news is I can because I can use Thunderbolt to add, expand a USB-3 interface to it and that interface could be a dock like you mentioned or something like that connects USB-3 and Ethernet box that I have, but even that's like 100 bucks, you know, those things. You are adding a USB chip. It's not just an adapter to go from the shape of a Thunderbolt connector to the shape of a USB connector. You need something in there that speaks USB-3 because your Mac doesn't. But via Thunderbolt you can plug directly into the motherboard. That's the way to think about Thunderbolt. And then you're plugging a USB-3 interface in that scenario. And actually I think for Craig here you need to think about specifically for adding an SSD you need to think about where the speed limits are going to be. So look at the SSDs that you're buying look at what their maximum speeds are and then go that way. There are very, very few single drive enclosures with Thunderbolt on them. There's a lot of multi-drive enclosures with Thunderbolt because you can take advantage of the speeds of Thunderbolt there, but any drive enclosure, single or multi, isn't just going to be a Thunderbolt drive even if it has a Thunderbolt port on it it's going to be a SATA drive or something of the sort, maybe a NVMI NVMI? Is that the right words? Whatever the other kind of interfaces. But it's going to be a Thunderbolt 2 SATA or Thunderbolt 2 NVME adapter or an interface in there that then plugs into the drive. So just think about that and it's probably more cost-effective to get something like a dock that can go say USB-3 or you already have USB-3 on your Max, so maybe you don't even need a dock because I don't know that your SSD is going to go faster than your USB-3 speeds if that makes sense. Thoughts on that, John? I'm just looking here and it looks like yeah, I think I've never really explored Thunderbolt, but it looks like OWC does have some enclosures, including one that I think is just a single drive. Yeah. You can do it. It's just going to be expensive. But with like a multi-drive enclosure the nice part is, you know, you might have four SATA interfaces in there. All four of them are connected to your Mac over the Thunderbolt bus. And the cool part is your Mac actually sees all four of those interfaces and sees the drive separately. So you can use software RAID to put them all together, right? And that's a cool thing. So, yeah. Thunderbolt is just an expansion bus. That's the best way to think of it, especially in these terms. But is there anything special about these OWC enclosures that have Thunderbolt for single drives? I'll have to explore some more here. Yeah. I'm just curious like what the benefit of that would be I'm looking to see depending on the version of Thunderbolt, I mean the speed of some older technologies. Okay. Good. Yeah. I'm looking on, we'll have to look later because I'm looking on OWC and I'm only seeing Thunderbolt on like their Thunderbay, right? You know, with the six drives or whatever, you know, four drives even. But I'm not seeing anything there with a single drive with Thunderbolt, but I'm obviously not looking in the same place. Cool. All right. Well, again, it's just I kind of wanted to go through that just so that we are always thinking about Thunderbolt as the thing that it really is. It really is the thing that as best it can, future proofs are existing Macs, right? Because even if, you know, like this Mac in front of me here, when it came out USB 3 was not a common thing. I'm sure it existed, but it wasn't something Apple was doing. Future proof. Boom. I can do it. And when the Ethernet port in this died before I had the motherboard replaced, I was able to use Gigabit Ethernet via Thunderbolt, right? Or I could have two Gigabit Ethernet connections if I wanted and, you know, so I guess I don't know that I need that, but there you go. You might. You never know. You might have two different networks you get to connect to. So there you go. That's but that's what we got for today, my friend. My friends. Right, Mr. Braun. With the show that never ends. Welcome back. That's right. Yeah. We will. It's so far. That's true. 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