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# What’s new in Mail?

Mail has a number of new features to make writing and managing email more fun and creative, and to help you get organized.

Personalize messages with Stationery
You can add a personal touch to messages by applying stationery templates. In anything from invitations to birthday greetings, the templates offer professionally designed layouts, fonts, and colors. Use the new Photo Browser to find photos in your iPhoto library and add them to your messages.
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Jot Notes
You can create handy notes to help you capture and organize your thoughts and ideas in one central location, Mail. You can select text in a note to easily create an action item, or send a note to a friend or colleague. Notes can include graphics, formatted text, and attachments.
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Track To Dos
You can select content in messages and notes that you want to track, such as action items or requests, and quickly organize them in to-do lists. You can include a due date, set an alarm, or assign priorities. Your to-do items are automatically added to your iCal calendars.
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Stay informed with RSS
You can subscribe to RSS feeds and have news articles delivered to your Inbox. Use Smart Mailboxes to organize incoming news articles according to your interests.
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Streamline tasks
Mail provides other features to help you work more efficiently:
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Set up new Mail accounts in one step. Enter your current email address and password, and Mail will configure other settings for you.

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Place your mouse pointer over data in messages and use Data Detectors to transform an email address into a new contact in your address book, a street address into mapped directions, or a date and time into an iCal event.

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Use improved Spotlight searching to find the exact message, note, to-do item, or attachment you're looking for.

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Make messages easier to read with new and richer formatting, such as bulleted and numbered lists, indentations, and background colors.

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Use the new Archive command to easily back up your mailboxes.

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