Tips

Short answers to the questions people search for about mail — opening old files, running out of space, finding the message you need — each with the steps in MailCode and a screenshot of it working. New ones every week.

Accounts

• Microsoft 365 refuses to send with 5.7.139 — send your mail anyway2026-10-05
• Keep your Gmail labels when you read Gmail in a Mac mail app2026-10-05
• Add Gmail to a mail app without an app password2026-10-05

Attachments

• Open winmail.dat on a Mac2026-10-05

Calendar

• Add a forgotten Teams link to a meeting you already sent2026-10-05
• Send a meeting invitation from a Gmail or iCloud account2026-10-05

Compose

• Reply with the original attachments — or forward without them2026-10-05
• Schedule an email to send later2026-10-05
• Reply quoting only the part you are answering2026-10-05
• Answer inside the quoted email, in your own colour2026-10-05
• Put a checklist in an email2026-10-05
• Write one email in two languages2026-10-05
• Recall a sent email on Exchange, from a Mac2026-10-05
• Draw a quick sketch straight into an email2026-10-05

Import

• Import Apple Mail mailboxes into MailCode2026-10-05
• Import a PST file and keep its folders2026-10-05
• Open an Outlook .ost file without Outlook2026-10-05
• Bring your Thunderbird mail into MailCode2026-10-05
• Convert a PST file to .eml files on Windows2026-10-05

Organising

• Sort your email with the Eisenhower matrix2026-10-05
• Get reminded to follow up on an email2026-10-05
• Keep mail from the people who matter at the top of the list2026-10-05
• See which emails are waiting on your reply2026-10-05
• Find out who sends you the most email2026-10-05

Reading

• Translate an email without pasting it into a translator2026-10-05
• Translate a PDF attachment and keep its layout2026-10-05
• Print only part of an email2026-10-05

Search

• Find someone’s phone number in years of email2026-10-05
• Search for two words close together, not just anywhere in the mail2026-10-05
• Search your mail for an exact phrase2026-10-05
• Search your mail between two dates2026-10-05
• Find every email from one company2026-10-05
• Find every email on the same subject, in a tab of its own2026-10-05
• Find a supplier’s IBAN in your email2026-10-05
• Find an email from years ago by its attachment’s name2026-10-01

Storage

• Get back an email deleted from Exchange2026-10-05
• Find and remove duplicate emails2026-10-05
• Get back an email deleted for good from Gmail or iCloud2026-10-05
• Make your mail archive smaller on disk2026-10-05
• Gmail storage full? Keep a copy of your old mail, then free the space2026-10-01