{"id":4447,"date":"2012-03-09T00:12:44","date_gmt":"2012-03-09T05:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=4447"},"modified":"2014-02-25T14:15:30","modified_gmt":"2014-02-25T19:15:30","slug":"apple-mail-tip-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/09\/apple-mail-tip-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Mail Tip of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Use the Keyboard pane in System Preferences to change the keyboard shortcut for &ldquo;Add Sender to Address Book&rdquo; to something that you won&rsquo;t ever type by accident. I get e-mails from customers whose address books are full of spammy names and addresses, worried that their Macs were somehow hacked or infected, or that <a href=\"http:\/\/c-command.com\/spamsieve\/\">SpamSieve<\/a> is malfunctioning. Nope, it&rsquo;s just an unfortunate default key assignment. It&rsquo;s easy to press Shift-Command-Y by accident when you meant to mark the messages as read\/unread (Shift-Command-U, with U being next to Y on QWERTY keyboards). There&rsquo;s no visual indication of what you actually did and no way to undo. In my view, this command shouldn&rsquo;t even have a keyboard shortcut, but I don&rsquo;t think there&rsquo;s a way to remove it, so I changed mine to Control-Option-Shift-Command-Y.<\/p>\r\n<p>Update (2012-09-06): On OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, don&rsquo;t forget to update your shortcut to use the new menu title: &ldquo;Add Sender to Contacts&rdquo;.<\/p>\r\n<p>Update (2014-02-25): In Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks, Mail no longer has a default keyboard shortcut for this command.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Use the Keyboard pane in System Preferences to change the keyboard shortcut for &ldquo;Add Sender to Address Book&rdquo; to something that you won&rsquo;t ever type by accident. I get e-mails from customers whose address books are full of spammy names and addresses, worried that their Macs were somehow hacked or infected, or that SpamSieve is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4447"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8482,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4447\/revisions\/8482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}