Mail ( Apple ) - wikipedia Mail ( Apple ) `` AppleMail '' redirects here. For the piece of System 7 software, see PowerTalk. This article is missing information about the watchOS ( Apple Watch ) version of the software. Please expand the article to include this information. Further details may exist on the talk page. ( September 2015 ) Mail A component of macOS, iOS, and watchOS Mail icon in macOS ( left ) and iOS ( right ) Details Type Email client Included with macOS ( all versions ) iOS ( all versions ) watchOS ( all versions ) Mail ( also known as Apple Mail or Mail. app ) is an email client included with the operating systems macOS, iOS and watchOS by Apple Inc. Originally developed by NeXT as NeXTMail, a part of their NeXTSTEP operating system, it eventually became Mail after Apple 's acquisition of NeXT. 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. 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. iOS features a mobile version of Mail with added Exchange ActiveSync support, though it notoriously missed the functionality of attaching files to reply emails until the release of iOS 9. The iOS version of Mail is the most popular email client in the world by market share. Contents 1 History 1.1 First release 1.2 Mac OS X Tiger 1.3 Mac OS X Leopard 1.4 Mac OS X Snow Leopard 1.5 Mac OS X Lion 1.6 OS X Mountain Lion 1.7 OS X Mavericks 1.8 OS X Yosemite 1.9 OS X El Capitan 2 See also 3 References 4 External links History Mail first shipped as NeXTMail, the email application for the NeXTSTEP operating system. NeXTMail was innovative for its time, supporting rich text formatting with images and voice messaging. It also supported MIME emails, along with plain text to allow for backwards compatibility. The default message found in the inbox when the user first opened NeXTMail included a voice recording of Steve Jobs. When Apple began to adapt NeXTSTEP to become Mac OS X, both the operating system and the application went through various stages as it was developed. In a beta version ( codenamed `` Rhapsody '' ) and various other early pre-releases of Mac OS X, Mail was known as MailViewer. However, with the third developer release of Mac OS X, the application had returned to being known simply as Mail. First release Included in all versions of macOS up to and including Mac OS X Panther, Mail was integrated with other Apple applications such as Address Book, iChat, and iCal. Some of its features that remain in the most recent version of Mail include rules for mailboxes, junk mail filtering and multiple account management. Mac OS X Tiger In Mac OS X Tiger, Mail was updated to version 2. It included a proprietary single - message - per - file format ( with the filename extension. emlx ) in order to permit indexing by Spotlight. Additional features were : `` Smart mailboxes '' that used Spotlight technology to sort mail into folders. The ability to flag messages with a low, normal or high priority and to use these priorities in mailbox rules and smart mailboxes. Tools for resizing photos before they are sent to avoid oversized email attachments. The ability to view emailed pictures as a full - screen slideshow. Parental controls to specify who is allowed to send email to children. HTML message composition. The new version also changed the UI for the buttons in the toolbar. Whereas previous buttons had free - standing defined shapes, the new buttons featured shapes within a lozenge - shaped capsule. According to many users, and even Apple 's own human interface guidelines at the time, this was worse for usability. An open - source third - party application that reverted the icons to their former shapes was available. Nevertheless, Apple updated their guidelines to include capsule - shaped buttons, and the new UI persisted. Mac OS X Leopard In Mac OS X Leopard, Mail included personalized stationery, handled in standard HTML format. In addition, version 3 offered notes and to - dos ( which could be synced with iCal ) as well as a built - in RSS reader. Version 3 also introduced IMAP IDLE support for account inboxes. Mac OS X Snow Leopard Mac OS X Snow Leopard brought Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 support. The iCal and Address Book applications bundled with OS X 10.6 also supported Microsoft Exchange Server. Mac OS X Lion In Mac OS X Lion, Mail featured a redesigned iPad - like user interface with full - screen capabilities, an updated message search interface, support for Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 and Yahoo ! Mail ( via IMAP ). Also added was the capability to group messages by subject in a similar fashion to Mail on iOS 4. The bounce function, where unwanted emails could be bounced back to the sender, was dropped in this version, as was support for Exchange push email. OS X Mountain Lion In OS X Mountain Lion, Mail received VIP tagging, Safari - style inline search for words within an email message, the ability to sync with iCloud and new sharing features. Notes were split off into a stand - alone application in this version, called Notes. The RSS reader and to - dos were discontinued. OS X Mavericks OS X Mavericks threw out the capability of displaying the plain - text version of MIME multipart / alternative messages, and the option of doing so by default. Users were stuck viewing the HTML or rich - text version of multipart / alternative messages. OS X Yosemite In OS X Yosemite, Mail supported new features such as : Markup ( inline annotation of PDF or image files ) and Mail Drop ( automatically uploads attachments to iCloud, and sends a link in the message instead of the whole file ). OS X El Capitan In OS X El Capitan, a filter was added to the message list to filter by various options such as Unread, Flagged, or messages with attachments. The conversation display was also redesigned and various disk space saving optimizations were implemented. Streaming notification support for Exchange accounts was also added. See also NeXTMail GNUMail Comparison of email clients Comparison of feed aggregators References Jump up ^ http://support.apple.com/kb/TA22353 Jump up ^ http://support.apple.com/HT202345 Jump up ^ http://support.apple.com/kb/PH14276 Jump up ^ Clover, Juli ( June 8, 2015 ). `` iOS 9 Tidbits : Battery Saving Features, Search for Settings, Keyboard Changes, Email Attachments, and More ''. MacRumors. Retrieved June 19, 2015. Jump up ^ http://emailclientmarketshare.com Jump up ^ What I think happened to Mail - A theory about what happened to Mail 's toolbar. Jump up ^ Ars Technica reviews Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger Jump up ^ Apple Human Interface Guidelines : Designing Toolbar Icons External links Mail. app 3.0 screen shots Mail. app 3.5 screen shots News aggregators Client software Standalone Akregator BlogBridge FeedDemon Feedreader Flipboard Genieo Google Currents Google Play Newsstand Liferea NetNewsWire NewsAccess Newsbeuter NewsFire QuiteRSS RSS Bandit RSSOwl Seesmic WebFetch Web browsers AOL Explorer Avant Browser Camino iCab Flock Internet Explorer K - Meleon Kazehakase Maxthon Firefox Netscape Browser Netscape Navigator 9 OmniWeb Pale Moon Safari SeaMonkey Shiira Sleipnir Tencent Traveler Vivaldi Web Email clients Claws Mail Gnus IBM Lotus Notes Mail Microsoft Outlook Mozilla Thunderbird Netscape Messenger 9 Opera Mail Pegasus Mail The Bat ! 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Question: what is the latest version of apple mail
Answer: OS X El Capitan