Get to know OS X Mavericks: Apple Mail 7.0
If OS X 10.7 Lion brought a major overhaul to Apple’s Mail email client, and OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion was more of a minor Mail tune-up, then Mavericks (OS X 10.9) gives Mail—now at version 7.0—little more than an email oil change. Still, the changes in Mavericks offer ways to improve your productivity if you use Smart Mailboxes, Passbook, and Notification Center. But they also add new challenges if you're a Gmail user.
Smarter smart mailboxes
You can now include a specific account as one of the criteria for a smart mailbox: A new condition called Account lets you limit the smart mailbox’s searches to one of your configured accounts. Oddly, unlike with most other conditions, you can’t exclude a particular account as a condition, so if you want a smart mailbox that searches some—but not all—of your accounts, you’ll need to make a slightly more complicated set of rules.
Held accountable: Fans of smart mailboxes will be thrilled to find a couple new enhancements, such as the capability to limit smart mailboxes by account.
If you’ve got multiple smart mailboxes inside a folder, those folders are themselves smarter in Mavericks Mail. In OS X 10.8, selecting a smart mailbox folder showed you a blank pane where the message list usually appeared; in Mavericks, you instead see a list of all the messages contained in all of that folder’s smart mailboxes.
Nicer notifications
Mail 7.0 also has new Notification Center email alerts. Assuming you’ve configured Mail’s notifications to display banners or alerts (in the Notifications pane of System Preferences), you can now perform some useful actions right in the notification.
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