Mail Keyboard Shortcuts

Without any doubt, Mail is the most welcomed Email Client. It's also the most essential Mac application. In my daily Mac usage, Mail has never been absent from my workflow.

There are lots of features provided by Mail which will take us dozens of hours to read through all of them. I, as a lazy reader myself, would gladly suggest some of these keyboard shortcuts to help you utilize most of Mail features.

Before proceeding to the list of keyboard shortcuts, these are several previous articles for your reference to get the most out of your Mail:

1. 10 Nifty Mail Tricks that You Definitely Want to Know
2. Ten Useful Mail Plugins
3. Change Mail Alert Sound
4. Change Flag Icon of Mail
5. Mail Tips: Marking Messages

Continue reading and you will see a list of more than 60 Mail shortcuts!

	Action	Keyboard Shortcut
1	Copy Entire Message	Select Title → Command-C
2	Copy Selected Text to Find	Command-E
3	Find for Current Message	Command-F
4	Find Next	Command-G
5	Append Selected Messages to New	Command-Option-I
6	Jump to Selected Text	Command-J
7	Erase Deleted Messages	Command-K
8	Toggle Deleted Messages (Hide/Show)	Command-L
9	Minimize Window	Command-M
10	New Message	Command-N
11	Reply Message to Sender	Command-R
	Reply Message to All	Command-Shift-R
12	Save as Draft	Command-S
13	Reveal Font Panel	Command-T
14	Increase Quote Level	Command-[']
	Decrease Quote Level	Command-Option-[']
15	Open Activity Window	Command-0
16	Select Inbox	Command-1
17	Select Outbox	Command-2
18	Select Drafts	Command-3
19	Select Sent	Command-4
20	Select Trash	Command-5
21	Select Junk	Command-6
22	Select Notes	Command-7
23	Select To Do	Command-8
24	Select RSS Reader	Command-9
25	Larger Font SIze	Command-[+]
	Smaller Font SIze	Command-[-]
26	Align Left	Command-[{]
27	Align Center	Command-[|]
28	Align Right	Command-[}]
29	Spell Checker	Command-[:]
30	Flag Mispelling Words	Command-[;]
31	Attach File	Command-Shift-A
32	Bounce to Sender	Command-Shift-B
33	Reveal Colors Panel	Command-Shift-C
34	Send Message	Command-Shift-D
35	Redirect Message	Command-Shift-E
36	Forward Message	Command-Shift-F
37	Find Previous	Command-Shift-G
38	Toggle Detailed Headers (Hide/Show)	Command-Shift-H
39	Reply with iChat	Command-Shift-I
40	Mark as Junk	Command-Shift-J
41	Select All Related Messages	Command-Shift-K
42	Mark as Flagged	Command-Shift-L
43	Toggle Mailbox (Hide/Show)	Command-Shift-M
44	Get New Mail	Command-Shift-N
45	Switch Between Rich/Plain Text	Command-Shift-T
46	Mark as Read/Unread	Command-Shift-U
47	Paste as Quotation	Command-Shift-V
48	Add to Address Book	Command-Shift-Y
49	Reveal Bcc Header	Command-Option-B
50	Copy Font Style	Command-Option-C
51	Select Search Field	Command-Option-F
52	Delete Messages in Junk Mail	Command-Option-J
53	Apply Rules to Selected	Command-Option-L
54	New Viewer Window	Command-Option-N
55	Show Plain Text Alternative	Command-Option-P
56	Reveal Reply-To Header	Command-Option-R
57	Move Selected to Last Working Mailbox	Command-Option-T
58	Show Original Content	Command-Option-U
59	Paste Font Style	Command-Option-V
60	Collapse/Expand	←/→
61	Move to Next/Previous Message	↓/↑
62	Change Toolbar Style	Command + Click Pill Button
63	Copy Message to Other Mailbox	Option + Drag Message

Modifier keys Command, Option, and Shift allow us to have more available keyboard shortcuts to perform fairly distinctive actions. By observing how these modifier keys behave, adapting yourself to new Mac keyboard shortcuts will come in handy.