History
Mail's first incarnation was as NeXTMail, the mail 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 backward 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 of OS X, known as the code-name "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 simply known as Mail.
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