Re: A mail script inquiry
Re: A mail script inquiry
- Subject: Re: A mail script inquiry
- From: Chris Janton <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 19:59:16 -0700
On Aug 30, 2005, at 17:42, Gary (Lists) <email@hidden>
wrote:
Aside from the fact that it makes very little sense to want to
change the
Subject of a message that you have _received_ [sure, lists and
other things
toy with subjects all the time, so it's not a "never, never" case,
but...],
it would only make sense that the subject could be changed on a
Draft or
Outgoing message, from a scripting point of view.
87,000 mail messages later...
The subject line is one of the most accessible places to have useful
information in the mail "tool".
If I can change the subject line (Eudora used to let me do it) I can
help my feeble mind find important things just by looking at a
mailbox window - no Spotlight, no "categories" etc.
In one mailbox alone (an important one) I have 96 messages of which I
would dearly love to be able to change the subject line on 80 of them
- the typical subject line of things I *receive* is rarely useful in
a filing system. Take the subject line of this exchange for example.
Are you going to find "Change or edit subject line" when you read "A
mail script inquiry"?
For categorization that is "spotlight-able" there is a donation-ware
pluging for Mail.app called "MailTags" which can help, but it still
isn't the same as having a nice, sortable, listing of subjects in a
mailbox.
You can find info here <http://www.indev.ca/MailTags.html> along with
some discussion about why the Finder doesn't help.
In order to reduce the number of times I respond to mail here ;-) you
could say "Aside from the fact that it makes very little sense to me
to want to change the Subject of a message" and avoid ramblings from
fully-realized curmudgeons.
MailTags is pretty cool - it's open source - it might be scriptable?
8)
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Chris Janton - face at CentosPrime dot COM
Netminder for Opus1.COM
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