Changing the subject of an incoming mail.app message

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Michelle Steiner - 02 Dec 2007 00:06 GMT

Select the message whose subject you want to change and then run this
script.

tell application "Mail"
set theMessage to item 1 of (the selection as list)
set the subject of theMessage to my getNewSubject(subject of
theMessage)
end tell

on getNewSubject(OldSubject)
return text returned of (display dialog "Enter the new subject of the

message and press Enter." default answer OldSubject)
end getNewSubject

However, after the script runs, you will have to click out of the
message folder and then back into it in order to see the change.

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Madwen - 02 Dec 2007 04:07 GMT

> Select the message whose subject you want to change and then run this
> script.
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> However, after the script runs, you will have to click out of the
> message folder and then back into it in order to see the change.

And that's another task I've been wanting to do for a long time. Some
messages have such arcane subject lines. Thanks!

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Jeffrey Goldberg - 03 Dec 2007 01:14 GMT

> Select the message whose subject you want to change and then run this
> script. [...]

Thank you. I was just looking for a way to do that. What I was going to
do was move the message to a drafts folder, then open it for sending as a
draft, change the subject, save to drafts and finally move it back where
it belongs.

Your script is much easier to use.

-j

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Changing the subject of an incoming mail.app message