Can I change the Subject line of a saved email?

Sometimes I save an email and want to revise the subject line so it's more descriptive of what's actually in the message. I remember being able to do this in Outlook, but can't quite figure out how to do it in Apple Mail. (And I don't want o have to forward it to myself, as that changes the From line.)
Is there a way to simply edit the Subject line of a saved email?

Actually, MailTags will kind of do what you want. You can tag a message in a number of ways, and one of them is to make a note, and display that note as the subject of the email. For example, I have a message:
Re: Re: Initial generic topic
Which actually contains useful information, so in MailTags I make a note "Pablo's Thesis Results" and click "Show as Subject", and now I see the subject as
Pablo's Thesis Results
Matt

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How do I change the subject line on incoming email

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This site tells you how to edit the subject of a message. I just tested using OS X 10.8.5 and it worked, without altering the time & date stamp, or the original sender info.
http://email.about.com/od/macosxmailtips/qt/et_edit_receive.htm
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Drag and drop the desired message out of Mac OS X Mail onto the Desktop.
Ctrl-click on the message copy on the Desktop.
Select Open With | TextEdit from the menu.
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What email program are we referring to?

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I'm not sure if this is intended or not, but a coworker of mine pointed this out to me. Are you supposed to be able to edit the subject line in an email that you receive from someone, BEFORE replying to it? For instance if you double click on an email to
view it in a separate window you can select the text in the subject field, edit it. and save it as the original.
Example here http://tinypic.com/r/2bdykh/7
In this example the subject line originally read "This is a test.". I've deleted "est." leaving what you see.
You can then save it so that it looks like the person who sent the message sent it to you with a completely different subject. (I can see where this could be used maliciously within the workplace or otherwise).
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Arjan is actually right. You can always edit the SUBJECT of a message.
It is just not so obvious how you have to do it - although Arjan described it.
This is because you first have to ENABLE editing of a message (email).
1) open one mail you want to change by double-clicking it
2) press the button which looks like a hyphan with a triangle under it in the top row on the right which opens a pull-down menu to access 'Customize Quick Access Toolbar'
3) choose 'More commands
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6) press the 'Add button' so that it gets added to the Quick Access Toolbar of an opened email / message
7) confirm by pressing 'ok'
If you now press the new (green) Edit Message button in the email you opened you can go to the subject line and change it to you needs, afterwards press the save-button
-> the email gets saved with the new subject
Once you enabled editing of an email you can easily do it for every mail without to running again through the whole procedure.
Thanks Arjan for the hint - I was already searching since long for a solution of this 'problem'. I use it to rename titles of emails which had either no subject, a wrong or misleading title. This helps me to find them easier back.

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How can I edit the Subject Line of an email I've received?

When the sender inserts vague or misleading text in the Subject Line (or leaves it blank), sometimes I'd like to edit it - makes organization and retrieval of information which might be in the email easier for me.
I've tried opening the email file with a text editor (TextWrangler) and editing the "Subject" line. That partially works: When the message is open for reading, my edited Subject appears near the top of the message.
However, when looking a list of emails in a Mailbox, Mail still displays the unedited Subject - which defeats my purpose.
What am I missing, here?
-gw

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I use Go Daddy Web Mail and FireFox may be preventing me from being able to put text into the subject line when composing an email.

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