How to Change Subject of Emails Received

Question

Me again. On Outlook, I could do something called "in-line editing" in the list mode. This feature allowed me to change the subject of emails that I received to something that made sense to me before I filed them in a folder. Make sense? If someone sent me an email and they called it "Hello" and I wanted to keep it and rename it, "Info on Cats," so I would know what was in the email.
I don't want to create a smart folder for individual emails, but I would dearly love to revise the subject to be meaningful to ME.
BTW: Does everyone use Mail or are there more flexible programs that you like?

Answer 1

Hi folks,
I have experienced frustration with this as well. Last year I wrote an Applescript. It works fine if you're running 10.3. For some reason I haven't been able to run it in Tiger. If anyone knows Applescript and can help I'd appreciate it. Here it is if you're interested:
-- This little script basically allows you to change the subject heading any e-mail.
tell application "Mail"
set theSubjectList to {}
set themessages to selection as list
repeat with msg in themessages
set thisSubject to (subject of msg as string)
-- I haven't been able to find a more efficient and direct way to select the message than the above four lines. I copied and pasted from another script. For some reason I can't do it without the "repeat" command.
set ChangeSubject to display dialog "What do you want to rename this e-mail?" default answer "" buttons {"OK", "Cancel"} default button "OK"
if the button returned of ChangeSubject is "OK" then set NewSubject to text returned of ChangeSubject
display dialog "The subject is now known as " & NewSubject
set subject of msg to (NewSubject)
end repeat
end tell
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