How to change subjects in Mail?

Question

Dear all,
after upgrading to 10.5, I gave up with Eudora as the performance was getting to slow and moved to Mail.
But now I miss one function: How can I change the subject of a received mail? I'm used to change the subject in received mails to show the status of business mails of our small wollemond-business.
Any ideas?
Gernot

Answer 1

I've tried both solutions and they work.
Bob
http://www.silvermac.com/2006/changing-email-subject-in-mailapp/
Changing the subject of a message
Subject: Changing the subject of a message
From: Michelle Steiner <email@hidden>
Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2007 18:09:49 -0700
Delivered-to: email@hidden
Delivered-to: email@hidden
The inability to change the subject of a received message seems to be the major complaint of Eudora users who have switched to mail.app. Here is an applescript that will let you do this.
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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