Mail - change subject line of received email

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iBlick's methind of dragging the email message to your Drafts folder, editing the subject line, then dragging the message back to the InBox sort of works. However it is imperfect because the time stamp is changed to now, and the sender becomes ME. So, not all that useful, really, since I would want to preserve the envelope info, such as who sent the message.

For simple things like this, I still miss ClarisEmailer!

Dave Nathanson

Mac Medix

Hi Baron875,

I tried the redirect method too, and it works too. However:

- the 'new' corrected message has field when you expand the Details that shows it was re-sent by you. This also shows up in the 'normal' header when you forward or reply to the message.

- the message body gets reformated with an extra level of indentation.

If the above doesn't matter, the redirect method is a relatively quick and easy way to fix the subject. The Text Edit method is a bit more involved, but does not have the above problems.

For some reason mine doesn't indent. I'm using 10.6.8 and 4.6. I've only changed the subject line. Was anything changed in the message body?

Never forwarded or replied with a message whose subject I've changed. Thanks for investigating this method deeper. On which line did it appear in "normal" headers?

Nothing changes in the message body, except the entire message is indented slightly. It's really only noticeable when you compare it to the original message.

The headers look as below (email addresses removed), with the extra field 'Resent From' having my email...

Resent-From:

From: Apple Support Communities Updates <discussions-updates@apple.com>

Subject: test

Date: 21 September, 2013 12:35:27 PM PDT

To: rjpod

Reply-To: discussions-replies <discussions-replies@apple.com>

Thanks, that works well. Pity it's not quicker, and yes, I wish it can be done as simply as going to the menu and hitting Message / Edit content (or something).

And to answer your pseudo-question of what happens to the original — it ends up in Trash automagically, which is where it should be.

Hello iBlick,

I have just tried that workaround but whereas it changes the subject in the mail itself, the original subject is still showing on my in-box list.

If I click on the original subject I open the mail with the new subject, bur I would really like to see my modified subjects in my in-box too.

We are now 2015 and we are still talking about the same problem; why does Apple make this so difficult?

I believe it was Entourage, not Eudora that first had this feature.
Strangely, Entourage - made by Microsoft 😮 - was the best Mail application for the Mac OS for many years.
(that was back in the day when Microsoft's Apple software division was it's cleverest and most profitable).

I know I can make rules to file messages, but being able to rename messages from clients (so that they're more easily searchable - both visibly and Spotlight-wise) would save me HUNDREDS of dollars of my time per week.

Too many of my clients and suppliers send emails with subjects like:
"job", or "yesterday's thing". Even though I've tried to train them over the years (by osmosis :-) ) to use my subject convention of:

PROJECT > Task > specific detail

Surely someone can write a nice like little extension for Mail.app to sort this?

And while they're there, I'd love to be able to choose to open emails from particular clients and bring that window to the front of any other apps. I miss out on a lot of urgent gigs without this feature.

I've tried your method twice. The first time it did not change the time stamp; the second time it did. I am using OSX 10.7.5 and Mail 5.3.

On mine it keeps everything the same except for Date Sent. Date Received is not altered.

Thanks for researching that for me. Also, message 14 and 20 on this forum has additional info from me about headers and "re-sent".