Joe RS
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Q: Attaching eMail To Calendar Event

Is there an easier way to attach an eMail from Apple's Mail program to a Calendar event when not using data detectors than the following:

 

Create Calendar event first, then open the event, drag email message from Mail application into the "url" which then gives you a "Show in Mail..." link

 

The intuitive way to create an event with a mail item when not using data detectors like "Sunday at noon" in the email would be to simply drag the mail item onto the Calendar but this will not create a Calendar event.

 

I'm posting this here because I want to make sure I am not missing something regarding the interaction between Mail and Calendar. I have to keep re-learning how to do this when there is no data detector in the Mail message. I keep forgetting to make the event first and then drag the message into the calendar event.

MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.1), 16 GB RAM

Posted on Sep 6, 2012 6:39 AM

by Ramon Calvo,Solvedanswer
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A:

Foward the email to your self and put the date you want on it

 

"10/16/13" for example. Then when you recieve the email the date will be blue and underlined. If you click on it you will have the option of add to the canlendar, create a reminder ect.

Posted on Oct 11, 2013 9:34 AM

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  • by Ramon Calvo,Solvedanswer

    Ramon Calvo Ramon Calvo Oct 11, 2013 9:34 AM in response to Joe RS
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    Oct 11, 2013 9:34 AM in response to Joe RS

    Foward the email to your self and put the date you want on it

     

    "10/16/13" for example. Then when you recieve the email the date will be blue and underlined. If you click on it you will have the option of add to the canlendar, create a reminder ect.

  • by Joe RS,

    Joe RS Joe RS Oct 11, 2013 1:16 PM in response to Joe RS
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    Oct 11, 2013 1:16 PM in response to Joe RS

    That works. I was hoping there was a simple drag and drop from the original email but this will do it.

  • by louisaloch,

    louisaloch louisaloch Oct 14, 2013 3:09 AM in response to Ramon Calvo
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    Oct 14, 2013 3:09 AM in response to Ramon Calvo

    thanks - that's really helpful.

  • by Evan Roth,Helpful

    Evan Roth Evan Roth Mar 21, 2016 6:46 AM in response to Joe RS
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    Mar 21, 2016 6:46 AM in response to Joe RS

    A little late, but I just ran into this and found a solution so thought I'd share.  You need to get the "Message-Id" attribute of the email you want to link to—there's two ways to do this:

     

    • One-time case: in Mail, go to View->Message->All Headers or use the Shift-Command-H shortcut
      • Copy the "Message-Id" attributes—will look something like this:

    X-Smtp-Server: smtp://xxxxx@xxx-smtp.mail.me.com

    Message-Id: <5BF95447-3C47-40E0-8A0B-16AE69B66F75@xxxx.com>

    References: <A134587D-AAE1-4574-9703-8DF8CB1DE70A@xxx.com>

    • Permanent case (i.e., you always want to see the email Message-Id displayed any time you view an email message)
      • Go to Preferences->Viewing
      • In the drop-down menu next to "Show message headers" select "Custom"
      • Another screen displays with text of "The headers in the list below will be displayed when you view message"
      • Click the "+" sign to add a new header display key
      • Type "Message-ID" and press "Ok"
      • Ref'ed from http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20071118154803739

     

    Once the message ID is displayed, copy everything between the two brackets—using the example above, copy "<5BF95447-3C47-40E0-8A0B-16AE69B66F75@xxxx.com>." In a text editor, type "message://" and then paste the copied text.  Your string should look like "message://<5BF95447-3C47-40E0-8A0B-16AE69B66F75@xxxx.com>." This is the direct systemwide link to your mail message.  You can use this as the URL in your Calendar event (when you paste it in, Mail will change it to "Show in Mail...") and if you paste this link into Safari it will take you directly to your email message.

  • by Joe RS,

    Joe RS Joe RS Mar 21, 2016 6:47 AM in response to Evan Roth
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    Mar 21, 2016 6:47 AM in response to Evan Roth

    Hi Evan Roth

     

    Thank you very much for your answer!

     

    That's great information.

     

    Best regards,

     

    Joe

  • by soltltym,

    soltltym soltltym Apr 15, 2016 11:26 AM in response to Joe RS
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    Apr 15, 2016 11:26 AM in response to Joe RS

    These are ridiculous work arounds. Mac is supposed to be intuitive and easy? Even in Outlook, I can just drag emails, events, contacts, etc. from one place to another without jumping through any hoops. I don't want to "link" an email to an event? What if the email moves to the trash? I want to copy it to my calendar, so I will have it as a reference, months or years from now. I want a permanent "attachment", not a link. That goes for contacts as well. I realize we leave in a "temporary" world, but history is a wonderful tool to have around.