Re: [MlMt] note or subject modification

2023-02-06 Thread Randall Gellens
On 5 Feb 2023, at 18:36, Randy Bush wrote: the thing i miss most from VM is being able to edit a received message. you could edit anything, headers, body, ... but i think VM kinda died some years ago. randy I don't know if that's what I miss most about Eudora, but it was something I used a

Re: [MlMt] note or subject modification

2023-02-06 Thread aisrael
Thanks for this interesting discussion. While waiting for the Note option, I started modifyng the subject of a bunch of emails, and I find quite useful, especially in the situation described by Benny (and others). I understand the caveats, but for me, so far, the advantages prevail over the dis

Re: [MlMt] note or subject modification

2023-02-05 Thread Randy Bush
the thing i miss most from VM is being able to edit a received message. you could edit anything, headers, body, ... but i think VM kinda died some years ago. randy ___ mailmate mailing list mailmate@lists.freron.com https://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mai

Re: [MlMt] note or subject modification

2023-02-05 Thread Randall Gellens
On 5 Feb 2023, at 14:01, Malcolm Fitzgerald wrote: On 6 Feb 2023, at 9:36, John Cooper wrote: John Doherty via mailmate wrote (at 12:27 PM on Sunday, February 5, 2023): On Sun 2023-02-05 12:42 PM MST -0700, wrote: I have one long-term and pretty regular correspondent who nearly always u

Re: [MlMt] note or subject modification

2023-02-05 Thread Malcolm Fitzgerald
On 6 Feb 2023, at 9:36, John Cooper wrote: > John Doherty via mailmate wrote (at 12:27 PM on Sunday, February 5, 2023): > >> On Sun 2023-02-05 12:42 PM MST -0700, wrote: >> >> I have one long-term and pretty regular correspondent who nearly always uses >> terrible subjects (e.g., "question") a

Re: [MlMt] note or subject modification

2023-02-05 Thread David Ledger
On 2/5/23 19:17, Henry Seiden wrote: Gee, doesn’t sound like changing a subject on existing message is such a great idea. I’d rather send a new message with the updated info. Possible problems related making a change outweigh the usefulness IMO. Respectfully, Henry Seiden One usage case. Wh

Re: [MlMt] note or subject modification

2023-02-05 Thread Randall Gellens
On 5 Feb 2023, at 12:36, John Cooper wrote: I miss Eudora's powerful abilities too, but as Benny mentioned, they become more difficult both to implement and to use an an IMAP world. Eudora used IMAP APPEND to upload the edited message to the mail store, and DELETE/EXPUNGE to get rid of the o

Re: [MlMt] note or subject modification

2023-02-05 Thread Henry Seiden
How about this: modify the subject on the reply instead of modifying the sender’s email subject or other. For goofy subjects in the email on reply I add an additional item enclosed in brackets ([])> So I can sort by the original (“Question:” or otherwise) so it makes sense to me. Chances are

Re: [MlMt] note or subject modification

2023-02-05 Thread John Cooper
John Doherty via mailmate wrote (at 12:27 PM on Sunday, February 5, 2023): > On Sun 2023-02-05 12:42 PM MST -0700, wrote: > >> Yup, I never even noticed before that this option existed and can't really >> think of why I would want to do it. But different strokes, etc. Maybe >> someone has a rea

Re: [MlMt] note or subject modification

2023-02-05 Thread John Doherty via mailmate
On Sun 2023-02-05 12:42 PM MST -0700, wrote: Yup, I never even noticed before that this option existed and can't really think of why I would want to do it. But different strokes, etc. Maybe someone has a reason that I haven't thought of. I believe the typical use case is something like this:

Re: [MlMt] note or subject modification

2023-02-05 Thread Randall Gellens
On 5 Feb 2023, at 11:42, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote: On 5 Feb 2023, at 20:33, John Doherty via mailmate wrote: Yup, I never even noticed before that this option existed and can't really think of why I would want to do it. But different strokes, etc. Maybe someone has a reason that I haven't tho

Re: [MlMt] note or subject modification

2023-02-05 Thread Benny Kjær Nielsen
On 5 Feb 2023, at 20:33, John Doherty via mailmate wrote: > Yup, I never even noticed before that this option existed and can't really > think of why I would want to do it. But different strokes, etc. Maybe someone > has a reason that I haven't thought of. I believe the typical use case is some

Re: [MlMt] note or subject modification

2023-02-05 Thread John Doherty via mailmate
Yup, I never even noticed before that this option existed and can't really think of why I would want to do it. But different strokes, etc. Maybe someone has a reason that I haven't thought of. The only item I ever use from the Command menu is BBEdit->Edit. Don't use it that often but am really

Re: [MlMt] note or subject modification

2023-02-05 Thread Henry Seiden
Gee, doesn’t sound like changing a subject on existing message is such a great idea. I’d rather send a new message with the updated info. Possible problems related making a change outweigh the usefulness IMO. Respectfully, Henry Seiden - - Techworks Pro Co. E: infotechworksprocom W: http://tec

Re: [MlMt] note or subject modification

2023-02-05 Thread John Doherty via mailmate
On Sun 2023-02-05 11:15 AM MST -0700, wrote: I would have nothing against a Note feature, even if restricted to Mailmate, but I guess there are more important things to implement. You mention side effects of the automation procedure :what are they? From the dialog box: Be aware of the follo

Re: [MlMt] note or subject modification

2023-02-05 Thread aisrael
I would have nothing against a Note feature, even if restricted to Mailmate, but I guess there are more important things to implement. You mention side effects of the automation procedure :what are they? Alain On 5 Feb 2023, at 14:06, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote: On 5 Feb 2023, at 13:21, aisrael

Re: [MlMt] note or subject modification

2023-02-05 Thread Benny Kjær Nielsen
On 5 Feb 2023, at 13:21, aisrael wrote: > Thanks Benny, it works now. It says it has to be used with care : does it > mean that as long as the automation permission is granted, it may affect all > the message subjects? No, a subject is only changed when you explicitly change it. The window show

Re: [MlMt] note or subject modification

2023-02-05 Thread aisrael
Thanks Benny, it works now. It says it has to be used with care : does it mean that as long as the automation permission is granted, it may affect all the message subjects? Alain On 5 Feb 2023, at 13:12, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote: On 5 Feb 2023, at 11:57, aisrael wrote: I have done this, b

Re: [MlMt] note or subject modification

2023-02-05 Thread Benny Kjær Nielsen
On 5 Feb 2023, at 11:57, aisrael wrote: > I have done this, but the subject line remains imperturbable. > >> System Preferences->Security & Privacy->Privacy->Full Disk Access It's the “Automation” permission which is needed. -- Benny https://freron.com/become_a_mailmate_patron/

Re: [MlMt] note or subject modification

2023-02-05 Thread aisrael
I have done this, but the subject line remains imperturbable. Alain On 5 Feb 2023, at 3:10, John Doherty via mailmate wrote: On Sat 2023-02-04 06:27 PM MST -0700, wrote: I tried to run the command: Before it is executes there was a dialog-box to ask for some permission (I don't remember ex

Re: [MlMt] note or subject modification

2023-02-04 Thread John Doherty via mailmate
On Sat 2023-02-04 06:27 PM MST -0700, wrote: I tried to run the command: Before it is executes there was a dialog-box to ask for some permission (I don't remember exactly which one) Good point: it's Full Disk Access maybe you need to manually assign this permissions if you cancel this dia

Re: [MlMt] note or subject modification

2023-02-04 Thread Michael Nietzold
I tried to run the command: Before it is executes there was a dialog-box to ask for some permission (I don't remember exactly which one) maybe you need to manually assign this permissions if you cancel this dialog before On 4 Feb 2023, at 18:47, aisrael wrote: It does not seem to work under m

Re: [MlMt] note or subject modification

2023-02-04 Thread aisrael
It does not seem to work under my conditions (no dialog box appears). So maybe I have to upgrade to Monterey or Ventura to see this (or maybe to Mailmate 5941). I was not planning to do this now (for unrelated reasons), so maybe later….. Alain On 4 Feb 2023, at 18:34, John Cooper wrote: ais

Re: [MlMt] note or subject modification

2023-02-04 Thread John Cooper
aisrael wrote (at 9:23 AM on Saturday, February 4, 2023): > Thanks. I have tried this (with the message opened, or not), but nothing > happens (I use Mailmate 5898 with Big Sur). Is the Subject expected to become > editable? Assuming that a message is selected, you should see a dialog box appea

Re: [MlMt] note or subject modification

2023-02-04 Thread aisrael
Thanks. I have tried this (with the message opened, or not), but nothing happens (I use Mailmate 5898 with Big Sur). Is the Subject expected to become editable? Alain On 4 Feb 2023, at 17:58, John Cooper wrote: aisrael wrote (at 8:52 AM on Saturday, February 4, 2023): I vaguely remember the

Re: [MlMt] note or subject modification

2023-02-04 Thread John Cooper
aisrael wrote (at 8:52 AM on Saturday, February 4, 2023): > I vaguely remember these questions have been asked already, but I can’t seem > to find the answer in the exchanges I have kept : is it possible to add a > short note to a message (like a reminder), or alternatively to modify the > subj

[MlMt] note or subject modification

2023-02-04 Thread aisrael
I vaguely remember these questions have been asked already, but I can’t seem to find the answer in the exchanges I have kept : is it possible to add a short note to a message (like a reminder), or alternatively to modify the subject of this message? Alain___