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Easily duplicate emails in Mail.app Apps
I just discovered that one may cut/copy/paste whole emails in Mail.app using the list view. For example, in order to make two copies of an email, highlight it, hit copy and then paste. Or one can also paste any letter into TextEdit.

[robg adds: How weird; when you do this, the duplicate shows up as unread, and your "unread message" counter increases in the Mail icon. I was unable to paste into any other application, however -- only Mail would accept the paste command.]
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Easily duplicate emails in Mail.app
Authored by: Anonymous on Jan 13, '04 11:14:14AM

I was able to paste into TextEdit. It even included hyperlinks and attached picture files.



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Easily duplicate emails in Mail.app
Authored by: Ortwin Zillgen on Jan 13, '04 11:43:11AM

yes, and drag & drop to other apps that use the textedit engine is possible, e.g. drag an eMail onto the description-area of ScriptEditor, even links survive.



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Easily duplicate emails in Mail.app
Authored by: gdsimms on Jan 13, '04 11:55:40AM

I was only able to paste plain text messages, though http:// hyperlinks did work. Embedded images and such from HTML mail would not paste at all. Does anyone have a more comprehensive description of when this does and does not work?



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Easily duplicate emails in Mail.app
Authored by: mweissen on Jan 13, '04 12:01:42PM

You can also duplicate e-mails by pressing the option key while dragging. This works with files in the Finder too, and probably other apps as well.



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Easily duplicate emails in Mail.app
Authored by: dogboy on Jan 13, '04 12:05:19PM

Option-dragging also works for copying blocks of text.



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Easily duplicate emails in Mail.app
Authored by: timcrawf on Jan 14, '04 12:36:36PM

I am having the same experience as rob. Can you tell us what version of the sys you are running?



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