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Edit sent and received messages in Mail.app Apps
In Mail.app, drag a received message from your In box (or any other box, for that matter) to the Drafts box.

Now, when you open the message, it will be fully editable. You can then send it off, just as if you had made a new email. No copy and paste required!

[robg adds: If you want a copy of the message to work on, instead of the original, just Option-drag it to Drafts.]
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Edit sent and received messages in Mail.app
Authored by: laurencewilks on Feb 28, '05 07:50:48AM

or 'Control'- click on the message and select 'Redriect' from the pop-up menu.



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Or: command-shift-E
Authored by: hamarkus on Feb 28, '05 08:25:48AM

Or for people who prefer shortcuts: command-shift-E



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Same as resend
Authored by: earthsaver on Feb 28, '05 09:11:35AM

Equivalent to moving to Drafts would be choosing to Send Again. This is a little more accurate that Redirect. Shortcut, of course, is Command+Shift+D, just like sending the first time; the function works based on the headers of any message, just the same as if the message previously existed in Drafts.

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- Ben Rosenthal
Q16 1.25 - Panther



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Hey MS, no need to delete your incriminating emails
Authored by: rhowell on Feb 28, '05 01:05:23PM

With this hint, you can drag an email (from anywhere: In, Sent, Trash, etc.) into Drafts, edit it and save it as a Draft, and then drag the email back into your its original location (In, Sent, Trash, etc.).

There we go, no incriminating evidence, and it looks less suspicious than simply deleting the entire email correspondence (does it?).



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Hey MS, no need to delete your incriminating emails
Authored by: mnb on Feb 28, '05 04:59:29PM

I use this trick often to clean up an email if I need to forward it to others later on or copy/paste it into an app or something. It's quite handy.

Some other apps allow you to edit a received message directly, which I prefer, but I can see why this is restricted by default.



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But, what if I only want to improve the subject?
Authored by: tomem on Mar 02, '05 12:48:50PM

What if I just want to get better sorting and search for the message based on an edited subject field? It appears that the sender of the message is changed to the current user when this is done, which doesn't exactly contribute to that cause.

Any workarounds?

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TomEM
Crofton, MD



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