10.6: Move message in Mail via a keyboard shortcut

Oct 08, '09 07:30:05AM

Contributed by: NaOH-Lye

10.6 now allows you to create keyboard shortcuts to file messages in Mail, much like the functionality of software like Mail Act-On. Of course, this technique doesn't provide the same elegant on-screen notification as those add-ons, but it works effectively and doesn't require a Mail bundle to be installed. In 10.5, users could create shortcuts, but they didn't work.

As an example, say you created a mailbox (which looks like a folder in the Mail sidebar) called Newsletters. In System Preferences » Keyboard » Keyboard Shortcuts, create an Application shortcut for Mail, and complete the Menu Title field based on your mailbox name (Newsletters, in this example). As always, menu titles must match exactly (including capitalization) and mnemonic shortcuts are easiest to remember.

Due to the increasing number of shortcuts used by Apple, plus my own extensive use of custom shortcuts, I find shortcuts which include the Control key very helpful, because they're not likely to conflict with existing shortcuts, and they are not easy to accidentally invoke.

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