Submit Hint Search The Forums LinksStatsPollsHeadlinesRSS
14,000 hints and counting!


Click here to return to the 'A script to (somewhat) merge threads in Mail.app' hint
The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. This site is not responsible for what they say.
A script to (somewhat) merge threads in Mail.app
Authored by: ChrisKook on Oct 22, '04 06:07:24PM

I figure there is a better way to make Apple Mail recognize thread relationships.

For two messages, get the Message-Id header from the parent message and append it (with a leading space) to the content of the References header of the child message. This totally non-destructive.

If that does not work, set the In-Reply-To header of the child to the Message-Id of the parent. This might destoy an old In-Reply-To header, but should definitely work.

One could automatically pick the older message (using "received date"?) as the parent. If there are more than two messages, select the oldest as parent, and set all the other messages as children.

No need to change the subjects.

Of course, I have never written an apple script, and I have no time...



[ Reply to This | # ]