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10.4: Use Spotlight comments to tag Mail messages
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In addition to various shortcomings (such as not seeing the note in mail itself), there is a significant and potentially dangerous flaw with this technique and with Jeff Porten's MessageLaser script. These techniques set the finder comment. However, when you move (or copy) a message in Mail (from folder to folder), Mail will not move/copy the file. Rather it reads the file and writes a new emlx file in the new location Consequently any annotation you add with an applescript or action will be deleted because Mail does not copy the finder comments when moving messages. So if you are searching for tags, it will not turn up any previously tagged message that was moved. Mail itself has to be patched (with a plugin) to overcome this issue.
10.4: Use Spotlight comments to tag Mail messages
Ugh. Confirming this behavior. What I'm seeing here is that after you move a message, the original message is retained temporarily in the file structure and still responds to Spotlight, but the new copy does not. Thanks for pointing this out, I'll get on it. |
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