![]() ![]() When run, Last Sent opens the Sent mailbox, selects the most recent email in it, and invokes MsgFiler. To help me with this, I’ve written an AppleScript called “Last Sent.” 1: tell application "Mail"ģ: set sentBox to sent mailbox of theViewerĤ: set lastSent to first message of sentBoxĦ: set selected mailboxes of theViewer to I’ve found that the best way to keep on top of the refiling is to move my emails to the proper mailbox right after I send them. Obviously, most of my filing is done from the Inbox, but another common use is to refile my own messages from the Sent mailbox. MsgFiler works with messages selected in any mailbox. ![]() This has been a big timesaver for me on days when most of my correspondence has been on a single project. ![]() The next time you invoke MsgFiler, that same mailbox will be preselected for you. Select the mailbox you want with the arrow key (or keep typing until there’s only one left), hit Return, and the message will be moved to that mailbox. The character string can be anywhere in the mailbox name, not just at the beginning. ![]() Start typing, and all the mailboxes with names containing that string of characters will appear. MsgFiler is invoked with the keystroke combo, and a window pops up for selecting a mailbox. I use ⌃⌥⌘M, which may seem complicated, but is actually very easy to execute, because the ⌃⌥⌘ keys are adjacent and I can mash them down with my left hand without looking. Adam Tow, MsgFiler’s developer, suggests ⌘9, but you can choose anything. After MsgFiler is installed, Mail gets a new menu item, called “Move with MsgFiler.” Go to the Keyboard Preference Pane and assign that menu item to whatever keystroke combination you find convenient. What makes MsgFiler such a treat to use is that it gives Apple Mail the efficiency of mutt. But for all of mutt’s efficiency, I don’t think it’s a good choice for email today, with attachments and HTML formatting so common. Combined with bash-style filename completion, this made organizing my mail a breeze. In my Linux days, I used mutt, which had some pretty nifty shortcuts for saving messages in mbox files in any directory. I’d rather just archive the message in a mailbox specific to that project.) But that just doubles the work: first assign the keyword, then archive the message. (Since every work project has a unique project number, I suppose I could assign that number as a Spotlight keyword to every project message and use a single mail archive called Project. I’d never be able to remember which keystroke goes with which mailbox. Since I have, at any given time, one or two dozen active projects, the single-keystroke style of filing used by Mail Act-On doesn’t work for me. I have a Mail folder named “” (the brackets are to keep it at the top of the sorted list) with all the individual project mailboxes in it. I have to file the messages in unique mailboxes, one for every project. Since there’s no way to ensure a unique identifier in every message, I can’t use search to generate the document. I’m often required, for legal reasons, to produce a document containing every bit of email correspondence on a particular work project. Unfortunately, I can’t use this sort of simplified organization scheme at work. Tools like Mail Act-On work very well for this setup. It’s become fashionable in recent years to just archive your old mail in a single mailbox-or at most a small handful of mailboxes-and use search to dig up old messages if and when they’re needed. It makes Mail much more useful and keeps me from pining for mutt. I can’t believe that I’ve only just discovered MsgFiler, a Mail plugin for filing messages (duh) that works exactly the way I want. Next post Previous post MsgFiler for Apple Mail ![]()
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