My goal?
To tag emails in OS X.
What I succeeded into?
I use the Find command in /Users/MyMacAccount/Library/Mail/V3/ with a significative word contained in the email I am looking for, then I tag the email.
Note:
After this I can easily find all tagged emails with the find command in Apple Mail. I think this tip could please a lot of users.
How could it be done better?
To right click on the email and directly locate it in the Finder.
Note:
In past OS X (I am under 10.11.x El Capitan) it was possible to locate an email by command clicking on his title bar. A menu appeared with the actual path on the hard drive. It seems Apple disabled this so we can only see account's name.
What could I do instead?
To use the colored flags in Apple Mail… Frankly, who remembers why he or she colored one email in orange or purple ?
In the past, there was MailTags paid plugin, but it seem it wasn't updated for a long time.
I thought I could easily almost find recent emails if I sorted the V3 folder by Date but this is a slow process to be accomplished by the Finder.
Any better idea ?
Thank you.
Best Answer
This is work around, but it works for me, and it travels through all MacOS versions from I guess Mountain Lion (not sure when, made it long time ago). Not sure if it is still relevant, but since I found question without answer in search for the same, decided to contribute. Here what I did: with automator create new service for Mail app, "Get Selected mail message". In code I have put:
What it does - is finds mail message file in Finder and selects it. Then you can add tags to that particular file. After only thing remains is to assign a shortcut in the services (under keyboard).
Choose Service receives selected, "files or folders" in "Mail.app" when creating your Automator Service.
Regards Justas