Re: [Evolution] Changing subject lines of received emails - my changed email subject

[andy <geek_show dsl pipex com>]

Reid Thompson wrote:

On Tue, 2008-05-20 at 12:20 +0000, Pete Biggs wrote:

  

Or what about 'redirect'ing the mail to yourself i.e. 

  Message -> Forward As -> Redirect

Then fill in your own address as the To: and change the subject line to
whatever you want.  This will cause a new message to be created (which
is the only way of doing what you want), but will retain the rest of the
email intact.

This would also be a way of dealing with removing attachments.

Pete
    

Edit as New Message, Save Draft does create a 'new' message -- it's
essentially a copy with modifications.  The Message-id is changed
i.e. the message id from your email
Message-id: <1211286042 27697 19 camel snoopy chem ox ac uk>

Edit as New Message, Save Draft

the message id from the Draft
Message-id: <1211286858 26126 9 camel raker ateb com>

and placing both emails in the same folder with threading on, lists the
draft as a thread child to your email
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Dear Paul, Reid, Patrick & Pete

First off, thank you very much for all of your replies and suggestions. Those are all very much appreciated and there are a number of pretty decent workarounds contained therein.

My wife has seemingly stumbled on a fix that she feels comfortable with which is a variation of something already suggested: she will merely forward these emails to herself with the subject line she wants that will be meaningful to her and delete the original. It's a bit of a pain, but I will monitor some of those emails and see if there is some way that I can (semi-)automate this process - e.g. when an email from Companies House arrives, set a rule to forward it to her email address and so it will pop-up waiting for a new subject line.

Once again, thank you so much from both of us!

You're a good crowd.

All the best

Andy

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