above 'March 2008') you can now press Apple+2 to get to Week view. But if you move the cursor out of the calendar (i.e. With the cursor/message still over the Calendar part of iCal press Apple+2. That's the hint part, here's the weird part: Notice you can now see what day the message will be dropped into. Notice there is no easy* way to drag-and-drop Click and drag a Mail message into iCal. I think this may be more of a bug than a hint (or both), because strange (though insignificant) things can happen when you start experimenting. Without Applescript, the only other way I know to link Mail messages into iCal is by using the URL field, but I dislike 'editing' iCal events (Apple+E or double-clicking an event) - which is why I use week view (so I can just press 'return' to edit without the 'edit' menu). Perfect for setting a reminder to read an e-mail at a specific day/time. You can drag-and-drop an e-mail message from Mail into iCal, but only in iCal's Month view! I wish I would have tried this sooner, but I never use month view.ĭrag-and-dropping into Month view creates an event with the Mail message link/alias that, with one click, opens my e-mail message in Mail. To test this, try pasting your link into Safari it should jump to the message in Mail. You can link to this message from other applications with a URL of this form: Find the line that looks something like this: To test/use, view the message as either raw source (Command-Option-U), or with long headers (Shift-Command-H). you can now link to any message in Mail from other applications.

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