[tagraves]

I've been using Entourage (from Office X) on my G5, and it has one nice default feature that seems not to be configurable in Mail. Let me explain..

I often get many emails from the same clients (I am a sole proprietor) and to keep these organized I just drag them out of Entourage in to folders on my hard drive with the clients' names on them. If there is a mail file with the same name as an existing file (which is VERY often the case, as people don't change subject lines like they should) a smart filename will be generated such as "re: meeting tomorrow [1]" and thus I don't have to worry that I've overwritten some earlier file.

I should also make it clear that I'm NOT using mail folders in the Mail sidebar to do this. I like to keep them separate, out of the program, partly out of habit and partly because I end up having dozens of these client folders each month that I need to keep organized, sometimes deleting them if they don't pan out and sometimes having to keep them active for months or years.

On my powerbook I started using Mail just recently, and discovered that this doesn't work the same way. Both machines are running 10.5.2. If I drag an email with an identical filename in to a folder, it will automatically overwrite the older file (which really seems odd, since you can't do this in almost any other program without getting a warning dialog box.)

I know that you can do a "save as" and then put in the "[1]" yourself, but that basically involves two extra steps and I'm dealing with sometimes dozens of emails each day that I need to keep organized. And, with the Save As option, if you don't try to change the name, you do get the warning dialog box saying a file of that name already exists and do I want to overwrite it.

Is there any way, in Terminal or with a script or something, that I can get this behavior to work in Mail as it has in Entourage? In advance, I thank y'all for any help you can provide.

[FranksterOne]

You might set up a folder action for each client folder to add a date or some other info to the file name to make the distiction.

Just a shot in the dark to a degree.

-Frankster One

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