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I love Postbox. I talk about it a lot. However Postbox is trying to be more than a mail client and as part of that is attempting to sneak into the world of GTD with the inclusion of todos and topics.
Now call me old fashioned but I use Things for my GTD stuff and so don’t use todos or topics in Postbox.
“Not a problem really is it?” I hear you yell. Well no until you look at the amount of space the topic row of Message View takes up. Believe me on a small screen this matters:
Sometimes OS X won’t let you change the owner of file using Finder. Annoying. Here are the simple steps to do it in Terminal.
First if you are just looking for the command it’s:
sudo chown -R _new_owner /root/to/file.txt
Where _new_owner is the name of the new owner you want to assign to the file
Now the steps:
1. Open Terminal, which you will find in Applications -> Utilities
2. Type in sudo chown -R _new_owner
3. Type the file path OR drag the file from finder onto the line after _new_owner to make the path appear.
4. Hit the enter key
5. You may have to type your OSX login password if prompted
6. Repeat for any other files you want to change
To backup your Postbox email profile browse to
Mac:
/Users/[username]/Library/Application Support/Postbox/Profiles
Vista:
Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\Postbox
XP:
Documents and Settings\[username]\Application Data\Postbox
And copy the folders named xxxxxx.default to your backup location.
If you have created a new profile then your folder may also be called xxxxx.yourprofilename.
If you just want to backup your email and not your preferences or settings then go into your profile folders and backup the Imap, Mail and sometimes Local Mail folders.
You can easily change ‘Harry wrote:’ to ‘On 25/09/09 15:34 Harry Bailey replied with:’ by following these simple steps.
Close Postbox. That’s right, shut it down before you carry on.
Backup and then open your prefs.js profile file which can be found here:
Mac OS X: ~/Library/Application Support/Postbox Vista: Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Postbox WinXP: Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Postbox
You backed it up? No? Do it now and then carry on.
Now search for the string ‘mailnews.reply_header_type’. Found it? Edit it to the following. Not found it? Add the following…
// Change the reply header
// 0 - No Reply-Text
// 1 - "[Author] wrote:"
// 2 - "On [date] [author] wrote:"
// 3 - User-defined reply header. Use the prefs below in conjunction with this:
user_pref("mailnews.reply_header_type", 3);
// If you set 3 for the pref above then you may set the following prefs.
user_pref("mailnews.reply_header_authorwrote", "%s replied with");
user_pref("mailnews.reply_header_ondate", "On %s");
user_pref("mailnews.reply_header_separator", " ");
user_pref("mailnews.reply_header_colon", ":");
// The end result will be [authorwrote][separator][ondate][colon]
Now you can go crazy with funny reply header text whenever you feel the need.
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Increased productivity comes in many flavours, but a favourite of mine is learning new hotkeys which save me time. There is also nothing quite like the reaction you get from a person who has been doing something the hard way and you show them a hotkey to jump right to it.