Is it possible to mark an email as 'replied' in OSX...

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I'm wondering... I usually read and reply my email on one of my 2 iOS devices (iPad/iPhone). When I reply, it sends a cc of the reply to my email address.

When I later collect the email on my Macbook pro I get all the messages again - like usual - of course with the sent ones from other devices.

I've set a filter in my mail.app to send those externally sent messages to the sent messages box.

Would it perhaps be possible to create a 'replied' status for the messages (the little arrow next to the message) in the inbox, linking the email to the one that is in the sent box?

This would make it easier to track if I replied and if so, what I replied.

Thanks in advance for you help!

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That's a possibility indeed, however I get loads of email (anywhere from 40-100 emails a day) so that'd mean I'd have to manually do something twice with a lot of email..

Does anyone know of a 'Automator' possibility, I'm not the best with that myself...

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Get an IMAP, exchange or MAPI based account, and then all of your folders and item read status syncs across devices.

So what is sent on one device, gets synced to sent on another. What's read on one is marked read on all others. What's moved on one is moved on others, etc.

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  On 01/06/2011 at 10:33, cooky560 said:

This is possible in "Automator" like so:

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Thanks! But - just wondering - doesn't that script just look for messages that are already marked as replied?

  On 01/06/2011 at 11:19, cybertimber2008 said:

Get an IMAP, exchange or MAPI based account, and then all of your folders and item read status syncs across devices.

So what is sent on one device, gets synced to sent on another. What's read on one is marked read on all others. What's moved on one is moved on others, etc.

I would really love to but all my email accounts are friggin' pop... Damn. Any cheap way of changing my account to some exchange server?

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  On 01/06/2011 at 11:25, RuudJacobs.NET said:

Thanks! But - just wondering - doesn't that script just look for messages that are already marked as replied?

Good question, why not run the suggested workflow and see what happens?

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I?m having the same problem. I?m with Hotmail and it still has old POP technology, which is actually new for them.

So on my iPhone, I end up having a useless, annoying bubble that remind me the number of unread messages that I actually read on the Mac.

Retarded.

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  On 01/06/2011 at 11:36, cooky560 said:

Good question, why not run the suggested workflow and see what happens?

Basically nothing happens, it runs but no results whatsoever. I wish I knew more about Automator...

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  On 01/06/2011 at 12:11, PyX said:

I?m having the same problem. I?m with Hotmail and it still has old POP technology, which is actually new for them.

So on my iPhone, I end up having a useless, annoying bubble that remind me the number of unread messages that I actually read on the Mac.

I believe Hotmail has had ActiveSync for quite some time:

http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/08/windows-live-hotmail-gets-exchange-activesync.ars

This should do what youre looking for.

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Gmail, Hotmail, and Yahoo (I think) all have active sync (exchange) and IMAP support. See if you can setup a forward from your current email to one of those free services. Forwarding is nice because you can have your emails ping your phone as soon as they are sent (because of PUSH).

Gmail and MobileMe (pay for) can be setup to check pop accounts for you as another option.

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  On 01/06/2011 at 15:27, SuperKRad said:

I believe Hotmail has had ActiveSync for quite some time:

http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/08/windows-live-hotmail-gets-exchange-activesync.ars

This should do what youre looking for.

Ohhhhhhhh sorry, I got myself mixed up again. It?s the opposite, I have that working fine for my iPhone, but I can?t figure out how to put this into Mail.app, so this is why it says I have so many unread emails on my iPhone. I will go and read my 10 emails on my Mac at night, and the next morning I have 10 unread on my iPhone. :-\

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  On 02/06/2011 at 02:32, PyX said:

Ohhhhhhhh sorry, I got myself mixed up again. It?s the opposite, I have that working fine for my iPhone, but I can?t figure out how to put this into Mail.app, so this is why it says I have so many unread emails on my iPhone. I will go and read my 10 emails on my Mac at night, and the next morning I have 10 unread on my iPhone. :-\

OS X's Exchange support uses Exchange 2007's OWA API, not ActiveSync. That's why it doesn't work.

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  On 02/06/2011 at 03:27, PyX said:

I hope it's going to change in Lion. How in hell can a mobile device have a more advanced technical feature than a desktop computer? Doesn't make sense to me.

I think that it comes down to licensing. Seems silly to me too that desktop clients don't support activesync.

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  On 02/06/2011 at 03:27, PyX said:

I hope it's going to change in Lion. How in hell can a mobile device have a more advanced technical feature than a desktop computer? Doesn't make sense to me.

  On 02/06/2011 at 03:38, Shadrack said:

I think that it comes down to licensing. Seems silly to me too that desktop clients don't support activesync.

Shadrack is right: it's a licensing issue. ActiveSync is licensed technology while the Exchange 2007 OWA API is free and open.

ActiveSync is also tailored to mobile devices, whereas the OWA API makes more sense for desktops. Hell, even Microsoft uses the OWA API for Outlook for Mac's Exchange integration.

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