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- Question: How can I remove PriorityMail labels from my Outgoing mail?
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- Answer: Although PriorityMail filtering is a (relatively clean)
- hack into the way Mail fetches your mail, the same cannot be said
- for removing those same labels when you elect to forward an email
- w/ PriorityMail labels. A workable solution is to change the
- Mail.app's Mailer (in Mail.app's Preferences Panel, Expert preferences)
- to point to ~/Apps/Mail.app/PriorityMailSendmail
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- What the above does is installs a Mailer "wrapper", whose job is
- to first remove any PriorityMail labels before handing a message
- off to the real Mailer (/usr/lib/sendmail) for delivery processing.
- Unfortunately, the Mailer "wrapper" only strips PriorityMail labeling
- from the header of the Outgoing message. Any labelling contained
- within the body of the Outgoing message is passed through.
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- The good news is that if everyone using NeXTmail used PriorityMail
- for sifting through incoming mail, an outgoing mail filter would
- not be necessary (because the filtering is performed on the receiving
- end as an extra cleansing measure). The bad news is that installing
- this Mailer "wrapper" is not only cumbersome, but risky, because
- Mail.app does not provide any warning when a Mailer does not exist...
- therefore, it is possible, that by changing the default Mailer,
- outgoing messages could be "dropped on the floor". As a backup
- measure, one can select the Archive option in Mail.app's Preferences
- Panel.
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