MacOS on Flo's Thoughts

Ghost Messages in Mail

Thu, 20 Mar 2014 20:00:00 +0200

Apple Mail started to indicate that I’ve got a bunch of draft messages in one of my mailboxes lately. (In my case we’re talking about Google and Exchange accounts.) When I opened the drafts section I expected all those messages to show up but the list remained empty. This bothered me a lot.

Now I finally figured out how to get rid of those ghost messages and it’s rather easy: Just delete the corresponding index file.

ReadKit

Sat, 04 Jan 2014 10:00:00 +0200

Since Google Reader shut down I’ve been using Fever°. It’s not perfect, but it works for me. Especially on iOS where Reeder 2 (App Store US, App Store DE) allows me to read all my articles in the app. Unfortunately, Reeder’s desktop version never got updated to support Fever°. (At least not until the last time I checked which has been a while now.)

So, when at the computer, I had to read my feeds using the web interface which kinda sucked because it would reload every now and then and therefore lose my reading position.

Get a Message's URL to Refer to It Somewhere Else

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 19:53:24 +0200

I’ve always wanted to write a script to get a message’s link to refer to it easily from my notes in Evernote or basically anywhere else. Things does that when creating a todo directly from within Mail.app and adds the link to the todo’s notes.

As expected, such a script has already been written. By John Gruber, in this case. Works like a charm.

Unfortunately, it does not seem to work on iOS. Pasting such a URL into Safari’s address bar results in an “Cannot Open Page” alert.