In Mail is it possible to copy the date and time to the clipboard from a mail message
In my todo list, I like to refer to email messages based on the date they were received so I can simply find the message at a later point.
For example,
- Follow up locking issue (see Peter's email 25th Feb 2014 18:04)
Rather than transcribing the message date by hand, I'd rather copy it from the mail message and paste it into Notes but this doesn't seem possible.
There is no selection cursor when I hover over the date, just a "grab hand".
Are there any tricks to copying a mail message's date to the clipboard?
This doesn't get you the date in text format, but when I grab using that grab hand cursor I can drag it into notes. There is then an icon with the subject of the email which, when clicked opens that email (albeit in a new window).
Might be helpful.
Apparently there is no option to copy date directly from mail message, neither in regular view, nor in "sort by thread" view.
The fastest method that I came up with was to reply to the email message and copy date from quoted part of it and discard draft afterwards
You could use the messages show Header to copy that and more or any information from.
Originalarrivaltime: 26 Feb 2014 14:05:34.0926
You could use the screen shot of the mail and paste that in notes.
