Comments on: Mail.app “Show Message Viewer” Shortcut

By: tris

tris — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 12:53:33 +0000

It worked perfect here . thanks a million !

By: Jerry

Jerry — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 16:29:20 +0000

My bad, I can’t read and thought you had transplanted some stuff from Tiger :)

By: Joey

Joey — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 09:14:38 +0000

Jerry,
Nope; it is just the plain old MailViewer.nib from inside the copy of Mail.app likely on your hard disk. If you’ve got the developer tools installed, you can just double click it (once inside the application bundle) to modify it yourself, if you choose.

By: Jerry

Jerry — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 02:13:29 +0000

Well regarding the NDA, I meant the .nib file, since didn’t you get that from 10.5?

By: Joey

Joey — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 00:16:29 +0000

Josh,
That is a fine point! This does seem like a better solution for the vast majority of users. Thanks for pointing out this much more reasonable customization.

By: Josh Benjamin

Josh Benjamin — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 00:02:57 +0000

I do not recommend modifying the NIB for Mail.app. It disqualifies you from getting the smaller patch version of OS updates ;-)

Instead:
1. Go to Keyboard & Mouse preference pane
2. Keyboard Shortcuts tab
3. Click +
4. Choose Mail
5. Menu item title is “Message Viewer”
6. Choose a hotkey (unfortunately Cmd-Return isn’t allowed)

By: Joey

Joey — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 22:01:48 +0000

Ha. None of the knowledge used to execute this hack was obtained under any sort of NDA. I would expect any savvy Cocoa programmer to be familiar with the technique, but I appreciate your concern!

I think Exchange support is a little more than just WebDAV/HTTPS protocol, but yes, Mail.app needs exchange support. Maybe one day.

By: Jerry

Jerry — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 21:56:32 +0000

Hey leet haxor, nice tip there. Aren’t you violating your NDA though? At any rate I really wished Mail.app supported WebDAV/HTTPS, so I didn’t have to run Microsoft Entourage.

After using Entourage though, it seems like all the synchronization features with Exchange don’t seem possible with Mail.app. But maybe they are, I’m not sure.

Haha, “Abschicken.”