{"id":42118,"date":"2024-02-14T14:18:55","date_gmt":"2024-02-14T19:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=42118"},"modified":"2024-04-08T11:06:46","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T15:06:46","slug":"mail-and-preview-working-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/14\/mail-and-preview-working-together\/","title":{"rendered":"Mail and Preview Working Together"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wade Tregaskis<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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…after I’d filled out a form PDF that was emailed to me. It had exactly the option I wanted first and foremost, to send the completed PDF back to the sender.<\/p>\n

Sure, manually digging up the completed PDF from disk and dragging it into a Mail Compose [Reply] window isn’t hard<\/em>, but it just feels so thoughtful<\/em> when the system saves me the effort. Knowing that someone, somewhere, actually thought through how Mail & Preview might be used, and thought enough of their users to go to the trouble of implementing this.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This does not happen when editing an image file. Is it only for PDF forms?<\/p>\n\n

Unlike with kMDItemWhereFroms<\/a>, there does not seem to be a public API, e.g. so that a third-party mail client could make the same information available to Preview or a third-party document editor could access the information from Mail.<\/p>\n\n

The metadata seems to be stored in the com.apple.metadata:kMDLabel_6wu35kendfqeclnscacnwxtp5a<\/code> extended attribute, which seems to be encrypted. I guess this is to prevent accidentally sharing it with other Macs because on the same Mac it’s accessible using mdls<\/code>. Finder also displays an envelope badge on files with this attribute and displays some of the e-mail information.<\/p>\n\n

Update (2024-04-08): Simon<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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So far so good I guess. But did you know that when you select such a file in column view it now displays that email icon and a link (to Mail, and in my case non-functional) INSTEAD of the file size in the location where the file size used to be? So in order to see the size of a file that came as an email attachment I’m now having to open a Get Info window.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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