Email flags in Mac Mail

Questions & Suggestions
1

Hi all,

Has anyone devised a way of assigning different coloured flags to different keyboard shortcuts on the Mac? I use different coloured flags for different things, and it would be helpful to have an option other than the simple toggle.

Views gratefully received.

With thanks,

2

This AppleScript will set the flag of the selected message to red:

tell application "Mail"
	set msg to item 1 of (get selection)
	tell msg
		set flag index to 0
	end tell
end tell

Change 0 to 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 or 6 for different colors.
Change 0 to -1 to remove the flag

Also check out this post by Chris.

3

One additional tip, if you're using sieve server side rules, you can set colors there too!

  • Orange = $MailFlagBit0
  • Yellow = $MailFlagBit1
  • Green = $MailFlagBit0 & $MailFlagBit1
  • Blue = $MailFlagBit2 (100)
  • Purple = $MailFlagBit0 & $MailFlagBit2 (101)
  • Grey = $MailFlagBit1 & $MailFlagBit2 (110)

For example, I use purelymail for my own domain and here are my sieve filter rules for 'Green'

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4

Keyboard Shortcuts in the Keyboard section of System Settings?

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