Curious Feature: Mail.app Subject URLs

PuzzlingMail.app has a curious feature, which is interesting if not immediately useful.

If you put a URL in the Subject line of an email, and some text in the body of the message, Webkit (or whatever handles the text in Mail) turns it into hyperlink.

As pointed out in a tip on MacOSXHints , it doesn’t work if you leave the body of the message blank.

The result is a clickable subject in the delivered email:

Mail Suject Urls

It’s not clear to me how users could make use of this behaviour, especially since you need to put text in the body of the email to trigger the parsing, text which might as well be the URL itself.

Still, it’s something to blog about ;-) mail.app, apple mail, webkit, text, url, oddity, trivia

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4 Responses to “Curious Feature: Mail.app Subject URLs”

  1. Ken Burns Effect says:

    A clickable subject the spammer said:-)

  2. Tim Gaden says:

    Very cunning! That would never have occurred to me. Which is why I’ll never make money on the Internet ;-)

  3. walter says:

    I can use that feature.. esp in mailing links to my other account.

  4. george says:

    Anyone check out the new Mail.app killer called Post Box ?
    http://www.postbox-inc.com/

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