How to show mailbox email is printed from

SuperMatt · 01-30-2013, 06:54 PM

When printing from Mail in OS X 10.8, an email printed from the sent box or one printed from the drafts box look exactly the same. Is there a way to include the name of the mailbox when printing an email? I would be willing to dig into Automator or Applescript. I see there is a print plugin system for Automator, but I do not see any way to add text to an email as an option. Even an option I could entitle "print as draft" in which all it would do is add "DRAFT" text to a header on the page would be great.

SuperMatt · 02-02-2013, 11:30 AM

I saw that Automator allows you to put a watermark on a PDF in the print menu. So, I created an automator action (the 2nd step in the action is print finder item which prints it right away instead of just creating a PDF), and I can select "Print a draft" from the PDF menu and it prints the copy with the "DRAFT" watermark I made. This is great. However, it would be even better if this would automatically happen whenever I print a draft, instead of having to remember to select this from the PDF menu. I don't mind personally, but this is for somebody else who really has to print email drafts a lot for her boss to look over before sending them.

01-30-2013, 06:54 PM	#1
SuperMatt Prospect Join Date: Jan 2013 Posts: 3	How to show mailbox email is printed from When printing from Mail in OS X 10.8, an email printed from the sent box or one printed from the drafts box look exactly the same. Is there a way to include the name of the mailbox when printing an email? I would be willing to dig into Automator or Applescript. I see there is a print plugin system for Automator, but I do not see any way to add text to an email as an option. Even an option I could entitle "print as draft" in which all it would do is add "DRAFT" text to a header on the page would be great.

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02-02-2013, 11:30 AM	#2
SuperMatt Prospect Join Date: Jan 2013 Posts: 3	I saw that Automator allows you to put a watermark on a PDF in the print menu. So, I created an automator action (the 2nd step in the action is print finder item which prints it right away instead of just creating a PDF), and I can select "Print a draft" from the PDF menu and it prints the copy with the "DRAFT" watermark I made. This is great. However, it would be even better if this would automatically happen whenever I print a draft, instead of having to remember to select this from the PDF menu. I don't mind personally, but this is for somebody else who really has to print email drafts a lot for her boss to look over before sending them.