[MlMt] Adding header fields to message view (was " attachment in headers display")

[Verdon Vaillancourt]

On 24 Apr 2019, at 13:17, Bill Cole wrote:

> On 24 Apr 2019, at 11:30, Verdon Vaillancourt wrote:
>
>> On 24 Apr 2019, at 11:23, Randall Gellens wrote:
>>
>>> On 24 Apr 2019, at 7:49, Verdon Vaillancourt wrote:
>>>
>>>> Related to this, but not concerning attachments…
>>>>
>>>> Is there a low-level way to hack what is displayed in the header 
>>>> area of a message view? Specifically, the company I work for uses 
>>>> gmail corporate, and a lot of  ‘delegation’ access to special 
>>>> accounts. In other words, I can login to my account and have access 
>>>> to send and receive on behalf of some generic accounts like 
>>>> support@ and info@ and so on. People using the gmail browser client 
>>>> can see what delegate was sending on behalf of that account. I of 
>>>> course cannot see that in MailMate. The delegate information is an 
>>>> extra field in the message’s header.
>>>
>>> You want to add a specific header field to the set that is shown in 
>>> a message view?  That seems very useful.  I don't see an easy way to 
>>> do that.  Perhaps someone else on the list can answer.  (It might be 
>>> possible to edit the MmMessagesWebView/stylesheet.css, as mentioned 
>>> in https://manual.mailmate-app.com/customization, but I don't know 
>>> and have never done it).
>>>
>>> The View -> Show Raw Message command will show all header fields, 
>>> but likely this isn't what you want.
>>>
>>> --Randall
>>
>> Thank you for the reference to the customization page. I’d 
>> forgotten that and will look there. Your understanding of the 
>> scenario is exactly right. Also thanks for changing the subject of 
>> the message. I should know better ;-)
>
> The main file you need to override is 
> /Applications/MailMate.app/Contents/Resources/Layouts/headersFormatting.plist 
> so you need to create ~/Library/Application 
> Support/Resources/Layouts/headersFormatting.plist. You should start 
> with a copy of the original and adapt it. You might also need to 
> supplement 
> /Applications/MailMate.app/Contents/Frameworks/OakMIME.framework/Versions/A/Resources/specifiers.plist 
> which is done by adding a file with additional parser definitions at 
> ~/Library/Application Support/MailMate/Resources/specifiers.plist

Thanks for the tip on where/how to override the specifiers file. For my 
circumstance, I believe I will need that as well as the formatting file. 
Should be fun!

v