Programatically change subject line and forward mail - Google Apps [closed]

Question

Gmail groups email with the same subject line into a conversation view (threaded).

I've never had an issue with this functionality until I began using an online fax service (myfax). I can't label / store email from the fax service into different folders because it is all grouped up.

I am looking for a way to programatically break conversation view for incoming mail from a particular sender. I've gone through all the filter settings and looked at a lot of the Google Mail API. Is there a simple script I can run to pop and account by itself perhaps, add a time-stamp to the subject line and automatically forward it on? (MyFax gives me the option of changing the mailbox incoming fax notifications are sent to)

This shouldn't be too hard but I'm finding nothing in the way of doing this. Please help!

Answer 1

Two different approaches:

1. Check your online fax service, there might be some settings that determine the subject line of the fax-emails. If the subject would inlude a timestamp or any other information that makes the messages' subject lines differ, you've already won.
2. You can modify the messages' subject lines via IMAP. Not sure how to do it programmatically but some e-mail clients actually allow you to change subject lines of existing messages.

As for option #2, I can only think of Lotus Notes at the moment, which is certainly not a useful suggestion to you. Perhaps Outlook or Outlook Express allows this. I've been using Gmail for nearly 10 years now(!), so I hardly remember what it was like before.

Please note however, that it's not supposed to be possible to edit received messages -- in a nutshell, that would be forgery... but it's obvious that it would be very useful in your situation.