The Bottom Line
Pros
- Mail2iCal turns emails into iCal calendar or to-do list items
- The entire message is entered as a note and the subject becomes the iCal item title
- Mail2iCal even detects links and moves them to the URL field, enters attendants
Cons
- You cannot select the desired calendar per item with Mail2iCal
Description
- Mail2iCal takes a message from Mac OS X Mail and turns it into an event in iCal.
- Mail2iCalToDo creates to-do list items in iCal in the same way.
- The message subject becomes the item title and the content is entered in full as a note.
- Mail2iCal copies links to the URL field and enters recipients as attendants.
- The message's sent date is when the Mail2iCal-generated event takes place by default.
- The calendar to be used by Mail2iCal can be set by running it with no message selected.
- Mail2iCal and Mail2iCalToDo support Mac OS X 10.4.
Guide Review - Mail2iCal 1.5 and Mail2iCalToDo 1.5 - Mac OS X Mail Add-Ons
With Mail2iCal (or Mail2iCalToDo), you cannot do that. But you can do something similar and just about as useful.
A script accessible via the AppleScript menu, Mail2iCal creates a new iCal calendar item from the currently selected message in Mail (processing multiple emails in one go is possible): the subject becomes the item title, the entire body a note, and the recipient automatically becomes an attendant. Links in the message are even thoughtfully entered in the event's "URL" field.
Mail2iCalToDo turns messages into to-do items in like manner. While Mail2iCal is not exactly difficult to install (open "AppleScript Utility", enable the "Script Menu", launch Mail, open the Mail scripts folder from said menu and move Mail2iCal and Mail2iCalToDo to that folder), the lack of instructions can make it a tad more cumbersome than needed.
Per-message options — such as the calendar used, for example — would be nice.
