keyboard shortcuts, customizing or disabling

[Hopealohikaarme]

Hi,

Is there any way to disable or change a keyboard shortcut within Postbox?

There's one keyboard shortcut that's driving me nuts. During office hours I'm a heavy user of Microsoft Outlook since it's my employer's standard software - but when I get home from work and start handling my private emails, I quite often hit Ctrl-Q accidentally because I'm used to hitting that combination for marking emails as read (and I've turned off the automatic "mark as read" functionality, because I don't want my email client to mark all my emails as read when I'm just actually browsing them and not reading them - I only mark something as read when I can allow myself to just forget about it entirely).

I'm running Postbox on Win7, and ever since from my early childhood I've been using Windows-based PCs, so even if Ctrl-Q might be a common shortcut (?) for closing programs in the Mac-world, it's really causing havoc for my email reading as I'm not used to having Ctrl-Q be a shortcut for closing a program.

So, long story short, is there any way to turn off a certain keyboard shortcut or change it to some other keyboard combination? For example, in a Windows-world it would make more sense to close a program with Alt-F4 instead of Ctrl-Q. Even a confirmation dialog "Do you really want to exit?" would be helpful, so that Postbox wouldn't just close (for example, I might have multiple emails open, and reopening them all would require me to remember where I was in my email queue and what I was doing).

Thanks!

[David Rees]

You could look at using KeyRemap4MacBook, ControllerMate, or the built in OSX key remapping. I use KeyRemap4MacBook for a bunch of stuff, and while its a little bit confusing to customize its worth figuring out.

[SaiBork]

It's been a while since the original post, but I'm a reasonably new user to Postbox. I would love for this change to be done though. Similar to Hopealohikaarme I also constantly use Outlook at work. In Outlook CTRL+Q is to mark as read. So when using Postbox I keep closing Postbox instead of marking as read. 

Really hoping there is a solution to this.

@David, we are using Windows and want to keep using the CTRL+Q option and not use mappers as that will be system wide.

[Robio]

No easy answer, but you might google "keyboard shortcut remapping windows" and see if you can find an background app that will do it for you.