Is there any way, in AppleScript or otherwise, to quickly identify
the .emlx file corresponding to a given message in Mail?
What I'm trying to do is create text "bookmarks" to specific
messages in the form of file:// URIs, which I would then be able to
place in any app that processes text. I'm open to another approach,
if anyone has any ideas, but the point is to be able to place
pointers to a specific message anywhere I want them.
If you're thinking of using "mdfind" route remember to use the "-
onlyin" option. But if you want to work out the details of accounts
and mailboxes fully, the following takes less than 1 second OMM:
tell application "Mail"
set sel to item 1 of (get selection)
set e_id to id of sel
set bpath to name of container of mailbox of sel & ":" & name of
mailbox of sel & ".mbox"
set epath to "file://" & POSIX path of (((path to library folder
from user domain) as string) & "Mail:Mailboxes:" & bpath &
":Messages:" & e_id & ".emlx")
end tell
