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Re: Getting texr from Mail.App
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Re: Getting texr from Mail.App


  • Subject: Re: Getting texr from Mail.App
  • From: Philip Aker <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 09 May 2002 18:48:02 -0700

On Tuesday, May 7, 2002, at 02:32 PM, giuseppe raucci wrote:

I have some serious problems in taking the text from the messages received with Mail.App: it very often gets anomalous truncations that keep from using an automated AppleScript -based handling of the message contents.

I found that after saving the message and opening it with Style, I can handle the text very comfortably, without loosing any piece of text; also, at that point I can save the message in text format. open it with BBEdit and at that point manipulate the message text in any way I want.

Is the problem the text format (rtf) used in Mail? Is there a more direct way to handle text from Mail.app?


I don't know the answer to your question but would appreciate it very much if one of the Apple Fellows on this list would give a nudge to a 'Mail' developer to show us some example AppleScripts which cover this area.

What I want to do is:

* Have an AppleScript which grabs _The Selection_ as plain text from a message into a variable.
* Prepends a return, a delimiter string (i.e. "***") and two more returns to the variable.
* Appends the variable to a file whose name is determined by the name of the mailbox the message is in, and whose folder location is hard-wired into the script.

Then I will take it upon myself to find a means (maybe with Youpi Key) to bind the above mentioned script to some hot key combination. I've made several attempt to come up with the right script for the above, but similar to your observations, keep running into weirdness.

I've checked quite a few of the Jaguar announcements. There was no mention of improvements in Mail scripting. :-/


Philip Aker
http://www.aker.ca
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