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Get/Set text selected in a Mail.app message


  • Subject: Get/Set text selected in a Mail.app message
  • From: " Emmanuel M. Décarie " <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 09 Dec 2006 12:00:05 -0500

Hello there,

I just switched from Mailsmith to Mail.app and I'm not very familiar with the scripting dictionary. I want to do a very simple thing, which is to be able to get/set a selected text in a message. I looked around the net, and in the Mail scripts from Apple, but can't find a way. Here's a script that I used to test this.

All commented lines are generating an error.

tell application "Mail"
	set msg to selection
	set msg to item 1 of msg
	set c to content of msg
	--set s to selected text of c
	--set s to selected text of msg
	--set s to selected text
end tell

Also, is it possible that a rule use the returned value of an AppleScript to apply or not a rule? I'm asking this because I want to be able to pass the content of a message to an AppleScript calling a shell script that will grep with a regex the content of a message and then, depending of the result, return true of false to a rule.

TIA

Cheers
-Emmanuel


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