Open Mail Attachments
Open Mail Attachments
- Subject: Open Mail Attachments
- From: "John R." <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 10:25:43 -0500
Because of the recent attention towards Mail Attachments on this
list, maybe some nice person could give me advice on a similar
subject. I posted this (see below) last month, but got no response.
Note: I did my own Google searches, and proposed various alternatives
that did not seem work for me. I presume a repeat message 30 days
later is "acceptable use" on this list!
On Jan 13, 2006, at 11:04 AM, John R. wrote:
Is there a way to open a Mail attachment through Applescript?
Plan A: Standard "Open" command does not work.
Below is a simple script (what AS is great for...) to open every
attachment among the selected messages
tell application "Mail"
set MList to selection
set AList to {}
repeat with myMessage in MList
set AList to AList & every mail attachment of myMessage
end repeat
open AList --> Script error from Mail
end tell
Plan B: Neither can I ask Finder to open it, because there is no
property for a full path to the attachment file in the Mail folders
- just the file name.
Plan C: Do I have to figure out how to save to a temporary folder
and open from there? Ugh.
Any better ideas?
Since then I have become comfortable with saving temporary files. But
I still can't get Mail to either open the file for me, or give me a
full path to where it is stored. I looked into whether Spotlight
could find it with just the filename, but I don't think that will
work either. Once again, any help would be appreciated...
- John R
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