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Re: Q: "Linking" to mail messages?
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Re: Q: "Linking" to mail messages?


  • Subject: Re: Q: "Linking" to mail messages?
  • From: Jack Nutting <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 12:32:19 +0100

On 1/16/06, Andrew Farmer <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> On 16 Jan 06, at 09:47, Leonard Budney wrote:
> > I want my app to support drag-n-drop with Mail.app, so that dropped
> > messages become links in my document. When the user clicks the
> > link, I want Mail.app to open and display the message. Any pointers
> > on how to accomplish this?
>
> If you look at the contents of a dragged Mail message in Clipboard
> Viewer, you'll note that the primary data type is "MV Super-secret
> message transfer pasteboard type". This sort of suggests to me that
> you aren't really supposed to do this...
>

FWIW, someone did figure out a workaround for this a while ago.  I haven't
used it myself yet, but here it is:

http://www.wuffwuffware.com/developer.html

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