Attaching or linking emails

[Trevor Harmon]

On Mar 27, 2006, at 1:21 PM, David Emme wrote:

>> It seems like one could do better by simply cutting and pasting the
>> entire email into the outline.
>
> "do better" is a matter of definition, or of personal taste. I
> implemented what was convenient and useful for my needs, and  
> offered the
> script for whatever it is worth as my poor substitute for the  
> clickable
> link requested by the OP (which I would like to have, too). If you  
> have
> other needs, feel free to ignore the script.

Sorry, I didn't mean that to come out sounding like your script  
wasn't useful! I appreciate you posting it. My statement above was  
just me thinking out loud. I was confused because cut-and-paste gets  
the header info anyway (which can later be used to manually locate  
the context of the email) in addition to the body (saving lots of  
time when the body is all you need). But if you want to avoid  
cluttering up an outline with message bodies and only want the header  
copied over, your script is ideal.

I guess the next step -- and this is what I'm working on myself -- is  
to figure out how to write a script that can take email header  
information stored in an OmniOutliner row and then locate that  
message in Mail (opening it not in a window by itself but in the  
mailbox where it's stored, so you get all the context). I've been  
experimenting with how to do this in Mail, but its AppleScript  
interface seems rather unintuitive and underpowered. I'm starting to  
think what I want to do isn't even possible in Mail. Perhaps the  
story is brighter in Mailsmith?

Trevor