Attaching or linking emails

[Kai von Fintel]

On 3/12/06, Simon <donkeyotay at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
> Is there anyway to link to emails in Mail.app. At the moment I'm
> saving emails as text files then linking. This is tedious but I need
> to be able to track emails for projects.
> Best wishes
> Don

Hi, I'm coming late to this thread. As someone else mentioned,
MailTags can link to the individual file that contains an email
message. So, it must be possible. Indeed, it is. Some googling
revealed a script that I modified a bit. When you're in Mail and have
a message selected, this script will use Spotlight to find the
corresponding file and put its URL in the clipboard. Switch to OO3 and
paste the link. I assume that more fancy scripts would do the
insertion into OO3. If anyone develops such a thing (in particular for
interaction between Mail and kGTD), please post it here.

Here's the script:

tell application "Mail"
	
	set theSel to selection
	set theMsg to item 1 of theSel
	properties of theMsg
	message id of theMsg
	set msgID to id of theMsg
	log msgID
	
	set theScript to "mdfind -onlyin ~/Library/Mail  " & quote & "
kMDItemFSName == " & msgID & ".emlx" & quote
	set theMsgFile to do shell script theScript
	
	set the clipboard to ("file://" & theMsgFile)
	
end tell

-- Based on a script from
http://homepage.mac.com/brettgross/AppleScripts/AppleScripts_Mail/AppleScripts_Mail.html

All the best,

Kai
http://semantics-online.org/fintel