Apple Mail Message Action

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Hey Alex,

See my Updated Post #4 in this thread:

Save Apple Mail Attachments to a Specific Folder

I've provided a new working macro in addition to the previously posted AppleScript.

Tested only on macOS 10.12.6 so far.

As for saving URLs to Pocket...

  • Getting URLs out of Mail is not too big a task, but you need to know what kind of URLs you're dealing with.
    • Is it a plain-text link?
    • Is it an embedded link?

Plain text is simple to deal with. You can extract that easily with an AppleScript like this:

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tell application "Mail"
   set selectedMessageList to selection
   if length of selectedMessageList ≠ 1 then error "More than 1 message was selected!"
   set theMessage to item 1 of selectedMessageList
   
   tell theMessage
      set msgContent to its content
      return msgContent
   end tell
   
end tell

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Embedded links on the other hand get quite a bit more complicated.

Once you have the desired URL then sending to Pocket via script looks like it's not overly difficult.

-Chris

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