Creating inline attachments for Mail.app

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#1

Hi!

I was wondering whether i could create inline file attachments for mail. I’m using Mail.app v3.2 and script editor v2.2
I’m able to create attachments after the last paragraph, but now if I want to insert it inline?
Is it possible?

also, i understand that I can change the contents of an outgoing message by doing

set contents of theMessage to “ABC”

but say I want to append to the same contents of the message, what I’ve tried and failed was


tell application "Mail"
	
	set theMessage to make new outgoing message with properties {visible:true}
	
	tell theMessage
		set content of theMessage to "ABC"
		
		set content of theMessage to (content of theMessage & "DEF")
		
	end tell
	
end tell

my log for this script is

#2

Hi,

you can make an attachment after or before every paragraph you want,
like


tell application "Mail"
	set theMessage to make new outgoing message with properties {visible:true}
	tell theMessage
		set content to "ABC"
		set content to (get content of theMessage & return & "DEF")
		tell content to make new attachment at after first paragraph with properties {file name:(choose file)}
	end tell
end tell
#3

Hi

Thanx! I woke up today thinking of the same thing! Inserting the attachment after certain paragraph number.

Thax a lot!

#4

Hi!

i seem to still have problems appending additional text after I’ve set the contents of theMessage
although the log shows

but on my message window I can only seee ABC, have i missed a step or anything? I was expecting “ABC return DEF”