How to get formatted content of Mail.app email?

johncatalano · January 21, 2023, 3:56am

I want to get the formatted content of an email message from Mail.app so that I can feed it to wkhtmltopdf or princexml via stdin.

I know I can get the body of an email message using “content” or “source”.

I think the best way is to get the contents as raw HTML. Is this possible? Is it possible to get the body of an email, as HTML?

ccstone · January 22, 2023, 2:26am

Nope. You’d have to get the source and parse it, unless there’s some magic spell to be found in AppleScriptObjC.

Shane_Stanley · January 22, 2023, 2:43am

Yeah, you’d need to parse the source, I think.

bwill · January 26, 2023, 2:21pm

Developer of Mail Archiver here, which archives emails to a database or PDF. There is a lot of work involved in making html out of emails.

johncatalano · January 28, 2023, 2:44am