New Messege

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#1

I was wondering if anyone knew of an applescript that I could put in my “speekable items” folder that would allow me to create a new messege in thunderbird when I said “Send new e-mail”?

Any help or suggestions would be awsome!
Thanks in advance,
Doug

#2

Hi Doug,

You can use ‘open location’ and “mailto:” as the url.

open location “mailto:”

this opens a new blank message in your default email app. You can add stuff to the url to fill in the subject, to, etc.

gl,

#3

Ok cool… Thanks alot for the Help!
~ Doug

#4

Hi Doug,

I was doing some review on this. Here’s an example of filling in the fields.

set the_address to “somebody@somewhere.com”
set the_subject to “Hello”
set the_content to "Hi,

How are you? I’m fine.

Bye,
Me"
tell application “Mail”
launch
activate
open location “mailto:” & the_address & ¬
“?” & “subject=” & the_subject & ¬
“&” & “body=” & the_content
end tell

This uses Mail.app as an example if Mail wasn’t your default emailer. Mail is scriptable, so you could just script it, but I don’t know if Thunderbird is scriptable so something like this might work. You can search the net for more examples on filling in more fields.

gl,

#5

Works in Eudora 6.x

#6

oh… cool thanks alot for the help guys! Ill try it out in FF.
~ Doug

#7

i tried the script in mail… mail opened up but then I got an error that says “Mail was unable to open the URL “(null)”. No associated application could be found.”

Any thoughts on why this might be happening?
~ Doug

#8

Hi Doug,

I’m using the older version of Mail, but I was reading that there was a lot of changes in Tiger Mail. It’s scriptable, but you could use the mailto form using the GetURL maybe.

set the_address to "somebody@somewhere.com"
set the_subject to "Hello"
set the_content to "Hi,

How are you? I'm fine.

Bye,
Me"
tell application "Mail"
	launch
	activate
	GetURL "mailto:" & the_address & ¬
		"?" & "subject=" & the_subject & ¬
		"&" & "body=" & the_content
end tell

There’s also a ‘mailto’ command. I haven’t tried using that.

gl,

#9

That works… thanks alot for the help! means alot.
Take Care,
Doug