remove mail attachments (annoying email signatures)

Scripting Forums AppleScript | Mac OS X
#1

Hello. I’m new to this forum. Hopefully someone has a simple answer for a problem that’s been plaguing me for months.

I’m trying to remove email signature images from Apple Mail messages automatically.

I can get Mail’s rules to identify messages that contain “image001.gif” (ie.: if Any Attachment Name is equal to image001.gif…) but there is not action to remove the attachment or filter the content in any way. The simple answer seems to be to run an applescript on the message, but I don’t have any applescript programming experience.

Can anyone help me with this? Any help would be much appreciated!

Alex

#2

Hi Alex,

welcome to MacScripter :slight_smile:

Unfortunately there is no way to remove attachments with AppleScript,
unless you evoke the menu item with GUI scripting, but I just noticed,
that choosing Remove Attachments from the Message menu causes Mail.app to crash on my machine

#3

rats… I had a feeling that might be the case. I guess all I can do is hope for some kind of solution in the next version of Mail that’s coming out with Leopard.

Thanks anyway!