How to make applescript 'Import selected mail' work?

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1

This applescript, when used to import 2 selected emails (with plain text messages, no pictures or attachments), imports only the mail header and displays only a ‘?’ where the important part (the actual message!) should be.

I start the script from the Mail Applescript Menu.

I don’t want the headers in Devonthink, I want the message (and I mean, JUST the message, no headers at all, since that is useless info to me).

What am I doing wrong?

Regards,
Adelheid

2

Import works when:
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=“iso-8859-1”

Import doesn’t work when:
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C4C261.DB23219C"

Mail with content-type multipart are emails with notes I sent myself from my mail account at work (plain text I thought), to paste into Devonthink (done manually upto now).

Is there a way around this? (And a way to loose the header info?) Or do I have to change settings in my mail-account at work?

Thanks,
Adelheid

3

OK, edited the script and got rid of the headers. Question about the Content-Type remains.

Adelheid

4

Currently Apple’s Mail doesn’t return the body of an email if the email is a multipart-mime message. Therefore the only possibility to bypass this shortcoming is to use the “Take Rich Note” service (BTW: This command stores the sender’s address in the URL field of the new note since v1.9)

5

Do you mean incorporating that into the applescript? I see only a Devonthink import command in the script. And the file imported already has that ‘?’, so I think it goes wrong before Devonthink goes to work.

Regards,
Adelheid

6

No, services can’t be accessed via AppleScript and therefore you have to use the service on your own if an email can’t be captured via AppleScript.

7

OK, all clear. I will give that a try.

Thanks,
Adelheid