[X4U] Following a link to a message in Mail.app?

Robert Nicholson robert at elastica.com
Thu Jul 13 20:27:45 PDT 2006


Yeah I think the problem is basically I have no idea what the  
filename of the message will be until Mail.app has pulled the mail  
(in this case) from the IMAP server. Unfortunately this isn't possible.

On Jul 13, 2006, at 1:58 PM, Brian Lalor wrote:

> On Jul 13, 2006, at 10:32 AM, Robert Nicholson wrote:
>
>> Q. I want to put a link in the body that actually directs me to  
>> the actual message.
>>
>> Any url style that Mail.app can follow using an IMAP connection if  
>> I give it the path to the folder and message id say in the link?
>
> I don't know of one, but it *is* possible to do with Spotlight  
> search results; clicking on a result that's an email message will  
> open the message in Mail.  You might be able to write a URL handler  
> that will direct Mail to open said message...
>
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