Applescript to get email link not working

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You can try @MacSparky’s script with a little surgery to get rid of the Python stuff:

tell application "Mail"
	set _msgs to selected messages of message viewer 0
	if (_msgs is not equal to missing value) then
		set _msg to first item of _msgs
		return "message://%3C" & (message id of _msg) & "%3E"
	end if
end tell

Differences between this and the @JKoopmans script:

  • This one doesn’t put anything on the clipboard.
  • This one returns a link to just the first selected message; the other returns links to all the selected messages.

Recall that the @MacSparky script was intended to be used inside a TextExpander snippet. That’s why it just returns the URL—TextExpander takes the output of a script and inserts it.

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