How do you create url links to emails in Mail?

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Short story:
How do you create a link to a specific email in Mail.app?

Long story:
I am creating a calendar event that’s refering to a specific email. I can drag the email to Calendar.app and I can see the URL there. But how do I create that URL without dragging the email to Calendar.app?

I have heard a lot about this on the show, but I have never tried to do it before.

Bonus question:
Do the link work even though I move the email (eg Archiving it)?

Tia :sunny:

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This is probably a job for Hookmark? Haven’t played around with it much but I understand it can ‘do’ email URLs just as it can many other things

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EDITED FOR BONUS ANSWER :sunglasses:

Supercharge has this option using a keyboard shortcut. It copies the subject and the url.

I use a Keyboard Maestro macro that runs an AppleScript to copy the url only, like so:

tell application "Mail"
	set selectedMessages to selection
	set theMessage to item 1 of selectedMessages
	set messageID to message id of theMessage
	set messageURL to "message://%3C" & messageID & "%3E"

	set the clipboard to messageURL
	
end tell

Yes!

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+1 for using Supercharge. It’s also able to get links to individual Apple Notes if that’s your bag, but the Mail one is spot on for what you need.

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If you plan on doing this a lot, use Hookmarks.

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Thanks for the input!

I can confirm that Supercharge does the job as intended, and the link works even after moving the mail in question.

Awesome! :smiley::+1: