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Created November 8, 2011 21:43
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Get the message:// URL of the selected message in Mail.app
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GetMessageUrl
tell application "Mail"
set selectedMsgs to selection
repeat with theMsg in selectedMsgs
set message_url to "message://%3c" & (the message id of theMsg) & "%3e"
tell application "Finder"
set the clipboard to message_url as text
end tell
exit repeat -- leave the repeat loop after one pass
end repeat
end tell
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This AppleScript will grab the URL for the selected message in Apple Mail. If more than one message is selected, it will grab the URL for the first selected message and ignore the rest. The resulting URL will be shoved onto the system clipboard for pasting elsewhere.

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