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Print Mail Messages to PDF then Delete
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Prints mail messages to PDF, then deletes the message.
You must first set up your keyboard shortcut as shown here:
http://www.macsparky.com/blog/2008/3/19/keyboard-shortcut-for-save-as-pdf-in-os-x.html
The MIT License
Copyright (c) 2010. Larry Staton Jr.
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN
THE SOFTWARE.
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tell application "Mail"
try
activate
set selectedMsgs to selection
if (count of selectedMsgs) = 0 then
display alert "Please select one or more Mail messages."
else
repeat with i from 1 to number of items in selectedMsgs
set this_item to item i of selectedMsgs
tell application "System Events"
keystroke "p" using command down
keystroke "p" using command down
end tell
delete this_item
end repeat
end if
on error e
display alert e
end try
end tell
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