Email: Mailto Bulk Emailer Composer

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#1

Hey all,

I’m trying to construct an bulk emailer composer using the mailto html attribute.


set emMailto to "mailto:"
set emAdd to "testmail@testserver.com"
set emBody to "?body="
set emBodyText to "The%20message's%20first%20paragraph.%0a%0aSecond paragraph.%0a%0aThird%20Paragraph."
--set emBodyText to "The%20message's%20first%20paragraph."

set txtURL to emMailto & emAdd & emBody & emBodyText as string

open location txtURL

Objective:

  1. Create the mailto link with formatting to open up with the default email.

What Works:

  1. the commented part works
  2. Any message with no space.
  3. Any message with no “%0a” carriage return.

Issues:

  1. Applescript can’t handle text with spaces (
  2. Applescript can’t handle “%0a” carriage return.

Any help would be appreciated.

#2

Hi,

What email client are you using. The following works for me with Mail.app:


set emMailto to "mailto:"
set emAdd to "testmail@testserver.com"
set emBody to "?body="
set emBodyText to "The message's first paragraph.
Second paragraph.
Third Paragraph."

set txtURL to emMailto & emAdd & emBody & emBodyText as string

tell application "Finder" to open location txtURL

John Maisey
www.nhoj.co.uk

#3

thanks alot! :smiley: Exactly what I was looking for…

The key was this part I think.


tell application "Finder" to open location txtURL

also:
You can use (for more controlled formatting)


set emBodyText to "The message's first paragraph." & return & "Second paragraph." & return & "Third Paragraph."

instead of this

set emBodyText to "The message's first paragraph.
Second paragraph.
Third Paragraph."
#4

The Finder tell block only seems to be necessary due to the returns. I’m not sure why that would be.

John M

#5

thanks john.

Yeah I know it seems odd that it parses the default mailto formatting as text but I guess it take the string as text not as a true mailto link.