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I'm trying to send html email from Cocoa app, through Mail.app. I want to open new message in Mail.app, include subject, recipient and add HTML Body with links and other content. But can't find the way to do this. I already tried Scripting Bridge, but MailOutgoingMessage class doesn't have content type i can add content in plaintext.
tried AppleScript, something like this:
set htmlContent to read "/Path/index.html"
set recipientList to {"[email protected]"}
tell application "Mail"
set newMessage to make new outgoing message with properties {subject:"qwerty", visible:true}
tell newMessage
make new to recipient at end of to recipients with properties {address:"[email protected]"}
set html content to htmlContent
--send
end tell
end tell
this code send email with html, only if I'm changing --send to send. But i need to send letter later, after user made some changes.
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You can choose to send email messages in plain text or rich text (HTML) format.
With your HTML email opened in Safari, choose Edit > Select All from the menu bar or press Command – A. This command highlights all of the HTML email on the screen, after which you need to copy the email using Edit > Copy or Command – C. (An HTML email pasted into Apple Mail and ready to send.)
On the File tab, choose Options > Mail. Under Compose messages, in the Compose messages in this format list, click HTML, Plain Text, or Rich Text.
To recap the problem: Using AppleScript to create a message with HTML content for interactive editing does not work (as of OS X 10.9.2): the new-message form comes up with an empty body.
This should be considered a bug and I encourage everyone to let Apple know at http://bugreport.apple.com - caveat: the html content message class property is not defined in Mail.sdef, Mail.app's AppleScript dictionary, so assigning HTML may not be officially supported.
There is a workaround, but it ain't pretty:
Implementing this robustly is challenging, because several workarounds are required. The following code tries its hardest, though:
Note: Since the code uses GUI scripting, Access for Assistive Devices must be enabled (via System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Accessibility) for the application running this code (e.g., AppleScript Editor or, if run via osascript, Terminal.app).
# Example values; use `read someFile` to read HTML from a file.
set htmlContent to "<html><body><h1>Hello,</h1><p>world.</p></body></html>"
set recipientList to {"[email protected]", "[email protected]"}
set msgSubject to "qwerty"
tell application "Mail"
# Create the message *invisibly*, and assign subject text
# as well as the HTML content.
set newMessage to make new outgoing message with properties ¬
{visible:false, subject:msgSubject, html content:htmlContent}
# Add recipients.
# !! Given the workaround below, this is currently pointless.
tell newMessage
repeat with toRcpt in recipientList
make new to recipient at end of to recipients with properties {address:toRcpt}
end repeat
end tell
# Save the current number of drafts messages.
set draftCountBefore to count messages of drafts mailbox
# !! Save the new message as a *draft* - this is necessary
# for the HTML content to actually appear in the message
# body when we open the message interactively later.
save newMessage
# !! Sadly, it takes a little while for the new message
# !! to appear in the drafts mailbox, so we must WAIT.
set newMessageAsDraft to missing value
repeat with i from 1 to 30 # give up after n * 0.1 secs.
set draftCountNow to (count messages of drafts mailbox)
if draftCountNow > draftCountBefore then
set newMessageAsDraft to message 1 of drafts mailbox
exit repeat
end if
delay 0.1 # sleep a little
end repeat
# Abort, if the draft never appeared.
if newMessageAsDraft is missing value then error "New message failed to appear in the drafts mailbox within the timeout period."
# Open the new message as a *draft* message - this ensures that
# the HTML content is displayed and editable in the message body.
# !! The ONLY solution I found is to use `redirect`, which, unfortunately,
# !! *wipes out the recipients*.
# !! It does, however, ensure that the draft is deleted once the message is sent.
redirect newMessageAsDraft with opening window
# Activate Mail.app and thus the draft message's window.
activate
# !! Since the recipients have been wiped out, we need to
# !! add them again - unfortunately, the only way we can do that is to
# !! *GUI scripting* - simulating invocation of a menu command or
# !! sending keystrokes.
tell application "System Events"
# We must make sure that the target window is active before
# we can perform GUI scripting on it.
set newMessageWindow to missing value
repeat with i from 1 to 30 # give up after n * 0.1 secs.
tell (first window of (first process whose frontmost is true) whose subrole is not "AXFloatingWindow")
if name is msgSubject then
set newMessageWindow to it
exit repeat
end if
end tell
delay 0.1 # sleep a little
end repeat
if newMessageWindow is missing value then error "New message failed to become the active window within the timeout period."
# Turn the list of recipients into comma-delimited *string* for pasting into the To field.
set {orgTIDs, AppleScript's text item delimiters} to {AppleScript's text item delimiters, {","}}
set recipientListString to (recipientList as text)
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to orgTIDs
# Save the current clipboard content.
set prevClipboardContents to the clipboard
# Cursor is in the "To:" field, so use GUI scripting to send the Edit > Paste command now.
# NOTE: Access for assistive devices must be enabled via System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Accessibility.
set the clipboard to recipientListString
my pasteFromClipboard("")
# Restore the previous clipboard content.
# !! We mustn't do this instantly, as our temporary content may not have
# !! finished pasting yet. It would be non-trivial to determine
# !! when pasting has finished (examining `count of to recipients` doesn't work),
# !! so we take our chances with a fixed, small delay.
delay 0.1
set the clipboard to prevClipboardContents
# Place the cursor in the message *body*.
# !! This works as of Mail.app on OS X 10.9.2, but may break in the future.
try
tell newMessageWindow
tell UI element 1 of scroll area 1
set value of attribute "AXFocused" to true
end tell
end tell
end try
end tell
end tell
(*
Pastes form the clipboard into the active window of the specified application (process) using GUI scripting
rather than keyboard shortcuts so as to avoid conflicts with keyboard shortcuts used to invoke this handler.
Specify "" or `missing value` to paste into the currently active (frontmost) application.
The target process may be specified by either name or as a process object.
CAVEAT: While this subroutine IS portable across *UI languages*, it does make an assumption that will hopefully hold for
all applications: that the "Edit" menu is the *4th* menu from the left (Apple menu, app menu, File, Edit).
Examples:
my pasteFromClipboard("") # paste into frontmost app
my pasteFromClipboard("TextEdit")
*)
on pasteFromClipboard(targetProcess)
tell application "System Events"
if targetProcess is missing value or targetProcess = "" then
set targetProcess to first process whose frontmost is true
else
if class of targetProcess is text then
set targetProcess to process targetProcess
end if
-- Activate the application (make it frontmost), otherwise pasting will not work.
set frontmost of targetProcess to true
end if
tell menu 1 of menu bar item 4 of menu bar 1 of targetProcess
-- Find the menu item whose keyboard shortcut is Cmd-V
set miPaste to first menu item whose value of attribute "AXMenuItemCmdChar" is "V" and value of attribute "AXMenuItemCmdModifiers" is 0
click miPaste
end tell
end tell
end pasteFromClipboard
It isn't clear what your are looking for, but I'll do my best to offer some help.
If you leave send commented, then the message should already be open in Mail.app, waiting for further editing and sending.
By adding the line save newMessage, it will be saved to the drafts folder. The user can open it and continue editing whenever they please. If you want to actually send the draft from your application, use:
set sendMessage to first message of drafts mailbox
send sendMessage
Good luck!
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I didn't see that you needed to edit the message before sending, so my previous answer was wrong. This time it should be correct.
It basically
Here is the code:
set textSubject to "HTML Test"
set toAddress to "[email protected]"
set toName to "John Doe"
tell application "Mail"
do shell script "cat ~/Documents/RTF\\ File.rtf | textutil -stdin -stdout -convert rtf | pbcopy"
set refMessage to make new outgoing message with properties {name:toName, address:toAddress, subject:textSubject, visible:true}
tell refMessage
make new to recipient at end of to recipients with properties {name:toName, address:toAddress}
end tell
end tell
tell application "System Events"
tell application process "Mail"
set frontmost to true
set value of attribute "AXFocused" of scroll area 4 of window textSubject to true
end tell
keystroke "v" using {command down}
end tell
Again, this worked fine on Snow Leopard
Hope that helped.
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