Automator. Need to send multiple photos each by one email.

Hi,

I don't use Automator for this. Instead I use the shell.

There's a small tool called "email" which can be used for what you want todo.

Just run a for loop on the pictures:

for i in *.jpg; do email -s "Picture $i" --from $youremail --to $recipient --attach $i; done

Just read the Manual of the tool. It's worth a look.

cu

Give Dispense Items Incrementally a try.

I had a similar problem and created a service to attach from finder to a new email and then I changed to Outlook and had to update it to do the same in outlook.

open automator

Under choose template select "service"

At the top of script side will be the option "Service receives selected" set to "file" in "you can choose any application but since I only want this in finder that was my choice"

select the mail program in automator so that the related actions are shown.

if you use Mac Mail

first select New Mail Message by dragging into the script.

2nd select add attachment to front message.

if you use outlook

first select Create New Outlook Mail Message

2nd Add Attachments to Outlook Messages

save the scripted service with an appropriate name such as attach to email.

From then when you right click in finder the option to "attach to email" (or whatever you named it) will be shown to activate your script.

-J

The link to download the Dispense Items Incrementally action is on the site I referenced - http://automator.us/leopard/downloads/. It has an installer application that will install the action for you.

Basically this action is used in conjunction with the Loop action to step through the input items one at a time. Once items have been passed to the action, it will ignore further items (it will just process the first batch of items passed to it, and quit when the list is exhausted). For example, if your workflow is saved as an application and you are dropping items onto it, the workflow would be something like:

-- dropped items are automatically passed to the application

1) Dispense Items Incrementally

2) New Mail Message -- fill in the from, to, etc

3) Send Outgoing Messages -- files passed to the New Mail action are attached to the message

4) Loop -- Loop automatically with a time or number setting large enough to process the items dropped

so happy to report that your methods WORKS! this is the screen shoot, of the automator. I use it for folder action.

if I pasted 10 images, to the folder, it will send the image separately, to the target email.

The method used by widartoadi helped figure out the action. However one question: how can I move each file that I have sent to another folder?

Never mind! Figured it out: you just need to insert Move finder items right before launching the mail application!