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How to build Automator Service around an e-mail address selected in Safari?

I know how to arrange workflows that allow me to send either selection or URL in e-mail message to the selected persons or myself. In addition to that, I'd like to be able to send E-mail message to ANY E-mail address which is not active link but a text so that the workflow would interpret that as an E-mail address and pop a new E-mail message window with the selected E-mail address being automatically copied to the "To" field. Is it possible by means of Automator? Maybe with the help of AppleScript?


The workflows I was talking about in the beginning of this post are quit similar:

Send selected text to the person/me Send the selected URL both as the Subject and as the Message Body to the

person/me


1. Service receives text (URL in the other workflow) as input in Safari. 1.

2. Set Value of Variable ("Text") Get Current Web-Page

3. Get Current Web-Page Set Value of Variable ("URL of the page")

4. Get Value of Variable Get Current Web-Page

5. Compose a New Mail Message Get Value of Variable

6. Send Outgoing Mail Messages Set Value of Variable ("Exact time")

7.Compose a New Mail Message

8. Send Outgoing Mail Messages


In both of these I placed references to corresponding variables (URL and Time) in the Subject field but I noticed it was the only field of New Mail Message that would allow me to drag-n-drop that reference from where variables are stored. It would place text in the Text Body of the New Mail Message action successfully but I can't make it place Email variable that I created to the "To" field like in these workflows.


How do I achieve this?


Thanks.

Mac OS X (10.7.5), MacBook Pro 15.4 mid-2012

Posted on Apr 30, 2016 4:39 PM

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How to build Automator Service around an e-mail address selected in Safari?

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