scrutinizer82

Q: 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 4:41 PM