Automator actions for Mail.app
The Automator 
web site contains a treasure trove of actions and tutorials on harnessing the power of Mac OS ’s X Automator.
Some of these actions work with Mail.app to automate it and help you get things done more quickly.
Desktop Mailer offers three Automator actions to speed up the emailing of files.
Following the step-by-step tutorials creates three actions that can be added to Finder’s Contextual Menu, allowing you to add a selected item to a new mail message, to archive selected items in a zip file and email them or to just add selected items to an email:
Of course, you can do some of these things with Quicksilver or simply by dropping the files onto Mails Dock icon, but this way may suit some people better.
Another workflow automatically adds photos in emails from particular senders to a project in your Aperture library.
The iWeb Action Pack adds five Automator actions to iWeb, including one that will automatically extract images from cell phone messages sent to your email account and add them to your iWeb blog.
[Thanks, Nyhthawk, for the tip]
Tags: aperture, Apple Mail, Apple Mail Tips, automation, Automator, files, iweb, mail.app, pluginsRelated posts
May 28th, 2006 at 8:22 am
MacBreak have an episode (#3) with Sal Soghoian (AppleScript product manager at Apple) that’s a great introduction to Automator. I would highly recommend it to anything thinking of giving Automator a go, or thinking of introducing someone else to it.