Save paper printing multiple Mail.app messages
Rob Griffiths at MacWorld has posted a tip 
that will reduce the amout of paper you use in printing out mutiple emails.
He outlines how to create an Automator workflow that combines the multiple messages into one for printing, how to save the workflow in a useable form and then link it to an AppleScript for efficient launching.
Saves money; saves trees. Nice.
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June 25th, 2006 at 3:00 am
Did you intentionally make the title amusingly oxymoronic?
June 26th, 2006 at 8:09 am
No I didn’t mean to, although I see what you mean. :)
June 26th, 2006 at 10:02 am
And it’s subtly teasing me to chuckle again now, appreciated for its unintended (since you said so) “it’s not meant to be funny so it’s funny” humor.
Re: the workflow.
It got me wondering if there might a way to use Automator to forward selected messages as attachments. The “Add Attachments to Front Message” is the only Mail action dealing with attachments and that accepts Files/Folders as input. And there’s no action for saving messages to files. That’s where I’m stuck.
Or, maybe there’s already some relatively easy way of doing it without Automator that I’ve overlooked?
Anyway, a “forward-as-attachment” capability in Mail would be much more useful to me than printing multiple messages to save paper. :-)