LinkABoo 0.9: Mail.app hyperlinks now with IMAP
Tuesday, November 21st, 2006
If, for some reason, you don’t use MailTags but like the ability to link to Mail.app messages in other apps, LinkABoo is the app for you.
Carsten Blüm has just released an updated version that now supports IMAP accounts.
That is to say, it works by linking to the locally-cached copy of an IMAP email.
UPDATE: The developer emails to assure me that the links will remain intact even if the local cache has to be rebuilt. So it’s a move-proof, rebuild-proof solution for IMAP users.
You can drop the hyperlinks which the app creates into any app that supports the feature, among them Yojimbo, SOHO Notes and other PIMs, productivty apps like Easy Task Manager, iCal and more.
He has also produced an animated GIF 
which demonstrates how the hyperlinks work.
The LinkABoo beta is freeware and available from Carsten’s web site .
LinkABoo is a stand-alone app that creates and manages hyperlinks to emails in Mail.app. 
Select the email that you want to create a link to. Launch LinkABoo (if you were doing this a a lot you would want to create a Quicksilver trigger for it) and it presents you with a dialog allowing you to drag the hyperlink into your other app of choice or to copy the link to the clipboard.
For example, you can dump the hyperlink into an iCal to-do’s URL field (I suppose that there are some people in the world who don’t use MailTags which is even smarter about iCal-Mail integration). 
