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 .hyperlinks, mail.app, apple mail, yojimbo, ical, productivity, easytask, GTD

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LinkABoo is a stand-alone app that creates and manages hyperlinks to emails in Mail.app.

It only works with POP messages and it only works with Tiger Mail, but with those restrictions it allows you to create links back to your emails in any other app that supports hyperlinks. Nifty, eh?

This is how it works.

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.

Then with the click of your mouse you can open the mail from the other app.

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).

Clicking on the URL field then opens the email to remind you what the to-do or event was about:

The first time you click on the link there is a small delay as LinkABoo consults its SQL database (stored in the ~/Library/Application Support folder) and then finds the matching email. This will also happen if the email is moved, although LinkABoo finds it again fast enough.

You can also use it to hyperlink to emails from a personal information manager app like Yojimbo (or a raft of others):

Or a “Getting Things Done” (GTD) app like EasyTask (or a raft of others):

The possibilities are endless.

LinkABoo is currently free and in beta. You can get it from the developer’s web site .hyperlinks, mail.app, apple mail, yojimbo, ical, productivity, easytask, GTD

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