Due to a PEBKAC error (Wikipedia ) on my part, this feature currently only exists in internal builds of the beta. Think of it as a mouth-watering foretaste of more MailTags goodness to come in the next public beta, not as incompetence or cruelty on my part.

A week ago I posted about linkaboo, an app that provides a framework for linking to your emails in iCal, personal information managers and many other apps.

Stupidly I quite forgot that users of MailTags’ current Public Beta can (not quite yet) do the same thing, and do it better.

But the subject came up on the beta testers mailing list today, and it is good enough to share.

In the beta, all you need to do is highlight the message, press ⌃⌥⌘U or right-click on the message in the Message Viewer and select the “Copy Message Url” option:

That copies a link in the format message://EAAEED88-B00B-4B62-9A9B-F25CF4495BF8@hawkwings.net into your clipboard, which you can then paste in the personal information manager or other app of your choice, for example, Yojimbo:

Unlike linkaboo’s links these are not formatted up as hyperlinks, but they work just as well. Right-click on the link, select the “Open URL” option and the message is found.

This is better than linkaboo because:

1. It works for IMAP accounts as well as for POP ones.
2. It doesn’t involve an additional app.
3. MailTags is God’s own preferred plugin for Apple Mail.

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