Request a new key binding: getSelectedMessage

Examples of utility:

I often email a link to interesting articles to myself and I have a keyboard triggered AppleScript that opens the first url found in the current message...

tell application "MailMate"
    set c to perform {"getSelectedMessage:", "text"}
end tell
set u to find text "((http|https)://[-a-zA-Z0-9&=%/._?,]*)" in c with regexp and string result
open location u
tell application "MailMate"
    activate
end tell

This allows me to quickly move down a list of messages opening up articles I've emailed to myself using just the keyboard.

Or there's this script, which imports the notification details of a new subscriber for my newsletter into FileMaker:

tell application "MailMate"
    set c to perform {"getSelectedMessage:", "text"}
end tell
if c does not contain "email:" then
    return
end if

try
    set n_f to find text "name_first:\\s*([\\S]*)\\s*" in c using "\\1" with regexp and string result
on error
    set n_f to ""
end try
try
    set e_m to find text "email:\\s*([\\S]*)\\s*" in c using "\\1" with regexp and string result
on error
    set e_m to ""
end try
try
    set f_b to find text "feedback:\\s*(.*)\\s*$" in c using "\\1" with regexp and string result
on error
    set f_b to ""
end try

tell application "FileMaker Pro"
    set current layout of front window to layout named "Email_Subs"
    cell named "sub_yaml" of current record of layout named "Email_Subs"
    set n_r to create new record in layout named "Email_Subs"
    set current record in layout named "Email_Subs" to n_r
    set cell named "yaml" of current record of layout named "Email_Subs" to c
    set cell named "name_first" of current record of layout named "Email_Subs" to n_f
    set cell named "emailAddress" of current record of layout named "Email_Subs" to e_m
    set cell named "feedback" of current record of layout named "Email_Subs" to f_b
end tell

I want to second this request. I'm moving some functionality that I'd built up around Mail.app over to MailMate. Being able to get access to the properties of the selected message would be powerful indeed.

Thanks!

I'd like to second (third?) this request as well. In my case, I'm looking for the ability to answer some email using a template. That is, I'd like to set a shortcut that would open the selected email, get the name of the sender, insert that into a template, and leave the compose window open for editing.

Thanks.