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Linking to mailboxes

#2095

Good afternoon,

How can I link to a mailbox from an external app?

My use case:

I have a moderately trafficked list that I review once or twice a week (on a prompt from Omnifocus). MailMate redirects all messages from the list to a mailbox. I'd like to save a couple of clicks and embed the link to the mailbox into Omnifocus. How can I achieve this. Can I use the search functionality somehow?

Reported by Dmitry · September 12th, 2018 @ 04:34 PM

State: fixreleased
Milestone: none
Assigned to: benny benny

Activity

  1. benny
    benny
    • State changed from new to fixcommitted

    No, searching cannot do it, but the mlmt URL scheme could perhaps be extended to do this. I'm not sure this is the best way, but I don't mind experiments. In the next update, links like this should work:

    mlmt:select?mailbox=960764AA-E69A-40D1-9747-293103CCF1CA

    The mailbox argument is the mailbox identifier you get on the pasteboard by hitting ⌘C when selecting a mailbox in MailMate. Some of these (IMAP) might require some URL escapes.

    A problem could be that such links might not be clickable in OmniFocus.

    September 13th, 2018 @ 12:07 PM

  2. Dmitry
    Dmitry

    Very cool, thanks Benny!

    I pasted the link above into Omnifocus note and it recognized it as a link.

    September 13th, 2018 @ 01:44 PM

  3. benny
    benny
    • State changed from fixcommitted to fixreleased

    November 3rd, 2018 @ 01:45 PM

  4. Dmitry
    Dmitry

    Looks great benny!

    January 11th, 2019 @ 09:23 PM

  5. David07
    David07

    For encoding, you can also refer to that tool https://url-decode.com/

    June 16th, 2020 @ 09:43 AM

  6. benny
    benny

    December 25th, 2024 @ 04:11 PM

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