Hi Benny,
To start congrats on a very interesting product, and a very
worthwhile and challenging pursuit!
I don't have the technical chops to evaluate the complexity of
this request, but it seems to me that MailMate is the very best
hope to cross the rubicon of workflow automation: bridging the gap
from what rules can achieve and connect with folder-based
automators (Noodlesoft's Hazel being the best example) by enabling
some form of export as PDF/save attachments capabilities.
In setting up a paperless workflow for both company accounting
and personal finances, I have pretty much nailed everything
received on paper (Scansnap+OCR+Hazel), but everything received by
email still need to be manually saved or exported as pdf before it
can be actioned (even if it can be corralled via a smart mailbox to
make it a bit easier).
Providing the ability for rules to trigger an "export as PDF" on
both email content and a save attachment is something that to the
best of my understanding can only be done with GUI-based scripting,
and only in some mail clients.
It also seems to me that this is something that would be of
value to MailMate's more technically-inclined user base. And since
you have already gone to the trouble of adding commands to pass on
actions to task managers, this seems to me like an additional step
in that direction.
In order to work, a user would need to be able to select a
destination, and most likely to define how the exported file would
be named based on message properties. Also, in some case it's the
attachment that is of value rather than the message itself.
Do not hesitate if I can provide additional information, would
be a pleasure.
Yannick Audet
