Christian Roth scripsit dd. Mon, 18 May 2009 15:40:34 +0200 (internet: @611)
>Hello,
>
>applications I use (ToDo apps, CRM apps) support linking to individual
>Apple Mail mails. They use URLs of a special protocol for this, like
>many apps have started to do (message: in Mail, omnifocus: in OmniFocus,
>etc.), and those apps seem to install the respective protocol handler at
>system level so that opening a link with that protocol opens the
>respective handler application (e.g. Apple Mail), and shows the
>respective message in them.
>
>However, PowerMail does not seem to support this currently. It would
>really be great if I could do that with PowerMail messages as well. So
>I'm suggesting the following:
>
>1. Create a new protocol, e.g. "powermail:".
>
>2. Add functionality to PM to have a handler for that protocol installed
>at system level, and extend PM to being able to open such URLs.
>
>3. Devise a scheme that allows to uniquely identify and open the message
>encoded in the URL. This will probably need to include the environment (-
>path? -alias?) to identify the message database to use, followed by the
>PM-internal message ID in that database.
>
>With that, I could keep using PM as my email client of choice, but also
>"attach" email messages by reference to records in other apps I use
>regularly, or even clickable links in Pages documents.
>
>Would anyone else be interested in such a feature? Could this be implemented?
>
>Regards, Christian.
>
>
>
>
I would be interested in it.
Kind regards,
Jan M.J. Storms, M.A.S.C.I.
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