Email-type attributes show an envelope icon button in Displayed Attribute tables and Get Info/attributes. Pressing this button creates a new draft email message using the host Mac's current email client
The email message is created and opened (but not sent) with the following already filled in:
- 'To' addressee.
- 'Subject' is optionally set via $EmailSubject.
- Styled $Text is added as the body copy of the message.
Adding a subject and any CC addressees, etc., is left for the user to edit before they send the email.
This feature is not design to auto-send complete messages but to pre-populate predictable parts of a draft email to make it easier to generate email from Tinderbox data.
Using an email Template
It is possible to generate more complex email content using an email export template ($EmailTemplate). The latter uses standard export template code so can use not only $Text but content from other attributes (and/or from other note(s).
If the current note's $EmailTemplate specifies a valid template, that template is applied to the current note and the result of that export is used to set the body copy of the draft email message.
See also—notes linking to here: