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Mail User Guide

  * Welcome
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#

Use scripts as rule actions in Mail on Mac

You can attach an AppleScript script to a Mail rule. For example, you
could have an incoming message trigger a script that copies
information from the message and pastes it into a database that works
with Script Editor.

Open Mail for me

 1. In the Mail app # on your Mac, choose Mail > Settings, then click
    Rules.

 2. Select an existing rule, then click Edit, or click Add Rule to
    create a rule.

 3. Click the "Perform the following actions" pop-up menu, then
    choose Run AppleScript.

 4. From the pop-up menu, choose a script located in ~/Library/
    Application Scripts/com.apple.mail, or choose "Open in Finder" to
    open the folder so you can copy a script into it.

    If you later move or rename the script, your rule will not work.

 5. Click OK to save the rule.

If you use iCloud Drive, your rules are available on your other Mac
computers that have iCloud Drive turned on and Mail selected in
iCloud Drive options. Scripts attached to rules aren't available. See
Use iCloud Drive to store documents.

See alsoAutomate tasks in Mail on MacBlock or unblock senders in Mail
on Mac
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