Send new email to myself

[Latency]

Hi,

 

I regularly send emails to myself and would like to use Alfred to automate the process. 

 

It would have to create a new email and set the sender field to my email address.

 

Am I missing an easy way to do this?

 

Thanks!

LT

[jdfwarrior]

Hi,

 

I regularly send emails to myself and would like to use Alfred to automate the process. 

 

It would have to create a new email and set the sender field to my email address.

 

Am I missing an easy way to do this?

 

Thanks!

LT

 

You could do this would a workflow that executes the following AppleScript

tell application "Mail"
	activate
	set theMessage to make new outgoing message
	tell theMessage
		make new to recipient with properties {address:"<your email address>"}
	end tell
end tell

[Vero]

Hi,

 

I regularly send emails to myself and would like to use Alfred to automate the process. 

 

It would have to create a new email and set the sender field to my email address.

 

Am I missing an easy way to do this?

 

Thanks!

LT

 

David's suggested one possible way to do this, but if you're not comfortable with AppleScript, you can also create a one-item very simple workflow for this. It requires hitting two keys before you can start typing.

 

Create a new workflow and add a single Hotkey trigger. Set the hotkey to what you like, set the action to "Show Alfred" and the argument to "Text" with the text "email Latency" (or more likely your real name, as you have it in your Contacts app).

 

When you press the hotkey, Alfred will pop up with "email Latency" pre-filled in, so you can hit return and start typing your email.

 

Hope this helps!

Vero

[Latency]

Thank you both for your help. I hadn't done much with Workflows before - this stuff is awesome!!

 

-LT

[deanishe]

Even simpler, an Open URL action with mailto:your.address@here.com would probably do the trick.