mailBlast, Mobile Blasting

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Granted, it’s not nearly the ideal solution to a mobile MoodBlast, but this script will allow you to send an email from anywhere and blast from your home computer. You can use whatever rules you like to trigger it and to make it secure. Once called, the script checks the subject to see if it begins with “blast”. If it does, it will send the remainder of the string to MoodBlast…

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Code description

on perform_mail_action(info)
tell application "Mail"
set the_messages to |SelectedMessages| of info
repeat with a_message in the_messages
set the_subject to (content of header "subject" of a_message) as text
set the_content to (content of a_message) as text
if the_subject begins with "blast" then
set {astid, AppleScript's text item delimiters} to {AppleScript's text item delimiters, " "}
set blastString to text items 2 thru (count of text items of the_subject) of the_subject as text
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to astid
tell application "MoodBlast" to blast blastString
end if
end repeat
end tell
end perform_mail_action
Download this code: mailblast.txt

Save the script in Script Editor as a compiled script and tell your mail rule to call this script when the conditions are met. Then send an email to the account that will trigger the rule and make the subject something like: blast ^tjf Testing mailblast. That will send “Testing mailblast” to Twitter, Jaiku and Facebook, downcasing the first letter for Facebook, of course.