I used the Things bundle as a template because I wanted to set up rules for my inbox that would create specific tasks and projects in Things based on certain criteria. Go to ~/Library/Application Support/MailMate/Managed/Bundles and locate the Things.mmbundle file.Set Up Custom AppleScripts for MailMate Rules In fact, I still don’t know how to define a bundle or properly describe it to someone else, but that hasn’t stopped me from successfully creating about a dozen of them. Solution: For each AppleScript that you want to run, you have to create a custom bundle in MailMate, which isn’t nearly as intimidating as it might sound, even for a non-developer like me. There is a way to do this with just a few minutes and some careful attention to detail. This is one thing-quite possibly the only thing-that Apple’s Mail.app does more easily than MailMate. Problem: MailMate doesn’t have an easy, built-in way to trigger a custom AppleScript. That’s an AppleScript that I want my Mac’s email client to trigger automatically. This can happen at any time, and in order to make sure that I don’t miss anything for any child’s adoption, I’ve created an AppleScript that adds a new project to Things whenever I get that email. For example, whenever a family begins a new adoption and sends us the information on the child(ren) being adopted, there’s a series of tasks that I need to do in order to get things rolling for them. Goal: In addition to recurring tasks that I need to do on a regular, ongoing basis, there are other sets of tasks that I need to do on a recurring but non-regular basis. (See this post from MailMate’s developer for more information.) I haven’t yet figured out how to work around this as a non-developer, but if I do, I’ll update this post further. Now, however, the bundles are downloaded and installed from GitHub when you enable them in the preferences. All the bundles you could enable in the app’s preferences pane used to be installed with the app. I discovered today that the bundles behavior of MailMate has changed since I wrote this post.
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