Automator help: replace text in Mail

Hugh_C

Hi,

I'm trying to use Automator to do something really simple in mail - in a message I'm creating, I want to replace one piece of text with another

for example in the message, I want to replace the string

ftp://ftp.d1023788-11.cp.blacknight.com//webspace/httpdocs/

with

http://

I've tried to find a way to do this in Automator but I'm drawing a blank - anyone with any clues out there?

Thanks,

Hugh_C

Liameter

You might be able to make a script something like this:

tell application "Mail" to activate
tell application "System Events"
tell process "Mail"
tell menu bar 1
click menu bar item "Message"'s menu "Message"'s ¬
menu item "Reply"
end tell
delay 0.5
key code 117 -- Forward Delete
key code 125 using command down -- down arrow
key code 36 -- Return
end tell
end tell

(This doesn't do what you want but it might give you some ideas.)