Compare Messages

Summary: Uses BBEdit to find the differences between two messages’ bodies.
Requires: Mailsmith, BBEdit
Suggested Key Binding: Command-Control-C
Last Modified: 2019-10-02

Description

Select two messages in Mailsmith and run this script to compare them with BBEdit.

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Script

tell application

 "Mailsmith"

set m1 to message 1 of the selection

set m2 to message 2 of the selection

set b1 to contents of m1 as string

set b2 to contents of m2 as string

end tell

tell application

 "BBEdit"

activate

make new text window with properties {text:b1

make new text window with properties {text:b2

compare text window 1 against text window

end tell

-- could be modified to use opendiff/FileMerge