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on create_mail_emlx_files_attachment_of_selection()

tell application "Mail"

-- get the mail selection

set myMessages to selection

--do it to every selected mail

repeat with m in myMessages

--get the folder where the emlx file is stored in

set mypath to quoted form of POSIX path of ((account directory of account of mailbox of m) as alias)

--get the id of that message (should be unique within each account)

set myid to id of m

--find the folder where this unique email (by id) is stored in

set myfolder to quoted form of (paragraph 1 of (do shell script "find " & mypath & " -name '" & myid & "*.emlx*' -exec dirname {} \\;"))

--create a compressed tar archive of this message and open this gzipped files with Apple Mail (-> attach it to a new message).

do shell script "cd " & myfolder & ";tar -rf " & myid & ".tar " & myid & "*.emlx*;gzip " & myid & ".tar;mv " & myid & ".tar.gz /tmp/;open -a /Applications/Mail.app /tmp/" & myid & ".tar.gz"

end repeat

end tell

end create_mail_emlx_files_attachment_of_selection

on create_mail_source_attachment_of_selection()

tell application "Mail"

-- get the mail selection

set myMessages to selection

--do it to every selected mail

repeat with m in myMessages

set myid to id of m

set mysource to quoted form of ((source of m) as text)

do shell script "cd /tmp/;echo " & mysource & "|cat>/tmp/" & myid & ".txt;gzip " & myid & ".txt;open -a /Applications/Mail.app " & myid & ".txt.gz"

end repeat

end tell

end create_mail_source_attachment_of_selection