[MlMt] send PDF-files from DevonThink

[Bill Cole]

On 30 Aug 2017, at 9:39, Erik Arnold wrote:

> Hello MailMate wizards,
>
> I often want to send PDF-files from DevonThink Pro Office to my mail 
> client, with the build in command from DevonThink (right click —> 
> send eMail). With mail.app this works well. With MailMate it exports 
> the text of the PDF but not the PDF itself, how can I change this 
> behaviour?
>
> Thank you for your answer in advance.

Well, I can't be 100% sure of this, but I believe that has to  be a 
question for the DevonThink developers. If you just drag & drop a PDF 
from the Finder onto the MailMate app icon in the Dock, it opens a 
composer window for a new message with the PDF as an attachment. If you 
drop a PDF on an open MM composer window, it gets attached to the 
message being composed. If you open a Terminal window and enter a 
command like "open -a MailMate somerandom.pdf" you get a composer window 
for a new message with the PDF as an attachment. If you right-click a 
PDF in the Finder, choose Open With->Other... and navigate to MM and 
choose it, same thing. You can do the same thing via AppleEvents from 
any other program or in any OSAScript-capable scripting language. My 
point: tell MailMate to open a PDF by any standard mechanism and it will 
do so by making it an attachment to a message. MM does not know how to 
render a PDF into a reasonable plain-text representation, although it 
can inline PDFs visually by using the system's facilities for doing so.

Therefore, it must be DevonThink Pro Office which is doing something 
extra-smart (or at least unusual...) to send only text to MailMate, 
instead of just telling it to open the PDF.