Command line attach script on existing open email

[larour]

Hi,

I am trying to create a script to attach a file to an existing open Outlook email, from a Terminal. Call would go like this: ~/bin/attach temp.txt
Script attach reads:

#!/usr/bin/osascript
on run argv

set theFile to item 1 of argv as text

if not theFile starts with "/"
set theFile to (POSIX path of (POSIX file (do shell script "pwd") as alias)) & theFile
end if

set theAttachment to theFile as POSIX file
try
theAttachment as alias
on error
display dialog(theFile & " does not exist!")
end try

tell application "Microsoft Outlook"
set new_message to selection
if new_message is {} then
display dialog "Please select a message first and then run this script." with icon 1
return
end if
make new attachment at end of new_message with properties {file:theAttachment}
open new_message
end tell

This script is a merge of several threads I've read on in this forum. This script
leads to the following issue:

attach:545:623: execution error: Microsoft Outlook got an error: Can’t make "" into type specifier. (-1700)

which I can't pinpoint why is happening. File is clearly detected, new_message is clearly selected as I can open it when I remove the line in the script regarding making the new attachment. This line making the new attachment
is triggering the error, not sure why.

One note: this script worked once, I ended up with the attachment on the opened email. But only once, since then I've not been able to run it successfully, I get this error each time.

Thanks for any insights!

 

[kryten2]

Try starting with something simple in the ScriptEditor app.
Ex:

set theAttachment to choose file
tell application "Microsoft Outlook"
set new_message to item 1 of selection
make new attachment at end of new_message with properties {file:theAttachment}
end tell

 

[larour]

Try starting with something simple in the ScriptEditor app.
Ex:

set theAttachment to choose file
tell application "Microsoft Outlook"
set new_message to item 1 of selection
make new attachment at end of new_message with properties {file:theAttachment}
end tell

Did that, works very well, no issues. There is something about opening an existing message and attaching to it that trips the script. Not sure what.