Tip 125Create “Crazy” Emails

Here’s a fun trick that can be used to send entertaining emails to people on special occasions, such as birthdays.

Open a Finder window, hit Shift+Command+G, and then type /Library/Scripts/Mail Scripts/Crazy Message Text.scpt. Double-click the file that’s highlighted in the Finder window. This will open AppleScript Editor, but you can ignore it and simply press the Run button on the AppleScript Editor toolbar. Then follow the prompts in the dialog boxes that appear (click the Set Prefs button if you’d like more control over things like font sizes). Eventually you should end up with something similar to Figure 21, Creating “crazy text“ emails.

Figure 21. Creating “crazy text“ emails

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