E-mail (Apple Mail) -> PDF -> DEVONthink -> Archive original e-mail

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I currently archive all receipts that come via e-mail as PDFs in DTPro. In fact, I archive all receipts period as PDFs in DTPro, the others I get there via my ScanSnap. Fro the e-mail receipts, though, I would love to have it be a bit automated. I know that any e-mails I receive, say, from Lyft, with the subject line “Lyft Ride Receipt”, need to be archived. There’s no reason I should have to do it myself. Is there a way to automate this process?

Currently my non-automated process is:

  1. Find e-mail in Apple Mail
  2. Print to PDF -> Save to DTPro Inbox
  3. Archive e-mail
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The front-end never touch-it method would be to create a rule in Mail preferences: Rules that identifies the emails you want to archive and create an AppleScript that runs the magic on the attachment and moves it to an Archive. You could also run a mail rule that would forward the message to a designated folder that Hazel is monitoring and you may be able to get more granular control from there.

3

I’m not an AppleScript person, per se. Any guidance here on, at the very least, an example to work off of?

4

Has anyone worked out how to save an email as PDF using mail rule and AppleScript? Also looking for a way to save receipts.