Keyboard, notification, or menubar shortcut to compose mail message?

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Im looking for a quick way to bring up a compose mail message dialogue.

Either a keyboard shortcut, or even a little tool within mountain lion's new notification center would be cool.

Anyone got anything?

Could I suggest some external software? – pasawaya Aug 01 '12 at 06:40 — pasawaya, Aug 01 '12 at 06:40

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 31 '12 at 06:46

The easiest way out-of-the box is to use the "services menu". Just select some text anywhere (a single character will do), right click to open the context menu and select the bottom-most item "Email Selection":

Screenshot of Email Selection

If it is not present (should be) you need to enable it under System settings -> Keyboard -> Keyboard commands -> Services -> Text

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 26 '13 at 23:43

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Mail Unread Menu is what you want. Free/donation-ware. Compose New Mail from the menubar.

Also custom alerts and more. Working well in Mountain Lion.

answered Feb 26 '13 at 23:43

Zo219

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score 0 · Answer 3 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:45

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One option would be to assign a shortcut to an AppleScript like this:

tell application "Mail"
    make new outgoing message with properties {visible:true}
    activate
end tell

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:45

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answered Jul 31 '12 at 06:58

Lri

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Keyboard, notification, or menubar shortcut to compose mail message?

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