Link formatting in Automator's New Mail Message

Question

I would like to send an email with automator and have a link that shows a couple words (for e.g. name of the site) instead of the whole URL like you can do with the add link inside of Mac OS. I have tried just writing the link as HTML as shown below but that didn't work. Is this possible?

<a href="http://foo.com">foo</a>

Answer 1

This is not possible.

Mail's AppleScript API also does not allow for proper RTF mail. The following fails to create a proper mail body with links and everything, something clearly there in /Developer/Applications/Utilities/Clipboard Viewer (part of Xcode 4):

tell application "Mail"
    set theRTF to the clipboard rule «class rtf »
    set msg to make new outgoing message with properties {subject:"Test", content:theRTF}
    make new recipient at end of to recipients of msg with properties {address:"danielbeck@example.org"}
    send msg
end tell

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You can try to use GUI scripting to copy&paste rich text using the clip board and the actual Copy/Paste menu items.