Mail message to automatically add a keyword to a photo in aperture library?

This is going to be a really specific and odd request.
I am a photographer; and I am trying to set up a system using automator, aperture, and mail to be able to create a webpage that has a listing of a bunch of images with a basically a form that you can use to select picks that will then email the form results to me. I have the basic webpage output set up through automator and aperture, but the problem I am having is getting mail to lift the message contents, pass that on to filter the aperture files and add a keyword to the image.
Basically, I want to have a rule set up that when a new messages comes in where the subject is imagepicks, it grabs the message content which is say 034365PDP080309, takes that and looks through the aperture library for image 034365PDP080309 and adds a keyword to it...
Am I way outside of the scope of automator?

Hello,
I don't get what you mean by "a folder in the Finder"! A folder - unless hidden - is always browsable in the Finder.
Then, what do you expect to be in those folders? A Word file, a RTF file, a simple text file?
If you want to filter your mails, you can use "Rules" that you can access from Mail's preferences. This is far the best methods.
There are other methods, but they require Unix programming skills and the setup of you own mail server locally on our Mac.
Hoping this helps,
Thierry

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