Mail rule message content as variable

I run a minecraft serer, and i need a way to promote a player when they fill in a form on the website. Every time a player filles in the form, I get an email like this:
New application for member:
Naam: <name of the pearson>
Username: <minecraft username of the person>
Skype naam: <skype name of the person>
E-mail: <email of the person>
Nieusbrief: <Whether they want to get the newsletter or not>
I know there is a way to setup a mail rule that runs an applescript, and from that I can run a shel script, but is it posible to feed the playername to the shel script script as a variable? So from the mesage body to the apple script, and from the apple script th the shel script. First problem I face is getting the username to the apple script. Then there is the second problem: I know there is an run-shel-script thingy, but i'm not sure how to pass the variable on from the apple script to the shel scrip. (I don't have anny experience with apple scripts...)
Anny help is appreciated.

Hi Stefan,
Thanks for your reply. I am glad to hear that I am wrong again )
In your opinion is it possible to force the Outlook Exchange server to add the content attachment every time? I mean by doing some configuration on it...?
The reason why we would like to do this is because when - in the content tag of a Mail Package message - we have MIME message parts that are of content-type text/html we are having problems in decoding the html back to a readable format.
To do this we use the apache QuotedPrintableCodec Java class.
This works fine when the content type of the message is just text/plain but we get an exception when we try with text/html.
The exception we get is:
org.apache.commons.codec.DecoderException: Invalid URL encoding: not a valid digit (radix 16): 13
I don't know if this is because of the two character sets we have in the payload (utf-8 and iso-8859-1) or if it is for other reasons...
If you could help me figure out how to forward any HTML email to another system in a readable format it would be great.
Thanks for your support,
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property debug : false
property choAddress : "[email protected]"
using terms from application "Mail"
 on perform mail action with messages theMessages for rule theRule
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 repeat with aMessage in theMessages
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 repeat with mAddress in mAddresses
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 make new to recipient at beginning of to recipients with properties {address:uAddress}
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 set visible to true
 else
 send
 delay 1
 end if
 end tell
 end repeat
 delay 1
 end repeat
 end tell
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 try
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Sorry but my AppleScript is too rusty to wade through your script. However, a while ago I wrote a script to extract email addresses from an emailed web form with a defined format and send a reminder 4 days later with a specified message.
I opted to use a mail rule to put a copy of specified messages into another mail folder - this may be more reliable for you.
For my 4 day delay I set a 'Users Daemon' to run an AppleScript every hour. This is more efficient and reliable than setting delays in AppleScript.
The most tedious task is parsing for all possible email formats - check email RFCs if you doubt this.
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 repeat with lastMsg from (count messages of mailbox "Pending") to 1 by -1
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 set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {"<body bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\" text=\"#000000\">"}
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<hr style='color:pink; background-color:pink; height:4px; width:60%; text-align:middle'>
 
Thank you for placing your heating oil order with us.
I would appreciate feedback (good or bad) about how your oil delivery went.
Please contact me if you experienced any difficulties with your order.
 
Sincerely, 
 
Peter Pan
 
<hr style='color:pink; background-color:pink; height:4px; width:60%; text-align:middle'>

 " & oldBody & "</html>"
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delete thisMsg -- normally delete thisMsg but can be removed for testing
end if
end repeat
end tell

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<pre style="
font-family: Monaco, 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;
font-size: 10px;
margin: 0px;
padding: 5px;
border: 1px solid #000000;
width: 720px;
color: #000000;
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overflow: auto;"
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I would like to set up a mail rule to run an applescript that searches the body of the email for "-Front Door- Open". I then want to parse the body and sets myDevice= "-Front Door-" and myState="Open". After I have these variables set, I want to make an call to something like https://foo.me.com/api/token/${state.accessToken}/smartapps/installations/${app.id}/Notify?device=${myDevice}&type=ContactSensor&state=${myState}
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