I reckon that it's more likely a verb that's going to be dropped
in Mail 3.0.
I filed a bug, it's numbered 4904656.
I sure hope this verb isn't dropped in the next Mail. As I pointed
out in my original posting, parsing a from address and consing up a
valid to address is nontrivial. This is because (in Mail.app's
wisdom) the sender is a flat string (including the Name and the
<email address>, with _many_ valid forms), but the recipient is a
structure with the name and address in separate fields.
Mail.app knows all the rules for turning one into another. As
someone who wrote / hacked perl code to do this job long ago, I
really don't want to reproduce that magic in AppleScript. The
"reply" verb leverages Mail.app's logic for doing this, but is
useless for scripts as is.
Another way to fix the issue is to have recipient objects in
outgoing messages be flat strings, and let Mail.app parse them, or
to have senders be pre-parsed objects, like recipients are.
Again, thanks for all the thoughtful comments. (And I'm still
puzzled why it _works_ for deivy!)
cheers,
dylan
Well, I am puzzled too!
I just try that in 2 other Macs and it errors as you say yours does.
But I can still get the same result on (this) my computer.
I know it is not Mail's version because at least one is the same
version (mine is .2, .3 is Intel Mac).
Running the script in Smile I get a better answer:
myReply = «class » id x of application "Mail" where x is a
number that has been increasing by one with each run (last is 22).
I thought about the above and closed and launched Mail again, and now
I get an error here as well!!!
I want my old Mail back... :)
As far as I remember, there was no major restart recently. So I do
not know what happened. Anyway, I get a
chevron class space box box box box chevron in Smile. In both cases,
Smile and SE, it can not be pasted correctly in Mail.
Correcting, I used to get ...
