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Re: Where does Mail store deleted messages?

If I understand this correctly, the "Trash" mailbox, for example, becomes "Papierkorb" in German, but the folder in /Library/Mail/ where its messages are stored is still named "Deleted Messages.mbox" in English. (?)

If 'mbox' is a reference to a mailbox, then the Mail command ...

	name of mbox

always - always - ALWAYS returns the name of a folder located somewhere within the /Library/Mail/ folder.

This allows me to get exactly what I want -- the path to a folder of message files. I couldn't care less what the visible mailbox names are! In other words it is precisely "the names on disk" which do concern me.


On Jan 28, 2007, at 7:14 PM, kai wrote:


For some reason, the message below (sent a while back) doesn't appear to have made it to the list. So, FWIW...

Begin forwarded message:

From: kai <email@hidden>
Date: 27 January 2007 00:45:20 GMT
To: applescript-users <email@hidden>
Subject: Re: Where does Mail store deleted messages?
Reply-To: applescript-users <email@hidden>

On 27 Jan 2007, at 00:18, Christopher Nebel wrote:

On Jan 25, 2007, at 1:59 PM, Luther Fuller wrote:

I suspect that the value of this key depends on the language preference set in the International preference pane when the user first used Mail.

I'd be surprised if that were the case -- it would mean that your trash wouldn't work if you switched languages. Try changing primary languages and see what happens.

I did that earlier. The names of the primary mailboxes in Mail change to reflect the primary language:

{inbox, drafts mailbox, sent mailbox, trash mailbox, junk mailbox}

--> {"Inbox", "Drafts", "Sent", "Trash", "Junk"}
--> {"Boîte de réception", "Brouillons", "Messages envoyés", "Corbeille", "Courrier indésirable"}
--> {"Eingang", "Entwürfe", "Gesendet", "Papierkorb", "Werbung"}
--> {"Entrata", "Bozze", "Inviata", "Cestino", "Indesiderata"}
--> {"Entrada", "Borradores", "Enviado", "Papelera", "No deseado"}
--> {"Caixa de entrada", "Rascunhos", "Enviado", "Lixo", "Mensagens Indesejadas"}

etc...

However, the directories on disk remain unchanged. (Since the average user would carry out most/all operations in Mail, I shouldn't think the names on disk would concern him/her that much.) 

---
kai


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