Re: Adding a message to a mailbox in Mail
Re: Adding a message to a mailbox in Mail
- Subject: Re: Adding a message to a mailbox in Mail
- From: Thierry Faucounau <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 06:13:34 +0200
Yes, I found that out via ADC. Feature request 3064975 :)
To answer your question, I have a Cocoa app which reads Windows dbx
mailbox files and converts them to mbox files. These can then be
imported into almost all mail programs.
The AppleScript part is a way to automate the import for the user while
preserving the meta data I get from reading the dbx (like whether the
message was read, replied to, came from a newsgroup, etc...). This
allows the app to faithfully recreate the mailbox as it was in the
original Windows mailer.
Since Mail reads mbox files (in fact it seems to wrap a standard mbox
file in a directory with its housekeeping information) I will try to
place the mbox files and have the app launch Mail then clean up the
message properties. Not great but hopefully it'll work. The other
mailers seem to support creating message objects into mailboxes so it
should be smoother for those users.
Thierry
On Tuesday, October 1, 2002, at 08:04 PM, cricket wrote:
You can't create new message objects and put them in mailboxes. I'm
not sure exactly what you are wanting to do here. Mail's Applescript
dictionary is intended to help automate typical user actions (create a
new message and send it, move messages, get the data of a message
and/or mailbox, set preferences, etc). What exactly are you wanting to
do? If it's possible to do in Mail without Applescript, it's likely to
be possible (or is planned for the future) in Applescript.
- cricket
On Monday, September 30, 2002, at 06:39 PM, Thierry Faucounau wrote:
Unfortunately, I still do not seem to be able to find a way to create
messages in a mailbox which is what I need to finish my application.
I'm thinking I may need to use and ADC incident to get a final
verdict on whether this is possible with the current state of AS in
Mail.
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