Re: Archiving Mailbox contents
Re: Archiving Mailbox contents
- Subject: Re: Archiving Mailbox contents
- From: cricket <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 15:52:02 -0800
Well, since you asked:
- They asked about archiving email, not displaying it.
- The script is very simple, just verbose because the poster mentioned
they were a newbie and this will help them learn applescript.
- Your approach will break if Mail changes its storage format
- Your approach will break if the user doesn't keep their email in
~/Library/Mail
- Your script works for one mailbox, mine works for all selected
mailboxes
- The poster asked how to script Mail and rather than refuse to believe
that Mail could be capable of even the most basic scripting. I looked,
and behold, it does.
If the original poster hasn't been scared away by all the nonsense on
this list, maybe they will become another productive applescript user.
- cricket
On Monday, February 24, 2003, at 15:34PM, John Delacour wrote:
No one seems to have given a good answer to this one, so here's
something that may get you started. Here's a sample script that will
archive the selected mailbox to a text file on your desktop, named
after the selected mailbox:
Why go through all those thousands of Apple Events when the mailbox
already exists as an archive and can be opened directly in a text
editor with a single event?
set ed to " TextEdit "
set fldr to " ~/Library/Mail/" -- note the leading/trailing spaces!
set acct to "email@hidden"
do shell script "open -a " & ed & fldr & acct & "/INBOX.mbox/mbox"
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