Mail Action Message Source Encoding Difficulty
Mail Action Message Source Encoding Difficulty
- Subject: Mail Action Message Source Encoding Difficulty
- From: Alex Sauer-Budge <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 10:55:32 -0500
- Resent-date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 22:16:22 -0500
- Resent-from: Alex Sauer-Budge <email@hidden>
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How can I obtain the source of a mail message within a mail rule script
so that it "looks like" it does in the message view of Mail-- with the
same line breaks?
Details:
I am using an AppleScript with a perform_mail_action handler to process
the source contents on some of my incoming mail with a mail rule (great
feature!). When I view a discrepant message with Mail.app, everything
is as it should be (containing "proper" line breaks), but when I get
the message into AppleScript with a mail rule, the message
source/contents has line breaks that were not there previously. For
example, Mail displays the message as
UID:040000008200E00074C5B7101A82E00800000000D04CF93973C3C201000000000000
000
010000000A472B3AEDA5F564AAAD488B35A3B47DC
but when I write the text to a file with AppleScript from inside a mail
action handler, the resulting file contains
UID:040000008200E00074C5B7101A82E00800000000D04CF93973C3C201000000000000
000
010000000A472B3AEDA5F564AAAD488B35A3B47DC
in which there are additional line breaks. Examining the message source
with Mail or the cached message in ~/Library/Mail/... using less from
the terminal shows that it too is mangled with respect to the message
view in Mail.app.
This appears to be an encoding issue of some sort, but I don't know how
to coerce the "contents of thisMessage" to a string which "looks like"
it does when viewed in Mail.
I would appreciate any insight that can be provided.
Thanks!
Alex
For reference, I've included a simple mail action script which I used
for testing this problem.
on perform_mail_action(info)
tell application "Mail"
set theMessages to |SelectedMessages| of info
repeat with thisMessage in theMessages
set thisSource to the source of thisMessage
display dialog (text 1 thru 12 of (thisSource as text)) as text
try
set thisFile to open for access ,
(choose file name) with write permission
write ((source of thisMessage) as string) ,
to thisFile starting at 0
on error
close access thisFile
end try
close access thisFile
end repeat
end tell
end perform_mail_action
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