Re: getting multiple selected messages in Eudora?
Re: getting multiple selected messages in Eudora?
- Subject: Re: getting multiple selected messages in Eudora?
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 16:06:45 -0700
On 7/15/03 3:29 PM, "Rob Jorgensen" <email@hidden> wrote:
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At 10:52 PM +0100 7/15/03, John Delacour wrote:
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> At 8:32 pm -0400 14/7/03, Rob Jorgensen wrote:
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>> See <http://bbs.applescript.net/viewtopic.php?t=4565>.
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> Rob,
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> I visited the reformed script and see that you end up working with a
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> list of message ids. What you need is a list of message
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> _references_. That way you're home and dry. A message id is not
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> sufficient to identify a message -- you need the full reference
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> "message id n of mailbox m [of mail folder f][...]".
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> The id of a message is unique and will not change when you move it,
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> but it is not sufficient as a reference, any more than an item id is
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> sufficient in the Finder without a volume reference.
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Well I'll be a sunnuva...
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Thanks for the correction JD. I've now made another post to the BBS
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to correct my bad self. I would have sworn that I had used raw IDs in
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the past but I guess not.
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Have you perhaps scripted other email clients where you would be correct? In
OE and Entourage, for example, a message ID is sufficient as a reference:
you don't need to know where it is in the folder hierarchy (actually folders
can be identified by ID too, without the hierarchy) if you refer to it by
ID. It will be found anywhere in the database. In fact all other types of
message reference - by index in folder, by whose clause, etc. - resolve to
the ID reference. (It must be one of the advantages of the much-maligned
"monolithic database".)
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Paul Berkowitz
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