Re: Mail.app - dictionary implementation questions.
Re: Mail.app - dictionary implementation questions.
- Subject: Re: Mail.app - dictionary implementation questions.
- From: "John W. Baxter" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2003 18:21:09 -0700
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On 9/2/2003 1:24, "crooked-eye" <email@hidden> wrote:
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On Monday, September 1, 2003, at 03:19 pm, David Durkee wrote:
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> What appears to be the equivalent setting in Mail's .plist file isn't
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> a boolean, which may be a clue. It's called DeletionPolicy, and its
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> values on three accounts on my machine are set to "AfterInterval",
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> "RightAway", and "Never". Sounds like the AppleScript property may
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> have become disconnected from the actual preference and never fixed.
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Thanks David, that makes the whole thing a lot clearer. It's not that
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this property doesn't work, but that it has nothing to work on. I
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should have noticed this before.
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> You could try manipulating the preference in the .plist file, but this
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> will be more difficult and won't work properly (if at all) if you do
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> it while the application is running.
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Do you have any pointers as to how to do this. I did try to do it with
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this script using Grep:
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set mailAccts to do shell script "defaults read com.apple.mail
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MailAccounts | grep -n DeletionPolicy" as string -- (line wrap)
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But it just created a new DeletionPolicy key at the top level. The
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proper key is embedded and I can't find a way to change an embedded key.
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On Monday, September 1, 2003, at 09:04 am, John Delacour wrote:
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> You can sign up with ADC and report the bug(s) at
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> <http://developer.apple.com/bugreporter/>
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I might just do that.
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Thank you both for taking the time to help.
You've run into the "Bugs" section of the man page for defaults:
BUGS
Defaults can be structured in very complex ways, making it difficult
for the user to enter them with this command.
I don't see anything short of reading the top level tag, modifying the text
as desired, and writing the tag that would allow defaults to be used.
Since this is for a user preference, reading and modifying the file and
writing it back out in the modified form might work. (A backup "might" be a
good idea.)
--John
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