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Re: Mail.app - dictionary implementation questions.
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Re: Mail.app - dictionary implementation questions.


  • Subject: Re: Mail.app - dictionary implementation questions.
  • From: crooked-eye <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2003 09:24:08 +0100

On Monday, September 1, 2003, at 03:19 pm, David Durkee wrote:

What appears to be the equivalent setting in Mail's .plist file isn't a boolean, which may be a clue. It's called DeletionPolicy, and its values on three accounts on my machine are set to "AfterInterval", "RightAway", and "Never". Sounds like the AppleScript property may have become disconnected from the actual preference and never fixed.

Thanks David, that makes the whole thing a lot clearer. It's not that this property doesn't work, but that it has nothing to work on. I should have noticed this before.

You could try manipulating the preference in the .plist file, but this will be more difficult and won't work properly (if at all) if you do it while the application is running.

Do you have any pointers as to how to do this. I did try to do it with this script using Grep:

set mailAccts to do shell script "defaults read com.apple.mail MailAccounts | grep -n DeletionPolicy" as string -- (line wrap)

But it just created a new DeletionPolicy key at the top level. The proper key is embedded and I can't find a way to change an embedded key.


On Monday, September 1, 2003, at 09:04 am, John Delacour wrote:

You can sign up with ADC and report the bug(s) at
<http://developer.apple.com/bugreporter/>

I might just do that.


Thank you both for taking the time to help.

John Maisey
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