Re: Deleting Message in Mail.app
Re: Deleting Message in Mail.app
- Subject: Re: Deleting Message in Mail.app
- From: Courtney Braafhart <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 13:21:07 -0600
Thank you for your ideas!
Wow you have really helped me simplify this script!
I tried the following but I am still getting an error message on the
delete and ideas?:
set today to current date
tell application "Mail"
delete (messages of this_Mailbox in mailboxes whose date received is
less than today - (13 * days))
end tell
On Feb 1, 2005, at 3:55 PM, Christopher Nebel wrote:
On Feb 1, 2005, at 1:37 PM, Michelle Steiner wrote:
On Feb 1, 2005, at 12:48 PM, Courtney Braafhart wrote:
I would like a script that deletes messages that are older then a
certain date. I am having difficulty scripting the basic delete
message command. Does anyone have any suggestions? Below is an
example of what I am trying to do...script editor does not like the
"delete message" part of the script.....
Here's what I came up with. I haven't tried the delete part because
I don't want to delete any mail from my system.
set today to current date
tell application "Mail"
repeat with this_Mailbox in mailboxes
set foo to (messages of this_Mailbox whose (date received) ¬
is less than today - (365 * days) * 3) as list
-- three years
repeat with a in foo
delete a
end repeat
end repeat
end tell
I know that this script works:
tell application "Mail"
set foo to the selection as list
delete item 1 of foo
end tell
Theoretically, you should be able to simply say "delete messages of
this_Mailbox whose date received is less than ...", with no loop
necessary. Like Michelle, I haven't tried it, and for much the same
reason. :-)
Alternatively, you could wait until Tiger ships and use a smart
mailbox to do this -- see
<http://www.apple.com/macosx/tiger/mail.html>. (This isn't a very
serious suggestion, but the smart folders *are* nifty.)
--Chris Nebel
AppleScript Engineering
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