Re: Mail: Finding messages by ID
Re: Mail: Finding messages by ID
- Subject: Re: Mail: Finding messages by ID
- From: Jeff Porten <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2005 02:37:59 -0400
On May 26, 2005, at 10:28 PM, kai wrote:
to getMessageRef from messageID
tell application "Mail" to repeat with m in mailboxes
tell (m's first message whose message id is messageID) ¬
to if (count) is 1 then return it
end repeat
end getMessageRef
set messageID to "<insert message id here>"
set messageRef to getMessageRef from messageID
Whose clauses work great when in conjunction with a strategy of
keeping target messages in small mailboxes. I.e., a trigger script
that moves/copies a message to a followup folder, with a second
script searching that folder.
OTOH, I just managed to give Mail.app the Rainbow Pizza of Death by
doing a test whose against a mailbox with 34,000 messages in it.
For some reason, locate is borked on my clean install of Tiger.
Otherwise, the above script would work like a charm -- provided your
email message was more than 7 days old.
Here's the script to get the file with Spotlight:
set spotlightFile to do shell script "mdfind \"kMDItemFSName == '" &
msgId & ".emlx'\" | grep '/" & msgId & "'"
The grep pipe is necessary so a search for msgID 10000 doesn't also
return msgID 110000 et al.
Best,
Jeff _______________________________________________
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