Mail: Finding messages by ID
Mail: Finding messages by ID
- Subject: Mail: Finding messages by ID
- From: Todd Geist <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 13:02:38 -0700
Hello Everyone.
One of the most frustrating things I find with Applescript is finding
things by their ID. It never seems straight forward. I am always
confused by how to address something. Mail is turning out to be no
exception. Mail seems to has 2 unique IDs for every message one
called "id" and one called "message id". I know that "message id" is
the internet ID and "id" is Mail's own unique ID for the message. BUT...
Given either unique identifier for a message, how do you find it?
Nothing I have tried works. Al I want to is find it and open it up.
set theMessage to message ID theMessageID
set theMessage to every message of every mailbox whose id is
theMessageID
etc
etc
nothing works
If it is another one of those loop through all messages and stop when
the ID matches that is just plain ridiculous. And completely
impractical as I have over 30, 000 messages in my Mail app.
Now I know I am ranting here, but I am frustrated and biased. I work
mostly with databases and we do everything by the record ID and I am
afraid I am bit helpless with out being able to use them
efficiently. To me there doesn't seem to be anything more basic then
something's unique ID and they should be easy to use.
I am probably missing something really stupid :<(
Does anybody know how to find a message in Mail by either ID.
TIA
Todd
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