Apple

On Dec 29, 2007, at 12:56 PM, m wrote:

I need to derive the account of an email from it's unuique Mail Id.

Something like:

set theMsgs to every message of mailbox "Inbox" whose id is 20863

set theMsg to item 1 of theMsgs

Well, first of all, you don't have to specify a mailbox. the ID is unique; there never will be more than one message with the same ID, regardless of which mailbox it is in. You do have to specify a message viewer, though.

tell application "Mail"

tell message viewer 1

set theMSG to first item of (get messages whose id is 20863)

end tell

set theAcct to account of theMsg

Messages do not have accounts. Look at the entry for message in mail's Applescript dictionary; there is no account property or element. You are trying to get something that doesn't exist. You might be able to indirectly get the account from the recipients though.

tell application "Mail"

tell message viewer 1

set theMSG to first item of (get messages whose id is 783029)

{name, address} of recipients of theMSG

end tell

Luther Fuller's suggestion might work out better for you, though.

-- Michelle

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