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I don't know that it will be possible to cut the process while you are waiting for mail to respond as this would probably cause Mail to crash. This script will check for messages twenty times every 5 seconds after each iteration of the script, but it won't interrupt the attempt to get the content of the emails.

On 29/11/2007, at 3:51 AM, Bob Cuilla wrote:

tell application "Mail"

if not (exists some message viewer) then make new message viewer

repeat 20 times

try
set selected mailboxes of message viewer 1 to {mailbox "Valid By Subject" of account "TEC Requests"}

tell message viewer 1
set theMessages to the content of every message as string
end tell
on error
--do something else
end try
delay 5
end repeat
end tell

Applescript syntax is like English spelling:

Roughly, though not thoroughly, thought through.

Peter Baxter

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References:
	>Mail scripting... try with a time limit (From: Bob Cuilla <email@hidden>)