Scripting Mailbox Properties in Mail
Scripting Mailbox Properties in Mail
- Subject: Scripting Mailbox Properties in Mail
- From: Hylton Boothroyd <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 22:31:21 +0000
[Mail 2.1.2, Script Editor 2.1.1, OS 10.4.11 on Intel MacMini with
2Gb memory]
I'm trying to repair a deficiency in the behaviour of Apple's
Mail.app: it loses my selected View > Columns > Mailbox
modification of settings every time I leave and return to my "Unread"
smart mailbox. So what I ultimately want is something that corrects
the selection on access -- I'm assuming there isn't a non-scripting
solution to cure the problem once and for all.
I can't tell from my first experiments
whether what I am trying is in principle do-able,
whether I just need a bit of help in getting the right way of
saying things,
whether a smart mailbox poses any additional scripting difficulties.
My first exploratory attempt
====
tell application "Mail"
set mailboxName to "Unread"
try
set (mailbox column of visible columns of mailboxName) to true
on error the error_message number the error_number
[a standard error handler from Script Editor's
contextual menu]
end try
end tell
====
reports
"Error: -10006. Can't set «class mvvc» of \"Unread\" to true."
It also reports the same error
for "Humble" which doesn't exist
for "Buying" which exists as a simple top-level mailbox.
Which doesn't narrow things down much!
So I would be grateful for any pointers at any level: Matt Neuburg's
wonderful chapter on Dictionaries makes me think I won't make it on
my own!
This is my first go at scripting in OS X, though I did plenty of
simple personal scripts and adaptations in OS 9.
--
Hylton Boothroyd
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