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Re: Scripting Mailbox Properties in Mail
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Re: Scripting Mailbox Properties in Mail


  • Subject: Re: Scripting Mailbox Properties in Mail
  • From: Hylton Boothroyd <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2008 21:11:18 +0000


On 4 Jan 2008, at 11:13:23 Axel Luttgens wrote very instructively indeed about my request for help with


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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 tellThis is my first go at scripting in OS X, though I did plenty of
simple personal scripts and adaptations in OS 9.

ending with

tell application "Mail"
  tell first message viewer
    set visible columns to visible columns & mailbox column
  end tell
end tell

which works perfectly and is now at the top of my new script menu in the toolbar as "AxelsGem.scrpt". Many thanks: it's already made things more fluent.


With the help of EasyFind's thorough searching for both visibles and invisibles, I've been trying to find a way to make the last aesthetic step of activating the script automatically when a particular smart mailbox is opened (perhaps as a sort of pseudo Folder Action). I'm beginning to think that it can't be done in Tiger, but would welcome any rays of hope that anyone might be able to offer.

I _think_ it's the case that
a) ordinary mailboxes can be located and addressed and scripted as the real folders that they are;
b) smart folders in Finder can be located by name as "Saved Searches" but not as folders;
c) smart folders in Finder appear to offer Folder Actions via the contextual menu, but don't show any signs of understanding what then to do;
d) smart mailboxes in Mail can't be located by name.


--
Hylton




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