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Re: Opening a message in Mail
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Re: Opening a message in Mail


  • Subject: Re: Opening a message in Mail
  • From: Michelle Steiner <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 11:37:24 -0700

On Apr 22, 2009, at 11:12 AM, Luther Fuller wrote:

A problem with that "necessary" line is that the first message of the message viewer may not be in the inbox.

True. (inbox was only an example.) A non-empty list of messages must be visible, therefore, a non-empty mailbox MUST be selected. That's why the --necessary line is necessary. I'm not sure that this is a bug, however.

I consider it to be a bug for a number of reasons.

1. There is no valid reason for a mailbox to be selected in the GUI for the script to work.
2. Even if a mailbox is selected in the GUI, message 1 of the message viewer may not be in that mailbox. The script actually returns message 1 of the selected mailbox.
3. If more than one mailboxes are selected, the script sees only the first mailbox of the selection, and ignores messages in the other mailboxes, so you can't choose all the mailboxes to get around the bug. (To test this, use "some message" instead of "message 1" with more than one mailbox selected; every message opened by the script will be from that first mailbox.)


Also, I think it is a design flaw that messages are not elements of the application itself as well as being elements of the message viewer and of mailboxes; selected messages are an application property (i.e., the selection) as well as a property of the message viewer (i.e., selected messages); furthermore, outgoing messages are elements of the application.

-- Michelle

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--Rich Lowery, The National Review



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