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On 27/01/2010, at 3:27 PM, Alan Kimelman wrote:

Brian,

I tried your script. The response I get is that outbox exists; but that every message of outbox is listed as {}, that is to say that Mail.app finds no message in its outbox.
I have listed the following response found in the Events and Replies pane in the AppleScript Editor that appears after running your script.

tell application "Mail"
activate
exists outbox
--> true
get every message of outbox
--> {}
(*0*)
Result:
error "Can’t get item 1 of {}." number -1728 from item 1 of {}

For some reason, outbox lists no messages if the outgoing message. Did you experience a different response or event?

Alan

On Jan 26, 2010, at 7:47 PM, Brian Christmas wrote:

G'day

I don't think there is a bug, other than there's no such thing as 'outgoing messages'.

The first thing that makes me think your code is in error is that there's no such thing as a message with a single digit id, they're all 5 digits.

The second thing is you need to address the outbox, not messages in the Drafts.

The following code works...

tell application "Mail"
activate
if exists outbox then
set outList to messages of outbox
log (count items of outList) --> 1
set msg to (item 1 of outList)
get id of msg --> 69642
end if
end tell

To get an outbox with messages, click the cross to the right of any outgoing message, and it should create an outbox with the unsent message in it.

Regards

Santa

References:
	>Fwd: Send outgoing message error from Mail.app (From: Alan Kimelman <email@hidden>)