Re: Problems importing the unix mailbox into Mail.app
Re: Problems importing the unix mailbox into Mail.app
- Subject: Re: Problems importing the unix mailbox into Mail.app
- From: Axel Luttgens <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 13:02:12 +0200
Le 23 mai 2010 à 21:43:16, Tommy Bollman a écrit :
> Could any body please tell me what I am doing wrong?
> Script Debuggers dictionary statest that it should take a fileobject as a reference.
> If i rename the file to somefile.mbox the format menu of Mail.app is greyed out before
> it gives up alas no result.
>
>
> set mf to path to desktop as text
> -- set x to a reference to file (mf & "mailfile")
> set x to a reference to file "Macintosh HD:private:var:mail:mymailfile"
> try
> tell application "Mail"
> activate
> import Mail mailbox at x
> end tell
> on error e
> display dialog e
> end try
Looks like Mail's "import Mail mailbox" command is restricted to mailboxes created by Mail, with either a post-Panther or a pre-Tiger format.
Since your mymailfile is a unix mbox, it is easy to create a pre-Tiger Mail mailbox; for example, assuming there's no name conflict with current contents of directory /tmp:
create directory /tmp/mymailfile.mbox
move (or copy) mymailfile to /tmp/mymailfile.mbox/mbox
It should now be possible to proceed with the import:
tell application "Mail" to import Mail mailbox at POSIX file "/tmp/mymailfile.mbox"
HTH,
Axel _______________________________________________
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