Re: Mail Rule Scripts

Subject: Re: Mail Rule Scripts
From: James Roberts <email@hidden>
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 09:35:24 -0500

To: email@hidden
Subject: Re: Mail Rule Scripts

on perform_mail_action(CreateTodo)
tell application "Mail"
set theSelectedMessages to |SelectedMessages| of CreateTodo

Make this the first line of the scrappy:

using terms from application “Mail”

Thanks Michelle,

Didn’t fix the problem though.

There are several problems in this script:
1. theRule is not used.
2. The variable a is not used within the repeat loop.
3. thisMessage is used but not set to anything.

Try:
using terms from application "Mail"
on perform mail action with messages messageList
tell application “Mail”
end tell
end perform mail action with messages
end using terms from
Matthew Smith

With a lot of help from the list I have my script working. The script open iCal and adds the new todo with the required information in the proper place.

However I do not use iCal very often and BusyCal does not support scripts (yet?). So I delay 1 min and then quit iCal. My question is, were should I place my quit command? Inside the using terms but outside the repeat, or outside the using terms. What are the system impacts to either place. Or should I find some way of actually checking iCal process (shell script?) and killing it off after is stopped processing the msgs. Longer term I am going to try and create the todo using Mail (just have to figure out the msg structure, I think) and have no need to kill anything.

using terms from application "Mail"

on perform mail action with messages messageList

tell application "Mail"

repeat with a from 1 to count of the messageList

set msgId to (message id of item a of messageList)

set msgUrl to "message:<" & msgId & ">"

set fromMsg to (sender of item a of messageList as string)

set subjMsg to (subject of item a of messageList as string)

set todoMsg to fromMsg & subjMsg

tell application "iCal"

tell calendar "Mail To Do"

set theDueDate to (current date) + 5 * days

make new todo at end with properties {summary:todoMsg, due date:theDueDate, priority:high priority, url:msgUrl}

end tell

end repeat

(*tell application "iCal"

delay 60

quit "iCal"*)

end tell

end perform mail action with messages

end using terms from

(*tell application "iCal"
delay 60
quit
end tell*)

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