Re: Mail Rule Finder

Subject: Re: Mail Rule Finder
From: Christopher Stone <email@hidden>
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 22:16:08 -0500

On Oct 12, 2011, at 19:51, Gil Dawson wrote:

When someone changes his relationship with me (moves from Friend 6 to Board Member, for example) it's been tedious to find which condition in which rule contains his email address so that I can delete it and add it as a new condition to another rule. Until now.

I just wrote this and it seems to work nicely:

______________________________________________________________________

Hey Gil,

I haven't scripted Mail's Rules, but this is interesting - so I'll have a go.

As long as you have the complete email address you can do something like this:

tell application "Mail"

name of rules where its rule condition's _expression_ contains "email@hidden"

end tell

So to extrapolate:

try

set theClue to "applescript-users.lists.apple.com"

tell application "Mail"

set filterName to item 1 of (get name of rules where its rule condition's _expression_ contains theClue)

set ruleNames to name of rules

repeat with ruleNameIndex from 1 to length of ruleNames

if item ruleNameIndex of ruleNames = filterName then exit repeat

end repeat

set ruleExpression to rule filterName's rule condition's _expression_

repeat with expressionIndex from 1 to length of ruleExpression

if item expressionIndex of ruleExpression = filterName then exit repeat

end repeat

end tell

{filterName, ruleNameIndex, expressionIndex}

on error errMsg number errNum

set {cr, sep} to {return, "------------------------------------------"}

set e to sep & cr & "Error: " & errMsg & cr & sep & cr & "Error Number: " & errNum & cr & sep

beep

display dialog e

end try

This runs in about 1/100 of a second on my machine from Script Debugger.

If I were maintaining large lists of rules I'd be tempted to try to script the add/remove condition step, or I might at least try writing a UI script to display the affected rule.

I might also be tempted to try writing my own filter script using text lists and the Satimage.osax's 'find text' with regexp capability. If I didn't already use Mail Act-On I would have done something like this already - at least as a manual filter.

Best Regards,

Chris

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References:
	>Run As Root (From: Luther Fuller <email@hidden>)
	>Re: Run As Root (From: Stan Cleveland <email@hidden>)
	>Re: Run As Root (From: Luther Fuller <email@hidden>)
	>Mail Rule Finder (From: Gil Dawson <email@hidden>)

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