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Re: Mailboxes in Mail & Applescript
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Re: Mailboxes in Mail & Applescript


  • Subject: Re: Mailboxes in Mail & Applescript
  • From: Christopher Stone <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2012 06:10:48 -0500

On Apr 28, 2012, at 01:38, John Mitchell wrote:
thanks for that suggestion; I used it to work out a satisfactory solution as follows:
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Hey John,

If I was following the thread correctly you wanted to get only the top-level mailboxes in On My Mac.

Your script doesn't work properly on my machine for some reason, and I haven't yet taken time to figure out why.

On Snow Leopard it used to be possible to coerce mailboxes into their path-strings, but I don't seem to be able to do this on Lion — thus the somewhat ugly hack.  It works on my machine and is pretty quick.

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on forcedError(m)
try
m / 1
on error e
return quoted form of e
end try
end forcedError
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tell application "Mail"
set m to mailboxes
set e to forcedError(m) of me
set e to do shell script "echo " & e & " | perl -0777 -ne 's/«class mact»|«class mbxp»/\\n/g; print' \\
 | perl -0777 -ne 's/\\A.+\\s+//; print' \\
 | perl -0777 -ne 's/}.+\\s+\\Z//; print' \\
 | sed -E 's/ ?\" ?//g' | sed -nE '/\\//p' | sed -E 's:^([^/]+)/.*:\\1:' | sort -u"
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to return
set e to text items of e
repeat with i in e
set subj to subject of messages of mailbox i
if length of subj > 0 then exit repeat
end repeat
subj
end tell
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I know there's a nice way to blend the Perl together, but I don't know how to do it yet.

--
Best Regards,
Chris

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