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Re: Referencing a Message in Mail 6.1 - Huh?
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Re: Referencing a Message in Mail 6.1 - Huh?


  • Subject: Re: Referencing a Message in Mail 6.1 - Huh?
  • From: Deivy Petrescu <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2012 20:00:51 -0400

On Oct 1, 2012, at 20:56 , Christopher Stone <email@hidden> wrote:

> Hey Folks,
>
> I can scriptomatically acquire a reference to a message in the form shown below and use it later in the script, BUT if I simply paste the reference into a script it won't compile.
>
>  tell application "Mail"
>     message id 392140 of mailbox "INBOX" of account "test" of application "Mail"
>  end tell
>
> WTH?
>
> Shouldn't I be able to reference it directly and do something like:
>
>  tell application "Mail"
>     tell message id 392140 of mailbox "INBOX" of account "test" of application "Mail"
>         get its source
>     end tell
>  end tell
>
> I know I can work around this by doing:
>
>   tell application "Mail"
>       tell item 1 of (messages of mailbox "INBOX" of account "junksieve" whose id is 392140)
>           get its source
>       end tell
>   end tell
>
> But that seems ridiculous.
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Best Regards,
> Chris
>

Chris, message id  is a property.
It is kind of weird to think of it as a property but it is.
Think of this script

tell application "Mail"
	tell subject "Referencing a Message in Mail 6.1 - Huh?" of mailbox "INBOX" of account "test" of application "Mail"
		get its source
	end tell
end tell


It doesn't make sense does it?

message id is a unique identifier, but a property nevertheless.

Deivy Petrescu
email@hidden




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