Re: Delete Mail Script
Re: Delete Mail Script
- Subject: Re: Delete Mail Script
- From: Steve Bird <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2013 06:46:01 -0400
On Aug 6, 2013, at 8:02 PM, Robert wrote:
> Hello Applescript List members;
>
> First time poster and relative newbie here.
>
> I've written a script that searches for messages, in a particular mailbox, that are older than a couple of days and then deletes them.
>
> The script generally works except I usually have to run it two or three times before it picks up ALL of the messages that fall into the
> repeat with i from 1 to messcount
> set theSource to item i of selectedMessages
> set background color of theSource to red
> delete theSource
> end repeat
This is the old "Deleting from Array" pothole that every programmer falls into.
If you have messages A,B,C,D,E in the list, then your code will
delete message 1(A) - that leaves B,C,D,E
delete message 2(C) - that leaves B,D,E
delete message 3(E) - that leaves B,D
delete message 4 - there is no message 4.
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Steve Bird
Culverson Software - Elegant software that is a pleasure to use.
www.Culverson.com (toll free) 1-877-676-8175
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