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Re: Simple apple script to open a message in Mail?
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Re: Simple apple script to open a message in Mail?


  • Subject: Re: Simple apple script to open a message in Mail?
  • From: Barry Wainwright <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 22:53:44 +0000

I think you are confusing two message IDs.

The messageID header in the mail source is a unique identifier for that message throughout the delivery system. Mail's message ID in AppleScript is a completely different beast - it is a unique identifier (as an integer) of the message in the Mail.app database.

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Barry Wainwright


On 20 Feb 2013, at 20:00, Bruce Herbach <email@hidden> wrote:

> I'm working on a FileMaker database that downloads message information from Mail. I would like a database user to be able to click on a message in the database and have it run an applescript that opens the original message in Mail.
>
> My initial attempt looks like this:
>
> tell application "Mail"
> activate
> open (first message of mailbox "Office/Inbox" where message id = "CD482A1C.E5BB%email@hidden")
> end tell
>
> Running this script in the Applescript editor gives the following error message:
> error "Mail got an error: Can’t get mailbox \"Office/Inbox\"." number -1728 from mailbox "Office/Inbox"
>
> The mailbox and message ID came directly from the data imported in to FileMaker. This is running on OS X 10.8.2, FileMaker Pro Advanced 12.0v3 and Mail version 6.2 (1499).
>
> Any help getting this to work would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Bruce Herbach
> Herbach Consulting
> FileMaker 12,11,10,9 Certified Developer
>
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