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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: Nigel Garvey <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 20:17:16 +0000

Bruce Herbach wrote on Wed, 20 Feb 2013 15:00:49 -0500:

>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 message is reporting that the mailbox doesn't exist — ie. that
there's no mailbox called "Inbox" in another, top-level mailbox called
"Office".

Once that's sorted out, this sort of thing seems to work:

  tell application "Mail"
    activate
    open (first message of mailbox "Office/Inbox" where all headers contains "Message_id: <CD482A1C.E5BB%email@hidden>")
  end tell

This will also error if the message doesn't exist, but will report that
it can't get the message.

NG

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