Re: Simple apple script to open a message in Mail?
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: Sun, 24 Feb 2013 22:51:43 +0000
Luther Fuller wrote on Sat, 23 Feb 2013 15:36:34 -0600:
>On Feb 23, 2013, at 2:43 PM, Nigel Garvey wrote:
>
>> On my machine, where the default e-mail client is PowerMail, your
script
>> tries to open the message in Mail. (But 'open location' with a
"mailto:";
>> protocol starts a message in PowerMail.) So the advice would seem to
be
>> to use 'open location "message:"' only when you know the message is in
>> Mail, and to comment the script accordingly.
>
>I'm not sure this is applicable here, so I will let you decide.
>I have used this …
>
> tell application "Finder" to open msg using application file id
>"com.apple.mail"
>
>to open a message where the variable msg is an alias to an .emlx file in
>the Finder
>and "com.apple.mail" is the application's 'Bundle identifier'. Would it
>help to use the
>PowerMail Bundle identifier? (Perhaps not. I don't know where/how your
>message is stored.)
Thanks, Luther.
I don't actually need such a facility myself. I'd just taken an interest
in the thread after my previous pot and was commenting on use of 'open
location' with a "message" protocol. Bruce did specifically mention Mail
in his original post, so perhaps I should have kept quiet.
PowerMail stores its messages in a database, not as individual files. It
doesn't have an equivalent to Mail's 'message id' property and its
'headers' can't be compared with a 'whose' filter like Mail's 'all
headers' can. However, the 'headers' of all the messages in a particular
mail folder could be obtained en masse and individually tested for their
Message-ids, which shouldn't be too time-consuming. Alternatively,
PowerMail's 'id' property, an integer like Mail's, identifies a message
wherever in the folder hierarchy it's stored, so a PowerMail user might
record that in FileMaker rather than the Message-id.
NG
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