Mail Scripting - Copy Messages to Finder Folder
Mail Scripting - Copy Messages to Finder Folder
- Subject: Mail Scripting - Copy Messages to Finder Folder
- From: Bruce Robertson <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 19:19:26 -0700
I was given the following script to troubleshoot.
It fails for items in On My Mac mailboxes but works OK for high level mailboxes.
The purpose is to copy selected messages to a user designated Finder folder.
So if you have suggestion for other methods to accomplish this result, of course they are welcome.
It appears that frailties of Mail scripting have been discussed at great length here - but now I need to solve this particular problem and my attempt to use my email archives has not led me to a solution.
Thanks for your suggestions.
I'm testing this on 10.7.5
Bruce Robertson
tell application "Mail"
set msgs to selection
if length of msgs is not 0 then
display dialog "Export selected message(s)?"
if the button returned of the result is "OK" then
set theFolder to POSIX path of (choose folder with prompt "Save Exported Messages to..." without invisibles)
repeat with msg in msgs
-- determine date received of msg and put into YYYYMMDD format
set msgDate to date received of msg
-- parse date SEMversion below using proc pad2()
set {year:y, month:m, day:d, hours:h, minutes:min} to (msgDate)
set msgDate to ("" & y & my pad2(m as integer) & my pad2(d))
-- assign subject of msg
set msgSubject to (subject of msg)
-- create filename.eml to be use as title saved
set newFile to (msgDate & "_" & msgSubject & ".eml") as rich text
set newFilePath to theFolder & newFile as rich text
set newFilePath2 to theFolder & newFile & "x" as rich text
-- copy mail message to the folder and prepend date-time to file name
set messageId to id of msg
set myFolder to POSIX path of (account directory of account of mailbox of msg as Unicode text)
set cmd to "find " & quoted form of myFolder & " \\( -name \"" & messageId & ".eml\" -a -exec cp -a {} " & quoted form of newFilePath & " \\; \\) -o \\( -name \"" & messageId & ".emlx\" -a -exec cp -a {} " & quoted form of newFilePath2 & " \\; \\)"
do shell script cmd
end repeat
beep 2
display dialog "Done exporting " & length of msgs & " messages."
end if -- OK to export msgs
end if -- msgs > 0
end tell
on pad2(n)
return text -2 thru -1 of ("00" & n)
end pad2
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