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Re: Mail fullscreen mess in HS
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Re: Mail fullscreen mess in HS


  • Subject: Re: Mail fullscreen mess in HS
  • From: Christopher Stone <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2017 15:09:03 -0500

On 10/11/2017, at 22:39, Jean-Christophe Helary
<email@hidden <mailto:email@hidden>>
wrote:
> High Sierra's Mail is broken beyond anything imaginable when it comes to flag
> setting and shortcuts setting.


Hey Jean-Christophe,

One of the many reasons I haven't upgraded to the bloody thing yet...

> For ex, I'd have a Ctrl-J to go to the "_Jobs" smart box and a Ctrl+Alt+J to
> set the "Jobs" flag. I was *very* happy with that setup.

Break down and buy Keyboard Maestro — then you can assign keyboard shortcuts
the way you want without having to futz with the system.

> 2) fullscreen Mail does not reliably recognize Mail shortcuts specified in
> System Preferences

Full-screen has ALWAYS been buggy...

Rule-of-the-thumb — if you want to automate things DON'T use full-screen.

> Problem is, there does not seem to be a way to specify the mail box to
> display with Mail's dictionary and it does not seem possible to use UI
> scripting when an application is in full screen, since the main menu is not
> available...

I'm not certain, but I think you can hide/show the menu with System Events.  If
not you can usually open it using the Help menu Cmd-Shift-?

Buy MailHub or Mail Act-On or both, and your filing issues will be over.  Mail
Act-On will select Smart-maiboxes — MailHub will NOT select smart-mailboxes.

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Auth: Christopher Stone
# dCre: 2017/10/31 13:48
# dMod: 2017/10/31 13:48
# Appl: Mail
# Task: Select a given mailbox in the front message viewer.
# Libs: None
# Osax: None
# Tags: @Applescript, @Script, @ASObjC, @Mail.app, @Select, @Mailbox, @Front,
@Message, @Viewer
# Test: On Sierra (10.12.6) and before
------------------------------------------------------------------------------

tell application "Mail"
    tell (some message viewer whose index is 1)
        set selected mailboxes to mailbox "ACTION" of application "Mail"
    end tell
end tell

------------------------------------------------------------------------------

NOTE — it's ludicrous, but you CANNOT select a smart-mailbox via this method...

--
Best Regards,
Chris

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