Apple

I’ve found the problem. It’s one that Apple fixed, and has now re-introduced with an added error bonus.

In El Capitan, a couple of the versions required a trailing slash to be added to each created mailbox name, but Apple fixed it in later versions after I lodged a bug report.

Now, you need the trailing slash again, but there’s a twist, you can no longer test for the existence of a mailbox, if it’s nested. Even when adding a slash to the testing name, no go!

I’ve lodged a new bug report, and if anyone wants to add another, feel free. The more complaining, the sooner Apple might fix it again.

Run the new attached script several time, to see what I’ve found out.

Regards

Santa

set tempYearString to "2017"

property theMonth : "09"

property dailyName : "02"

tell application "Mail"

activate

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# Make Yearly mailbox

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# This works

if not (exists mailbox tempYearString) then

make new mailbox with properties {name:tempYearString & "/"}

repeat until exists mailbox tempYearString

do shell script ("sleep 0.1")

end repeat

end if

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# Make Monthly mailbox

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set loopCounter to 0

if not (exists mailbox (my theMonth) of mailbox tempYearString) then

try

make new mailbox with properties {name:(tempYearString & "/" & (my theMonth) & "/")}

on error errmsg

tell application "System Events" to display dialog "1 " & errmsg

end try

end if

set loopCounter to loopCounter + 1

do shell script ("sleep 0.1")

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# Make Daily mailbox

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if not (exists mailbox (my dailyName) of mailbox (my theMonth) of mailbox tempYearString) then

try

make new mailbox with properties {name:(tempYearString & "/" & my theMonth & "/" & my dailyName)}

on error errmsg

tell application "System Events" to display dialog "2 " & errmsg

end try

end if

end tell

say "Now running without added slashes"

set tempYearString to "2018"

tell application "Mail"

activate

######################################################

# Make Yearly mailbox

######################################################

# This works

if not (exists mailbox tempYearString) then

make new mailbox with properties {name:tempYearString}

repeat until exists mailbox tempYearString

do shell script ("sleep 0.1")

end repeat

end if

######################################################

# Make Monthly mailbox

######################################################

set loopCounter to 0

if not (exists mailbox (my theMonth) of mailbox tempYearString) then

try

make new mailbox with properties {name:(tempYearString & "/" & (my theMonth))}

on error errmsg

tell application "System Events" to display dialog "3 " & errmsg

end try

end if

set loopCounter to loopCounter + 1

do shell script ("sleep 0.1")

######################################################

# Make Daily mailbox

######################################################

if not (exists mailbox (my dailyName) of mailbox (my theMonth) of mailbox tempYearString) then

# activate

try

make new mailbox with properties {name:(tempYearString & "/" & my theMonth & "/" & my dailyName)}

on error errmsg

tell application "System Events" to display dialog "4 " & errmsg

end try

end if

end tell

And what, you ask, was the beginning of it all?

And it is this......

Existence that multiplied itself

For sheer delight of being

And plunged with numberless trillions of forms

So that it might

find

itself

innumerably

Sri Aurobindo

References:
	>Mailbox creation problem in Sierra (From: Brian Christmas <email@hidden>)