Re: Combine Mail Message bug / Display Mail Messages display bug?
Re: Combine Mail Message bug / Display Mail Messages display bug?
- Subject: Re: Combine Mail Message bug / Display Mail Messages display bug?
- From: Mike Ashley <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 18:34:25 -0500
On May 13, 2005, at 1:11 PM, Ray Fix wrote:
It appears that there are two data types used by Mail automation
blocks: Mail Messages and Mail Items. I am not sure what the
distinction is here but it appears that these two types cannot be
mixed. The automator GUI is a little bit misleading here because
outputs and inputs of these two types connect up fine. If you
actually run, you end up with the below conversion error in the log.
Does anyone know what the motivation for having two types is? Is
there a work around for conversion? The only workaround I can see
is to always use the "Find Mail" block which outputs Mail Messages
(instead of Mail Items.) It is possible that I am still missing
something completely.
Who knows. It's not clear what the Get Select Mail Items action
really does. I reproduced your problem and then experimented using a
View Results action between the Get Selected Mail Items and the
Combine Messages action. If I select messages, I get a list of
messages. If I select anything else, I get an empty list. If I pass
this list of messages to the Combine Messages action, execution fails
just as you described.
The Find Mail items action appears to work as advertised. Depending
on your application, it might be what you want anyway since it
doesn't depend on the state of Mail's user interface.
Mike
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