Applescript: mail from account, access not allowed

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#1

I’m using applescript and Apple mail to send email, I need it sent from a specific account and I’m having trouble setting the from account or sender:

set account to account "Google"

gives me this error:

224:242: syntax error: Can’t set «class mact» to «class mact» “Google”. Access not allowed. (-10003)

I have verified that the account exists, I get the same error with:

set account to the first account

set sender to "<my email address>"

doesn’t affect the sender in any way that I can see.

Any help or suggestions?

(Yosemite)

thanks

full code:

tell application "Mail"
		tell (make new outgoing message )
			set subject to "subject"
			set content to "Add your message here\n\n"
			set visible to true
			-- set sender to "<my email account>"
			set account to account "Google"
			make new to recipient at end of to recipients with properties {address:"$mailTo", name:"Name" }
		end tell
	end tell
#2

Hi,

outgoing message has no account property, the account is specified by the sender


tell application "Mail"
	tell (make new outgoing message with properties {visible:true, subject:"subject", content:"Add your message here\n\n"})
		set sender to "John Doe <john@doe.com>"
		make new to recipient at end of to recipients with properties {address:"$mailTo", name:"Name"}
	end tell
end tell
#3

OK, thanks. But setting ‘sender’ isn’t changing anything. The mail ‘from’ remains whatever the default is in Mail. I have a couple of personal accounts and a google account in Mail, I’d like for mail to be sent as from the google one. Make sense?

#4

OK, I have it. It’s, obviously, very picky about the value of the string; if it’s not right it quietly sets sender to the first account in the list.

Thanks for you input.

K.

#5

outgoing message is an element of the application regardless of the account
Did you specify the sender with the syntax “name ” ?