I’ve got a script a colleague wrote some time ago as part of a project creation workflow that allows me to save emails and their attachments when setting up new projects for work.
There is one hitch, however: the script fails if there is a colon in the subject line (such as “RE:” or “WG:” as it is in German).
I have tried everything I know to correct this, but have never been able to. I even went over to using an AppleScript to change the subject line, but since upgrading to Lion, this now also fails.
Here is my original script for saving mails:
set mail_data to button returned of (display dialog "Save job data from selected mail ?" buttons {"Yes", "No"} default button {"No"})
if mail_data = "No" then
display alert "Job created"
else
tell application "Mail"
set job to item 1 of (get selection)
set job_info to (get source of job)
set job_name to ((get subject of job as rich text) & ".eml")
set job_path to open for access file ((project_folders as rich text) & "mail:" & job_name) with write permission
write job_info to job_path
close access job_path
repeat with original in every mail attachment in job
set original_name to (get name of original)
tell original
set original_path to POSIX path of ((project_folders as rich text) & "originals:" & original_name)
save original in (POSIX file original_path)
end tell
end repeat
end tell
end if
The error I get quotes the POSIX path to where I’ve chosen to save the mail/project, which of course is a colon-delimited path. I believe this must be what’s making the script fail because it seems the colon in “RE:” as being part of the path, which it isn’t
Is there any way to correct this and get this working again?
Many thanks,
bowjest