El Capitan: Forward Message in Mail change contents / add attachmement

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#1

Hi there

Since I’ve updated to El Capitan (10.11) the following AS does not work anymore:

tell application "Mail"
	
	set selected_mail to selection
	set forward_mail to forward item 1 of selected_mail
	
	tell forward_mail
		make new attachment with properties {file name:attach_file} at before last paragraph
	end tell
	
end tell

I get an error, that tells, that the content could not be read.

Any suggestions?

Thank you very much in advance
Marth

#2

Here is an edited version of an old script.
I don’t understand why the attach process fails when I try to forward a mail but behaves flawlessly when I redirect it.

set attach_file to (choose file)

tell application "Mail"
	activate
	set selected_mail to selection
	set a_mail to item 1 of selected_mail
	-- set newMail to forward a_mail
	set newMail to redirect a_mail
	tell newMail
		set nbAttachments to 0
		make new attachment with properties {file name:attach_file} at before last paragraph of content
		# Loop waiting for the attach process ending
		repeat 100 times
			if (count attachment) > nbAttachments then
				set nbAttachments to nbAttachments + 1
				exit repeat # If the attachment is really attached, exit this loop
				tell me to delay 0.2 # delay before an other test
			end if
		end repeat
	end tell
	
end tell

Yvan KOENIG running Sierra 10.12.4 in French (VALLAURIS, France) vendredi 12 mai 2017 14:54:06

#3

Hi Yvan

Thank you very much for your quick answer.

I’d tried your script, but unfortunately I get the same error. at the point, when the script want to make the new attachment. It says (german translated) "

I guess the problem is, that in El Capitan it isn’t possible to get/change the content of an outgoing message anymore. So when i try to get only the content of the forwarded message, I get the same error.

Does someone know a soloution/workaround for this?

Thank you very much
Marth

#4

Good news.

Here with 10.12.5 final the script behaves flawlessly.

Yvan KOENIG running Sierra 10.12.5 in French (VALLAURIS, France) mercredi 17 mai 2017 10:48:27