Mail mailbox query, help required please...

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#1

Hi there,

I’ve trying to find the answer to this but as yet haven’t succeeded.

In my ‘Inbox’, in Mail, I have several subfolders. Please can someone tell me how I get the count of such a mailbox and how do I refer to a message within that subfolder.

I’ve tried this but the subfolder isn’t being found:-

tell application "Mail"
	set target_mailbox to "mailing list"
	try
		set y to get mailbox target_mailbox
	end try
end tell

display dialog (count of y)

Thanks in advance,

Regards,

Nick

#2

This should get you started.

tell application "Mail"
	activate
	set EveryMailboxList to mailboxes
	set EveryMessageListInFirstMailbox to messages of item 1 of EveryMailboxList
	set TheSubject to subject of message 1 of item 1 of EveryMailboxList
	display dialog TheSubject
	
	--Get every Mailbox name
	set MialboxNameList to {}
	repeat with ThisMailBox in EveryMailboxList
		set MialboxNameList to MialboxNameList & (name of ThisMailBox as string)
	end repeat
	choose from list MialboxNameList
end tell

Have Fun

#3

Thanks for the help and for the code.

I’m not sure why it is but when I execute the script I get an error with this line:-

set TheSubject to subject of message 1 of item 1 of EveryMailboxList

On looking at the values of ‘EveryMailboxList’ I only have 2 mailboxes listed, ‘Outbox’ and ‘Deleted Messages’, there’s no sign of ‘Inbox’?

This is the problem I was getting previously and I’m not sure if it’s something to do with the Inbox containing subfolders?

Any further help with this would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Nick

#4

Finally got this to work:-

tell application "Mail"
	display dialog (count of messages of mailbox "THIS_MAILBOX" of account "THIS_ACCOUNT")
end tell