Need help Speech Recognition to read senders names

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#1

I am trying to make a script for Speech Recognition that checks for new mail and if there is new mail, read the names of the senders. The only scripts I can find need to be used in conjunction with Rules within mail. I have pieced together what scripts I can. It runs okay but it just does not repeat anything. Since I am still new to Applescript, I dont know what I am doing wrong and I am asking you guys for help.


set mailAccounts to {"Account1", "Account2", "Account"}
tell application "Mail"
	check for new mail
	set theMessages to messages of mailAccounts
	repeat with eachMessage in theMessages
		tell application "Mail" to set theSender to extract name from sender of theMessages
		say "you got mail from " & theSender
	end repeat
end tell

Am I close?

#2

nearly :wink:


set mailAccounts to {"Account1", "Account2", "Account"}
tell application "Mail"
	check for new mail
	repeat with oneAccount in mailAccounts
		set theMessages to (messages of account oneAccount whose read ststus is false)
		repeat with eachMessage in theMessages
			set theSender to extract name from sender of eachMessage
			say "you got mail from " & theSender
		end repeat
	end repeat
end tell

Note: Within a mail rule the script could not work because of the say command

#3

Thanks StefanK but I am getting an error. I was getting it before too and I don’t know what it means.

Mail got an error: Can’t get every message of account “Account1” whose read status = false.

#4

sorry, you have to refer to a mailbox


set mailAccounts to {"Account1", "Account2", "Account"}
tell application "Mail"
	check for new mail
	repeat with oneAccount in mailAccounts
		set theMessages to (messages of mailbox "INBOX" of account oneAccount whose read status is false)
		repeat with eachMessage in theMessages
			set theSender to extract name from sender of eachMessage
			say "you got mail from " & theSender
		end repeat
	end repeat
end tell