Retreiving Mail message from id

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#1

This is a question about Mail and how to script it.

The background is that I’m using Excel 2004 to handle a data base of workers and am automating parts of the data entry. Specificaly, getting e-mail addresses and other information directly from emails received in Mail.

Currently the “flow” is

Excel VBA - Create a userform

AppleScript (via VBA MacScript command)

tell application "Mail"
	return {id, sender, subject} of messages in inbox
end tell

Excel VBA-
Parse that data and fill a list box.
User selects a message.
VBA reads the id of the user selected message and creates/runs:

Applescript

tell application "Mail"
	repeat with oneMessage in messages in inbox
		if id of oneMessage = 3596 then return content of oneMessage
	end repeat
	return ""
end tell

This works well enough, but I don’t like looping in that second script.
I’ve tried syntax that fails like

-- won't compile 
return content of (message id 3596 of mailbox "INBOX" of account "Yahoo" of application "Mail")

My question is, given the id of a Mail message (“The unique identifier of the message.”) is there a syntax to return the content of that message without looping?

Thanks.

#2

Hi,

try this


tell application "Mail"
	try
		return content of (get 1st message of inbox whose id is 3596)
	on error
		return ""
	end try
end tell
#3

Sweet!

Thank you!!