Script to count Emails

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#1

I have found this script to get the email count of my inbox.

get count of messages of inbox

What I need is the count of emails containing “xyz” in the subject line and for a specific time period (eg 11.00pm yesterday - 11.00pm today)

Can anyone please help me with this?

#2

Hi, this is pretty simple. Your original question is practically the code for the first example.

This will search within the past 24 hours (time-irrespective):


tell application "Mail" to count ¬
(inbox's messages whose subject contains "XYZ" and date received comes after ((current date) - 1 * days))

This will search within specific ranges:


set {startRange, endRange} to {date "August 18, 2012 11:00:0 PM", date "August 19, 2012 11:00:0 PM"}
set searchfor to "XYZ"

tell application "Mail" to count ¬
	(inbox's messages whose subject contains searchfor ¬
		and date received comes after startRange ¬
		and date received comes before endRange)
#3

Hi Marc.

Thank you so much for taking the time to help with this.

Unfortunately I can’t get it to work. Initially ScriptEditor wasn’t happy with the date format but I managed to figure that one out on my own.

It runs, and says ‘running’ but returns a count of ‘0’, even though I can see 10 the emails in my inbox.

To simplify I set it up as below… but still a count of zero!! Any ideas?

[code]set {startRange, endRange} to {date “Sunday, 19 August 2012 02:26:41”, date “Monday, 20 August 2012 20:26:41”}
set searchfor to “a”

tell application “Mail” to count ¬
(inbox’s messages whose subject contains searchfor ¬
and date received comes after startRange ¬
and date received comes before endRange)
return count[/code]

#4

Hi,

count is a reserved word, it cannot be used as a variable.
Set the result to a variable


tell application "Mail" to set mailCounter to count.
.
return mailCounter

or just use


.
return result

result contains always the result of the preceding line

#5

Perfect.

Thank you both!!

#6

Return serves only to move end values to the event log; it doesn’t alter what is already returned from an expression, so I prefer to not use it in my code. I recommend keeping Script Editor’s result window open to see completed events (Window>Result History).