Mail Rule to Run Applescript Not Working?
- by William Andy Hainline
Question for my fellow AppleScripters. I have the following script which runs just fine if you run it in AppleScript Editor or Script Debugger, but that won't run at all if you try to run it from a Mail rule. The script is correctly placed in ~/Library/Application Scripts/com.apple.mail, and shows up in the "Run AppleScript" menu in the Mail rule, but simply refuses to work when new mail arrives.
on perform_mail_action(info)
tell application "Mail"
set theMessages to |SelectedMessages| of info
repeat with thisMessage in theMessages
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {""}
set thisSender to sender of thisMessage as string
set quotepos to offset of "\"" in thisSender
if (quotepos is not 0) then
set thisSender to (text items (quotepos + 1) through -1) ¬
of thisSender as string
set quotepos to offset of "\"" in thisSender
if (quotepos is not 0) then
set thisSender to (text items 1 through (quotepos - 1)) ¬
of thisSender as string
end if
else
set atpos to offset of "@" in thisSender
if (atpos is not 0) then
set thisSender to (text items 1 through (atpos - 1)) ¬
of thisSender as string
end if
set brkpos to offset of "<" in thisSender
if (brkpos is not 0) then
set thisSender to (text items (brkpos + 1) through -1) ¬
of thisSender as string
end if
end if
tell application "Finder" to say "Mail from " & thisSender
end repeat
end tell
end perform_mail_action
Any ideas?
