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t56k
t56k

Reputation: 6981

AppleScript and Mail.app: checking if new messages contain a string

I'm writing a script to check if a particular web form has been submitted.

The script so far reads thusly:

tell application "Mail"
check for new mail
set newmail to get the unread count of inbox
repeat with msg in newmail
    if msg's subject contains "New newsletter built by" then
        return msg's subject
    end if
end repeat
end tell

I've got an unread email in my inbox for the script to work with, but I still get an error:

error "Mail got an error: Can’t make 1 into type specifier." number -1700 from 1 to specifier

Any help at all will be appreciated.

Cheers!

Upvotes: 4

Views: 7185

Answers (4)

Timothy Richard Elliott
Timothy Richard Elliott

Reputation: 173

adding to what jackjr300 said....

tell application "Mail"
    set x to unread count of inbox
    check for new mail
    delay 3
    set y to unread count of inbox
    set z to y - x
end tell

if x = y then
    say "There is nothing to report"
end if

if z = 1 then
    say "You have one new message"
end if

if z = 2 then
    say "You have two new messages"
end if

if z = 3 then
    say "You have three new messages"
end if
if z = 4 then
    say "You have four new messages"
end if
if z = 5 then
    say "You have five new messages"
end if
if z = 6 then
    say "You have six new messages"
end if
if z = 7 then
    say "You have seven new messages"
end if
if z = 8 then
    say "You have eight new messages"
end if

if z = 9 then
    say "You have nine new messages"
end if
if z = 10 then
    say "You have ten new messages"
else
    say "You have more than ten new messages"
end if

Upvotes: 0

jackjr300
jackjr300

Reputation: 7191

tell application "Mail"
    check for new mail
    repeat until (background activity count) = 0
        delay 0.5 --wait until all new messages are in the box
    end repeat
    try
        return subject of (first message of inbox whose read status is false and subject contains "New newsletter built by ")
    end try
end tell

Upvotes: 3

t56k
t56k

Reputation: 6981

I've actually solved the issue, so I'm going to post it here should anyone else need help. Check it:

tell application "Mail"
check for new mail

set checker to (messages of inbox whose read status is false)
set neworder to number of items in checker

if neworder > 0 then
    repeat with i from 1 to number of items in checker
        set msg to item i of checker
        if msg's subject contains "New newsletter built by " then
            return msg's subject
        end if
    end repeat
end if
end tell

Upvotes: 0

Michael Dautermann
Michael Dautermann

Reputation: 89509

Applescript is a bit tricky. It looks like you're trying to parse the count of the inbox, not the actual inbox.

Try this script instead:

tell application "Mail"
    check for new mail
    -- instead of getting the unread count of inbox
    -- let's set an Applescript variable to every message of the inbox
    set myInbox to every message of inbox
    repeat with msg in myInbox
        -- and look at only the ones that are unread
        if read status of msg is false then
            -- and if the subject of the unread message is what we want 
            if msg's subject contains "New newsletter built by" then
                -- return it
                return msg's subject
            end if
        end if
    end repeat
end tell

Upvotes: 1

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