macOS Help with Applescript Rules

[dchiusa]

This is my first time making an Applescript. The script redirects mail based on several rules setup inside Apple Mail. My problem is that when the message is redirected to the new recipient, they receive it just fine but it has duplicated the Body of the email once for every Rule setup inside Apple mail. I can’t figure out why it is doing that so I thought perhaps if I manually enter the Rules inside the Applescript and bypass using Apple Mail for the Rules, it would solved the problem. I can’t figure out how to write the rules in Applescript. Here are my rules setup in Apple Mail:

If All of the following conditions are met:

Account - Dchiusa
From - Contains: livechatinc.com
Message Content - Contains: donald
Message Content - Contains: duration

Below is my Applescript. If someone could help with this, thank you very much. I’ve been using Applescript for 2 days and trying to learn this.

using terms from application "Mail"
	on perform mail action with messages theMessages
		repeat with thisMessage in theMessages
			tell application "Mail"
				
				set theText to content of thisMessage
				set newMessage to redirect thisMessage with opening window
				tell newMessage
					set subject of newMessage to "Live Chat Transcript@Live Chat"
					make new to recipient at beginning of to recipients with properties {address:”emailaddress”}
				end tell
				set the sender of newMessage to “emailaddress”
				
				
				
				send newMessage
			end tell
		end repeat
	end perform mail action with messages
end using terms from

 

[kryten2]

This is my first time making an Applescript. The script redirects mail based on several rules setup inside Apple Mail. My problem is that when the message is redirected to the new recipient, they receive it just fine but it has duplicated the Body of the email once for every Rule setup inside Apple mail. I can’t figure out why it is doing that so I thought perhaps if I manually enter the Rules inside the Applescript and bypass using Apple Mail for the Rules, it would solved the problem. I can’t figure out how to write the rules in Applescript. Here are my rules setup in Apple Mail:

If All of the following conditions are met:

Account - Dchiusa
From - Contains: livechatinc.com
Message Content - Contains: donald
Message Content - Contains: duration

Below is my Applescript. If someone could help with this, thank you very much. I’ve been using Applescript for 2 days and trying to learn this.

using terms from application "Mail"
	on perform mail action with messages theMessages
		repeat with thisMessage in theMessages
			tell application "Mail"
				
				set theText to content of thisMessage
				set newMessage to redirect thisMessage with opening window
				tell newMessage
					set subject of newMessage to "Live Chat Transcript@Live Chat"
					make new to recipient at beginning of to recipients with properties {address:”emailaddress”}
				end tell
				set the sender of newMessage to “emailaddress”
				
				
				
				send newMessage
			end tell
		end repeat
	end perform mail action with messages
end using terms from

For creating your rules for Mail in Applescript you could do something like this :

set theAccountType to «constant eruttacc»

tell application "Mail"
	set newRule to make new rule at end of rules with properties {name:"TestRule5", all conditions must be met:true, redirect message:"blabla@some.org", enabled:true}
	tell newRule
		-- Change expression:"Some Account" into a real account. Look inside your ~/Library/Mail/V2/ folder.
		-- Example : "~/Library/Mail/V2/IMAP-xxxxxx@xxx.xxx@xxxx.xxx.xxx"
		make new rule condition at end of rule conditions with properties {rule type:theAccountType, expression:"Some Account"}
		make new rule condition at end of rule conditions with properties {rule type:from header, qualifier:does contain value, expression:"livechatinc.com"}
		make new rule condition at end of rule conditions with properties {rule type:message content, qualifier:does contain value, expression:"donald"}
		make new rule condition at end of rule conditions with properties {rule type:message content, qualifier:does contain value, expression:"duration"}
		-- set run script to file "disk:path:to:script.scpt"
		-- Example see below
		set run script to file "nameofyourstartuphddisk:Users:yourusername:Library:Application Scripts:com.apple.mail:testscript.scpt"
	end tell
end tell

Note : After running the script I saw properties set in the script not sticking in the UI of the Mail application yet getting properties of the rule showed everything was set. In order to keep my sanity I decided to stop trying. This exercise in pain was done in Mail Version 7.2 (1859).

 

[dchiusa]

Thanks kryten2 for your help. I still can't figure out why the content of the message is duplicated several times. When the new message is received, the body of the message is duplicated. Sometimes 2 times, sometimes 3 or 4 times. Perhaps something is off in my first part of the code but I can't figure it out. Anyone have an idea. All I want to is forward mail to another address but I need to change the subject to Live Chat before it is forwarded. Help please

 

[kryten2]

Thanks kryten2 for your help. I still can't figure out why the content of the message is duplicated several times. When the new message is received, the body of the message is duplicated. Sometimes 2 times, sometimes 3 or 4 times. Perhaps something is off in my first part of the code but I can't figure it out. Anyone have an idea. All I want to is forward mail to another address but I need to change the subject to Live Chat before it is forwarded. Help please

You're not the only one struggling with this. Info : AppleScript to Forward or Redirect an email and while-redirecting-email-with-applescript-the-content-of-the-email-is-duplicating. After some experimentation I did found something that seems to work when I apply rules while normally it should not. Give this a try :

using terms from application "Mail"
	on perform mail action with messages theMessages for rule theRule
		tell application "Mail"
			delay 1
			repeat with eachMessage in theMessages
				--set theText to content of eachMessage
				set newMessage to redirect eachMessage with opening window
				tell newMessage
					set subject of newMessage to "Live Chat Transcript@Live Chat"
					make new to recipient at beginning of to recipients with properties {address:"bla@some.org"}
				end tell
				set the sender of newMessage to "bla@some.org"
				set the content of newMessage to ""
				--set content of newMessage to theText
				--send newMessage
			end repeat
		end tell
	end perform mail action with messages
end using terms from

Note : In my testing I always ended up with the original content of eachMessage in the redirect mail opening window. Which is crazy because I'm setting the content of newMessage to an empty string.

 

[dchiusa]

Thanks for the help, that worked great. I'm wondering if some of the other mail programs such as Postbox will have that issue. They support some limited applescpript now I think and will be adding more in the future. Would be interesting to see if it happens with anther mail program. Again, thanks a lot.
Don

You're not the only one struggling with this. Info :