Mail script stopped working after Mountain Lion

I have tried your script, just replacing "CS Notepad", "Test" and "Daily Summary" with other text values. It seems to work flawlessly under OS X 10.8.1. How long must you wait before the script issues the error message? Is there a huge number of messages in your mailboxes?

Have a look at “with timeout Statements" in the AppleScript Language Guide.

Message was edited by: Pierre L.

My pleasure. Thanks for your feedback.

any ideas?

As I wrote in my first post, I would have a look at “with timeout Statements”, in the Control Statements Reference section of the AppleScript Language Guide.

Try this:

set theContents to {}

tell application "Mail"

tell mailbox "CS Notepad"

tell mailbox "Test"

set CS_Messages to every message that subject contains "Daily Summary"

repeat with thisMessage in CS_Messages

copy content of thisMessage to the end of theContents

end repeat

end tell

end tell

end tell

theContents

Brilliant, works every time!

Actually, you were the one who found the solution by trying the following statement:

set CS_Messages to every message that subject contains "Daily Summary"

Have you any idea why my original script stopped working, just like to know to stop this happening again.

Since the original script has always worked flawlessly on my computer under OS X 10.8.1, the only thing I can think of would be another application interfering with Mail or AppleScript in your system.

By the way, the following version of the script might be somewhat faster when you have a huge number of messages in your mailbox:

set theContents to {}

set theContentsRef to a reference to theContents

tell application "Mail"

tell mailbox "CS Notepad"

tell mailbox "Test"

set CS_Messages to every message that subject contains "Daily Summary"

repeat with thisMessage in CS_Messages

copy content of thisMessage to the end of theContentsRef

end repeat

end tell

end tell

end tell

theContents

See the AppleScript Language Guide, Class Reference, list (p. 110 in the PDF version) : “For large lists, it is more efficient to use the a reference to operator when inserting a large number of items into a list, rather than to access the list directly.”

Message was edited by: Pierre L.