Mail Message list sort order for Applescript in ML

Question

Hi All, I recently upgraded from SL to ML. I&#x27;m having a few issues with an applescript i use to flag/unflag emails for later handling. Basically, the script does the following: - get the message list from one of the inboxes/smartboxes. These are ordered by time and grouped by thread.- compare one message with the next one- if some criterias are equal (thread ID, subject, ...) then the second email is unflagged- repeat until end of list. It was working fine in SL, as a result, i only had the first email of threads with a flag, so the others could be forgotten. In ML, it looks like even though the emails are displayed in a specific order (date/thread), usingmessages of first message viewerdoes not fetch the messages in the same order, so matching cannot happen. Is this the expected behavior in ML ? Is there anyway to have the list of messaged sorted as displayed ? Thanksjm

Jean-Michel Lamotte · Answer

I found a workaround, though there must be something neater. I added this before my scripttell application "System Events"          tell process "Mail"                    tell menu bar 1                              tell menu bar item "View"                                        tell menu "View"                                                  tell menu item "Sort By"                                                            tell menu "Sort By"                                                                      click menu item "Subject"                                                            end tell                                                  end tell                                        end tell                              end tell                    end tell          end tellend tellthen the same except "Date" instead of "Subject". My script does what i want now.