Where can we get help with writing an Applescript

Yes I'm talking about Mail.app.

As an example, this is my script for creating an email with this ID and signature I want to use (icloud) but I'm not sure how you do this on a reply to a message where you change you ID and signature:

tell application "Mail"

activate

set theMsg to make new outgoing message with properties {sender:"<kxxxx.d@icloud.com>", visible:true}

set message signature of theMsg to signature "Kerry"

Hi I've got Applescript 1-2-3 which is the latest and supposedly the best book on Applescript and honestly I just don't get it. Its really way over my head. I can use a lot of automation tools but this just is baffling. I think I've got the syntax down right and it constantly comes back with errors. If I use someone elses script that usually works. However, if I need to modify it slightly well I might eventually get it to work but its a challenge.

Like what I'm trying to do from my first script doesn't strike me as that difficult. I just want to change my email ID (aliase) from one to another with the signature. There's even an example script that comes with Mountain Lion that does all of the stuff except when you go to choose your ID this in the example script doesn't work. So its back to searching the internet for something that is close as I can't get mine to work for the life of me.

Let me look at that. I think I was fooling with a script for mail in the system.

Yes this is the one I fooled with. It works right up to where you choose your email signature and it only allows you to choose what you've setup in Mail.app as your default not your aliases also. I also couldn't figure out from this script how I would apply just the final bit of code Signature and email ID to a reply message sitting there but with the wrong ID and signature chosen.

Thanks for those two tips. That might help.

OK I guess that's what I did in this script but it is creating a message from scratch. The reply message though might be sitting in front of me, I've written my reply and noticed that its the friends and not business address I use. That's where I can't figure out how I get an Applescript to change the ID and signature like it does with the following for my new outgoing messages:

tell application "Mail"

activate

set theMsg to make new outgoing message with properties {sender:"<kxxxx.d@icloud.com>", visible:true}

set message signature of theMsg to signature "Kerry"

end tell

If I use the above on a reply message it creates a new message. If I try to create a reply script with the signature I want and the ID before I go to reply I can do that I just can't seem to get the message to change the ID and signature without all these scripting syntax errors.

Hi the applescript-users list looked helpful but there isn't anywhere that I can see where there is any dialogues. It looks like you just send an email and.... Am I missing something.

This worked very well. However, I just need to add in one thing which I can't figure out how to do.

I just need to set the signature for the id I would use. What I did was the following and added that one little line at the end which seems so logical and yet what can I say I'm hopeless at this:

tell application "Mail"

try

set theMessage to reply (first item of (get selection)) with opening window

on error errmessnumbererrnum-- nothing selected

display alert "Error " & errnum message "No message selected" & return & "(" & errmess & ")"

error number -128 -- cancel

end try

tell theMessage

set sender to "ksdawson@icloud.com"

set message signature of theMessage to signature "Kerry Dawson"

end tell

end tell

What that final line is doing is supposed to change the Signature from Kerry which is the default to Kerry Dawson which is my alternate.

What could I possibly doing wrong.