dear all,
I am searching for a routine which extracts the date of a specific, selected mail.
Thank you for any hint.
Something like this:
set junkCount to "0"
tell application "System Events" to set MailIsRunning to (name of processes) contains "Mail"
if MailIsRunning then
tell application "Mail"
set thisDate to the date string of the (date received)
display dialog "thisDate is " & thisDate
end tell
return junkCount
end if
MacBook Pro, iOS 5.1.1
Hi,
Try this script :
set dateList to {}
tell application "Mail" to if running then
repeat with tMsg in (get selection)
set end of dateList to the (date received of tMsg) as rich text
end repeat
return dateList
end ifHi,
Try this script :
set dateList to {}
tell application "Mail" to if running then
repeat with tMsg in (get selection)
set end of dateList to the (date received of tMsg) as rich text
end repeat
return dateList
end ifThank you so much Jacques. This works fine.
Now I just need to convert the date format to something like YYYY-MM-DD-MM-SS and let the script run automatically. Then all PDF attachments in new messages will automatically be saved in the cloud and have a name like "YYYY-DD-MM_JCR_MailSubject_NameOfTheAttachemnt.PDF".
Thanks again.
Hey rubinje, I'm an Applescript newbie and I was wondering if you ever got the date fixed?
I'm trying to recursively print 25,000 old, archived messages to PDF with a naming convention of:
YYYY-MM-DD - Subject
Since I had exported and backed these up I'm trying to open each individually in Mail and do this so I don't flood my Mail.app with too many old messages.
If you get this, let me know whether or not you were successful.
This is what I was able to put together in the past ~hour, it might not be the simplest code (more of a beginner's brute forcing) but let me know what you think:
-- Gets the date of the selected message
-- https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6751836?start=0&tstart=0
-- This returns the date as "Day_of_the_Week, Full_Month Day, Year at Time AM/PM"
-- Date Conversion added by RSH - 2016-02-02
set dateList to {}
tell application "Mail" to if running then
repeat with tMsg in (get selection)
set end of dateList to the (date received of tMsg) as rich text
end repeat
set monthList to {"January", "February", "March", "April", "May", "June", "July", "August", "September", "October", "November", "December"}
set numberList to {"1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "9"}
-- Separating Email Date for Reordering
set dateString to item 1 of dateList
set emailYear to word 4 of dateString
set emailMonth to word 2 of dateString
set emailDay to word 3 of dateString as string
set emailTimeHours to word 6 of dateString
set emailTimeMinutes to word 7 of dateString
set emailTimeSeconds to word 8 of dateString
set emailAMPM to word 9 of dateString
-- Getting month value, added "as string" to fix single numbers to double digit (1->01)
repeat with i from 1 to the count of monthList
if item i of monthList is emailMonth then set monthPosition to i as string
end repeat
-- Concatenating "0" onto single digit numbers to make them double
if numberList contains monthPosition then set monthPosition to "0" & monthPosition
if numberList contains emailDay then set emailDay to "0" & emailDay
-- Creating Reordered Date with Month Name
-- set orderedDateString to emailYear & "-" & emailMonth & "-" & emailDay & " " & emailTimeHours & ":" & emailTimeMinutes & ":" & emailTimeSeconds & " " & emailAMPM
-- Creating Reordered Date with Month Value
set orderedDateString to emailYear & "-" & monthPosition & "-" & emailDay & " " & emailTimeHours & ":" & emailTimeMinutes & ":" & emailTimeSeconds & " " & emailAMPM
return orderedDateString
end ifapplescript: extract date received of mail