Applescript for Mail Not Working Since Upgrade to El Capitan

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Applescript for Mail Not Working Since Upgrade to El Capitan

I have an Applescript to forward emails to Evernote that has stopped working since I upgraded to El Capitan. It opens the new message but does not update the email address or subject and does not send. Again, this worked prior to upgrading to El Capitan. Any help is much appreciated.

set theAddress to "email@evernote.com"

display dialog "Doc Name" default answer ""

set DocName to text returned of result

display dialog "Tags" default answer ""

set Tags to text returned of result

try

tell application "Mail"

set theSelection to selection

if DocName = "" then

set thesubject to subject of item 1 of theSelection & " " & Tags

else

set thesubject to DocName & " " & Tags

end if

set theForwardedMessage to forward (item 1 of theSelection) with opening window

tell theForwardedMessage

makenewto recipientat end of to recipientswith properties {address:theAddress}

set subject to thesubject

end tell

activate

delay 1

sendtheForwardedMessage

end tell

end try

OS X El Capitan (10.11)

Posted on Oct 18, 2015 3:23 PM

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Answer 1

Camelot

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Oct 18, 2015 10:55 PM in response to slotguru

Well, the first problem is that recipient lists no longer need (or, indeed, work) with the '... at end of...' specifier, so you can just:

makenewto recipientwith properties {address:theAddress}

The second problem, though, appears to be a bug. Even with a valid recipient list the script fails on the line:

set subject to thesubject

Which, as far as I can tell, is a bug - you can't change the subject of a forwarded message. It's fine if you create a new message, and if you manually forward a message you can change the subject, but you can't change it via AppleScript.

The best I could come up with is a tacky UI scripting 'solution':

tell theForwardedMessage

makenewto recipientwith properties {address:theAddress}

end tell

activate

tell application "System Events"

keystroketabusingshift down

keystrokethesubject

end tell

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slotguru Author

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Dec 31, 2015 2:15 PM in response to Camelot

I know this is a very delayed response, but I appreciate the help here. I don't care if it's tacky as long as it works. Your solution does update the subject but the message still does not send. Any idea why "
sendtheForwardedMessage" isn't working and how to correct it (or workaround)?

Thanks.

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Answer 3

Aug 28, 2016 9:44 AM in response to slotguru

tell application "Mail"

tell application "System Events"

keystroke "d" using {command down, shift down}

end tell

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