Mail Message list sort order for Applescript in ML

Question

Hi All,
I recently upgraded from SL to ML. I'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), using
messages of first message viewer
does 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 ?
Thanks
jm

Answer 1

I found a workaround, though there must be something neater.
I added this before my script
tell 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 tell
end tell
then the same except "Date" instead of "Subject".
My script does what i want now.