Mail rule or script

I´m using Mail and OrganizePro on my Mac. I would like to add a script working like if I move an email to a specific folder it should automatic create a task in OrganizePro related to the email. Any ideas how this can be done ? It is possible to create OrganizePro tasks by forwarding the email to a specific email. My problem is that mail rules can not be triggered by new mail added to a folder.
DA

My initial thought was that you could run a script and then move the mail to the mail folder. However, it seems that OrganizePro is not scriptable so it's not possible.
You could:
select an email
run a script (from the Scripts menubar) that will forward the email to the OrganizePro address and then move the mail to the desired folder.

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Mail Rule calls script

I am setting out to create an AppleScript that will make some changes to messages as identified in a rule. So I took the Sample as supplied in /Library/Scripts/Mail Scripts/Rule Actions and modified it for the first test. Result was not successful and then Mail crashed.
So I took the original Sample script and set that to run from the rule and ran Rules against half a dozen messages. According to this Sample script, I should have seen a dialog for each message with some info in it from that message. The first dialog looked ok but matched a message that was already in the Trash and hence not selected for the test, the second dialog was blank and then Mail crashed.
I've tried with various selections of messages and Mail almost always crashes.
Is there something I should know about as to why Apple's own Sample script fails so spectacularly?

Well, as I said it was the supplied sample rule action script in /Library/Scripts/Mail Scripts/Rule Actions and actually entitled Sample Rule Action Script.scpt, but here is the actual script:-
using terms from application "Mail"
on perform mail action with messages theMessages for rule theRule
tell application "Mail"
set theText to "This AppleScript is intended to be used as an AppleScript rule action, but is also an example of how to write scripts that act on a selection of messages or mailboxes." & return & return & "To view this script, hold down the option key and select it again from the Scripts menu."
repeat with eachMessage in theMessages
set theSubject to subject of eachMessage
try
-- If this is not being executed as a rule action,
-- getting the name of theRule variable will fail.
set theRuleName to name of theRule
set theText to "The rule named '" & theRuleName & "' matched this message:"
set theText to theText & return & return & "Subject: " & theSubject
display dialog theText
set theText to ""
end try
end repeat
if theText is not equal to "" then
display dialog theText buttons {"OK"} default button 1
end if
end tell
end perform mail action with messages
end using terms from
The above is a direct copy from the script (indentation lost though of course), as supplied by Apple as an example of the way to write
rule action scripts.
I tested with a copy of a rule that had already moved a dozen messages into a specific mailbox which was now open in Mail, so I could see those messages. I modified the copy to run the script instead of moving messages and then stop processing the rules and placed it at the top of the rule list so it would be the one and only rule to run. I then selected one or more messages in the mailbox and selected 'Apply Rules', either from the Message or contextual menu and I once saw the dialog with the subject line of a message that had already been moved to the Trash, then it was blank, then it crashed, but mostly there's just several seconds delay without anything happening before Mail simply crashes, i.e. terminates unexpectedly. It restarts ok without complaint, but will do it again as soon as I 'Apply' the rules again.
I guess I'm particularly peeved that Apple's own sample/guide, call it what you want seems to be so obviously flawed. Or am I missing something?

Rule or script to delete specific attachments in Mail?

Some people send signature images with every email, wasting disk space and making it difficult to search for emails with useful attachments.
I would like to have a rule or script that deletes PointlessLogo.gif from incoming mail, while leaving other attachments intact.
A search of the archives turns up a thread from years ago asking the same thing, apparently it was not possible with OS 10.4 (https://discussions.apple.com/message/4133181#4133181).
Does this capability exist in Mountain Lion?

Some people send signature images with every email, wasting disk space and making it difficult to search for emails with useful attachments.
I would like to have a rule or script that deletes PointlessLogo.gif from incoming mail, while leaving other attachments intact.
A search of the archives turns up a thread from years ago asking the same thing, apparently it was not possible with OS 10.4 (https://discussions.apple.com/message/4133181#4133181).
Does this capability exist in Mountain Lion?

How to creat Mail Rule with a script

i can writ a script and runing is ok, but can't applied to mail rule !?

Strangely, Mountain Lion requires that all Mail scripts reside in this location:
~/Library/Application Scripts/com.apple.mail/
Put it there.

Sample Rule Action Script.scpt crashes mail app sometimes

Hi, I know next to nothing about applescript, but today came across a post which seemed like it could be solved with a little rule triggered AppleScript action. So I ...
1. dug up the 'Sample Rule Action Script.scpt', and copied it into ~/Library/Scripts/Applications/Mail/
2. created a rule which applied to all email messages and triggered the script
3. selected a message, and hit cmd option L to apply rules to the selection
and up popped an alert panel. (expected behavior) But only the first time and only on one of my two machines. On the other Mail.app crashed. (unexpected behavior)
But then I found I couldn't reliably run it repeatedly on the first machine after all. So I repaired permissions. Now I get the crashing behavior reliably.
Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? The script is the one everyone should have under:
/Library/Scripts/Mail Scripts/Rule Actions/Sample Rule Action Script.scpt

hello Camelot. I hope this is not too far afield in this thread but its as close I can find in the current discussion topics. I've been attempting to write a script to filter flagged messages from the old messages (> 6 days old) I want to delete. I use the rule to send it to my script as you discuss. My script doesn't function but when I replace it with the Sample Rule Script, things run like a charm. (Although the text that Craig sites doesn't run.) My question is what's wrong with my script that it is not triggered. It is as follows, it is compiled, and I added a sound command to try and debug it. It didn't work.
using terms from application "Mail"
on perform mail action with messages theMessages
tell application "Mail"
play sound ..........+These 2 lines added in an attempt to ascertain if the messages where even passing+
"Basso" ..................+through the script. No sound resulted; syntax?+
set theflaggedstatus to flagged status of eachMessage
if flagged status is false then
delete message
end if
end tell
end perform mail action with messages
end using terms from
The result is no result, nothing, nada. The old messages stay in the mailbox whether they are flagged or not. I inserted a standard change color of message rule above and below the "run Applescript" rule command and the messages are colored as they should be but the Applescript is not functioning. My script, at this point, seems overly complex for what it is, but it is the result of numerous attempts to get it working. I have a number of similar scripts written with basically the same consequence.
If this post is outside the thread here, my apologies, if it is maybe you can redirect my inquiries. thanks tT

Getting a script to work in Mail rules

I have a script that works fine in Script Editor or as a stand alone script. I would like to get it to work from within Mail rules but for some reason it doesn't want to. I have tried placing hte script within the brackets of
using terms from application "Mail"
on perform mail action with messages theMessages for rule theRule
and
end perform mail action with messages
end using terms from
which I was thought to believe enabled script to work with Mail rules. If aynone has any ideas how to resolve this I would love to hear from them.
My script is as follows.
tell application "Mail"
set the_message to item 1 of (get selection)
set theSubject to the subject of the_message
if theSubject is "Nouvelle Réservation" then
set the_message to item 1 of (get selection)
set message_text to content of the_message as string
set nom to paragraph 8 of message_text
set prenom_script to paragraph 9 of message_text
set spectacle_script to paragraph 2 of message_text
set date_script to paragraph 3 of message_text
set node_placesscript to paragraph 5 of message_text
end if
end tell
tell application "FileMaker Pro Advanced"
activate
open file "xxx:Users:yyy:Documents:zzz:fichiers fp7:Import reservations script.fp7"
try
delete every record
end try
set newRecord to create record -- store the result as 'newRecord'
tell newRecord -- now target that new record
set cell "nom_script" to nom
set cell "prenom_script" to prenom_script
set cell "spectacle_script" to spectacle_script
set cell "date_script" to date_script
set cell "node_placesscript" to node_placesscript
do script "whole import process into «•_reservations»"
end tell
end tell

Hello
You need to tell application "Mail" to do its tasks. Also your original if clause is closed too soon.
So a possible fix would be as follows :
--SCRIPT1
using terms from application "Mail"
on perform mail action with messages theMessages for rule theRule
my initFilemaker()
tell application "Mail" -- # required
repeat with oneMessage in theMessages
set theSubject to the subject of oneMessage
if theSubject is "Nouvelle Réservation" then -- # should enclose the rest of this iteration
set message_text to content of oneMessage
set nom to paragraph 8 of message_text
set prenom_script to paragraph 9 of message_text
set spectacle_script to paragraph 2 of message_text
set date_script to paragraph 3 of message_text
set node_placesscript to paragraph 5 of message_text
tell application "FileMaker Pro Advanced"
set newRecord to create record -- store the result as 'newRecord'
tell newRecord -- now target that new record
set cell "nom_script" to nom
set cell "prenom_script" to prenom_script
set cell "spectacle_script" to spectacle_script
set cell "date_script" to date_script
set cell "node_placesscript" to node_placesscript
do script "whole import process into «•_reservations»"
end tell
end tell
end if
end repeat
end tell
end perform mail action with messages
end using terms from
on initFilemaker()
tell application "FileMaker Pro Advanced"
open file "xxx:Users:yyy:Documents:zzz:fichiers fp7:Import reservations script.fp7"
try
delete every record
end try
end tell
end initFilemaker
--END OF SCRIPT1
Or, since I'm not comfortable with nested tell structure (tell FMP in tell Mail), I'd write something like this (with other minor changes to my preferences) :
--SCRIPT1a
using terms from application "Mail"
on perform mail action with messages theMessages for rule theRule
my fmpclearrecords()
tell application "Mail"
repeat with m in theMessages
set m to m's contents
if m's subject = "Nouvelle Réservation" then
my fmpnewrecord(m's content)
end if
end repeat
end tell
end perform mail action with messages
end using terms from
on fmpclearrecords()
set a to "xxx:Users:yyy:Documents:zzz:fichiers fp7:Import reservations script.fp7" as alias
tell application "FileMaker Pro Advanced"
open a
try
delete records
end try
end tell
end fmpclearrecords
on fmpnewrecord(t)
tell application "FileMaker Pro Advanced"
tell (create new record)
set cell "nom_script" to t's paragraph 8
set cell "prenom_script" to t's paragraph 9
set cell "spectacle_script" to t's paragraph 2
set cell "date_script" to t's paragraph 3
set cell "node_placesscript" to t's paragraph 5
end tell
do script "whole import process into «•_reservations»"
end tell
end fmpnewrecord
--END OF SCRIPT1a
Not tested, for I don't have FMP for OSX.
But I see no specific reason for the above to fail except for the case that certain threading issue of script run via Mail rule interferes.
*If it still fails, check console log for specific errors.
Good luck,
H
EDIT: The object referencing in FMP seems incomplete though it might work in current form.
It would be better to specifiy complete reference such as :
-- delete records
tell application "FMP"
tell document 1
tell database 1
tell current layout
delete records
end tell
end tell
end tell
end tell
-- create new record
tell application "FMP"
tell document 1
tell database 1
tell current layout
tell (create new record)
-- omitted
end tell
end tell
end tell
end tell
end tell
--etc
Message was edited by: Hiroto

Problem with Mail Rule

I am trying to set up a mail rule that triggers an Applescript. The Applescript will open all attachments with Preview in this case. I know the rule is being triggered because I have two actions for the rule, run the Applescript and Make a sound, and I hear the sound.
Here is the script:
using terms from application "Mail"
on perform mail action with messages theMessages
tell application "Finder" to set pathToAttachments to (path to desktop folder as string)
tell application "Mail"
repeat with theMessage in theMessages
set theText to content of theMessage
if theMessage's mail attachments is not {} then
repeat with theAttachment in theMessage's mail attachments
set theFileName to pathToAttachments & (theMessage's id as string) & space & theAttachment's name
try
save theAttachment in theFileName
on error errnum
end try
tell application "Preview" to open theFileName
tell application "Finder" to delete theFileName
end repeat
end if
end repeat
end tell
end perform mail action with messages
end using terms from
(* tell application "Mail"
set myMessages to selection
tell me to perform mail action with messages myMessages
end tell
If I comment out the stub at the bottom, and run the script, it runs perfectly all the time.
If I select the e-mail in question and trigger using *Apply Rules*, the script runs some of the time.
I have yet to get the script to trigger on newly arriving e-mails.
The rule is checked and I haven't found a +Apply Rules to Incoming Emails+ check box. I thought that happen automatically. Anyone have any ideas on what is going wrong or further ways I could debug it?

Testing your script, I found that, in the few cases where it didn't work well, I could have it work properly with the following modification:
*tell application "Preview" to open theFileName*
*delay 1*
*tell application "Finder" to delete theFileName*
It should also be possible to replace *delay 1* with something better, like *repeat while … end repeat*.
Hope it can help.

Mail rule no longer works - how 2 debug?

i have a mail rule which takes an attachment & sends it on to an fba for further processing (via a do shell call) then moves the mail to a done folder.
my shell script works perfectly when invoked from the cli, but doesn't seem to even get called from the mail rule (which used to work under tiger)
and since "perform mail action with messages" doesn't allow interaction, i can't salt my script with display dialogs to debug...
so where does mail rule output go? is there an error log somewhere? console shows nothing...

on a hunch i added a delay right after i saved the attachment...that fixed it.
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How do I make a Mail Rule action bounce a message

Is there a way to have a Mail Rule action bounce a message?
Thank you in advance.
Jeff

paste the following into Applescript Editor and save it as a script
<pre style="
font-family: Monaco, 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;
font-size: 10px;
margin: 0px;
padding: 5px;
border: 1px solid #000000;
width: 720px;
color: #000000;
background-color: #ADD8E6;
overflow: auto;"
title="this text can be pasted into the Script Editor">
using terms from application "Mail"
on perform mail action with messages selectedMsgs
repeat with msg in selectedMsgs
tell application "Mail"
bounce msg
end tell
end repeat
end perform mail action with messages
end using terms from</pre>
then have your Mail rule execute this script.

Mail rules work for some users, don't work for others

Ready to pull my hair out over this one:
Leopard to Snow Leopard upgrade went uneventfully, except for the fact that server-side mail rules (accessed via browser at FQDN -> Mail Rules) work for several users (two, to be exact) and don't for the rest (about 15 or so).
The usual culprits have been reviewed: 'Enable Server-Side Mail Rules' is checked in Mail -> Settings -> Filters, 'Allow users to configure server-side mail rules' is checked in Web -> Sites -> Web Services, users can create vacation notices and email rules without issue via browser, permissions look fine on the contents of /Library/Email Rules and /var/spool/imap/dovecot/sieve-scripts, logs give no indication of any foul play (at least the Email Rules -> debug.log generates the same entries for both functional and non-functional users), etc.
I have noticed that /var/spool/imap/dovecot/sieve-scripts contains only two items, which - you guessed it - line up with the GUIDs of the two functional users. Theoretically every user with a rule should be represented here.
As suggested in this thread:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=11171395&#11171395
I created both a vacation notice and an email rule for several users, thinking that may force the folder creation for those users, but no dice. I even manually created folders for a few users with their GUIDs as the folder names and assigned each user ownership and read/write access. Still nothing. Created a few new test user accounts just to rule out any legacy account weirdness (although it's worth noting that I completely redid the OD and recreated user accounts after the upgrade) and replicated the problem with these, as well. Lastly, used Inspector to compare OD attributes between functional and non-functional accounts, with no glaring differences.
Help!

Did you find an answer? I encounter the same problem on my new MiniServer. Deleted and created all users several times, but just for some accounts mail is working.
Do you have the answer?
(new to this site, read a lot already, but not found)

Using a Mail rule to run an AppleScript

I've been trying to get a Mail rule to run a very simple AppleScript on 10.5.3 and it just doesn't work, period.
I've tried making everything as simple as possible:
1. My Mail rule sets the background color of a message and runs the AppleScript if the subject contains "test".
2. The AppleScript displays a Finder alert.
[(screenshot)|http://i26.tinypic.com/nqxou8.png]
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Applescript process message body from mail rule help please

Would someone be kind enough to help me figure out how to do this? I've been reading for hours on other posts and I can't get this to work.
Here is an example:
I would like to set up a mail rule to run an applescript that searches the body of the email for "-Front Door- Open". I then want to parse the body and sets myDevice= "-Front Door-" and myState="Open". After I have these variables set, I want to make an call to something like https://foo.me.com/api/token/${state.accessToken}/smartapps/installations/${app.id}/Notify?device=${myDevice}&type=ContactSensor&state=${myState}
I understand how to do the mail rule, I just can't figure out the applescript part of it.

The script works just fine - at least, as designed if not as expected.
When the script runs, Mail and/or AppleScript looks for a perform mail action handler. If that is found, the commands within are executed.
If there is no perform mail action handler then the script is run as-is (i.e. as if you clicked 'Run' in AppleScript Editor).
And that's exactly what's happening here. In the first case (that works) the script is running because there's no (visible) perform mail action handler.
In the second case where it apparently doesn't work, there is a handler, so that handler is being executed. Any code outside that handler is ignored (unless it's called from within the perform mail action handler.
Since your 'say' command is outside the handler, it is ignored. However, if you move it inside the perform mail action handler you'll hear your speech.

Outgoing Mail Rules

I have just moved back to Apple mail and one of the things I find most frustrating is not being able to get out going mail rules to work. I want to copy or move messages sent to certain people into a particular folder. These work a treat in Entourage, but Mail seems to ignore me. It has been suggested I use smart mailboxes, but this includes too much information by including all mail icluding cc's.
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Mail applies rules automatically to incoming messages only. There are at least three ways to work around this limitation:
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(2) Go to Preferences > Composing and check Automatically [Bcc] myself, so that the rules are applied automatically to the copies received.
(3) Use Mail Scripts’ Filter Sent Messages script to make Mail apply the rules automatically to your sent messages as well.

Mail rule message content as variable

I run a minecraft serer, and i need a way to promote a player when they fill in a form on the website. Every time a player filles in the form, I get an email like this:
New application for member:
Naam: <name of the pearson>
Username: <minecraft username of the person>
Skype naam: <skype name of the person>
E-mail: <email of the person>
Nieusbrief: <Whether they want to get the newsletter or not>
I know there is a way to setup a mail rule that runs an applescript, and from that I can run a shel script, but is it posible to feed the playername to the shel script script as a variable? So from the mesage body to the apple script, and from the apple script th the shel script. First problem I face is getting the username to the apple script. Then there is the second problem: I know there is an run-shel-script thingy, but i'm not sure how to pass the variable on from the apple script to the shel scrip. (I don't have anny experience with apple scripts...)
Anny help is appreciated.

Hi Stefan,
Thanks for your reply. I am glad to hear that I am wrong again )
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The reason why we would like to do this is because when - in the content tag of a Mail Package message - we have MIME message parts that are of content-type text/html we are having problems in decoding the html back to a readable format.
To do this we use the apache QuotedPrintableCodec Java class.
This works fine when the content type of the message is just text/plain but we get an exception when we try with text/html.
The exception we get is:
org.apache.commons.codec.DecoderException: Invalid URL encoding: not a valid digit (radix 16): 13
I don't know if this is because of the two character sets we have in the payload (utf-8 and iso-8859-1) or if it is for other reasons...
If you could help me figure out how to forward any HTML email to another system in a readable format it would be great.
Thanks for your support,
Aldo

Mail Rules don't work in Mavericks

It seems with the update to 10.9 Mavericks Mail rules no longer work. My email address was harvested by spamers and I have been using rules to weed throught the 100's of emails that I receive each day.
Russian Brides, Vigra, Learn a new language get moved into the trash when delievered. Now nothing happens.
I just tried to write a new rule and when I clicked the Prefs pannel I got the spinning cursor. After waiting for some time I did a force quit only to find that Mail was not responding.
Anyone have any ideas? I did not see any major changes with Mail and Mavericks so I'm not sure why it's been effected.
MD

You might condider using an Applescript with Mail Rules.
Here's one that I use (Use whitelist to not move to spam):
(Just edit to your junk or whitelist)
Note: The Applescripit must be saved to: ~/Library/Application Scripts/com.apple.mail/
The rule:
The AppleScript:
using terms from application "Mail"
          on perform mail action with messages theMessages
                    tell application "Mail"
                              repeat with theMessage in theMessages
                                        set theSender to (sender of theMessage)
                                        set theReplyto to (reply to of theMessage)
                                        set theSubject to (subject of theMessage)
                                        set theHeader to (all headers of theMessage)
                                        set theContent to (source of theMessage as string)
                                        set theAccount to (account of mailbox of theMessage)
                                        if my blacklist(theSender, theReplyto, theSubject, theHeader, theContent) ¬
                                                  and not my whitelist(theSender, theHeader) then
                                                  my moveToJunkFolder(theMessage, theAccount)
                                        end if
                              end repeat
                    end tell
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end using terms from
on blacklist(f, r, s, h, c)
          if h contains "X-YahooFilteredBulk" or ¬
                    h contains "Received-SPF: fail" or ¬
                    h contains "Received-SPF: softfail" or ¬
                    h contains "Received-SPF: error" or ¬
                    h contains "Received-SPF: permerror" or ¬
                    h contains "Received-SPF: temperror" or ¬
                    h contains "streamsendbouncer@" or ¬
                    s contains "[Bulk]" or ¬
                    f contains "Vigra.candianmeds.com" or ¬
                    f contains "[email protected]" or ¬
                    f contains ".cz" or ¬
                    r contains ".ma" then
                    return true
     end if
end blacklist
on whitelist(f, h)
          if f contains "aicpa" or ¬
          f contains "eWeek.com" or ¬
                    h contains "from macbook-air.local" then
                    return true
          else
                    return false
          end if
end whitelist
on moveToJunkFolder(m, a)
          tell application "Mail"
                    try
                              set the read status of m to true
                              set the junk mail status of m to true
                              set theAccount to (account of mailbox of m)
                              set mailbox of m to (mailbox "Junk" of a) -- Move to "Junk"
                    end try
          end tell
end moveToJunkFolder

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