On 11/14/03 10:14 AM, Paul Berkowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 11/14/03 7:38 AM, "Jeffrey Berman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Is there a way to structure AppleScript syntax so that an action is carried
>> out recursively on messages within all levels of subfolders of an Entourage
>> mail account? For instance, how could one write syntax to check the latest
>> time received of any message in any of the embedded folders of a particular
>> account?
>
> Yes, although recursiveness truly tests Applescript's memory access and
> could cause a stack overflow if you get too many levels deep. usually you;d
> get nowhere near that with Entourage folders. You have to write a handler -
> a subroutine - which can call itself, and keep doing so at each level.
> (Usually, once you get it figured out for the next level it works at all
> levels.)
Paul:
Thanks, as always, for your detailed response. The script I am working on
needs a subroutine that returns true if any message within any folder of the
default mail account is equal to or greater than a certain date. If not,
the subroutine should return false.
The following solution seems to work (with the target date, put in the
variable RecDate, set to yesterday).
-Jeffrey Berman
----- Attachment follows -----
global RecDate
set RecDate to date "Friday, November 14, 2003 12:00:00 AM"
tell application "Microsoft Entourage" to �
get folders of default mail account
DateMatch for result
on DateMatch for FolderList
repeat with MailFolder in FolderList
tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
get (messages of MailFolder whose time received � RecDate)
if (count of result) > 0 then return true
set SubFolders to folders of MailFolder
end tell
if (count of SubFolders) > 0 then DateMatch for SubFolders
end repeat
return false
end DateMatch
----- End of attachment -----
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