On May 28, 2008, at 08:02 AM, Jens Alfke wrote:
Importing messages from Mail via AppleScript may not be fast enough
— my highly scientific estimate* is "a couple of messages" a second.
Importing someone's entire mail archive would take a long time.
I just did a test and it's quite fast if you ask for all the messages
at once:
tell application "Mail"
repeat with box in mailboxes
set n to count messages of box
log "Importing " & n & " messages from “" & (name of box) & "”"
set startTime to current date
get the source of every message of box
set elapsedTime to (current date) - startTime
log "Total: " & elapsedTime
if n is not 0 then
log "Average: " & elapsedTime / n
end if
end repeat
end tell
I'm seeing average times of one to two milliseconds per message (e.g.,
7 seconds for a mailbox with 4,660 messages) on a 2.5GHz Quad G5.
Be sure not to run this with event result logging turned on in Script
Editor, although even with event logging turned on that same mailbox
only takes 30 seconds or just over 6 milliseconds per message.
--
Chris Page - AppleScripter
The other, other AppleScript Chris
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